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VPN Gate is an academic experiment project carried out by the Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan with the aim to circumvent government firewalls. With the motto “We No Need Berlin Wall on the Internet” Nobori, the creator of VPN Gate wants to help individuals in countries that restrict the use of Internet by perceptually blocking websites (Pirate Bay, KAT, YouTube, Twitter or Facebook, etc), with a system that is not only simple to use, but is also completely free.
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This guide will take you through the installation of L2TP over IPsec VPN connections on your Linux workstation, be it Mint or Ubuntu. First launch your terminal, and paste the following lines therein:
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:werner-jaeger/ppa-werner-vpn
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install l2tp-ipsec-vpn
l2tp-ipsec-vpn relies on Openswan and xl2tpd packages as the underlying protocol handlers. But you don’t have to install them singularly. Both packages and other dependencies are installed automatically from the repository with the above commands.
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The Ubuntu team has released Ubuntu 13.04 Beta 2, the second and last beta before the final release. Codenamed “Raring Ringtail”, Ubuntu 13.04 Final will be released on April 25. Final betas are available to download for the Desktop, Server, Cloud and Core Products.
The other flavors too have final betas of version 13.04; Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Ubuntu-Studio. Including Ubuntu Kylin, Chinese developed version of Canonical’s Ubuntu.
Download Ubuntu 13.04 Final Beta.
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Update: For Ubuntu Linux, Windows and Mac: Firefox 20.0 was released today. Tossed in this version is an enhancement that allows you to open a new private window without closing your current browsing session. A “feature” well known to both Chrome and Opera-browser users. Also present in this version is a new the Download Manager in the Firefox toolbar that permits you to monitor downloaded files without having to switch to another window. Together with the eleven patched vulnerabilities in the previous current version, Firefox 19.2. is also the feature described as having the “ability to close hanging plugins, without the browser hanging.”
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The guys at Offensive Security, the same group behind the ormai famous BackTrack OS have announced the release of Kali Linux, a new distribution for penetration testing and security . So why build another penetration tool? Kali targets primarily enterprise security, offering a wider range of testing tools that include Metasploit, Wireshark, John the Ripper, Nmap and Aircrack-ng. More»
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