Performing Network Assessment before voip deployment

Network Assessment before voip deployment

Many troubles are faced by system engineers when they integrate VOIP into the existing IT infrastructure. The basic trouble goes into finding whether the current IT or Network infra is compatible with VOIP deployment. Believe me, never always system integrators are right. Mostly some parts of the network are left without being analyzed, and the VOIP deployment is done, which is of course not perfect.

Fluke Networks has come up with NetAlly Voip Assessment Software version 7, which performs the task of analyzing the current network infrastructure before any Voip deployment and gives details regarding the networks assessment done.

NetAlly Voip Assessment Software Official Site

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Facebook phishing attack

Facebook the biggest social networking site is facing a phishing attack these days. Facebook stopped a phishing attack on Thursday which was said to be carried out with the name of FBStarter.com. On Wednesday the phishing attack was carried out by a name of BAction.net. These attacks are made in order to steal personal information of the users. The method of attacking is of classic nature. The attack is spread within the site via a Worm which unsuspectingly sends a message to the member from his friend to "check this out" and includes a link to the phishing site.

When the link is clicked the users are asked for their facebook login information and when the member types his user name and password is account details are stolen and a same message is send to the infected member friends.

To protect this phishing scam facebook has told its members that always use facebook.com as the url for login and after logging in the website will never ask for a relogin.


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Winamp Password Policy Changed

Winamp Password Policy Change

The authentication policy in winamp has undergone some changes because of which now the users will need to have a password between 6-16 characters long. This password as you know is required to access your winamp account. If any user is having a password longer than 16 characters than beware because winamp will send an email to change to password before May 6 2009. If unable to do so your account will be disabled. One more thing that Winamp team clarified was that this password policy change will not affect the accounts at Winamp Forum or Developer Network.

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Mobile Blogging with Blogger

Blogger.com introduces mobile blogging right on the users dashboard. Any user in order to blog via mobile now only needs to enable mobile blogging in the blogger's dashboard. The mobile blogging option is quite traceable.

How to enable Mobile Blogging ?

To enable mobile blogging from blogger a user first need to logon , reach his blogger dashboard, above every blog he will now find a new icon specifying a mobile. Clicking that phone icon will show the user his claim code. Claim code is a series of digits which a user should send back to blogger.com via SMS {BLOGGR (256447).



The phone used to send the claim code will be associated with the blog by blogger.com and then that phone can be used to post - blog posts to your blog directly via SMS or MMS.



Please note:- The date I did this post, the mobile blogging service was only available in USA.

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Twitter attacked by a worm

Twitter the famous micro blogging site was attacked this weekend by a worm similar to the samy worm which took down the website Myspace. The worm in twitter was found spreading this weekend when 4 malicious accounts were created simultaneously at about 2 AM on Saturday. 90 Accounts were compromised due to the worm attack within few hours, later the attack was controlled. Later in the afternoon, the attack again started, about 100 more accounts were compromised due to the attack. The twitter security team found the infected files and removed them along with 10,000 Tweets.

Source :- Twitter Blog

Yahoo Search Monkey - What is Yahoo Search Monkey ?

Yahoo Search Monkey

What is Yahoo Search Monkey?

Yahoo Search Monkey is an open platform service by Yahoo to provide enhanced search results by Yahoo Search. Yahoo search results were till now displayed in a classic manner, but now these search results can be modified by Site Owners, Developers and Users together.

Below you can see the search results for a particular search term "how to play a guitar", in yahoo classic search.



This a a result of a classic search by yahoo.

Now if we searched again the same term by utilizing the applications of Yahoo Search Monkey. The output is as follows :-




Note the difference between both the searches, in the second search enabled by search monkey applications their is a infobar below every search redefining the search in an enhanced way.

These applications are called Yahoo Search Monkey Apps or applications and can be discovered at the Yahoo Search Gallery which is currently in the BETA version. Adding and removing these applications is easy but you need a valid yahoo account in order to fully utilize these applications.

The most famous famous application till date are as follows:-

StumbleUpon --> This application allows user to see , a website review and rating on stumbleupon
Flickr --> includes photos from Flickr if any
Feed Discovery --> Extracts Posts from the Feeds
deliciousify --> enables meta tags from delicious
IMDB Infobar --> provides information regarding a movie if any

These applications comes in 2 formats enhanced and infobar both type of applications can be dicovered by going on the view options of the Yahoo Search Gallery.

How Yahoo Search Monkey Works?

The Yahoo Search Monkey Platform is driven by 3 types of users - Website Owner, Developer, User.

Website Owner --> The people who own a website or a blog
Developer --> People who want to provide some service from the information they recieved from Website Owners
Users --> People who enjoy this platform for searching

Website Owner and Yahoo Search Monkey

The Website owners can submit there website to Yahoo Site Explorer and the rest of the work will be done by Yahoo. The Websites owners must submit their website to Yahoo Crawler in the following format to take full advantages of the Yahoo Search Monkey Platform:-

1.) XML- Based Atom Feed - more information regarding XML- Based Atom Feed
2.) eRDF/RDFa Markup - more information regarding eRDF/RDFa Markup
3.) Microformats - more information regarding Microformats
4.) OpenSearch - more information regarding OpenSearch
5.) Custom Data Services - more information regarding Custom Data Services

Now after sharing the data with the above given formats the Website Owners can also work as developers and create some application which will provide information regarding their shared data right from the Yahoo Search. Please Note that in order for a user to use your application while searching, the user should add your application in his Yahoo Search Gallery. This task can also be accomplished by adding an Yahoo Search Monkey Application Button on your Website.

Developers and Yahoo Search Monkey

Yahoo Search Monkey can be utilized by developers in order to create custom application of their website called data service. These applications are created on the data submitted by the Website Owners. For eg. StumbleUpon and Feed Discovery Applications of Yahoo Search Monkey utilizes the data submitted by the Website owners and output the data as programmed by the developers.

More information - Yahoo Search Monkey Developers Guide

Links

Yahoo Search Monkey Website
Yahoo Search Monkey Developers Home
Yahoo Search Gallery