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Arp Cache Poisoning and Packet Sniffing

Intruders rely on arp cache poisoning to conceal their presence on a local network. We'll show you some of the tools an attacker might use to poison the arp cache and gather information on your network.

Google+ Means Business

Google+ isn’t officially ready for corporate use, but users are already excited about what this new social networking platform means for the workplace. We look at how you can leverage Google’s latest product for business and work around its limitations.

Understanding Hardware-Assisted Virtualization

The Intel VT and AMD-V extensions bring x86 virtualization to the 21st Century. Learn why hardware-assisted virtualization is important and what to watch for the next time you buy a computer. We'll also show you how to configure virtualization on a typical Linux system.

Open Virtualization Alliance

The Open Virtualization Alliance was founded three months ago to raise awareness about kernel-based virtualization and promote the adoption of KVM in the enterprise. We stopped in for a progress report.

Passing Host PCI Devices to the KVM Guest

The lean and fast KVM is now capable of passing physical PCI hardware through to the guest system. We take a close look at how to integrate PCI devices with KVM.

The Promise of the Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is poised to change the face of client support on enterprise networks. We talked to Virtual Bridges CTO Leonardo E. Reiter about VDI and the promise of the virtual desktop.

Btrfs

Btrfs is winning over the experts with advanced features like subvolumes, snapshots, and dynamic volume resizing. Read full article as PDF »

Checking Password Complexity with John the Ripper

Easy to remember but difficult to guess isn’t just a catchy phrase for choosing passwords, it’s the law of the Net. Learn how to check your password using a tool network intruders use every day: John the Ripper.

Many Clouds, One API

With the recent rise in cloud computing, most cloud providers have offered their own APIs, which means cloud users sign up for the services of individual providers at the expense of being able to migrate easily to other providers at a later stage. Apache Deltacloud addresses this issue by offering a standardized API definition for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) clouds with drivers for a range of different clouds.