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Norton Smartphone Security Premier Edition (Beta) keeps your Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC, and Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone based smartphones safe. It offers: Antivirus protection: Symantec’s award-winning antivirus technology has been applied to smartphones to protect against mobile malware. AntiSpam for SMS: SMS spam messages are automatically placed in spam folder or deleted. Firewall: Controls inbound and outbound network traffic on the smartphone. Personal Data Protection: Automatically encrypt My Documents on logout. Device Password Protection: Require a password before accessing the smartphone and self-service password reset is done via a challenge question.

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KeePassSD (KeePass for Smart Devices) is the Windows Mobile port of the popular Windows password manager KeePass - The Open-Source Password Safe. There are two separate versions under development for Windows Mobile: KeePassPPC (based on KeePass V1.xx) and KeePassSD (based on KeePass V2.xx). KeepPassPPC works on all PocketPC 2003 SE and Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC and Phone Edition based platforms. KeepPassSD should run on PocketPC 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC, Phone Edition and SmartPhone, Windows Mobile 6.0 standard and Pro editions.

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Aircrack is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, thus making the attack much faster compared to other WEP cracking tools. In fact aircrack is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks.

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SSL-Explorer is the world’s first open-source, fully-featured, web-based SSL VPN server. This practicable remote access security solution includes SSL tunneling, intranet website proxying, access to multiple file systems and application launching/tunneling through a standard browser

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The FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A model Multi-Threat Security systems are the ultimate all-in-one, network-based solution to protect smaller deployments from blended threats. These easy-to-deploy and easy-to-administer systems deliver exceptional value and performance for small offices, home offices, small and medium sized businesses and branch office applications. With a complete complement of security services - including firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention, antivirus, web filtering, and traffic shaping - a wide range of organizations can now enjoy complete protection from the most damaging threats without penalties in performance, cost, or manageability. With models ranging in throughput from 30Mbps to 200Mbps, FortiGate-50B, 60-series, 100A, 200A and 300A can enable organizations to stay connected and protected against network-based threats. Sonicwall and Netscreen also offer all-in-one hardware firewalls for SMEs.

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Your browser can be a very powerful weapon, with FireCAT. Security-Database.com team has released a new Firefox Framework Map collection of the most useful security oriented extensions. It’s called the framework FireCAT. It stands for FireFox Catalog of Auditing Toolbox. It is based upon a paper Turning firefox to an ethical hacking platform. This initial release is presented as a mindmap and the Security-Database.com team is open to all your suggestions to make it a really good framework for all the community of security auditors and ethical hackers.

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WatchGuard firewall and VPN appliances deliver the complete unified threat management (UTM), with built-in zero day protection, good performance, ease of use, and value for your growing network. The fully integrated security services give continually updated, multifaceted network protection from spyware, spam, viruses, worms, trojans, Web-based exploits, and blended threats. Watchguard firewalls run security-hardened Linux-based operating system and their gateway anti-virus is powered by ClamAV.

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The ike-scan tool scans IP addresses for VPN servers by sending a specially crafted IKE packet to each host within a network. Most hosts running IKE will respond, identifying their presence. The tool then remains silent and monitors retransmission packets. These retransmission responses are recorded, displayed and matched against a known set of VPN product fingerprints. It is available for Linux, Unix, MacOS and Windows under the GPL license.

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Juniper Networks Secure Access leads the SSL VPN market with a complete range of remote access appliances. Juniper Networks SSL VPN products have a variety of form factors and features that can be combined to meet the needs of companies of all sizes, from SMBs that need access for remote/mobile employees to large global deployments that need to provide remote and/or extranet access, for employees, partners, and customers from a single platform. Juniper Networks SSL VPNs are based on the Instant Virtual Extranet (IVE) platform, which uses SSL, the security protocol found in all standard Web browsers. The use of SSL eliminates the need for client-software deployment, changes to internal servers, and costly ongoing maintenance and desktop support.

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TrueCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux. It creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password, with hidden volume and no TrueCrypt volume(volumes cannot be distinguished from random data). It supports encryption algorithms like: AES-256, Blowfish (448-bit key), CAST5, Serpent, Triple DES, and Twofish.

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