By using actual law-enforcement video from the bombing, they found that one of the three systems could provide a “rank one” identification — a match — of suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

“The other suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the one ultimately killed in the shootout with police, could not be matched at a sufficiently high rank, partly because he was wearing sunglasses,” Jain said. “The younger brother could be identified.

“This study was revealing in that facial recognition technology can successfully handle some cases in which facial images extracted from a video were captured under favorable conditions,” he said.

Under controlled conditions, when the face is angled toward the camera and if the lighting is good, this technology can be up to 99 percent accurate.

Automatic face recognition can quickly attach a name to a face by searching a large database of face images and finding the closest match. This is what law enforcement agencies typically do for mug shot databases.

It is unknown, Jain said, what automatic facial recognition technologies were used by investigators in Boston. Some algorithms are better suited than others for face recognition in uncontrolled video.

While the technology has made great strides in recent years, it doesn’t mean that improvements aren’t needed. Also, more police agencies have to put the technology to use.

“If you use an automatic system, it speeds up the process,” Jain said. “Sometimes police get bad tips so innocent people are questioned. Such situations can be avoided with a robust and accurate face-recognition system.”

Jain and his team are internationally recognized in the field of identification technology. His team has developed methods to match forensic facial sketches with mug shots, as well as technology that allows police to identify criminal suspects by tattoo matching.

Klontz and Jain’s technical paper on evaluating automatic facial recognition technology can be viewed here.

Article source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/matter_energy/biometric/~3/apzIEPfMq6I/130524142549.htm

1. Open the vSphere/VMware Infrastructure (VI) Client and log in with appropriate credentials.
2. If connecting to vCenter Server, click on the desired host.
3. Click the Configuration tab.
4. Click Storage.
5. Right-click on the appropriate datastore and click Browse Datastore.
6. Navigate to the folder named after the virtual machine, and locate the virtual machine.vmx file.
7. Right-click the .vmx file and click Add to inventory. The Add to Inventory wizard opens.
8. Continue to follow the wizard to add the virtual machine.

1. Log in as root to the ESX host with an SSH client.
2. Run the command:

   # vmware-cmd -s register full path to virtual machinevirtual machine name.vmx

To register a virtual machine from a command line on an ESXi host:

1. Log in as root to the ESXi host with an SSH client. For information on using Tech Support mode, see Using Tech Support Mode in ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.x (1017910).
2. Run the command:

   # vim-cmd solo/registervm /vmfs/volumes/datastore_name/VM_directory/VM_name.vmx

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The GetVersionEx function retrieves the major and minor version numbers and other information about the currently running version of the operating system. The VerifyVersionInfo function enables you to determine whether the current system satisfies a specified set of operating system version conditions. For more information, see the following topics:

• Getting the System Version
• Verifying the System Version

The following table summarizes the most recent operating system version numbers.

Identifying the current operating system is usually not the best way to determine whether a particular operating system feature is present. This is because the operating system may have had new features added in a redistributable DLL. Rather than using GetVersionEx to determine the operating system platform or version number, test for the presence of the feature itself.

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netsh -c interface ipv4 add neighbors “Network Card Name” “IP Address” “MAC Address” store=persistent
For Example :-

Your Network Card Name is :- Local Area Connection
IP Address is :- 192.168.10.10
MAC Address is :- 00-1d-71-83-6c-00

netsh -c interface ipv4 add neighbors “Local Area Connection” “192.168.10.10” “00-1d-71-83-6c-00? store=persistent

It will make parmanent ARP entry.

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In this example I am assuming your detals as below but it will change according to your setup.

ESX Host IP is 192.168.1.10
Username root
Password P@ssw0rd
SNMP Server IP 192.168.1.100

Note:- on VMware support site is shows all commands as “vicfg-snmp” for SNMP you will not get this command as VCLI you will find in bin folder as vicfg-snmp.pl So change vicfg-snmp with vicfg-snmp.pl
1- Check the SNMP status

C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware vSphere CLIbinvicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.10 –username root –password P@ssw0rd –show

Current SNMP agent settings:
Enabled : 0
UDP port : 161

Communities :

Notification targets :

Options :
EnvEventSource=indications

2- Set the SNMP Community

C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware vSphere CLIbinvicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.10 –username root –password P@ssw0rd -c public, internal

3- Enable SNMP Client
C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware vSphere CLIbinvicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.10 –username root –password P@ssw0rd –enable

4- Set the target SNMP server
C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware vSphere CLIbinvicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.10 –username root –password P@ssw0rd -t 192.168.1.100@162/public

5- Test SNMP
C:Program Files (x86)VMwareVMware vSphere CLIbinvicfg-snmp.pl –server 192.168.1.10 –username root –password P@ssw0rd –test

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Last night the attack impacted performance for customers on several servers, regardless of whether WordPress was installed on their site. Our operations and support teams have been working throughout the night, and have taken several proactive measures to mitigate the security threat. In some cases, we temporarily disabled the ability to log in to WordPress sites that were under attack – which also protected these sites from being compromised. As of this morning, all of our servers are back to normal performance levels and login functionality has been restored.

If you have installed WordPress on your site please take a minute or two to ensure your site is protected against attacks like this one. Here are some basic security tips:

1. The easiest thing you can do to increase the security of your site is to change both the admin username and password. By default, the administrator login name is set to “admin” – and most brute force scripts have this ID and some basic variations (e.g. administrator, root, test, etc…) hardcoded as the IDs they attempt to break into. Change the username for your administrator account to something obscure.
2. Make sure your password is strong. You know the drill: more than 8 characters, letters and numbers, no English words, no dates, mixture of capitals and lower case. Consider using a random password generator and a secure password manager to store it so you don’t have to memorize it.
3. Install a security enhancing plug-in. The core WordPress application lacks some basic security features, such as the ability to limit the number of failed login attempts. Fortunately, you can add functionality like this via some popular plug-ins:
   • Bad Behavior: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
   • Better WP Security: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/
   • Limit Log-in Attempts: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/

Our operations team will remain vigilant and will continue to proactively respond to any security threats as they arise. Although this attack is particularly extensive, it is unfortunately not uncommon. The single most important thing you can do to protect any aspect of your account (e-mail, FTP, other web apps, etc…) is to use very strong passwords, and insist that your clients / users do the same.

Step-1 Forward GRE protocol and TCP port 1723 through your firewall

Step-2 Add the Poptop Yum Repository

rpm -Uhv http://poptop.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel5/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm

Step-3 Configure iptables

Create iptables_set.sh, chmod +x iptables_set.sh, and run the script.

Note: The following will work but you may wish to change the source address from 10.10.9.0/24 to the network range of your choosing based on your network.

#!/bin/bash
/sbin/iptables -F
/sbin/iptables -P INPUT DROP
/sbin/iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i ppp+ -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o ppp+ -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp –dport 1723 -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p gre -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m state –state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
/sbin/service iptables save
/sbin/iptables -L -v

Step-4 Configure Routing

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf

net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1

Step-5 Make the changes active

sysctl -p

Step-6 Install PPTP Server

yum install ppp pptpd

Step-7 Configure the service to start on boot

chkconfig –levels 345 pptpd on
Step-7 Configure Client Network Options change IP address according to your requirement

Modify /etc/pptpd.conf

localip 10.10.11.1
remoteip 10.10.11.5-100

Modify /etc/ppp/options.pptpd
ms-dns 208.67.222.222
ms-dns 208.67.220.220

Step-8 Configure Client Access

You will need to customize the client name, secret (password), and you can either allow all IP address or limit as necessary.

Edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.

# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client          server          secret                           IP addresses
test-user       *                   test-password               *

Step-9 Start the Server

Start the pptpd service

service pptpd start

Step-10 Configure the Client

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Their work builds on an approach developed at the Australian National University, where scientists showed that a rubidium vapor could be manipulated in interesting ways using magnetic fields and lasers. The vapor is contained in a small tube and magnetized, and a laser pulse made up of multiple light frequencies is fired through the tube. The energy level of each rubidium atom changes depending on which frequency strikes it, and these changes within the vapor become a sort of fingerprint of the pulse’s characteristics. If the field’s orientation is flipped, a second pulse fired through the vapor takes on the exact characteristics of the first pulse — in essence, a readout of the fingerprint.

“With our paper, we’ve taken this same idea and applied it to storing an image — basically moving up from storing a single ‘pixel’ of light information to about a hundred,” says Paul Lett, a physicist with JQI and NIST’s Quantum Measurement Division. “By modifying their technique, we have been able to store a simple image in the vapor and extract pieces of it at different times.”

It’s a dramatic increase in the amount of information that can be stored and manipulated with this approach. But because atoms in a vapor are always in motion, the image can only be stored for about 10 milliseconds, and in any case the modifications the team made to the original technique introduce too much noise into the laser signal to make the improvements practically useful. So, should the term vaporware be applied here after all? Not quite, says Lett — because the whole point of the effort was not to build a device for market, but to learn more about how to create memory for next-generation quantum computers.

“What we’ve done here is store an image using classical physics. However, the ultimate goal is to store quantum information, which a quantum computer will need,” he says. “Measuring what the rubidium atoms do as we manipulate them is teaching us how we might use them as quantum bits and what problems those bits might present. This way, when someone builds a solid-state system for a finished computer, we’ll know how to handle them more effectively.”

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Journal Reference:

1. Jeremy B Clark, Quentin Glorieux, Paul D Lett. Spatially addressable readout and erasure of an image in a gradient echo memory. New Journal of Physics, 2013; 15 (3): 035005 DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/3/035005

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$ cat /etc/*-release

output

CentOS release 5.9 (Final)

$ lsb_release -a

output

LSB Version: :core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-ia32:printing-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description: CentOS release 5.9 (Final)
Release: 5.9
Codename: Final

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