Network Access Control (NAC) is a security solution that enforces policy on devices that access networks to increase network visibility and reduce risk. NAC’s posturing capability determines if a system is sufficiently secure and compliant enough to connect to a…
This post summarizes the main free and open-source (FOSS) desktop environments for Unix-like and Linux OSs. List of Linux Desktop Environments List of Linux desktop environments: The most popular are KDE Plasma and GNOME. Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Common Desktop…
This post presents some aspects related to electronic mail (email or e-mail) protocols. Email Operational Protocols POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 (POP3) is considered deprecated. IMAP Internet message access protocol (IMAP) SMTP An open relay is an insecure SMTP server…
This post summarizes transport layer protocols. List of Transport Layer Protocols Transport Layer Protocols: TCP and UDP are the main transport protocols of the TCP/IP framework. You can find a list of popular TCP and UDP ports on this post.…
Take into account that while it may be free as in “gratis”, its use may be restricted by its license. For example, a CC-by is free of use, but if you use this artwork you need to explicitly specify the…
This post summarizes types of attacks through bluetooth. List of Bluetooth Attacks List of Bluetooth Attacks: You might also be interested in…
This post summarizes gateway protocols or routing protocols on computer networks. All of them are within OSI layer 3. List of Network Routing Protocols Overall list of network routing protocols: The two main categories of network routing protocols are: Interior…
Rust is a programming language that focuses on performance. Because it is compiled, low-level, static-typed and does not require a garbage collector, it can be considered a system programming language and it is suitable for operating system and video games…
A Large Language Model (LLM) is a language model notable for its ability to achieve general-purpose language understanding and generation. LLMs acquire these abilities by learning statistical relationships from text documents during a computationally intensive self-supervised and semi-supervised training process.…
Software is the intangible side of computers. It includes programs and data. Software development is the process of creating and deploying software. This post covers some aspects of software development. It is somehow an index to other posts in the…