Cyber Crimes up by 33% and Healthily Increasing. Are You Secure?March 31st, 2009 Be prepared to protect your data in the internet or else you may land up in serious trouble. With our increasing dependency over the internet, the crimes have taken a steep hike too.
A Poem I LoveJune 25th, 2006 The Vagabond
Give to me the life I love,
Let the lave go by me,
Give the jolly heaven above
And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with stars to see,
Bread I dip in the river -
There's the life for a man like me,
There's the life for ever.
Dhaka plans 10 years' jail for cyber crimeApril 21st, 2009 The Bangladesh government plans to prescribe 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for those involved in cyber crime.A bill approved by the cabinet will be introduced during parliament's session likely to begin in June to ensure legitimacy and security of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This was one of the poll promises made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League along with a vision of a 'Digital Bangladesh 2020'.
How To Get Free 30Gigs.Com Email Account (Without Invitation)November 29th, 2005 30Gigs.com is an invitation-only email service which offers a whopping 30 Gigabytes of storage for your email. As a reference GMail currently offers around 2.5 GB storage.
One in Ten in UK "Victim of ID Crimes"August 10th, 2006 Nearly one in 10 people in UK believe they have fallen victim to identity fraud, according to a survey of 2,200 adults by YouGov. People aged under 30 are most prone to falling victim because they are the poorest at protecting personal details, the survey suggests.
$50, 000 Reward For Missing ComputerAugust 17th, 2006 Unisys is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of a missing desktop computer that belongs to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The computer, which contains personal information on 38,000 veterans treated at VA medical facilities in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, went missing from the offices of Unisys, the subcontractor hired to assist in insurance collection for those facilities.
Why Doesn't Computers Get Bacterial Infections?February 17th, 2006 Why do we use "virus" to describe malicious replicating computer programs? Most of these programs are very complicated and intelligent (comparatively), which resembles more like a bacteria than a virus. Viruses are very simple organisms, very unlike todays "computer viruses".
Scammer's With English Deficiency SyndromeJuly 5th, 2006 Today I received a spam (attempting to get my IP address and user accounts of my work machine / server) which stands out for its novelty as well as extremely poor execution. I think the spammers will have much greater chance of success by taking an introductory course in English.
Short Movie About Computer HackingAugust 25th, 2005 I enjoyed this short informative movie about preventing hacking and protecting your computer from Sunrise, a broadband provider from Switzerland. It talks about firewalls, IP address blocking, spamming, trojans etc.
Real Americans Sulk & Whine, Don't Protest: One More Job for Immigrants (Ousourcing?)April 17th, 2006 Over the last few weeks, it's become obvious that America's immigrant community is seriously out of touch with the American cultural mainstream. Mainstream Americans don't go in for protest marches anymore (mass protests are so '60s).
Gordon Brown to appoint Britain's first cyber security chiefJune 24th, 2009 LONDON - The British Prime Minister is set to announce the appointment of the nation's first cyber security chief who will be responsible to protect the country from terrorist computer hackers and electronic espionage. Brown's decision comes amid fears that the computer systems of government and business are vulnerable to online attacks from hostile countries and terrorist organisations.
Ten Commandments on Computer SecurityMay 16th, 2006 Ten commandments for computer security:
Thy shall create strong passwords
Thy shall use good antivirus software
Windows users shall regularly update critical updates
Thy shall download online forms after verifying URL https:// or forms with lock icons
Thy shall use secure shell (ssh or sftp) for file transfers
Thy shall not open unnecessary emails
Thy shall regularly back up important files
Thy shall set a password protected screen saver to activate after 10-15 minutes
Thy shall shutdown thine computer at night
Thy shall schedule monthly scanning of hard disk
Heavily modified from BSNL list (by email).
Solving Spam Problem The Russian WayAugust 2nd, 2005 Russia’s most notorious spammer, Vardan Kushnir, 35, was found dead in his apartment in downtown Moscow on Monday, July 25. Someone repeatedly smashed his head with a heavy object and then ransacked his entire apartment according to authorities.
US Department of Transportation Loses 133, 000 Social Security & Address Records of Florida ResidentsAugust 10th, 2006 The US Department of Transportation has announced that a Dell laptop computer containing names, addresses and social security numbers of 133,000 Florida residents was stolen two weeks ago. The information on the missing laptop included people in Miami-Dade County who hold commercial drivers licenses, Florida residents who have pilot's licenses and people who got their Florida drivers licenses from a facility in Largo, Fla.
16 Qubit Quantum Computer to Debut on Feb 13th; 20 Years Ahead of ScheduleFebruary 10th, 2007 Twenty years before most scientists expected it, DWave has announced a 16 Qubit quantum computer that promises to massively speed up computation as we know it (64, 000 operations simultaneously). DWave will debut at two locations, one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13th, and the second at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada on February 15th.
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