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Resources scarcity in programing
2007-12-17 14:18:00 Lots of programs are written with the pervasive assumption that enough resources will be available. Many programs don’t even think about what will happen if not enough resources are available, and sometimes they do the wrong thing. So look to see what happens if there’s not enough memory and some allocations fail, usually returning NULL from ... More About: Resources , Computer Security
Sarkozi have crush on ex top model Bruni [Digg]
2007-12-17 13:42:00 French newspapers on Monday splashed photos of President Nicolas Sarkozy with singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni , fuelling speculation of romance just two months after the president?s divorce. More About: Top Model , Digg , Model , Crush
Police report for identity theft [Digg]
2007-12-17 08:37:00 Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report , which entitles you to certain legal rights More About: Police , Digg
How to check your card id is stolen
2007-12-17 05:44:00 The best way to find out is to monitor your accounts and bank statements each month, and check your credit report on a regular basis. If you check your credit report regularly, you may be able to limit the damage caused by identity theft. If your account statement does not tally with your personal statement ... More About: Card , Stolen , Check
Police report for identity theft
2007-12-17 05:35:00 Holiday season shopping is at the peak and identity theft is also at its height. A police report that provides specific details of the identity theft is considered an Identity Theft Report , which entitles you to certain legal rights when it is provided to the three major credit reporting agencies or to companies where the ... More About: Police
Buffer overflow holes in programing
2007-12-16 14:16:00 A buffer overflow occurs when you write a string (usually a string of characters) into an array, and keep on writing past the end of the array, overwriting whatever happened to be after the array. Security-problem buffer-overflows can arise in several situations: when reading input directly into a buffer; when copying input from a large buffer ... More About: Buffer , Overflow , Computer Security , Holes
Trustworthy channel for communication [Digg]
2007-12-16 05:06:00 The trustworthy channel is the first step in sending the information. If the channel have loop holes and not reliable then you may be hit and your data can be hacked on the way. More About: Communication , Digg , Channel , Wort
Trustworthy channel for communication
2007-12-15 14:20:00 The trustworthy channel is the first step in sending the information. If the channel have loop holes and not reliable then you may be hit and your data can be hacked on the way. If you send passwords in cleartext over an Ethernet LAN with untrusted people on it. If you create a world-writable file and later ... More About: Communication , Channel , Computer Security , Wort
Finding security holes in programing
2007-12-14 14:16:00 If a program has a bug in it that manifests under extreme circumstances, then normally, it’s a minor annoyance. Usually, you can just avoid the extreme circumstances, and the bug isn’t a problem. You could duplicate the effect of tickling the bug by writing your own program, if you wanted to. But sometimes programs ... More About: Security , Computer Security , Holes
Social engineering attacks and prevention [Digg]
2007-12-14 14:08:00 In computer security, social engineering is a term that describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking other people to break normal security procedures. More About: Social , Engineering , Digg , Prevention , Attacks
Social engineering attacks and prevention
2007-12-14 14:05:00 In computer security, social engineering is a term that describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking other people to break normal security procedures. A social engineer runs what used to be called a “con game”. For example, a person using social engineering ... More About: Social , Engineering , Prevention , Attacks , Computer Security
Microsoft is warning customers about a zero-day flaw
2007-12-14 13:54:00 Microsoft is warning customers about a zero-day flaw in the process of how Windows looks up other computers on the Internet. The vulnerability is a variation of one patched in 1999, and attackers could exploit it to access sensitive data and redirect users to Web sites rigged with malware. It is not considered as big a ... More About: News , Microsoft , Customers , Warning
Malaysia detained 5 under ISA [Digg]
2007-12-14 13:47:00 Malaysia detained 5 hindu extremist leaders under ISA. The five were lawyers P. Uthayakumar, R. Kengadharan, V. Ganabatirau, M. Manoharan and a senior executive with Malaysia Building Society Bhd, K. Vasantha Kumar.ISI is an internal security act More About: Malaysia , Digg , Detained , Mala , Malays
What comes under copyright
2007-12-13 15:16:00 These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required. Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that. Postings to the net are not granted to the public domain, and don’t grant you any permission to do further ...
Musculoskeletal Conditions [Digg]
2007-12-13 06:44:00 Musculoskeletal conditions (conditions affecting the muscles or skeleton) can affect anyone, but people with diabetes can be at an increased risk of developing them. The reasons for this are not fully understood, but it is thought that raised blood glucose levels More About: Digg , Conditions
Evaluating web pages [Digg]
2007-12-13 06:26:00 You can expect to find everything on the web: silly sites, hoaxes, frivolous and serious personal pages, commercials, reviews, articles, full-text documents, academic courses, scholarly papers, reference sources, and scientific reports. How do you sort it all out? More About: Digg , Pages , Ages
My naked computer wears bra [Digg]
2007-12-12 16:31:00 My new computer poses as it is a topless lady standing in a populated area and attracting the attention of the lusty peoples towards her. even non lusty can take advantage too. More About: Computer , Digg
My naked computer wears bra
2007-12-12 15:16:00 Last month i bought a new computer. I installed an operating system on it and no any antivirus was installed on it. Firewall was also inactive. I just started using online. Later i discovered that cheeky stuff hovering around my computer as it is a topless lady standing in a populated area and attracting ... More About: Antivirus , Computer , Computer Security
ARM adapter APIS
2007-12-12 05:53:00 To accommodate systems management products that want to extend the basic capabilities provided by EWLM, the ARM 4.0 library routine delivered for each operating system provides an ARM adapter layer by which ARM API extensions to the systems management product might be called. When a systems management product uses the ARM adapter APIs, it can ... More About: Adapter
Credit card steal will rise in holiday season
2007-12-12 04:35:00 Online shoppers might have a credit card number stolen while buying Christmas gifts today and not learn about it until Easter, an industry authority on computer virus prevention said. “They’re waiting for you to enter your credit card number,” said David Perry, global director of education for Trend Micro. “Then they’re collected up and sold. They ... More About: News , Holiday , Card , Credit , Season
Totally original i swear at digg [Digg]
2007-12-11 15:33:00 Whenever i submit any post or article to my favorites at digg the system ask me at the end to click a button on which it is written Totally original i swear. This button has recently been introduced by the digg family. More About: Original , Digg , I Swear , Origin
Cyber attack on federal government?s nuclear [Digg]
2007-12-11 13:07:00 A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government?s nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential More About: Government , Nuclear , Digg , Cyber , Attack
System management api [Digg]
2007-12-11 09:59:00 Security for the systems management APIs is implemented by using authentication for clients when the jmxConnect API is called and by an appropriate JAAS security policy. More About: System , Management , Digg
Database authentication modules [Digg]
2007-12-10 09:19:00 Basic authentication and digest authentication both suffer from the same major flaw. They use text files to store the authentication information. The problem with this is that looking something up More About: Digg , Database , Authentication , Then , Module
Manage security levels in Microsoft Excel [Digg]
2007-12-10 05:46:00 Microsoft Office software (especially Excel ) uses what are called ?macros? to perform a series of steps for you. Excel spreadsheets use macros to perform calculations or paste More About: Security , Microsoft , Digg , Manage
Hackers penetrated data at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory [Digg]
2007-12-10 05:46:00 Hackers have penetrated an upper layer of data at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a multiprogram science and technology lab managed for the U.S. Department of Energy by UT-Battelle. More About: Data , Digg , Hackers
Phishers started baiting to target holiday shoppers [Digg]
2007-12-10 05:28:00 Holiday shopping is at the peak and on the other hand the phishers have also prepared their rods. More About: Holiday , Digg , Target , Baiting , Shoppers
Relaxing your body while traveling [Digg]
2007-12-07 08:06:00 Traveling is a fun but it makes your body tiring which makes you enjoy less. If you are on holidays or on business travel you can relax your body by massage therapy. Different massage therapy techniques More About: Body , Digg , Relaxing , Traveling
Shopping cart for rugs business [Digg]
2007-12-07 05:31:00 Rugs become tradition decoration for centuries. Peoples like a piece of cloth to be laid in house or office for extra floor look. More About: Business , Shopping , Digg , Rugs , Cart
Heartbeat method to detect networking failure [Digg]
More articles from this author:2007-12-06 10:23:00 The best solution for the `client waits forever` problem is the heartbeat pattern, as it was know it from Wiley Java Design Patterns Vol 3. More About: Networking , Digg , Failure , Method , Workin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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