Earlier this week, Facebook announced a new tool for developers to enable them to test new implementations of Facebook Connect and to ensure that the service is always running. The tool leverages Waitr, an open-sourced Ruby library for automating internet browsers. It will automatically run browsers for you and provides an interface for quickly navigating and interacting with a web page’s various components. The point is to ensure that Facebook Connect is always working.

Funny enough, I tested out StreamDiff, a Connect-enabled application that was tested with this new tool but I couldn’t get through the entire authentication process. Regardless…

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For the past couple weeks we’ve been doing a recap of Facebook’s weekly news stories and have been receiving great feedback. As such, it’s now going to be a regular part of this blog. This past week was another big week for Facebook with the announcement of new privacy policies that will have a significant impact on platform applications. There were a number of other big announcements this week, all of which are included in our weekly roundup!

Facebook Announces New Privacy Policies
On Thursday morning, Facebook announced that they would be rolling out new privacy improvements in response to…

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Back in May Facebook shut down an application that converted your Facebook news feed into its RSS equivalent. In theory it makes a lot of sense but unfortunately Facebook claims that such actions violate their privacy policy. Months later another developer has released an RSS application which displays the most recent stories in RSS format.

The new system doesn’t appear to use Facebook’s Open Stream which makes me guess this one will be shut down as well. It’s unfortunate because this is clearly a feature that many users want. Listening is one of the most important social media activities and…

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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Using this to integrate with CUCM?
(tags: ldap authentication administration)

IP blue Software Solutions
softphone products run on Windows PCs and PDAs.
(tags: Cisco voip Networking)

Session Initiation Protocol – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol, widely used for controlling multimedia communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol (IP). Other feasible application examples include video conferencing, streaming multimedia distribution, instant messaging, presence information and online games. The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party (unicast) or…

If you own a mobile phone made by HTC and connect using Bluetooth, there’s a decent chance security researcher Alberto Moreno Tablado can rummage through sensitive files stored on the device using a critical bug in some of its wireless device features.
The directory traversal flaw resides in the File Transfer Profile (OBEX FTP) service that’s built in to the Bluetooth stack implemented by HTC, Tablado writes here. It allows an attacker to move from a phone’s Bluetooth shared folder into other folders and affects HTC handsets running versions 6 and 6.1 of the Microsoft Mobile operating system.
“Microsoft…

It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve done this, I always forget one piece. Here’s a template for the future:Assume local subnet 192.168.15.0/24, remote subnet 192.168.16.0/24. Remote public IP 11.11.11.11.crypto isakmp enable outsidecrypto isakmp policy 10 authentication pre-share encryption aes hash sha group 1 lifetime 28800access-list REMOTE_SITE ex permit ip 192.168.15.0 255.255.0.0 192.168.16.0 255.255.255.0crypto ipsec transform-set ESP-AES-128-SHA esp-aes esp-sha-hmaccrypto map OUTSIDE_MAP 20 match address REMOTE_SITEcrypto map OUTSIDE_MAP 20 set pfs group1crypto map OUTSIDE_MAP 20 set peer 11.11.11.11 crypto map OUTSIDE_MAP 20 set transform-set ESP-AES-128-SHAcrypto map OUTSIDE_MAP 20 set security-association lifetime seconds 28800crypto map OUTSIDE_MAP interface outsidenat (inside) 0 access-list REMOTE_SITEtunnel-group 11.11.11.11 type ipsec-l2ltunnel-group 11.11.11.11 ipsec-attributes pre-shared-key…

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Over the weekend there were a lot of discussions regarding the new Sign in with Twitter service, which was revealed last Friday. Ultimately it’s extremely similar to the OAuth authorization process that developers have been using for the past month or so. There are also a number of buttons to let users log in with Twitter in a way that’s somewhat similar to Facebook Connect. The primary difference? Twitter uses open standards, not a proprietary model as Facebook has built.

Do Sign In Services Matter?
With Twitter expected to become a standard login service among many new sites and Facebook…

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Agnitum Outpost is the first personal firewall developed with Open Architecture It is also the first personal firewall that supports plug ins Sample plug ins are included to show how this revolutionary technology can easily be employed for such tasks as Intrusion Detection Advertisement Blocking Content Filtering E mail Guard and Privacy Control It is equipped with every feature a personal firewall should have It is the most functional firewall in the world It supports all the latest security techniques and features such as Full Stealth Mode Anti Leak and MD5 Authentication