The British Computer Society - Malta Section are organizing an event entitled "Optimizing Application Development for business performance"
The event would share with you some information regarding the current state of the application development industry, primarily looking at the problems facing most IT organizations today. As a means to address the issues most companies are facing, some vendor offerings which can help your organization overcome many of these challenges. During this time you will be able to see exactly how this platform can help you deliver better quality applications with higher levels of team collaboration, and greater visibility into the development process.
The presentation will be given by Mr. Karl Davies-Barrett who is currently a Developer Platform Evangelist with Microsoft. Karl has had a successful past in applications development and would share his experience on the subject with you.
Details:
Date: 5th of May Time: 6:00pm
Interested members are to send an email to chair[at]bcs.org.mt or call 7945 2015 / 9945 7076 for confirmation.
I'm sure most of you have heard about how Social networking sites like Facebook are being criticized due to 'privacy' issues. You may have also read the article that was featured not so long ago, on this website.
Now, thanks to Spylogic.net we have a guide that explains why and how you can set up your Facebook account in order to keep it safe from the evil eye.
The document, which by the way is a two-pager, starts off with the 5 commandments for Social Networking:
This Ad was displayed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times. That’s a click-through-rate of 0.16%. Would you consider this to be bad? The campaign's costs summed up to a miserable $23 (€17).
Thankfully this ad was created for statistical purposes not with malicious intent.
Didier Stevens wanted to test how easy it is to lure users in clicking on a drive-by download. To make things easier for the average user, Didier used an evident malicious phrase and still users clicked away.
Sit back, relax and learn cryptography using CrypTool.
CrypTool is a windows-based e-learning software with which can be used to apply and analyze cryptographic mechanisms used in Information Security.
It contains exhaustive online help with tutorials/scenarios, visualizations (e.g. AES, number theory, Enigma) and a comprehensive script with more detailed information about primes, hash functions, digital signatures and more.
Sunday is the most relaxed day of the week. I've been pondering about a strange (and useless) subject, just to fill in my precious Sunday morning.
Some time ago I had a brief discussion with Sandro about the padlock and why it's not a very good symbolic figure for security. In reality this is true since padlocks nowadays are a weak and most basic form of physical security.
Just stumbled upon www.yoggie.com, a security 'server' that is able to provide a laptop with the same level of security as within the
corporate network.
Recently I created an Open ID Login in order to log-in to a website. Since this was something new for me I did some research of my own and I found this instructional video that explains this in detail:
SANS, a US-based educational body lists the 10 most dangerous cyber threats.
The list reveals growing technical expertise and professionalism among hackers acting for financially or politically motivated paymasters. IT bosses need to respond by setting up cyber defenses in depth, limiting access to information on a need-to-know basis, and educating users." - Said Timothy Mullen, vice-president of consulting services at UK-based NGS Software. Definitely, attackers are targeting popular, trusted websites where users have an expectation of effective security, while at the same time, using insecure websites to infect the browsers of visitors with viruses, Trojans and key loggers.
SANS Institute Top 10 Cyber Threats for 2008...read on...
Microsoft strikes again! Yet another feature, stolen away from the geniuses that brought us online e-cards, funny flash videos & mini flash games.
Yes, Microsoft Silverlight is a runtime platform for browser-based Internet Applications providing a subset of the animation, vector graphics, and video playback capabilities available in .NET 3.0.
The plug-in already runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. And yet again, Linux was thrown out of the window… or rather “Windows®”.
Silverlight is a direct competitor of Adobe Flash and JavaFX from Sun Micro (launched a few days after Silverlight).
This is the 12th issue of the survey; and it is also the first year where the survey is being administered totally by the CSI. In previous years, as some may know, the FBI participated in the generation of this report but it looks like they were too busy this year
These are some of the key findings from the participants in this year’s survey:
Mozilla announced Firefox 3 Beta 1 a couple of weeks ago.
Whilst everyone is hanging on the edge of the seat waiting for the release of a stable build or RC, it is good to know that this is the ninth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3.
We live in the age where technology is involved in almost every business process and threats such as vulnerability exploitation are an unfortunate reality. In this post I’ll be pointing out some factors one should keep in mind when looking to manage software vulnerabilities.
A. Admitting a system is vulnerable
One of the most common mistakes System Admins make is assuming their somewhat “small” company is not prone to attack. As a result to this, the system they should be protecting is left completely vulnerable and open.
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