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April 30th, 2009UncategorizedTwitBacks helps you create cool twitter backgrounds for your twitter profile page.
Twitter profile pages are inportant as a lot of twitterers who would want to follow you would first visit your twitter profile. Having a cool twitter background would help you gain a few more followers.
TwitBacks is one of the easiest twitter background creator and its free too! Your background would display all your relevant social media links.
Once you create your free twitter background image, you have the option to automatically post it to your twitter profile as well as download it.
Quickie
- Free twitter background creator
- Easy to create
- Displays all your relevant social media links in a nice and easy to read way
- Lots of background images to choose from
TwitBacks Says
In less than 2 minutes… Brand yourself on Twitter by creating your very own Twitter background. Then, let us promote your Twitter Profile for you on the web.
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April 29th, 2009Uncategorized
Speaking at the Vasco Banking Summit in Sydney yesterday, the company's technical account manager, Vlado Vajdic, told delegates that cyber crime was becoming so business-like that online offerings of malicious code often included support and maintenance services.
Additionally, he said, cybercrime outsourcing would become a key trend in 2009.
"It was inevitable that services would be sold to people who bought the malware toolkits but didn‘t know how to configure them," Vajdic said.
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April 28th, 2009Uncategorized
– The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today won the fifth annual Rosemary Award for the worst Freedom of Information Act performance by a federal agency. The FBI’s reports to Congress show that the Bureau is unable to find any records in response to two-thirds of its incoming FOIA requests on average over the past four years, when the other major government agencies averaged only a 13% “no records” response to public requests.
Given annually during Sunshine Week by the Emmy- and George Polk Award-winning National Security Archive at George Washington University, the Rosemary Award recognizes outstandingly bad responsiveness to the public that flouts the letter and spirit of the Freedom of Information Act.
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April 27th, 2009UncategorizedOver the weekend a confirmed Google Docs bug may have shared your private Google Documents with others, without your permission. Google said this “affected less than 0.05% of all documents.” What exactly happened?
“The inadvertent sharing was limited to people with whom the document owner, or a coOver the weekend a confirmed Google Docs bug may have shared your private Google Documents with others, without your permission. Google said this “affected less than 0.05% of all documents.” What exactly happened? -
April 26th, 2009Uncategorized
Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything.
That's a feature, not a bug. The intention is to make sure Latitude doesn't become an honeypot for cops wanting to be able to easily find out where you have been or even say the names of everyone who attended, or was near, a political protest.
The policy, created in consultation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, puts Latitude on equal privacy footing with Loopt, a popular friend-finding service that predates Latitude. Both services now overwrite your previous location with your new location, and don't keep logs.
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April 25th, 2009UncategorizedThe Internet may have contained early warning signs of Canada’s recent listeriosis outbreak, according to an analysis co-authored by Dr. Kumanan Wilson, associate professor of medicine at the University of Ottawa and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Public Health Policy.
The analysis, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, shows that Internet searches in 2008 using the word “listeriosis” spiked in mid- to late July, almost a month before the outbreak was publicly declared.
“Internet scanning represents an important advancement in health surveillance, and search-term surveillance is a provocative new tool that has much potential. But both these tools merit further evaluation,” conclude Dr. Wilson and Dr. John Brownstein, who is affiliated with Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. “Most importantly, these technologies may provide significant benefits to outbreak control at local, national and international levels, ultimately reducing the health consequences of these outbreaks.” -
April 24th, 2009Uncategorized
The National Security Council (NSC) was established by statute in 1947 to create an inter-departmental body to offer confidential advice to the President on all aspects of national security policy. Currently, statutory members of the Council are the President, Vice President, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense; but, at the President's request, other senior officials participate in NSC deliberations. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence are statutory advisers. In 2007, the Secretary of Energy was added to the NSC membership. The President clearly holds final decision-making authority in the executive branch. Over the years, however, the NSC staff has emerged as a major factor in the formulation (and at times in the implementation) of national security policy. Similarly, the head of the NSC staff, the National Security Adviser, has played important, and occasionally highly public, roles in policymaking. This report traces the evolution of the NSC from its creation to the present.
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April 23rd, 2009UncategorizedIn the five years since he co-founded RateMDs.com, a site where patients rate their doctors, John Swapceinski has been threatened with lawsuits at least once a week. Not one disgruntled physician has actually carried out his threats, Swapceinski tells MediaPost. Indeed, it would be very difficult to sue the site for defamation, given that the federal Communications Decency Act immunizes Web sites from libel cases based on user comments. But, starting six months ago, the nature of the threats changed.
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April 22nd, 2009Uncategorized
Software used to control thousands of home computers has been acquired online by the BBC as part of an investigation into global cyber crime.
The technology programme Click has demonstrated just how at risk PCs are of being taken over by hackers.
Almost 22,000 computers made up Click's network of hijacked machines, which has now been disabled.
The BBC has now warned users that their PCs are infected, and advised them on how to make their systems more secure.
Concerted attackClick managed to acquire its own low-value botnet - the name given to a network of hijacked computers - after visiting chatrooms on the internet.
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April 21st, 2009Uncategorized
Federal agencies report increasing cyber-intrusions into government computer networks, perpetrated by a range of known and unknown actors. In response, the President, legislators, experts, and others have characterized cybersecurity as a pressing national security issue. Like other national security challenges in the post-9/11 era, the cyber threat is multi-faceted and lacks clearly delineated boundaries. Some cyber attackers operate through foreign nations military or intelligence-gathering operations, whereas others have connections to terrorist groups or operate as individuals. Some cyber threats might be viewed as international or domestic criminal enterprises. In January 2008, the Bush Administration established the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (the CNCI) by a classified joint presidential directive. The CNCI establishes a multi-pronged approach the federal government is to take in identifying current and emerging cyber threats, shoring up current and future telecommunications and cyber vulnerabilities, and responding to or proactively addressing entities that wish to steal or manipulate protected data on secure federal systems. On February 9, 2009, President Obama initiated a 60-day interagency cybersecurity review to develop a strategic framework to ensure the CNCI is being appropriately integrated, resourced, and coordinated with Congress and the private sector.