Radical Development

May 16, 2013
by Steven Swafford
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Ways To Protect Your Identity On The Internet

At the time of this article I have an IP Address of 89.239.207.81 and I would ask you if you have any idea where my Internet Service Provider (ISP) resides? I live in the United States and at this moment my Internet connection is coming from Denmark. As demonstrated from the Google Map, I am clearly sitting in Havdrup, Denmark however this is not true, well at least physically. My internet connection resides in Denmark why my physical location is within the United States. Here is the detailed information: IP Address: 89.239.207.81* City: Havdrup State: 20 Country: Denmark Latitude: 55.5333 …

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May 12, 2013
by Steven Swafford
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Explained

What does the MAP toolkit do? The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.0 is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that helps you assess your current IT infrastructure and determine the right Microsoft technologies for your IT needs. The MAP toolkit uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), SMS Provider, and other technologies to collect data in your environment and inventories computer hardware, software, and operating systems in small or large IT environments without installing any agent software on the target computers. The download is free, but it has a laundry list of prerequisites: .Net …

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March 3, 2013
by Steven Swafford
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Open Source and Commericial Security Tools

Whether you’re a network administrator, security professional, or an end user, it’s important that you keep your system clean and secure. There are a variety of high quality open source security tools available. Toolkits Network Security Toolkit: This bootable ISO live CD/DVD (NST Live) is based on Fedora. The toolkit was designed to provide easy access to best-of-breed Open Source Network Security Applications and should run on most x86/x86_64 platforms. The main intent of developing this toolkit was to provide the network security administrator with a comprehensive set of Open Source Network Security Tools. The majority of tools published in …

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October 17, 2012
by Steven Swafford
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Free Security Magazines, White Papers, and Downloads Of October 2012

Takes One to Know One: Think Like a Hacker for Better Security Awareness 52% of businesses experienced more malware infections as a result of employees on social media. Security awareness is mostly about common sense, and thinking like the hackers to understand what security weaknesses they look for. But like other security precautions, it’s easy to let down your guard. Security awareness education can arm your staff with the skills to practice safe Internet usage – to reduce malware and other cyber threats. In this paper, find out: Best ways to deliver a security awareness program What you should teach …

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October 10, 2012
by Steven Swafford
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Data Recovery The Easy Way With TestDisk

There are many solutions on the market that are free, open source, and commercial. While many may argue that commericial solutions provide both ease of use and work well, I present to you that open source solutions are often a better solution. This being said, I wanted to share my experiences with TestDisk from CGSecurity, which is primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy …

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June 23, 2012
by Steven Swafford
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Find And Address Security Vulnerabilities With Tenable Nessus

Have you ever really stopped for a moment to consider just how vulnerable you are every time you turn on your computer? If your answer is no, I implore you to take security seriously as the threat is real and the reality is it is not difficult at all for the black hat (attacker) to find a vulnerability on your end and possible then exploit that vulnerability. HP’s 2011 Top Cyber Security Risks Report states that while vulnerabilities are down over recent years roughly 24% of recent vulnerabilities were classified as critical. The percentage is important because even though vulnerabilities …

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Free Word Art Gallery

May 6, 2012 by Steven Swafford

If you’re looking for a way to convey a message with words by simply using a graphic then you may find this gallery exactly what you are seeking. All of these images are free for use in any way that you see fit with no strings attached.

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