Pangea Day aims to ‘tap into the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future’.
Twenty films will be selected to be shown on 10th May 2008 all around the world. Each film selected will receive $3,000 and the opportunity to pitch to Participant Productions (Jeff Skoll’s company). The winner will receive $20,000 to develop their treatment. This would be great for Camfed! (Yes, where I work ! )
If you haven’t already joined up to www.youtube.com, then please do so and view and vote for our film – ‘Two Friends: The Promise of Africa’s Future’ – which can be found here: ‘Two Friends‘
The more votes and the more hits, the greater possibility our film will be noticed! And please get your friends to vote too!
gs presents IronKey posted at The Tech-Investigator, saying, “Outlining the critical elements of information security for the mobile Professional Investigator.”
Host comment: “Social Engineering and how to avoid it.”
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Welcome to the October 28, 2007 edition of information security carnival. We have frauds, ID thiefs, virus, spywares, privacy invasion and more.
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Marc and Angel presents 6 Digitally Traceable Tracks We Unconsciously Leave Behind | Marc and Angel posted at Marc and Angel, saying, “I have compiled a list of 6 digitally traceable tracks we unconsciously leave behind as we trek through our daily routines. I have also included a hypothetical example of how easy it can be to track someone down online by tracing their online affiliations and dabbling with the information that is found.”
Crackers like to use phishing to spread their malicious code. And actually, if you take care with just some file extensions you can avoid these dangerous codes.
If you receive an e-mail with the extensions .cmd, .bat, .exe or .scr, don’t open it, even if it comes from a secure source. And, as email servers are blocking these attached files, crackers are using telephone promotions, your bank account and other current subjects to direct you to a malicious link where a virus is downloaded. They develop sites almost identical to the original sites, “clones”, where the cracker has total control over your acts. It’s really common send scraps to Orkut users with these links.
Most files available to download in these websites are those kind mentioned in the beginning: .cmd, .bat, .scr or .exe.
The .cmd and .bat files are used to execute scripts known as batch files, to automate tasks. Crackers use these kind of files to steal user data. The .scr are screen saver files, and most users trust this kind of files, but the virus will be activated when the screen saver is executed.The most known, and still most used as phishing is .exe. Users know how dangerous these files are, but, most of time, they don’t pay attention to the extension they are downloading.
The files mentioned are Trojans and keyloggers. Trojans open your machine to the cracker and Keyloggers record everything you type. So, can you imagine the damage to your personal data?
Now that you know these dangerous files, what to do to protect your data? it’s always a good idea to have a firewall and other prevention methods that can identify these links and extensions. And don’t think you will notice that your computer was infected. The cracker don’t want to be noticed, he will be hidden, and quiet, to get all information he wants.
Take care with those files and links, check the extension, don’t open files from unknown sources and don’t execute anything in your computer that you are not sure what is. It’s not that hard to be safe on line.
“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”.
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.
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:
Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported website hosting, and is extremely limited when compared to paid hosting.
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.
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.
The most annoying thing about air plane travel is where to park you car. Airport parking is always too expensive and crowded.
But, if you are going to Gatwick in London, could be a great idea stop at Gatwick Parking website. They have great offers there: pre-booking, Gatwick Hotel Parking room’s prices cheaper than the parking alone and – the best thing – room’s televisions displaying the departures board. Isn’t it cool?
So, since you are saving your time parking at airport, you can waste it having some fun: try this Parking Game, and try to park the car in less than 60 seconds. I couldn’t.
Problems with your Hard Drive? Lost all your pictures in your memory card? There’s still a chance.
Zero Assumption Recovery (or ZAR Recovery) is a tool to recover lost data in a drive unit. The best thing with this tool is you don’t need to be a computer expert to use it. It’s easy to use and all process can be done automatically.
How to use it:
Selecting a drive to recover:
Selecting a volume to process:
Analysing a volume:
Choosing files to recover:
Things you can do with Zero Assumption Recovery:
Recover FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.
Copy a hard drive sector by sector.
Or, insert 0′s (zero) in all sectors. (This one is for those that don’t want to recovery anything, if you know what I mean)
There are some new features as RAD0 and RAID5 support and experimental support for Linux ext2.
Demo version limitations:
– You can recover just 4 folders
– You can record the information scanned in drive unit, but you can load it again.
Zero Assumption Recovery is a tool really great for professional and amateurs photographers (like me), because it can recover digital pictures from you memory stick.
Zero Assumption Recovery works with several memory card formats (CompactFlah, MemoryStick, SmartMedia, etc), since they can be opened by operating system. Supports several file formats: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, CRW, MOV, WAV.
It has a friendly interface, self-explanatory, step-by-step, to help you with the best solution for your problem.
