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What is a port scanner?

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In the FAQ section we have with you has been repeatedly considered the various terms associated with information security - a branch of information technologies, which today is tremendous interest worldwide in connection with what is growing, as they say, by leaps and bounds. It is worth noting that the term, which we will consider with you today, is very widespread throughout the world, and therefore have some idea of its meaning is anyone who is more or less understands computers. Port scanners is a software product designed for network hosts (server nodes) with open ports and are thus vulnerable to malicious software and malicious attacks. By hackers, of course, port scanners are also used most that neither is active manner. Typically, port scanner scans all the ports of each host to detect those that are open, although in some situations (for example, when dealing with any specific network worms, which uses for its reproduction is quite certain network port) can done scanning all t...

News for developers - 8

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Image via CrunchBase The company Zend Technologies has announced the inclusion of technology platform, Zend Framework to support a single format AMF (Action Message Format) to exchange messages between components of the Flash-and Flex-application development environment Adobe Flash Builder 4. New version of Adobe Flash Builder 4, thus, allows us to combine server and client components on the basis of Flash, Flex and PHP in one application. Completed applications are created using Adobe Flash Builder 4, can be run on application servers and Adobe Flex application servers Zend Server. As stated in the official press release format support AMF was the final link for the development of combined applications with Zend Technologies and Adobe where it is convenient. The binary nature of the AMF format reduces the actual amount of data transmitted between application components, which allows you to create a new platform, the most powerful and large-scale applications, including systems for the...

Great start Apple iPad

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April 3 in the USA began selling "pre-big bang" tablet Apple iPad . The device is sold in company stores, as well as in most electronics stores Best Buy. Analysts estimate the company Piper Jaffray, for the first day it was sold from 600 to 700 thousand iPad - but this includes pre-orders. Directly through retail was sold just over 300 thousand devices. First day Journalists television sets on April 3 were reports from the flagship Apple Store on the 5 th Avenue in New York. There's a daily occurrence in sale iPad formed a queue of more than seven hundred people. For comparison: the premiere communicator iPhone 3G has collected approximately 540 customers. There must also be borne in mind that the first day of the sale came only "junior" Tablets of the line iPad - they are deprived of access to the 3G network and have the module GPS. But in any case referred to by the sales for the first day proved to be much lower than the latest estimates of analysts. ...