Archive for January, 2007
You Will Wish To Remain Anonymous

Prediction: The new hot thing in our future will be anonymity. To be un-famous. To be Googled — and to not be there. No link. No Wiki. No tube, space or face. No nothing.

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10 Steps to Make Your Personal Firewall More Secure

The Clapco D29 is the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw
… the door must be closed!” After installing an expensive alarm system in his apartment and then getting robbed, Jerry Seinfeld learned a valuable lesson: no matter how good the security system, if it isn’t used correctly, it is completely ineffective.

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Vista just got owned

OK that’s pretty funny… I’m getting a LEGAL copy of Vista with a computer I bought. I am seriously thinking of moving to some form of Linux: ubuntu or Red Hat.

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Stupid warning labels… (PICTURES)

Some of these might not be real, but they’re still pretty funny!

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‘Storm Worm’ Virus hits computers around the world

Computer virus writers started to use raging European storms on Friday to attack thousands of computers in an unusual real-time assault, head of research at Finnish data security firm F-Secure told Reuters. It’s been sent to hundreds of thousands of e-mail addresses globally, with the e-mail’s subject line saying “230 dead as storm batters Europe.”

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So where are all those millions of newly declassified documents?

“On 12/31/06, some 700 million pages of secret documents became declassified and public. This would seem a victory for freedom of information, but it is not so simple. Declassification is not the same as release.You still can’t rush down to the Nat’l Archives to check them out. In fact, it could be years before these public documents can be viewed.” — Washington Post Article

I don’t see why they don’t just digitize this stuff. They could make a whole department whose only job is to digitize or get rid of certain documents.

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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for Dummies

“Why do I need IDS? A network firewall will keep the bad guys off my network, right? And my anti-virus will recognize and get rid of any virus I might catch, right? And my password-protected access control will stop the office cleaner trawling through my network after I’ve gone home, right? So that’s it – I’m fully protected, right? WRONG!”

Nice way to start and article..

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putting music on myspace

There are several ways to put music on your myspace page. The easiest way is to do a myspace search for your favorite songs/artists and click the add button on there song:

putting music on myspace

Another method is to use a third party tool such as IMEEM.

IMEEM is an online community where people and groups can upload, share, tag, and playlist the media they care about.

more on putting music on myspace here.

London Transport website hacked

TFL website, the DLR page looks like it has been hacked. The news section has items that say:
Owned by AciDmuD
[ Digital UnderGroUnD ®]
Need Help ? Contact: acidmud@hackermail.com
:: Cast. AciDmuD – DeniedHack – Metal_way :: [ Gr33tz: Nana_NuL(amor) – 0zn3 – ^d0!a^ – NetCaM ]

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Check List For Linux Security

The list of the most critical situations, and how to prevent an invasion with simple measures. — digg

Really this is a list of basic security that is the same for any Application or OS.

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