About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: NoScript, OpenVPN, Netfilter, Clam AntiVirus, OpenSSH, Zentyal, SSL-Explorer: Community Edition, Metasploit Project, KeePass, Off-the-Record Messaging, DiskCryptor, Cryptlib, Rapid7, FLAIM, FreeOTFE, OpenSSL, Fail2ban, StrongSwan, MyDLP, OpenDJ, Ksplice, IPCop, Distributed Access Control System, OpenDS, OSSEC, CopSSH, ClamWin, Apache Shiro, Snort, UT-VPN, TCP Wrapper, Returnil Virtual System, Aircrack-ng, IPFire, SystemRescueCD, John the Ripper, W3af, DenyHosts, Winpooch, Central Authentication Service, Billeo, Ophcrack, Mitto, Cryptmount, GnuTLS, Vyatta, Finjan SecureBrowsing, Ipchains, Lsh, Suricata, Stockade, Stunnel, Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, The Sleuth Kit, Sucuri, NuFW, X-Wrt, Endian Firewall, Prelude Hybrid IDS, OpenPAM, OpenVAS, Libgcrypt, Gpg4win, Nikto Web Scanner, Cloudvpn, Selective file dumper, Thresh, Open Source Tripwire, GPGTools, VTun, Dropbear, TCHunt, Immunix, WarVOX, Nettle, FireHOL, Pwdump, NotScripts, FreeS/WAN, Lynis, Gateway Anti-Virus, Damn Vulnerable Linux, Openswan, Dazuko, Arptables, Chntpw. Excerpt: NoScript is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and other Mozilla-based web browsers. NoScript allows executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight and other plugins only if the site hosting it is considered trusted by its user and has been previously added to a whitelist. NoScript offers also specific countermeasures against security exploits. NoScript blocks JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other "active" content by default in Firefox. This is based on the assumption that malicious web sites can use these technologies in harmful ways. Users can allow active content to execute on trusted web sites, by giving explicit permission, on a temporary or a more permanent basis. If "Temporarily allow" is selected, th...
