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Tool for detecting who can be “trusted”

The US Govt. is developing a tool for detecting who can be “trusted” in the presence of stress and/or deception. See: Tools for Recognizing Useful Signals of Trustworthiness (TRUST) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) U.S. Spooks Want a System That Automatically Gauges Who Can Be Trusted

15 March 2010 at 21:04 - Comments

FREE Online Introductory course

Course name: Online Introductory Course in Ecommerce Law Conducted by: Asian School of Cyber Laws Course starts: 1 May 2010 Course ends: 30 June 2010 Instructions: * To register, fill in the online registration form at http://www.asclonline.com/oic/ecom/index.html * On the course start date you will receive your username, password and course url by sms. * You need to complete the study of [...]

15 March 2010 at 18:43 - Comments

MD5 calculator using php

This is a very simple php code for an MD5 calculator. There are two pages, index.htm and md5.php The index.htm page contains a simple form to submit the text to be hashed. The md5.php page displays the md5 hash result. code for index.htm <form action=md5.php method=get> <input type=”text” name=”word”> <input type=submit value=”Hash this text”> </form> code for md5.php <?php $str = $_REQUEST["word"]; ?> Original text [...]

25 January 2009 at 13:15 - Comments

10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong

Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here’s how to think straight about dangers in your midst. By: Maia Szalavitz

Is your gym locker room crawling with drug-resistant bacteria? Is the guy with the bulging backpack a suicide bomber? And what about that innocent-looking arugula: Will pesticide residue cause cancer, or do the leaves [...]

4 February 2008 at 12:22 - Comments

Special search engine for Cyber Crime

A special search engine for cyber crime related information and software has been launched by Asian School of Cyber Laws. The search engine can be accessed for free from: www.data64.cc The search engine searches through a database of websites that is compiled and updated by subject experts. This ensures that users get the most relevant information in [...]

26 January 2008 at 15:32 - Comments

Virus writers charged with copyright violation

In a strange case, Japan has arrested suspected virus writers on grounds on copyright violation. The suspects created and distributed Harada (a Trojan horse infecting users of the Winny P2P file-sharing network). The Trojan displayed images of popular animation characters while wiping MP3 and movie files. Under Japanese Law, it is not illegal to write computer [...]

26 January 2008 at 13:13 - Comments

CyberAttack 2008 to be held in April 2008

CyberAttack 2008, a first of its kind conference is being held at International Convention Center, Pune on 27th April 2008. Hosted by Asian School of Cyber Laws, CyberAttack 2008 is aimed at knowledge sharing amongst cyber crime investigators and computer emergency response professionals. The conference will focus on:

latest trends in cyber crimes best practices [...]

25 January 2008 at 16:50 - Comments

Computer Security Book Store

A custom Amazon aStore for computer security products is now online at: http://astore.amazon.com/data64-cc-20 Books are available in the following categories: 1. Forensics 2. Linux Security 3. Unix Security 4. Windows Security 5. Wireless Security 6. Firewalls Additionally you can also subscribe to relevant magazines and buy security related software and electronics.

23 January 2008 at 13:13 - Comments

Reassembling a puzzle with 600 million pieces

heStar.com – News – Reassembling a puzzle with 600 million pieces [...]

21 January 2008 at 11:46 - Comments

I recently came across some nice and easy to implement Ajax codes. Swazz Javascript Calender http://calendar.swazz.org/ Nice looking popup window to display a webpage / website http://orangoo.com/labs/GreyBox/

Star rating bar allowing users to rate a webpage etc http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/unobtrusive-ajax-star-rating-bar/ FrogJS Javascript Image Gallery http://www.puidokas.com/portfolio/frogjs/ Enables draging of content on a webpage using an AJAX script http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/index.html?showDownload=true&whichScript=dragable-content AJAX code for sorting tables automatically or manually by moving rows http://friedcellcollective.net/js/SortedTable/index.html Table [...]

19 January 2008 at 15:54 - Comments