Effective monitoring of network infrastructure is one of the most important tasks an IT organization faces. Network downtime costs money, time, productivity, and even reputation. Administrators, are you exposing yourself or your organization to this possibility? Without a robust network monitoring solution you might be.

Nagios is an Open Source host, service and network monitoring system that will watch your network and alert you to problems before your clients or end-users do.

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There's a new rumor that Google is developing its own router. The company won't comment on the story, but it's been in the hardware business for a while and expanded its presence with Android. If Larry Ellison can go halvsies with HP on a server, then Eric Schmidt should certainly be able to make Cisco nervous.

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Cisco announced on Thursday Network Magic 5.0, a suite of network management software. This is is the first product released by Cisco since its acquisition of Pure Networks earlier this year. [via webware]

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Last night the Google Data API blog announced that oAuth is now available for all Google Data APIs, everything from Gmail contacts to Google Calendar to Docs to YouTube. This means that 3rd party app developers now have one easy, standardized and secure way to authenticate that their users really own the Google accounts they say they do

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FirewallScript, PHP based configurable firewall script, can be installed by any user on a server, even under a shared hosting plan. All users can install or modify their security settings at will, and FirewallScript offers ‘Rule Packs’ which are pre-configured for certain web apps like WordPress and vBulletin. [read on]

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Show organizers offered a Sony Vaio, Fujitsu U810, and the MacBook as prizes, saying that they could be won by anybody at the show who could find a way to hack into each of them and read the contents of a file on the system using a previously undisclosed "0day" attack.

Charlie Miller, best known as one of the researchers who first hacked Apple's iPhone last year, didn't take much time. Within 2 minutes, he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web site that contained his exploit code, which then allowed him to seize control of the computer, as about 20 onlookers cheered him on.

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