Secure Networking

http://ipinfodb.com is a free Free IP address geolocation service. They also provide an online API for credit card fraud detection.

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When Cisco Certified Architects (CCAr) was first introduced, it created a lot of discussions among networks engineers, especially those who has archived CCIE. People were confused, not so sure about what the new cert means to them, to the industry, to their company. CCDE was introduced by Cisco not too long ago, while engineers are [...]

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Facebook has announced at the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference that they will soon roll out IPv6 support. Click here for the PowerPoint presentation. In my previous post, I shared that Facebook has implemented LISP. Since Facebook is the most famous social network site, them leading the way for IPv6 and LISP will definitely help drives [...]

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Recently China has started to block access to dropbox network, needless to day the decision has created a lot of inconvenience to dropbox users that are in China, especially those are  on leisure or business trips, and need access to their files at home. Anyone has any good suggestions on alternative solutions for those who [...]

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Cisco has added the Smart Call Home feature on more devices. As of version 3.1, Smart Call Home is supported on the following devices: New device support – ISR 800, 1800, 2800 and 3800 (Integrated Services Router) series, ISR G2 1900, 2900, 3900 series, ASR 1000 (Aggregation Services Router), ASA 5500 (Adaptive Security Appliance), Nexus [...]

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CCIE Agent

Jun 4, 2010 No Comments

If you are a CCIE and is looking to partner with a recruiter to find a network consulting job, I recommend the CCIE Agent – Emmanuel Conde or Eman as he called himself. Eman’s specialty is matching up CCIEs with a Cisco channel partners. Even if you are not interested in a new job, Eman [...]

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Imagine the ability of multihome a network to the Internet without BGP. Is that possible? Yes according to Cisco. To address the issue of the ever increasing BGP routing table (over 314k prefixes as of today), Cisco, in partnership with other vendors, has developed Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP). I will let you read all the [...]

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If you are like me, there were times when you needed to send the same commands to multiple network devices through ssh. On Linux boxes, you can use ClusterSSH. If you use Windows, Millard Software has written a really nice utility that does just that, it is call Putty Command Sender (puttycs).

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PenTest Blog

May 24, 2010 No Comments

PenTestIt is an blog where you can find lot of info on PenTest tools.

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Like Nikto2, Wapiti is a Open source Web Application Vulnerability Scanner: I have not tried it yet. Look like a great addition to a security engineer toolkit.

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