Software: Penetration Testing Tools, Performance and Network Monitoring Tools, ‘Countdown’, Screen Recorders, and Screen Readers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 08, 2023

• Top 17 Penetration Testing Tools You Need to Know in 2023

  The idea behind penetration testing is to identify security-related vulnerabilities in a software application. Also known as pen testing, the experts who perform this testing are called ethical hackers who detect the activities conducted by criminal or black hat hackers.

  Penetration testing aims in preventing security attacks by conducting a security attack to know what damage can a hacker cause if a security breach is attempted, the outcomes of such practices help in making the applications and software more secure and potent.

• 15 Useful Performance and Network Monitoring Tools for Linux

  If you’re working as a Linux/Unix system administrator, sure you know that you must have useful monitoring tools to monitor your system performance.

  As monitoring tools are very important in the job of a system administrator or a server webmaster, it’s the best way to keep an eye on what’s going on inside your Linux system/server.

• Track Upcoming Events with ‘Countdown’ App for Linux

  I try to stay on top of upcoming events but when things are due to happen a little way down the line, it's a struggle.

• Five best screen recorders for Linux

  Screen recording comes in handy when creating a video tutorial, recording gameplay, live streaming or even something cool you just did and want to showcase it to others. Uses of a screen recorder are diverse and there are a ton of reasons to have one installed on your PC.

• Intel’s New Open Source Mono Font is Pretty Decent

  Between IBM Plex Mono, Hack, Fira Code, and JetBrains Mono I think we Linux users are spoilt for choice when it comes to open-source monospace fonts that look good and work great. Still, there's always room for more, right? Intel thinks so, hence the release of Intel One Mono.

• Sam Thursfield: State of screen reading reading on desktop Linux

  Reading a computer screen wears out your delicate eye-balls. I would like the computer to read some web-pages aloud for me so I can use my ears instead.
  
  Here’s what I found out recently about the available text-to-speech technology we have on desktop Linux today. (This is not a comprehensive survey, just the result of some basic web searches on the topic).

  The Read Aloud browser extension

  Read Aloud is a browser extension that can read web pages out for you. That seems a nice way to take a break from screen-staring.

  I tried this in Firefox and, it worked, but sounded like a robot made from garbage. It wasn’t pleasant to listen to articles like that.

  Read Aloud supports some for-pay cloud services that probably sound better, but I want TTS running on my laptop, not on Amazon or Google’s servers.