Web camera software detects motion, triggers alarm, captures snapshots, records video, and sends captured images by e-mail

Web camera software senses activity, sounds
alarm, captures images, records video, and sends captured images by email

Web cameras
are perfect for more than just making ip communications
more practical. They can in addition be
an enormously functional device
for use in home or corporation protection.

Application
is now available that can sense movement and use
it as a trigger for various procedures.


The way that
it works is to analyze the image sent by a camera that is either attached using USB
or through a video capture device for movement. While it picks up
that motion, it can afterward acquire any number of actions,
including triggering an alarm.

An other popular software, though, is to either
send live pictures of what is happening in the field that is covered by the camera
or to even broadcast using online streaming accurately what is
happening with both audio and picture. If installed furtively,
this software could even be used for covert surveillance.

Given the
large quantity of systems that either have a webcam attached
or can support one, this is an excellent way to inexpensively and effortlessly protect
the zone around that pc
from infringement or theft.

New professional security software works with
any webcamera, Internet cameras, and major capture cards.

Security software

has become so complicated that the average
user who has been busy minding his store instead of pouring over electronics and ip
know-how articles can be easily overwhelmed when it comes time to install or renew his surveillance system.


Luckily, there is modern professional surveillance application that simplifies much of the decision making.
You don't necessarily have to get rid of a working analog closed circuit TV system in order to update to a streaming
video that can be watched from any internet connected station or 3G phone. Video capture cards can digitally convert the
pictures for broadcast. Until yesterday, there had been no real attempts to regulate the new Internet
cameras; every make and manufacturer functioned a tiny differently. And when you throw webcams into the
join, finding one application to control them all was unwieldy.



Professional security application

is now available that will work for any webcam
or IP webcam and for most capture cards as well. You can monitor anything your activity
sensors are picking up at your house or business while you can be half a world away.
The application itself may not be easy, but it can make life simpler for you.

Broadcasting online video and audio from capture device
through camera computer application

Surveillance application

If you find yourself with a need to record security video with a webcam over an area,

camera
computer application

may be the right choice for you. Using this software, it is possible to set up a
camera to detect movement and begin recording when it does.

Depending on your needs, the sights and sounds that are picked up by the webcam may be stored on a hard drive, or if the captured video
needs to be accessible off-site, can be webcast using the server's broadcasting
feature to a website.

Depending on the quality of the webcam and the viewer's video card, the picture that is recorded may be as clear as a high-definition television signal.
Using a install like this, it is possible to provide a measure of security for an area when
the economics of the situation do not justify hiring a security business or setting up a professional monitoring system.

This

do-it-yourself approach

can save money while not compromising on security.

Protect against Cookiejacking | suggestion from microsoft

Protect against Cookie-jacking | suggestion from Microsoft

Some days ago, a security researcher found a microsoft's latest security risk named cookiejacking which allows cookiestealing. Microsoft is doing all it's research to patch this vulnerability of internet explore. This bug is in all versions of internet explorer. Clickjacking and social engineering techniques are then used to trick users into dragging the contents of the rogue iframes to containers on the same page controlled by the attackers. Read more about cookiejacking attack
Microsoft's Brandon LeBlanc say that the company is working on a patch. He also suggested to use  browser's InPrivate Browsing feature. The private browsing mode prevents access to cookie files already saved on the disk, but more importantly, it stores cookies for the active session in memory. This means that a page crafted for cookiejacking cannot access neither older cookies nor active ones, because there is no path to them

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Packt: A Publishing House for the Future

Since I first heard of them several years ago, I've viewed Packt as the underdog in the world of technical book publishing. In the past year or so, Packt seems to have gained greater and greater influence: their catalog continues to grow, they are attracting talented and knowledgeable engineers as authors, and their titles are things that I'm actually interested in.

Two examples of this are the books Expert Python Programming and Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring. I received a copy of the former and blogged about my take on it. For the Zenoss book, last year I agreed to be a technical reviewer and am currently preparing a blog post on my pre- and post-publishing experiences.

In both cases, I agreed to work with Packt based solely on the technical merits of their works. However, my experience as a technical reviewer with them was so positive (I have had consistently excellent experiences with their staff over extended periods of time and on long-running conversations) that I have not only agreed to review more titles, but have read up on Packt themselves a bit. Here are some highlights from their wikipedia article:

• They published their first book in 2004 (the same year Ubuntu started!).
• Packt offers PDF versions of all of their books for download.
• When a book written on an open source project is sold, Packt pays a royalty directly to that project.
• As of March 2008, Packt's contributions to open source projects surpassed US $100,000 (I would love an updated stat on this, if anyone has a newer figure).
• They went DRM-free in March 2009.
• Packt supports and publishes books on smaller projects and subjects that standard publishing companies cannot make profitable.
• Their stream-lined business model aims to give authors high royalty rates and the opportunity to write on topics that standard publishers tend to avoid.
• Bonus: they also run the Open Source Content Management System Award.

These guys have some keys things going for them:

• They've got what appears to be a lean approach to business.
• They know how to effectively crowd-source, keeping their overhead low.
• They are rewarding both the authors as well as the open source projects.
• Their titles continue to grow in diversity and depth.
• The have an outstanding staff.

Oh, and I really like the user account management in their website! When I log in, I see a list of owned books, source code links for them, clear/clean UI, very easy to navigate. I can't emphasize this enough to vendors, service providers, etc.: if you want a loyal user base:

1. make a good product that lasts a long time;
2. make simple and great tools that enhance the experience of those products, that truly improve the experience of your users.

All in all, Packt really appear to be leaders in publishing innovation, taking lessons learned from the frontier of open source software and applying that to the older industry of publication production. I would encourage folks to evaluate Packt for themselves: if you like what you see, support them in readership and authorship :-)

I, for one, will continue to review titles that appeal to me personally and that I think others would enjoy as well. I have two books in the queue and three pending blog posts for the following titles:

• Zenoss Core Network and System Monitoring
• Python Testing Cookbook
• Python 3 Web Development Beginner's Guide

And who knows, if I feel like writing a technical book at some point, you may see me in the Packt catalog, too

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Facebook works with Google, Yahoo and mozilla on secure session cookie

Facebook works with Google, Yahoo and Mozilla on secure session cookie

After turning on https connection for facebook users, now facebook is working with Google, Yahoo and Mozilla on a secure session cookie specification that will protect session cookie from theft even over non-encrypted connections. This new specification is MAC Access Authentication that provide cryptographic verification for certain portions of HTTP requests. Here MAC is Message Authentication Code. this prevents MAN IN THE MIDDLE attack.

Facebook told developers in a post detailing recent changes to its app platform, "We’re working with Yahoo!, Google and Mozilla on this specification in order to give all websites a way to ensure that session information has not been altered or tampered with". Facebook also asked developers to use SSL connection for apps by october.

Recently facebook user data was leaked by some app tokens vulnerability, so facebook is forcing all developers to use SSL. Every time the facebook got some trouble, app is the reason. So facebook is trying each and every possible way to secure it's users from scams and data theft.

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download Ncrack - High-speed network authentication cracker

 

Ncrack - High-speed network authentication cracker

 

Ncrack is a high-speed network authentication cracking tool. It was built to help companies secure their networks by proactively testing all their hosts and networking devices for poor passwords. Security professionals also rely on Ncrack when auditing their clients. Ncrack was designed using a modular approach, a command-line syntax similar to Nmap and a dynamic engine that can adapt its behaviour based on network feedback. It allows for rapid, yet reliable large-scale auditing of multiple hosts.

Ncrack's features include a very flexible interface granting the user full control of network operations, allowing for very sophisticated bruteforcing attacks, timing templates for ease of use, runtime interaction similar to Nmap's and many more.

Ncrack was started as a "Google Summer of Code" Project in 2009. While it is already useful for some purposes, it is still unfinished, alpha quality software. It is released as a standalone tool and can be downloaded from below.

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