Download Offline Installers: Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0, 3.5 SP1, 3.5, 3.0 & 2.0 From Microsoft Servers

As many of the new Microsoft Windows applications are developed using .NET Framework, it is becoming mandatory to install .NET Framework on our personal computers.

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Microsoft provides .NET Framework installer as a free download available to everyone. But it is an online installer. That means, initially we have to download a small piece of installer and upon starting the installation process the installer automatically connects to Microsoft servers and downloads the required components and completes the installation.

The online installers works great as long as we have internet connectivity always. But many of us require offline installer to install the software on computers not connected to internet, to save the bandwidth while installing on many computers, etc.

20+ .htaccess Hacks Every Web Developer Should Know About

Apache's .htaccess(hypertext access) configuration file can be a very powerful tool in a web developer's toolkit if used properly. It can be found in the webroot of your server and can be easily edited using any text editor. In this article I'm going to show you 20 .htaccess hacks and how to use them.

Before I start with this article I'd like to start by saying that abusing the .htaccess file will hurt the performance of your website. The .htaccess file should only be used if you have no other way to achieve certain things.

Make sure to back up your current .htaccess file before applying any of the following hacks.

1. Prevent Hotlinking

Tired of people using your bandwidth by putting the images hosted on your server on their website? Add the following code at the bottom of your .htaccess file to prevent hotlinking.

1	Options +FollowSymlinks

2	#Protect against hotlinking

3	RewriteEngine On

4	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$

5	RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?domainname.com/ [nc]

6	RewriteRule .*.(gif|jpg|png)$http://domainname.com/img/stop_stealing_bandwidth.gif[nc]

NOTE: The following article explains better methods to "prevent" hotlinking:
Link building secrets by Maurizio Petrone

ADOBE ACROBAT X PRO 10.1.3 MULTILANGUAGE + KEYGEN

Adobe® Acrobat® X Pro software lets you deliver highly professional PDF communications. Create and edit PDF files with rich media included, share information more securely, and gather team feedback more efficiently.

Benefits of Acrobat X Pro

Increase your productivity : Get more work done — faster. From streamlining routine PDF tasks to quickly comparing two files, Acrobat X Pro software makes your job easier.

Protect sensitive information : Share files with confidence by easily adding PDF passwords or digital signatures. Remove sensitive information with redaction tools.

Easily create fillable forms : Turn your paper forms into fillable PDF forms in just a few steps. Distribute and collect forms electronically, track status, and analyze results.

Syness-The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments | For ISO 27001(BS7979), PCI-DSS, HIPPA, FISCAM, COBIT

The IT Regulatory and Standards Compliance Handbook: How to Survive Information Systems Audit and Assessments

Publisher: Syngress 2008 | 750 Pages | ISBN: 1597492663 | PDF | 11 MB

This book provides comprehensive methodology, enabling the staff charged with an IT security audit to create a sound framework, allowing them to meet the challenges of compliance in a way that aligns with both business and technical needs. This “roadmap” provides a way of interpreting complex, often confusing, compliance requirements within the larger scope of an organization’s overall needs.

How Traceroute Command Works ??

                                   Traceroute

What is Traceroute?

It is an application layer implementation to find the hops when a packet traverses to a destination.

What are the Protocols Used in Traceroute?

Traceroute works with combination of both ICMP and UDP. It mainly relies on ICMP Time-to-Live Exceeded (Type 11).

DDNS - Dynamic Domain Name System | What is DDNS , DNS

DDNS - Dynamic Domain Name System

We Know All before sending anything to his mail server, he will read the database from the public server for the latest ip address of mail server and put it as destination address.. But twas a small problem, at times after fetching the latest public ip of mail server, ISP DHCP renews the IP lease of mail server, hence the message lost.

Again after some time I started thinking about a vpn connectivity from an office which doesn't have public address, so the idea of DDNS came,

Before explaining DDNS, I hope you all have a good idea about DNS, For those who dont know, DNS is the one to one mapping between name to ip address. But in DNS its will not get updated dynamically and it may take even more than 24 hrs to get updated in the root DNS servers. Here come DDNS.

The PING of Death and Other DoS Network Attacks

What is known as Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks.?? Do You Prevent it or Not.? This Question Is Very Difficult.!!

I’m very disappointed to admit that in our days this type of attack is one of the most common attacks found in the network community. The intention of the attacker in this case is to stress the victim with a tremendous amount of spurious traffic so that the network has no more free resources to process normal legitimate traffic.

Learning about these types of network attacks — learning your enemy — will help you be prepared for the worst. Once you understand your enemy’s behavior and the different types of network threats we’ll move on to specific solutions and how to protect your network.

DoS Attacks - Denial-of-Service Attack

Denial of Service Attacks can take many forms. The most important ones are:

• SYN Flood
• UDP Flood
• ICMP Flood
• Land Attack
• Teardrop Attack

All these attacks have one thing in common which is nothing else than making their victim unable to serve legitimate traffic by filling up its session table with malicious connection attempts.

EBook - Snort IDS and IPS Toolkit (Jay Beale's Open Source Security)

Snort IDS and IPS Toolkit (Jay Beale's Open Source Security) 

Publisher: Syngress | ISBN: 1597490997 | edition 2007 | PDF | 766 pages | 12,2 mb

This fully integrated book, CD, and Web toolkit covers everything from packet inspection to optimizing Snort for speed to using the most advanced features of Snort to defend even the largest and most congested enterprise networks. Leading Snort experts Brian Caswell, Andrew Baker, and Jay Beale analyze traffic from real attacks to demonstrate the best practices for implementing the most powerful Snort features.

Using The Paessler PRTG Traffic Grapher In a Cisco Wide Area Application Services | PRTG Grapher for Cisco Router and Switches

About the PRTG Traffic Grapher

The PRTG Traffic Grapher is a Microsoft Windows software tool for monitoring and classifying traffic bandwidth use. It offers a simple, easy-to-learn interface and provides system administrators with live readings and long-term use trends for their network devices. The PRTG Traffic Grapher is most commonly used for bandwidth management, but its sensor technology can also be used to:

• Log the amount of data flowing in and out of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)-enabled network components using the Internet MIB-2 standard.

• Inspect all data packets passing a computer's network interface card (packet sniffing).

• Incorporate bandwidth use data sent by Cisco routers using the NetFlow Version 5 protocol.

The packet sniffer and NetFlow-based monitoring capabilities of the PRTG Traffic Grapher provide the capability to classify traffic by protocol, IP address, and MAC address.

EBook - "Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit: A complete toolkit for Microsoft's undocumented log analysis tool" by Gabriele Giuseppini, Mark Burnett, Jeremy Faircloth and David A. Kleiman

Microsoft Log Parser Toolkit: A complete toolkit for Microsoft's undocumented log analysis tool

Publisher: Syngress | ISBN: 1932266526 | edition 2005 | PDF | 465 pages | 83,8 mb

Written by Microsoft's Log Parser developer, this is the first book available on Microsoft's popular yet undocumented log parser tool. The book and accompanying Web site contain hundreds of customized, working scripts and templates that system administrators will find invaluable for Analyzing the log files from Windows Server, Snort IDS, ISA Server, IIS Server, Exchange Server, and other products.

BCCPA - Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator

In the Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) course, intended for students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat ProxySG, you will learn the major functions of the ProxySG, how they work, how to administer them, and how the ProxySG interfaces with other Blue Coat products. You will learn key concepts of network security and wide-area network (WAN) optimization and how to get service and support from Blue Coat.

Password Recovery on a Cisco Router

In this post I'll demonstrate how to perform password recovery on a Cisco router, and I'll also show you how to prevent password recovery.

Password recovery might be necessary for legtimate needs or it could be used by an attacker for nefarious purposes such as to gain access to router or switch configurations. Physical access is required for password recovery so if your routers (or switches) are in an accessible area and cannot be physically secured you may want to use the command listed below for preventing password recovery (if your router supports it that is).

Free EBook - XSS Attacks : Cross Site Scripting Exploits & Defence (Mediafire Link)

XSS Attacks: Cross Site Scripting Exploits and Defense By Seth Fogie, Jeremiah Grossman
Publisher: Syngress 2007 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 1597491543 | PDF | 5 MB

Cross Site Scripting Attacks starts by defining the terms and laying out the ground work. It assumes that the reader is familiar with basic web programming (HTML) and JavaScript. First it discusses the concepts, methodology, and technology that makes XSS a valid concern. It then moves into the various types of XSS attacks, how they are implemented, used, and abused. After XSS is thoroughly explored, the next part provides examples of XSS malware and demonstrates real cases where XSS is a dangerous risk that exposes internet users to remote access, sensitive data theft, and monetary losses. Finally, the book closes by examining the ways developers can avoid XSS vulnerabilities in their web applications, and how users can avoid becoming a victim. The audience is web developers, security practitioners, and managers. 

Colasoft Packet Builder - Enables Creating Custom Network Packets....

Colasoft Packet Builder

Colasoft Packet Builder enables creating custom network packets; users can use this tool to check their network protection against attacks and intruders.Colasoft Packet Builder includes a very powerful editing feature. Besides common HEX editing raw data, it features a Decoding Editor allowing users to edit specific protocol field values much easier. Users are also able to edit decoding information in two editors - Decode Editor and Hex Editor.

Platinum Hide IP 3.1.8.2 Full (Mediafire,Rapidshare)

Platinum Hide IP 3.1

Get Platinum Online Privacy Protection. With Platinum Hide IP, you can surf anonymously, send anonymous emails through any web based mail system, access blocked websites or forums, get protected from any website that wants to monitor your reading interests and spy upon you through your unique IP address, etc. Your identity is secure, protected, and anonymized.

What's more, Platinum Hide IP allows you to select your IP location such as United States, United kingdom, France, etc. from the Choose IP Country window.

Combine Two Internet Connections Into One to Get Highspeed!

Process for Installing and Configuring Wingate Proxy Server

1. Install Wingate:-

Wingate - Good Software for Proxy Server

WinGate Proxy Server

WinGate Proxy Server is a sophisticated integrated Internet gateway and communications server designed to meet the control, security and communications needs of today's businesses. In addition to a comprehensive range of features, WinGate Proxy Server's license options provide you the flexibility to match your needs to your budget, whether you need to manage an enterprise, small business, or home network.

Top SSH Client for Windows

                                         

SSH or secure shell is the best way to communicate secretly over Internet it provides a secure channel between sender and the receiver and it uses encryption techniques to make the procedure secure. SSH is a protocol and there are different clients are available to run and execute or simple to work on this protocol for different Operating system like for Linux, MAC, Iphone and Windows.

So before going to the actual tutorial I would like to share some SSH clients for different operating system.

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide 3rd Edition - 2011

CISA Certified Information Systems Auditor Study Guide, 3rd Edition 


David L. Cannon|ISBN: 978-0-470-61010-7|Paperback|696 pages|March 2011 

More than 27,000 IT professionals take the Certified Information Systems Auditor exam each year. SC Magazine lists the CISA as the top certification for security professionals. Compliances, regulations, and best practices for IS auditing are updated twice a year, and this is the most up-to-date book available to prepare aspiring CISAs for the next exam. 

How to Reset Windows Password Using BackTrack

How to Reset Windows Password Using BackTrack

Hello all users, in today's we'd like to share a very simple and eagyhack for resetting your the lost Windows password using BackTrack & Chntpw tool, so let me get straight to the point without beating around the bush.

Windows stores the login password hashes (lm/ntlm format) in the registry hive files named 'SYSTEM' and 'SAM' at following location