Web Monitoring for Employee Productivity Enhancement

All too often when web monitoring and Internet use restrictions are put into place it hurts company morale and does little to enhance employee productivity. Not wanting to create friction in the work place many employers shy away from using what could be a significant employee productivity enhancement tool. Wasting time through Internet activities is simple and it’s a huge hidden cost to business. Just answering a few personal e-mails, checking the sports scores, reading the news headlines and checking to see how your bid is holding up can easily waste an hour of time each day. If the company has an 8 person CAD department and each of them spends an hour day on the above activities, that’s a whole employee wasted! Employees both want and don’t want to have their Internet use restricted. The key to success in gaining productivity and employee acceptance of the problem is the perception of fairness, clear goals and self enforcement.

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Bypassing "PIRELLI DRG A223G" user access lock to obtain administrator access

Bypassing PIRELLI DRG A223G ISP user access lock to obtain administrator access

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Conficker C Active P2P Scanner

All Conficker C hosts perform outbound P2P scanning in search of other C infected peers. Each C-infected host opens four network ports in listen mode: 2 TCP ports and 2 UDP. These four listen ports are derived from a function of the host's own IP address and the current epoch week. To illustrate the algorithm used to compute C's P2P client listen ports, we include a source code example C implementation, which we reverse-engineered from a Conficker C binary captured on 5 March 2009.

Conficker_C_P2P_Scanner will scan the low-thru-high address range in search of IP addresses that have established TCP listen ports on their associated Conficker C P2P listen ports. An alarm is provided each time a host is found to be listening on its P2P listen port.

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Jetpack promises smoother add-ons for Firefox

Mozilla Labs has launched a new project called Jetpack that could drastically change how Firefox users interact with websites and manage third party add-ons.

The Jetpack release, announced on Wednesday, enables developers to create code packages that can be toggled on and off without the user having to restart their browser. This is something that cannot be done with Firefox's current add-on system, but has been possible in third-party tools such as Greasemonkey, which allow users to pick and choose which scripts are active .

Jetpack also lets developers create code that does not become outdated or broken when Firefox gets a major update. This is a problem that has plagued Firefox add-ons for years. It forces developers to make small tweaks or changes to get an extension up and running, even if they have long since stopped working on that particular extension. By contrast, any Firefox add-ons created using Jetpack should still work.

Aza Raskin, head of user experience for Mozilla Labs, demonstrates some uses of Jetpack in an introductory video. One use is as a simple ad-blocking tool, which users can toggle on and off to keep the browser from loading certain page elements from ad providers. In addition, it can be used to create custom code that will do the same thing with other page elements.

Jetpack can also give users more control over what they see on a site, and how they can interact with the site's content. Like Ubiquity, another Mozilla Labs project, it delivers the add-on to users when they visit a site with Jetpack controls. As a result, there is less need for developers to promote their add-ons in a directory in order for users to find them.

Raskin warned that at version 0.1, the Jetpack release is still rough. Mozilla has posted a few code samples and more information about the project on the Jetpack Developer Site.