CLDAP is most commonly encountered on Microsoft Active Directory networks where clients use it to retrieve server information.
3GPP – About 3GPP
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites [Six] telecommunications standards bodies, known as “Organizational Partners” and provides their members with a stable environment to produce the highly successful Reports and Specifications that define 3GPP technologies.
These technologies are constantly evolving through – what have become known as – Generations of commercial cellular / mobile systems. 3GPP was originally the standards partnership evolving GSM systems towards the 3rd Generation. However, since the completion of the first LTE and the Evolved Packet Core specifications, 3GPP has become the focal point for mobile systems beyond 3G.
OsmocomBB
OsmocomBB is an Free Software / Open Source GSM Baseband software implementation.
It intends to completely replace the need for a proprietary GSM baseband software, such as
- drivers for the GSM analog and digital baseband (integrated and external) peripherals
- the GSM phone-side protocol stack, from layer 1 up to layer 3
In short: By using OsmocomBB on a compatible phone, you are able to make and receive phone calls, send and receive SMS, etc. based on Free Software only.
Attackers have all they need from leaky cellphone networks to track you down
The researchers demonstrated how easy it was to track down a cellular device within a 10-block area in Minneapolis using a T-Mobile G1 smartphone and open source technology. They never contacted the service provider to conduct the test.
via Attackers have all they need from leaky cellphone networks to track you down.
PDF can be had here.
Groupware – The Horde Project
Groupware – The Horde Project.
Horde Groupware is a free, enterprise ready, browser based collaboration suite. Users can manage and share calendars, contacts, tasks and notes with the standards compliant components from the Horde Project. Horde Groupware bundles the separately available applications Kronolith, Turba, Nag and Mnemo.
Malicious backdoor in open-source messaging apps not spotted for 3 months
For almost three months, versions of three widely distributed open-source applications from Horde.org contained a backdoor that allowed attackers to remotely execute malicious PHP code on systems that ran the programs.
via Malicious backdoor in open-source messaging apps not spotted for 3 months.
This is interesting…
“The impact through Linux distribution should be not so important,” Wednesday’s post went on to say. “Only users who have download the source code from FTP are mainly affected.”
Horde’s advisory said the releases were altered after unidentified hackers breached an FTP server used to distribute the installation packages.
Trend Micro Migrates Security Tool HijackThis to Open Source
Trend Micro today announced that is has open sourced the code to its popular free security tool, HijackThis. The tool scans systems to find settings that may have been modified by spyware, malware or other programs that have wiggled their way onto a system and caused problems.
via Trend Micro Migrates Security Tool HijackThis to Open Source | SecurityWeek.Com.
“As new malicious code is released faster than ever before, the need for analyzing log data to identify new malicious code is more important than ever,” the company said in a statement. “Through this offer to the open source community, the product has the opportunity to develop and become an even better solution to quickly identify new malicious code.”
Download HijackThis.exe here. (sourceforge)
Official website here.
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom
In contrast to conventional computers that are based on transistors with distinct “on” and “off” or “1” and “0” states, quantum computers are built from devices called qubits that exploit the quirky properties of quantum mechanics. Unlike a transistor, a qubit can represent a multiplicity of values simultaneously.
via Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom – NYTimes.com.
Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks
Interest-based social networks have a markedly different focus and approach than Facebook. The Pinterest, Thumb and Foodspottings of the world enable users to focus and organize around their interests first, whereas Facebook focuses on a user’s personal relationships. Facebook offers us a social utility to deepen social connectivity with our existing social graphs, while these new interest-based social networks enable users to express their interests in new, engaging ways and offer authentic, high value connectivity with new people we don’t already know. The different approaches of these interest-based services are distinct from Facebook, and they are powering the massive growth and engagement we are seeing in these new services.
via Beyond Facebook: The Rise Of Interest-Based Social Networks | TechCrunch.
VLC media player
Release Notes: VLC 2.0.0 “Twoflower” is a major new release of VLC. It has faster decoding using multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware, and the ability to open more formats, notably professional,..
via VLC media player – Freecode.
Download it at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/