Gmail - Nmap 4.10 Released

Hello everyone,

I am pleased to announce the release of Nmap 4.10. The 10 Google SoC students are hard at work and have already produced some interesting patches. And I'm itching to make some big changes as well. So I decided to produce a release before destabalizing the tree with all of this development work. Especially since 4.10 includes many important changes that deserve to go out ASAP. For example, we have integrated all of your version detection submissions (about a thousand) for Q1, bringing the DB up to 3,441 signatures representing 401 protocols! The output format has been changed a bit to allow multiple ignored port states. So if you scan a machine with thousands of ports in both the filtered and closed states, your terminal will no longer be flooded with pages of output. Meanwhile the ICMP rate limit detection algorithms have been tweaked for better performance. Oh, and we're putting out a call for ASCII artists. ./configure for details. Read on for dozens of other changes.

As always, Nmap is available from:
http://www.insecure.org/nmap/download.html

Gmail - Nmap 4.10 Released

Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router - Lifehacker

Of all the great DIY projects at this year’s Maker Faire, the one project that really caught my eye involved converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 router. The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in embedding Linux in your router. I found this project especially attractive because: 1) It’s easy, and 2) it’s totally free.
Hack Attack: Turn your $60 router into a $600 router - Lifehacker

Inside the Linux boot process

The process of booting a Linux® system consists of a number of stages. But whether you're booting a standard x86 desktop or a deeply embedded PowerPC® target, much of the flow is surprisingly similar. This article explores the Linux boot process from the initial bootstrap to the start of the first user-space application. Along the way, you'll learn about various other boot-related topics such as the boot loaders, kernel decompression, the initial RAM disk, and other elements of Linux boot.
Inside the Linux boot process

Schneier on Security: Data Mining Software from IBM

In the long term, corporate data mining efforts are more of a privacy risk than government data mining efforts. And here's an off-the-shelf product from IBM:

IBM Entity Analytic Solutions (EAS) is unique identity disambiguation software that provides public sector organizations or commercial enterprises with the ability to recognize and mitigate the incidence of fraud, threat and risk. This IBM EAS offering provides insight on demand, and in context, on "who is who," "who knows who," and "anonymously."

Schneier on Security: Data Mining Software from IBM

Get 10 Copies of New Ubuntu Linux on CD Shipped Free

The New Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake) will be released in early June. You can get up to 10 copies shipped to you absolutely free including 64 bit and Mac versions.

Get 10 Copies of New Ubuntu Linux on CD Shipped Free

Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote

Mozilla has reached the latest development milestone for its next-generation Firefox 2.0 "Bon Echo" browser with a little anti-phishing help from Google.

Anti-phishing capability, which Mozilla has branded "Safe Browsing," is one of the marquee features in Firefox 2.0 and one of the reasons a third alpha is necessary. Now baked into Firefox 2.0 alpha 3, Google Safe Browsing is triple-licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) 1.1, the GPL 2.0 (define) and the LGLP (define).

It is also built into the Google Toolbar, which is available for both Firefox and IE.
Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote

Inhabitat » Blog Archive » GROUNDBREAKING MATERIAL: OLED illuminated surfaces

Imagine a house without a single light fixture - but instead walls, ceilings, furnishings, and accessories all sources of light. Thanks to research at Princeton University and the University of Southern California (USC), almost any surface in a building can become a light source with OLEDs.
Inhabitat » Blog Archive » GROUNDBREAKING MATERIAL: OLED illuminated surfaces

TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future

This week, our editors have compiled a list of the “Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future”, from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it’s all here. Which ones are your favorites?
TechEBlog » Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future

Growing glowing nanowires to light up the nanoworld

The nano world is getting brighter. Nanowires made of semiconductor materials are being used to make prototype lasers and light-emitting diodes with emission apertures roughly 100 nm in diameter--about 50 times narrower than conventional counterparts. Nanolight sources may have many applications, including "lab on a chip" devices for identifying chemicals and biological agents, scanning-probe microscope tips for imaging objects smaller than is currently possible, or ultra-precise tools for laser surgery and electronics manufacturing.
Growing glowing nanowires to light up the nanoworld

Carbon Nanotube Computers

Researchers at IBM have overcome an important obstacle to building computers based on carbon nanotubes, by developing a way to selectively arrange transistors that were made using the carbon molecules. The achievement, described in the current issue of Nano Letters, could help make large-scale integrated circuits built out of carbon nanotubes possible, leading to ultrafast, low-power processors.
Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact