Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet

We keep being told that email is unproductive and there are better ways to communicate productively. For example Justin Rosenstein , the co-founder of Asana a productivity software startup says: "Email has become a counter-productivity tool." However, an interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly puts all these sales pitches in their place. Email is a great tool, possible the best thing about the Internet!

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The Internet Arcade

If youre of a certain age you will remember when video games were stand alone machines that you had to put coins in to play. Some of you reading this will Im sure have spent hours (and a small fortune) playing your favourite game trying to get the "top score."
Well you can now replay your favourite games thanks to the wonderful Internet Archives new project the Internet Arcade: "a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s ... Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade. The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" video games, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music."
 - have fun!

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BSc IT Internet Security Notes Mumbai

Below are the list of topics included in the notes:

Sec tion Topic Page No. Revision of a part of “Data Communication and Networking” syllabus prerequisite for “Internet Security.” 0.1 Three way handshake 2 0.2 Understanding O.S.I. Model at a glance 5 0.3 Differentiate between O.S.I. Protocol suite & T.C.P./I.P. Protocol suite. 6 0.4 Attacks with reference to the OSI model 7 0.5 Node-to-Node, Host-to-Host and Process-to-Process deliveries? 9 0.6 Understanding SSL Layer 10 Position of SSL layer in TCP/IP suit 0.7 TCP Header 11 0.8 What is connection oriented and what is connectionless? 13 0.9 TCP v/s UTP 15 0.1 16 0.11 17 Introduction: 20 1 What are Security Truisms? 21 1.1 Why require a security? 22 1.2 What is a Security Policy 24 1.3 What is a Security Policy - Definition 25 1.4 Picking a Security Policy, 27

1.5 What kind of Security 28 1.6 Distinguish between a Hacker and a cracker 29 1.7 Strategies for a Secure Network, 30 1.8 The Ethics of Computer Security 32 1.9 Security threats and levels 33 1.1 Security Plan (RFC 2196) 34 1.11 What Makes a Good Security Policy? 36 1.12 The components of a good security policy 36 1.13 Deny all/ Allow all 39 1.14 Who Should be Involved When Forming Policy? 40 1.15 Security Incident Handling 41 1.16 Security breach incident: - Containment 45 1.17 Security breach incident: - Eradication 46 1.18 Security Approaches 47 1.19 Principles of Security 48 1.2 Types of attack - Active and passive 49 1.21 The Practical Side of Attacks 51 1.22 Cookies 52 1.23 Specific Attacks: - Sniffing (snooping) Spoofing 53 1.24 Chapter Summery: 55

2 Classes of Attack 60 2.1 Stealing Passwords 61 2.2 Social Engineering. 63 2.3 Bugs and Backdoors 65 2.4 Authentication Failures 67 2.5 Protocol Failures 69 2.6 Information Leakages 70 2.7 Exponential Attacks - Viruses and Worms 71 2.8 Denial-of-Service Attacks 72 2.9 Botnets. 74 2.1 Active Attacks 77 3 Computer Security 85 3.1 What are viruses, Trojan Horse, Worms 86 3.2 Types of Virus 88 3.3 How to protect the computer against virus? 91 3.4 Life stages of Virus 95 3.5 What is the Structure of Viruses? 97 3.6 Components of virus 100 4 Firewalls and Proxy Servers 106

4.1 Kinds of Firewalls 108 4.2 Packet filters 109 4.3 Application-Level Filtering 110 4.4 Circuit-Level Gateways 112 4.5 Dynamic Packet Filters 113 4.6 Distributed Firewalls. 114 4.7 What firewalls cannot Do & Filtering Services 116 4.8 Reasonable Services to Filter 117 4.9 Digging for Worms. 119 4.1 Packet Filtering. 121 4.11 Implementing policies: (Default allow, Default Deny) on proxy 123 5 Cryptography 130 5.1 Introduction to Basic encryption and Decryption, 131 5.2 Diffie – Hellman Key Exchange 138 5.3 Concept of Public key and Private key 140 5.4 The concept of Hash (Message Digest) 143 5.4 Digital Signatures 146 5.5 Symmetric Key Cryptography 150 5.6 Asymmetric Key cryptography 152 5.7 Compare & contrast Symmetric Key Cryptography with Asymmetric key cryptography 154

5.8 Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) 156 6 University Exam Paper for previous 5 years 7 Question Bank 8 Model Answers of selected and grouped questions 9 A set of 3 question papers for your Mock test and own assessment

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Password protect internet explorer8 Browser

Below are the steps to password protect Windows IE8 without any software.

1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Select Tools >> Internet options.
3. Click on content tab.
4. Under Content Adviser, Click Enable.
5. A Content adviser window pops up, you need to set admin password.
6. Click on General tab on the new window.
7. Click on create password
8. Type-in the password and write a password hint to recover the password in case you forget your password.
9. Click OK twice.
10. Now, Whenever you open a site you will have to enter the password to gain access.

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What does Privacy Mean to New Zealanders in the Internet Age

This Thursday is the 1st lecture in the annual Gibbons Memorial lecture series. The first lecture is by Professor Miriam Lips of the School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, titled: What does Privacy Mean to New Zealanders in the Internet Age?

When: 6pm (refreshments) for 6.30pm lecture start, Thursday 1st May, 2014
Where: Owen G Glenn Building, Room OGGB3/260-092
Note that there is public parking in the basement of the Owen G Glenn Building at 12 Grafton Road.

Miriam Lips is the first Professor of E-Government at Victoria University of Wellington. This chair is sponsored by industry - Datacom System, FX Networks, Microsoft New Zealand – and the NZ government - the State Services Commission and the Department of Internal Affairs.

Professor Lips holds a MSc and a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an EMPA from Erasmus University, Leiden University and the Hochschule für Verwaltungswissen-schaften, Speyer. She has held academic positions at the University of Oxford and Tilburg University. Her current research includes management of online identity, use of social media for public engagement, the use of e-campaigning and the use of new media in disaster management.

Synopsis: Based on a 2013 survey with a representative sample of the New Zealand population, this talk will explore how, and to what extent, different groups of the New Zealand population are disclosing and protecting their personal information in varying online relationships with the private sector, government, and family and friends through social networking. The meaning of privacy for people from different age groups, ethnicities, educational backgrounds, and income groups will be discussed, and the implications for a population which increasingly exchanges their identity information online, against the backdrop of new privacy challenges and risks emerging from the use of Big Data.

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The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test

I blogged a few months back about the increasing problem of dead links (known as link rot) on research web sites. Not surprisingly this problem is not isolated to academic websites. An article by Rob Miller in TechChrunch, called "The Internet Is Failing The Website Preservation Test," makes the case for a a digital Library of Congress to preserve and protect all of the content on the internet to counter this growing problem. Preserving the integrity of the web for posterity cannot he (and others) argue be left to content publishers or non-profits like the Internet Archives Wayback Machine or the British Librarys UK Web Archive. The web is such a vital information source to us all know it must be preserved for future historians.

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10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better

Well Im not  sure that they are "awesome" but they are potentially useful, interesting or just fun. The Guardian recently published "10 awesome internet hacks to make your life better" that range from: how to log out of Facebook remotely if you left it running on a friends or relatives computer, how to bring up an emoji keyboard on your Mac or PC, and how to watch YouTube in slow motion. 

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TYBSC IT Sem V Internet Security IS Question Papers 2003 2009 Mumbai University

Below is the collection of TY BSc IT Sem V Internet Security Question Papers of Mumbai University.
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• Internet Security October 2003
• Internet Security 2004 oct
• Internet Security 2004
• Internet Security May 2005
• Internet Security November 2005
• Internet Security November 2006
• Internet Security May 2006
• Internet Security 2007
• Internet Security April 2008
• Internet Security October 2008
• Internet Security April 2009

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Do you use Internet glue

Do you use Internet glue? Do you know what it is? Basically its a web service that links two web services together; hence the name Internet glue. For example, actions  you take in your webmail system could to update your ToDo list, or add a calendar reminder. Back in January I blogged about how I use IFTTT (if this then that) to create and disseminate these blog posts. Increasingly though these systems are starting to integrate with our smartphones. IFTTT can use the iPhones location to trigger actions and can integrate with iOS reminders, contacts and the camera roll.  IFTTT has now launched on Android with a deeper set of integrations with the OS than their iOS offering. This is possible because Android has a "more laissez-faire attitude when it comes to allowing apps to extend their tentacles into core OS functions."
If you havent started using IFTTT I highly recommend you do. Not only can it smooth your workflow but it can also be fun.

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How the internet of things is changing sport

Weve heard a lot about the internet of things in the last few years, smart fridges and home thermostats for example, but its having an effect in places you might not expect, for example sport. An article by Stephen Pritchard in The Guardian titled The internet of things is revolutionising the world of sport describes the fascinating new ways its being applied, from golf clubs that monitor your swing to the Connected Athlete project. Fascinating stuff.

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