Thoughts From The Fringe Of The Web

Good news everyone, firewall.cx has tied up with Searchnetworking. Searchnetworking is one of the heavyweight networking sites in the techtarget group. It gets a tremendous amount of traffic everyday and under the new deal, Searchnetworking gets to use firewall.cx's exclusive articles and other content. This way searchnetworking benefits from getting really quality original articles and we get a load more traffic. I suggest you check out searchnetworking and sign-up there, there is a whole lot of really top-notch information on that site.. and now if you browse through their administrator academy you'll see a few of our firewall.cx articles up their already.

In other news, Nmap 3.50 has been officially released. The improvements include a remote OS identification database that has doubled since its last incarnation as well as cosmetic changes to how the output is displayed. It is also supposedly faster. So go grab the Rolls-Royce of portscanners !

I've also added a neat little thing called Blogamp to the bottom left of the page (in the sidebar below the virus information). This niftly little thing shows you the last five songs I've been playing in Winamp (and yes I own the CDs). Thanks Chris for letting me host it at firewall.cx :)

As you can see I've just discovered the incredible progressive-rock band called Shadow Gallery. If you like prog rock, you owe it to yourself to check this band out.

I've just added the search code to the ICAT CVE Vulnerability Database. This useful tool lets you search for vulnerabilities in any software by keyword or vendor. Its completely up-to-date and provides further information on any vulnerabilities it finds.