Firewall and Anti-Virus adequate

There are absolute essentials such as Firewall, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Virus that a PC or server requires against Internet threats such as Hacking, Viruses and so on. From my observation, most corporate PCs or servers had installed Anti-Virus and firewall only. That's it. What other areas that are equally essential ?

I will not cover the essential of firewalls. These are a must or else anybody can sail through the network. It is like a house with the front door wide open with a sign, rob me !

Assumed Firewall, Anti-Virus installed..... What about folders and files ? Are you sure those sensitive files are not able to be accessed by all of your office staff but only trusted Sr. Managers or yourself. Say a technical savy personnel happen to have some knowledge of hacking, high possibility that your most valuable data in your server may be compromised.

Further, the vendor that installed the server and application, does he/she has the admin password ? What services are installed in the server ? Intruders may exploit the services vulnerabilities to gain access into the server.

It is difficult to to know where or who is the Intruder. Are they the intruders from the Internet only ? These are attackers that need to break into your firewall and IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) before getting their hands on the servers. There are those that can break into even the most advance security systems. Fortunately, the numbers are not many. However if they are your personnel, temporary staff, vendors, contracts, dispatch personnel. This will be easier as it is an insider job. Someone that have knowledge of your application, server or network. You will never know.

Windows Hacking Checkout this video on how a basic penetration is done using Windows. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHIVCkqrlw There are many more ways of doing this for those with Linux/Unix machines

Broadband Internet Is Preferred Over Dial Up Modem

Choosing broadband internet over dial up modem is the preferred choice. Because of the speed, broadband internet is preferred by many businesses and by individuals. Speed is 256 Kbps and higher using the broadband internet, which makes for faster surfing on the internet.

Broadband internet allows you to always be connected to the internet when you turn on your computer. Since you don't need a second phone line to connect to the internet, the cost of broadband internet may initially be more than the dial up modem, but in the long run will save you money. Especially is this important when conducting a business and reliable service is needed.

There are many service providers offering broadband internet and of course the usual "super fast" access to the web. You will need to do your homework to find out which service providers make good on their guarantees.

There are many different types of broadband internet. But first, you will need to consider your budget, your speed requirements and your location. Will broadband communication be used primarily in the home or at the office? You will need to understand how each broadband internet service works and which type will serve your needs.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) is the most common broadband internet. The phone lines are used to carry out digital signals directly. The analog signals are not used. DSL has higher data rates and no phone line is needed to connect to the internet. Thereby incoming calls are not affected. Because there are many different kinds of DSL, the one most people choose to use is asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL).

Online DSi App Store

Rumours from the recent Nintendo Developer Conference held in London suggest that the Japanese company is about to launch an online application store for its DSi handheld.

Ahead of the April US and UK launch date, Nintendo seems likely to reveal that it is opening the so-called DSiWare store to applications that offer more than just gaming.

iPhone envy

The success of Apple's iPhone App Store looks like encouraging Nintendo to push developers to program outside the box for the DSi.

Early speculation has already covered Facebook apps that allow text and video posting thanks to the DSi's onboard cameras and other applications that focus on the touch-sensitive screen.

Answers tomorrow?

We expect to hear a lot more about the DSiWare store when Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata speaks at the company's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco tomorrow.

'Scareware' scams trick searchers

Makers of fake anti-virus software are exploiting search engines to drive people to sites peddling 'scareware'.

Using popular and mis-spelled search terms, the criminals divert people to sites that are seeded with fake warnings about virus infections.

The pop-up warnings claim that a visitor's PC is riddled with malicious programmes and spyware.

Research suggests some criminals are making as much as $10,000 a day from fake security software.

Cashing in

Computer security firm Finjan carried out the research into the techniques sellers of 'scareware' use to get their fake software in front of web users.

"They are misleading people with evidence that their machine is infected with viruses and they are encouraging them to download and buy software that basically does nothing," said Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer at Finjan.

Studies suggest that 'scareware' is catching on among some hi-tech criminals.

A report by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, released in March 2009, found 9,287 bogus anti-malware programmes in circulation in December 2008 - a rise of 225% since January 2008.

Dell super-slim laptop

Computer giant Dell has joined the super-slim notebook race with the launch of its latest aluminium laptop.
It boasts a 13-inch screen and, with a depth of less than two-thirds of an inch, is thinner than Apple's MacBook Air and Hewlett-Packard's Voodoo Envy notebook.
The 2,000 dollar (£1,400) Adamo, from the Latin for "to fall in love with", comes in two colours, onyx and pearl.
The company already is taking orders, with the laptop set to start shipping March 26.
Dell, known for affordable, no-frills computers, leaned away from consumer-electronics and toward the seductive imagery of couture in its marketing campaign for the Adamo.
Dell knew it needed to "bring more brand lust and more got-to-have kind of products into the mix," said Michael Tatelman, the company's vice president of global consumer sales and marketing.
Dell declined to say how much the company spent on the Adamo campaign, but Tatelman said it "ranks among the bigger product launch campaigns that we do."
At the International Consumer Electronics Show in January, Dell hired runway model Hollis Wakeema to give journalists an arm's-length glimpse of a thin black laptop with the power switched off. While some industry watchers were disappointed by the scarcity of details

10 things you need to know about iPhone 3.0

The launch of Apple's new iPhone 3.0

firmware update was greeted with cheers and disappointment alike as some users got their wish and others... well, didn't.


1. Copy and Paste

Oh, don't go pretending you're not excited that this is here, moaning on about how 'it's a feature available on all smartphones these days'. While you may be right, Apple has managed to make this tiny feature into a Big Deal, and the way you do it (double tap to magnify text, scrolling and grabbing the beginning and end points) is pretty darn cool too.

2. The sheer range of APIs released

Slightly hidden from the consumer eye was Apple's larger onslaught into making the iPhone the most customisable (albeit with Apple's approval) handset out on the market. We're talking thousands of APIs here, allowing things like peer to peer Bluetooth connection for multiplayer gaming or contact sending, or allowing Google Maps to be used within other applications, so finding that restaurant is suddenly going to be a lot easier.

3. Using the iPhone to control accessories

This idea is pretty big, as it allows manufacturers to make Apps specifically for their hardware. While this could mean big things for the sex toy industry (just look at the route Gizmodo took straight away) it means things like the Lifescan from Johnson & Johnson are now possible, allowing diabetes sufferers to keep a visual record of their glucose levels.

But the possibilities (and cool factor) are now seemingly endless... you could make a golf accessory that assesses your swing using motion sensors and then Bluetooth the results to the iPhone for analysis (actually, that's a good idea, if you try and copyright it, then we'll fight you for it.)

4. MMS support

We all thought Apple would never do it, preferring to make sure the world thinks that e-mail is properly where it's at for sending pictures.

But it's not just those slightly-funny snaps you can pick ping over to your mates' phones now, it's also location info, contact sending and even audio files that can be passed to a friend's phone, so if you want to stalk someone AND listen to the same things as them, this is the upgrade for you.

5. Spotlight

Apple has found a new space within the iPhone... scrolling left from the homescreen. This new area allows you to search over the whole iPhone / iPod touch, and even finds Apps (if they're Spotlight enabled).

So if you're sure that you saw someone's name somewhere in the phone... you'll be able to find it now. And if you have a trillion Apps on there and countless home screens to scroll through you can now move straight there rather than straining your finger.

6. Localised search

As well as being able to search over the whole thing in Spotlight, you now have the option to search specifically in certain areas, like the upgrade that came in the iPhone 2.0 firmware allowing you to search through contacts.

And if there's nothing on the phone itself, users will also have the option to take things further afield by looking on a registered server to find the information there too.

7. Push notification

While we all wanted to see background applications running on the iPhone, in a similar way to the forthcoming Palm Pre, the truth is it's likely that the handset simply can't handle it.

So push notifications are the next best thing, with the phone keeping a constant connection to email servers and IM applications, with similar functionality available for other applications to make use of as they so wish.

8. Turn by turn directions

The problem with using the iPhone as a GPS navigation device in a car is, well, you can't really, unless you want to keep taking your eyes off the road to look where you are on the map, so the addition of turn-by-turn directions is a big plus in that department.

However, thanks to the big wide world of licensing agreements, you can't use Google Maps for the application, so if you want to make a turn-by-turn effort, you best bring your own maps.

That really limits this application to the big names like TomTom and Co-Pilot, and we doubt Garmin will be getting in on the action as it has a rival device out in the Nuviphone.

9. In-App purchase

This is another App-changer for iPhone-ites, allowing you to pay for things inside a program. What this essentially means is you'll be able to customise Apps as you want them, ie a magazine can be offered for free and you choose to subscribe from within the App, with the standard iTunes purchase interface popping up to confirm.

The newly-announced Sims 3 game allows you to do this to purchase items for around 60p, and other games will allow you to buy weapons or power-ups in exchange for cold, hard cash (well, the transaction's electronic, so there's no cash actually, but you get the picture).

By the way, you can also get in-game rumbling too... it's not important enough for its own point on this list, but it's pretty cool too.

10. Landscape QWERTY keyboard, A2DP and shake to shuffle

And finally, the 'tweaks'. Apple has finally dripped out a couple of things that iPhone users the world over have been asking for, like being able to use something else other than the QWERTY portrait keyboard. So the addition of a landscape option for all text input is a real plus, though we can't see why it's taken so long.

Coming 'this summer', it's free for iPhone users and around £7-ish for iPod Touch users, unfortunately original iPhone holders cannot use A2DP or MMS thanks to hardware constraints

GPS device for dementia sufferers

GPS device for dementia sufferers

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A psychiatrist at the first NHS trust to trial tracking devices for dementia patients said the new technology could provide patients with more freedom to go out safely.
Dr Rupert McShane is running a two-year trial at the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust which has become the first in the country to fit dementia patients with the pocket GPS devices.
A total of 20 patients from the Thames Valley and Somerset areas are taking part in the trial which enables their movements to be monitored on a map via a secure website.
Dr McShane, a consultant in old age psychiatry at the trust, told BBC Radio Five Live: "About 30% of people with dementia get lost at some point, and about 25% of them are locked into their houses by worried relatives.
"With the development of GPS technology, we think people with dementia might have more freedom to go out and they might be safer if they do go out, if it's possible to know where they are if they get lost."
Sue Fulford-Dobson, whose partner Ian is taking part in the trial, said: "He is fascinated by sunsets. So suddenly at eight o'clock at night he will say, 'There's a lovely sunset; I think I'll just go and see if I can see it better'. And that's when he will disappear.

Mozilla's mobile browser goes into beta

Mozilla's mobile browser 'Fennec' reaches stage one of the beta test phase today, with a release candidate now available that will work on Nokia N810 tablets, as well as Windows, Mac and Linux desktop emulators.

Fennec's Tracemonkey-backed JavaScript offers better support for third party add-ons, gestures and no-button browsing, all of which sound pretty impressive.

Have that, Opera!

For now, you can check out Mozilla's release notes to find out what else is in Beta 1 and watch the video walkthrough on the site to get more background info on Fennec's new features.

We'll be sure to tell you more about how these actually work when we get an opportunity for a hands on with Mozilla's latest.

Android Handset Invasion Coming This Year

Never mind all of the hoopla surrounding Apple's iPhone: Today, Google's Android made some noise, too, in the form of news snippets from handset makers.

Take HTC, for example. The company's CEO, Peter Chou, was asked Tuesday to confirm a report that HTC will release five Android-based handsets this year. He replied that HTC will launch "at least" three. Bloggers have already gotten their hands on a leaked product lineup from the company and speculate that the HTC "Hero" will be another Android-based phone.

And a product lineup from Samsung was leaked in Amsterdam last Wednesday--one showing an Android-based phone. Rumors say that the handset has a capacitive touch-screen display and full Google integration. Two versions are expected: One for Europe and one for U.S. HSPA networks.

Smart-phone customers will certainly have plenty of options to choose from this spring and summer. With Apple's iPhone 3.0 update launching in June, it is pretty certain that Apple will release new hardware, too. It will be interesting to see how the forthcoming next-generation Android devices will stack up against the iPhone's third-generation hardware and software. And don't forget the Palm Pre--it's expected to make a huge splash on the smart-phone scene in the April-to-June time frame as well.

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Malicious software may just be a property of the network

The Conficker worm will be active again on 1 April, according to an analysis of its most recent variant, Conficker.C, by the net security firm CA.
This malicious piece of software, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, spreads among computers running most variants of the Windows operating system and turns them into nodes on a multi-million member "botnet" of zombie computers that can be controlled remotely by the worm's as yet unidentified authors.
Since it first appeared in October 2008 it has apparently infected more than 15 million computers around the internet, though even that number is no more than an educated guess because the worm works very hard to disguise its presence on a PC.
The worm turns
Conficker spreads through a security vulnerability in the Windows Server Service that allows a carefully written program to persuade the attacked computer to run malicious code instead of the Microsoft-written software.
Once installed it turns off Windows Automatic Update and stops you using the Windows Security Centre. It disables a range of internal services that could be used by anti-malware programs, blocks access to a number of anti-virus websites and even resets and deletes system restore points so you can't go back to an uninfected installation of your operating system.
History lesson
Perhaps we should not be surprised that attempts to make these systems secure have failed.
I see a parallel between our attempts to have security and reliability in the complex computer systems we are building today and the attempts by philosophers at the turn of the 20th to reduce all of mathematics to formal logic.
The work of Frege, Russell and Whitehead was undermined by the Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel when he published his Incompleteness Theorem in 1931. He showed that in any sufficiently complex mathematical system there will be statements that cannot be proved either true or false, and that this is not because of errors or mistakes but is a fundamental property of the system.

Win phones

MICROSOFT may rule the PC operating system universe, but the software giant does not prevail in the fast-expanding smartphone sector.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 sports a very crisp 800x480 pixel, 3 inch display

HP's IPAQ 912c is all business and very little pleasure

XTC Touch HD is designed for eyeballing video content
Image 3/3 A potpourri of operating systems flourish on smartphones and PDAs, including RIM's BlackBerry OS, the Symbian OS, Google's new Android OS, PalmOS and the Apple iPhone OS.
Amid this throng is Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.1 OS, which is due to morph this year into WM 6.5 and after that into a new mobile version of the Windows 7 replacement for the lacklustre Vista.
The Windows Mobile user interface is nowhere near as pleasing to use as Apple's touchy feely iPhone, but it does offer many advantages, especially for business use.
Email integration with the likes of Microsoft Exchange is mature and solid. The Office Mobile apps usually included with the package allow viewing and editing of MS Office formats and, unlike the iPhone, it allows cutting and pasting between applications.
There are plenty of styles, feature sets and price points to choose from when shopping for a phone that uses Windows Mobile. We looked at three.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
THE Xperia is the narrowest of the trio at 53mm but is also deepest at 17mm and feels quite porky at 158g.
The Xperia X1's big party trick is swapping the look and feel of the home screen on the fly. A button marked Panel on the front of the case brings up a selection of home screens.
The quick panel change feature is truly useful, and extra screens, such as a Skype-centric one, can be downloaded.
The Xperia sports a very crisp 800x480 pixel, 3in display, assisted GPS, FM radio, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack and communicates at up to 7.2Mbps HSDPA.
There's a 3.2 megapixel, autofocus camera out back with a light and a video call camera around the front.
SPECIFICATIONSFeatures: Slide-out QWERTY keypad, quick-change home screen panels, 800 by 480 pixel , 3in touchscreen
HP IPAQ 912c
HP's IPAQ 912c Business Messenger is all business and very little pleasure.
Done up in black and chrome, the 154g HP has a small, 320x240 pixel, 2.5in touchscreen with a QWERTY keypad below.
There's WiFi, assisted GPS, Bluetooth, a micro SD slot for more memory, but sadly the entertainment abilities are cramped by not having a universal 3.5mm headphone jack, although a mini-USB stereo headset is supplied.
At the back is a 3 megapixel, autofocus camera with light, but no front-mounted camera for video calls.
SPECIFICATIONSFeatures: 3.8in, 800 by 480 pixel touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera, gesture-driven interfacePrice: $1499More at: http://www.hp.com.au/Rating: 7/10
XTC Touch HD
THIS has the brightest handheld screen I've seen.
Running a white background it made a great impromptu flashlight.
The big 3.8in, 480x800 pixel touchscreen uses HTC's Touchflo 3D gesture-driven interface and is designed for eyeballing video content. Although not iPhone standard, the screen interface works well under finger control and there's a stylus for picky work. The touch keyboard is superior to the iPhone's.
The 147g phone has a 5 megapixel, autofocus camera (but no light) and there's video call camera up front.
There's also FM radio, Bluetooth, GPS, a micro SD slot, a G sensor and 7.1Mbps HSDPA.
SPECIFICATIONSFeatures: QWERTY keypad, 320 by 240 pixel touchscreen, thumbwheel navigation, 3 megapixel cameraPrice: $849More at: www.htc.com/au/Rating: 6.5/10
Conclusion
ALL three of these Windows phones have their strengths.
While it won't win you much kudos in the my-phone's-flasher-than-yours wars, the conservative HP is a handy size, the cheapest here, simple to use and packs everything you really need for mobile business communications - if only it had a 3.5 headphone jack.