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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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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 [...]
My first “real” experience with computers was on a Windows 3.1 machine. (Of course I had tinkered around with a lot of “non-GUI” operating systems as a kid, but let’s get real – that’s ancient history).
Windows (in its myriad variations) is a great set of operating systems (except maybe Windows Millennium Edition). Its ease [...]
As of 27th September 2007 – yes! A malicious hacker can misuse Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to redirect a copy of all your incoming emails to his account! CSRF is also referred to as “one click attack” or “session riding”. [Before you read any further please understand gmail filters by logging into your gmail account and going [...]
I recently tried out DriveSentry, a personal data firewall that works on a PC as well as a removable drive. According to DriveSentry.com…..”DriveSentry complements your existing anti-virus tool by detecting threats to your system using a patent-pending technology. DriveSentry is an intelligent firewall for your drives that works by allowing only applications that you authorize to [...]