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1 – Essential Frugal Hackers Toolkit

1 – Essential Frugal Hackers Toolkit INTRODUCTION For those of you who dont know me, Im a network security analyst and project manager. I lead a team of network security analysts whose job it is to perform vulnerability assessments for the Department of Defense and to perform penetration tests for some commercial customers. Not only do I lead my team and work the contracts/business side of the house, a lot of the time I find myself on the ground at testing sites, working side by side with my employees. I am a competent tester and a very technical person, so when scheduling conflicts arise and my team cant cover testing completely, I step in and lend a hand. Previous to this gig, I worked as a UNIX administrator for nearly fifteen years and managed a 1500 workstation hospitals mixed-technology network. I know Windows. I know Linux. I know (some) Cisco. I know SQL. Ive programmed web applications in Perl, Javascript and PHP. Basically...

10 Essential Firefox Add ons

10 Essential Firefox Add ons Firefox has still got the majority of market share when it comes to web browsers. And no wonder, it has got a vast variety of Add-ons to choose from. Here is an alphabetic list of 10 essentially important Add-ons that would make your life easier on the web. 1-ClickWeather 1-ClickWeather for Firefox enables users to quickly view current weather conditions including regional Doppler radar maps (with severe weather alerts, when applicable) and/or international satellite maps and up to 5 days of forecast information within the browser and allows for instant access to detailed and customized weather content including hour-by-hour and 10-day forecasts and user-selectable video synopsis of weather conditions for the next 72 hours by On-Camera Meteorologists from The Weather Channel through clickable icons. All weather data is provided by weather.com. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1-clickweather/ Unfortunately though, for Firefox 4/5, you need to f...