Firefox 4 RC (for Android): Hands On

Firefox 4 RC for Android may eventually torch the stock Android browser. It's faster than previous releases, dons a trimmer interface, and tucks new tricks up its e-sleeve, notably smart taps and single-click bookmarks.Pile on the Add-Ons — for customizing the browser's look and feel (and functionality)—and Firefox Sync — for synchronizing bookmarks, history, passwords, and preferences with your desktops — and Mozilla moguls will find plenty of reasons to bookmark the mobile browser.Yet, despite bringing a real frontrunner to the desktop market, Firefox is still just a candidate in the mobile space. It's faster than previous builds, but, compared with Android's stock browser andOpera Mobile 11, it doesn't lap the pack. It lacks...

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GNOME.Asia Summit 2011

It is a great pleasure to announce that public registration [1] for the GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 [2] is officially opened. It will be our forth summit and happens on the weekend of April 2 and 3, 2011 in Bangalore (India), right after the GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest [3]. The main theme of the summit will be "The Next Generation Free Desktop: GNOME 3.0" [4]. We will be able to jump on the opportunity of having a lot of the GNOME developers [5] already on site to aim for the greatest GNOME.Asia Summit of all time. Please join and help us to spread the word by putting up one of our banners [6] into your blog / website as well as inviting your friends to join the event! Thank you! GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 Date: April 2-3 (Sat - Sun) 8:30am to 6:00pm Venue: Dayananda Sagar Educational Institutions,...

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Metasploit Framework 3.6.0 released

The Metasploit Framework is an advanced open-source platform for developing, testing, and using exploit code. Metasploit is used by network security professionals to perform penetration tests, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers world-wide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and includes components written in C and assembler.Changes: This release adds 15 new exploits for a total of 64 new modules since version 3.5.1. Includes Post Exploitation modules that provide local exploits and additional data gathering capabilities. Downl...

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JS Recon - javascript based port scanner and detector

site: http://www.andlabs.org/tools/jsrecon.html What is JS-Recon?JS-Recon is a network reconnaissance tool written in JavaScript by making use of HTML5 features like Cross Origin Requests(CORs) and WebSocketsCurrently supported functionality:Port Scans Network Scans Detecting private IP address Supported Browsers:It works on the latest versions of Chrome, Safari and Firefox that support CORs and WebSockets.Use it on Chrome and Safari for best results. Firefox throws exceptions sometimes when scanning through COR, not sure why this happens. Scans using WebSockets work properly though.Currently it has been tested only on Windows XP and Win7 systems. Behavior could differ on Linux and MacHow does it work?:Cross domain XHR has five possible...

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Ubuntu Developer Week 2011: February 28th - March 4th

The Ubuntu Developer Week event will take place from February 28th to March 4th, 2011, and will cover several aspects of Ubuntu development, from crash-courses in getting started with working on Ubuntu to more advanced topics. Join #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net from 28th Feb to 4th Mar and check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek for more information. Ubuntu developers and enthusiasts wanting to contribute will get together online for five days of sessions hosted by some of Ubuntu's greatest developers. Here are some of the topics the developers will go over in the sessions: · Getting Started with Ubuntu Development; · How to use Ubuntu Distributed Development; · How to get changes into Ubuntu; · How to make changes in stable releases of Ubuntu; ·...

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