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100 Open Source Security Assessment, Vulnerability Auditing, & Security Tools 1 Stockade Virtual Appliance with Snort, BASE, Inprotect, CACTI, NTOP & Others 2 Nessus Open source vulnerability assessment tool 3 Snort Intrusion Detection (IDS) tool 4 Wireshark TCP/IP Sniffer- AKA Ethereal 5 WebScarab Analyze applications that communicate using the HTTP and HTTPS protocols 6 Wikto Web server assessment tool 7 BackTrack Penetration Testing live Linux distribution

The New Government Action plan towards Open Standard and Open Source includes * Foreword * Background * The Way Forward * Policy * Action Plan * Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan [PDF, 73KB] Reference URL is h3r3 Quoted from British Cabinet office " Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan Foreword Background The Way Forward Policy Action Plan Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use: Government Action Plan [PDF, 73KB] To help bring together the online debate around this Action Plan, we've set up a public page which contains links to blog posts, news stories and tweets about UK government, open source and open standards . If you write about this online, please use the tag #ukgovOSS to help us find your comment. Foreword Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that individuals, working together over the Internet,

Ubuntu One , now in the closed beta phase, enables the exchange of files between Ubuntu 9.04 computers over the Internet. Anyone wanting to participate in the beta test can request an access code , which is required to access Ubuntu's Launchpad . Ubuntu One users with the Free plan get 2GB of storage space. For US$ 10 per month, users get 10GB. To use the Ubuntu One service, the user downloads the software via the PPA service and installs it. Detailed instructions are available on the Ubuntu One website. The website does not say how long the beta phase lasts. The service is reminiscent of Dropbox , but has the advantage of working cross-platform and offering some additional features. Also missing on the Ubuntu One pages is information about privacy and security when transmitting data.

Linux Kernel Mailing list well known how busy it is and huge in volume 1000+ mails daily !!!![ some one decided to summarize it's daily activities in Audio format , year Audible mailing list summary , quite an interesting idea. Podcast Link is h3r3 the podcast has an interesting site link is h3r3 -jonmasters.org - Announcement as made " "I've started recording a daily summary podcast of Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) traffic . It's in MP3 format (for the benefit of car stereos, including my empeg, and iPhone/iPod users) with an Ogg Vorbis format version to follow next week, and text versions of the script I read from will be available too for those who want to help with translation — or just prefer not listening to audio. It's an experiment at this stage and may not continue to be daily in the longer term unless I can build a team of willing volunteers to help find items worth including from the day's traffic, write the daily script, record it, and so f

KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (Mampu) expects all government agencies to implement open source software (OSS) by end of next year. To date, 462 agencies from a total of 720 agencies have implemented Open Source Software, which managed to provide a savings of more than RM47 million, said Mampu deputy director of ICT (information and communications technology) policy and planning division, Tan King Ing. "We had utilised the OSS development model for rapid development of product at a lower cost by building upon existing solutions," she said at a media briefing here today. Eight OSS products have been developed for use by all public sector agencies, she told reporters. To further contribute to the industry, Mampu and Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) will host the 2009 MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference from May 31 to June 3. Targeted at business executives, developers and the open source commu