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- Net Monitor (widget)
- This Net Monitor will show your current network traffic (in netstat -e). This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Version 2.1 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: Monitor, Network Traffic, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2007-10-31
- Network Monitoring Using Traffic Dispersion Graphs (TDGs)
- Monitoring network traffic and detecting unwanted applications has become a challenging problem, since many applications obfuscate their traffic using unregistered port numbers or payload encryption. Apart from some notable exceptions, most traffic monitoring tools use two types of approaches: keeping traffic statistics such as packet sizes and inter-arrivals, flow counts,...
- Tags: Packet, Network, Network Traffic, Monitoring, Association For Computing Machinery, Network Monitoring
- White papers 2007-10-26
- Study: unified enterprise communications apps leading to "performance issues"
- Citing a study of nearly 600 IT professionals by network management vendor Network General, SearchVoIP.com news editor Andrew Hickey notesĀ that as companies converge communications apps onto their IP networks, VoIP and unified communications applications are causing performance issues. The study found that nearly 40% of responding...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Network Traffic, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-29
- Packet Analyzer Enterprise Edition (zip)
- Network Packet Analyzer Enterprise edition is an advanced network traffic monitoring, analysis and reporting tool. It captures all traffic transport over both Ethernet and WLAN networks. Network Packet Analyzer decodes all major TCP/IP protocols. With Network Packet Analyzer , you can easily filter the network traffic to focus on the...
- Tags: Network, Network Traffic, Network Packet Analyzer Enterprise Edition, Network Packet Analyzer, Networking
- Software downloads 2006-11-16
- Observations on Round-Trip Times of TCP Connections
- Knowledge about properties of network traffic can be beneficial when studying network protocols. It enables realistic models of network traffic to be created and evaluations of current protocols to take place. This study examines trends in Round-Trip Times RTTs at a university Web server. Round-trip time is a particularly important...
- Tags: Network, Network Traffic, University Of Calgary, TCP, RTT, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Bandwidth Meter (exe)
- Bandwidth Meter monitors all your Internet, LAN or WAN network traffic. It displays real-time graphical details about your network connection. Bandwidth Meter also records and logs all network traffic.
- Tags: Bandwidth, Network, Network Traffic, Networking
- Software downloads 2006-03-01
- Network Traffic Monitor (exe)
- Network Traffic Monitor shows you which processes in your machine are causing how much TCP/IP network traffic and over which IP ports this traffic takes place. For each process it can show detailed information, including the path to the process executable, the remote IP address, and the resolved name of...
- Tags: Monitor, Network, Network Traffic, IP, System Tray, Networking, Network Technology
- Software downloads 2005-12-21
- ESP: Edge Security Profiler (exe)
- Edge Security Profiler ESP is a network traffic analyzer. It captures live network traffic, including IP addresses, ports, hosts, conversations, bandwidth used, packets per second, and number of connections. This "top talker" information is displayed in real-time to the user through a standard Web browser on the local machine or...
- Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Edge Security Profiler, Networking
- Software downloads 2005-12-07
- Enhance Performance and Manageability Through Scalable High-Bandwidth PCI Express
- Ever-increasing network traffic creates bottlenecks in the existing parallel, multi-drop architecture of Peripheral Component Interconnect PCI bus systems. Today, PCI Express* architecture uses a 2.5-GHz serial I/O structure to provide higher bandwidth and far better scalability than previous architectures, improving network performance. Read about the 3rd generation...
- Tags: Performance, Network Traffic, Architecture, PCI, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-01
- An OS Independent Heuristics-Based Worm-Containment System
- This paper presents an operating system independent and tamper-resistant worm-containment end-system. This system continuously observes outgoing network traffic over a finite-duration traffic window, and using heuristic rules executing in a secondary environment, detects infections. It automatically quarantines the infected host to stop further spread of the worm. The paper presents...
- Tags: Network, Operating System, Network Traffic, Worm, Cyberthreats, Networking, Security
- White papers 2005-08-24
Additional Resources
- Talent development
- Earlier this week I attended Fortune magazine's Brainstorm Tech conference which "aims to sharpen the thinking of the very well heeled attendees about the escalating impact of tech-driven change for all business and global society". There was a terrific menu of topics on offer:...
- Tags: Talent, Collaboration, CEO, HCL, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing
- On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Britain moves against illegal file sharing
- CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...
- Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- GMail adds "https:"-only connections but still not by default
- Google has added a new "Browser Connection" feature to GMail to allow users to force e-mail sessions to always use the more secure "https:" protocol but, strangely, this is not turned on by default. In the Settings tab, at the very bottom, GMail users can now select...
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, HTTP, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- How OpenDNS, PowerDNS and MaraDNS remained unaffected by the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability
- The short answer is being paranoid about tackling a known vulnerability. It's 2001, and Daniel J. Bernstein DJB, author of the then popular djbdns security-aware DNS implementation, is applying basic math principles to raise awareness on what's to turn into the "sky is falling" critical Internet vulnerability in 2008, in...
- Tags: DNS, Vulnerability, Anomaly, Attack, OpenDNS, MaraDNS, NSS, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- AOL gussies up for potential sale, but who's buying?
- AOL is shutting down XDrive, AOL Pictures and other properties in a belt tightening move that may indicate the company is setting itself up to be sold. The larger question: Who will buy AOL from Time Warner? According to a memo posted by TechCrunch, AOL executive vice...
- Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Business Structures, Litigation, Internet, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 10 essential gadgets for students
- I chose these from personal experience, but also from asking many friends from around the world who are involved in technology and study at the same time. Some gadgets come with a recommendation, whereas others don't; things like laptops and cell phones can't be selected for everybody, it'd be ridiculous...
- Tags: Headphone, Phone, Cell Phone, Laptop Computer, Lecture, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soon
- Kaminsky suggests long-term fix will still have to be determined, but patch now, or pay soonTTLSomething I wish I'd asked during the webcast and which I can't quite get my head around:It was said that setting a long TTL doesn't help because of the way delegation works - has to...
- Tags: Domain names, DNS server, TTL, server, Kaminsky
- Discussion threads 2008-07-24
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