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You, a huge Simpsons fan, can’t miss these ads from Burger King:

Or these funny Homer Gadgets:

Homer Simpson Talking Shower Radio

The Simpsons Doughnut Maker

Homer Talks and Moves with Incoming Calls with this Animated Talking Homer Simpson Telephone

Do you want to hear one of the wise man’s philosophies every hour? Think about this clock.

Simpson’s Homer Simpson Talking Wall Clock

Includes “Donuts—is there anything they can’t do,” “Marge, it takes 2 to lie—1 to lie and 1 to listen” and others

And at Amazon.co.uk I found these:

Simpson’s Talking Bar Buddies Alarm Clock

Let the buddies wake up you!

The Simpson’s Talking Cuckoo Clock

Woo Hoo’ each and every hour as Homer is ‘ejected’ from Moe’s Bar

Simpsonize you!

Welcome to the August 12, 2007 edition of Information Security Carnival.

It’s amazing how wonderful submissions we have. We have tips, tools, articles, and even cartoons!

Jeremy Hitchcock sent us a great cartoon about Brain Spam… Can you imagine that?

Well, let’s go to our submissions:

articles

Noric Dilanchian presents Dilanchian Lawyers – Checklist of 51 hints for data and IT security posted at Lightbulb, saying, “Based on “the experience and wide reading of the lawyers at this law IT law firm, here is a list of 51 computer security problems and in each case a brief statement on solutions.”

“Amazing article, well-written, with tips for beginners and advanced Infosec Professionals.“

Jeremy Hitchcock presents WTTF: Welcome to the Future – Telepathy by AT&T posted at WTTF: Welcome to the Future, saying, “How hard it’ll be to secure our thoughts in the age of telepathy.”

“Hum… that’ll be my project… secure our brain waves…”

Infosec Group presents InfoSec – How to create a security policy posted at InfoSec.

“General tips to create a Security Policy.”

Falando pelos cotovelos presents Security Breaches posted at Falando pelos Cotovelos.

“Re-think your USB drives, flash drives, MP3 players and even your Digital Cameras’ memory cards.”

reviews

A Geek Family presents How to recover files deleted with Shift Del posted at A Geek Family.

“Yeah… Shift+Del is not the end of the world…”

tips

Slaptijack presents Username / Password Authentication in Cisco IOS posted at Slaptijack.

“Think security isn’t that hard. With a few steps you can improve your router security”.

techsack presents Fight spam while learning Linux posted at TechSack.com.

“Use Linux and improve your spam-filter capabilities”

SmallTownBS presents Yet Another Identity Theft Article posted at Small-town Big-shot, saying, “A highlight of social engineering and other hacking methods that hackers use to steal money and identity; in addition, ways to protect you from these things.”

“Hack your brain is still something for the future… but, right now, some people can stole you identity”.

Ted Reimers presents College Students and Identity Theft posted at CampusGrotto.

“Universities became a target for hackers. How can we protect our students?”

Geek Sisters presents Bluetooth and bluejacking posted at Geek Sisters.

“Nice explanation and video about bluejacking”

Your Hostess presents How to keep your Internet Life Browsing in a secure way posted at > systemcall dot org.

” Just a few tips about browsing.”

That concludes this edition. I want to say thank you for all those great articles, and please, keep your great work!

Submit your blog article to the next edition of information security carnival using our carnival submission form.
Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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Last week was time for “SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Awards”, championing the best open source projects.

It’s a good place to start your Open Source life, and try some of the best free softwares.

SourceForge.net host 150.000 open source projects, and here you will find the Top 10 in 11 categories. All of them chosen by the SourceForge.net community.

The Awards is a great way to show off these 150.000 projects beyond the SourceForge.net community, with 1,6 million registered users.

First, the community nominated 10 projects for each one of those 11 categories, and them they voted for the best in each one.

The biggest winner was 7-Zip, Best Project and also Best technical Design.

Firebird also won two prizes: Best Project for the Enterprise and Best User Support.

Surprisingly as a Best New Project, SourceForge.net community chose eMule, a peer-to-peer (P2P) program published at SourceForge in 2002. Not so new. probably for that reason, SourceForge.net chose Launchy as a Honourable Mention in this category.

The award was a certainly geek statuette: Thingamagoop’s, by BleepLabs.

More winners:

Best Tool or Utility for Developers: TortoiseSVN

Best Project for Gamers: ScummVM

Best Project for Multimedia: Audacity

Best Project for Communications: phpBB

Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins: phpMyAdmin

Most Collaborative Project: Azureus

If you want to see more and also the complete nominees list, click here.

They worth a visit.

Are you trying to decide what type of website hosting you’ll use?

Well, let’s know our choices:

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data centre.

Types of hosting services:

1. Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported
   website hosting, and is extremely limited when compared to paid hosting.
2. Shared web hosting service: one’s Web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU.
3. Managed Dedicated Servers: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server.

A shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service is a form of web hosting service where more than one instance of the same web service is hosted on a single physical server. This is generally the most economical option for hosting as many people share the overall cost of server maintenance.

Disadvantages:

- Reduced security due to many sites on one server.
- Restrictions on traffic volume.
- Restricted database support.
- Restricted software support.

In other hand, Managed Dedicated Servers, or managed hosting service is a type of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire server not shared with anyone. This is more flexible than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over the server(s), including choice of operating system, hardware, etc.

Advantages:

- Good for large business.
- Good for high traffic.
- Multiple domain names.
- Powerful email solutions.
- Powerful database support.
- Strong (unlimited) software support.

Now you can choose wisely. Next time we’ll talk about how to choose a good domain name.