Well, here’s one way to bribe search engines.
Apparently, blogs are being taken rather seriously by search engines and don’t know what not. So someone decides they will build a blog with complete junk, so that some stupid search engine will rank his page, or whatever concept he is trying to make off, higher in the index. Very depressing.
But then I guess, so long as there are loopholes, and that basically means at all times, there are going to be people who take (undue?) advantage of the whole thing.
Well, here’s one way to bribe search engines.
Apparently, blogs are being taken rather seriously by search engines and don’t know what not. So someone decides they will build a blog with complete junk, so that some stupid search engine will rank his page, or whatever concept he is trying to make off, higher in the index. Very depressing.
But then I guess, so long as there are loopholes, and that basically means at all times, there are going to be people who take (undue?) advantage of the whole thing.
Social Engineering and Kevin Mitnick are two very abuzz phenomenon these days. By social engineering, one implies the following:
Social Engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.
Kevin Mitnick is / was one of the best social engineers around. So much so that the US law enforcement agencies had to put him behind bars for the stuff he did, which he always claimed was just out of curiosity, and not of any malicious intent. The point is, he know what he did, has accepted it, and probably does not regret it. He has written two books (maybe more, I know of only two) titled The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion.
Both come highly recommeded, and worth a read for anyone who cares about themselves not being ripped off by any social engineer, which means, in other words, practically everybody.
Social Engineering and Kevin Mitnick are two very abuzz phenomenon these days. By social engineering, one implies the following:
Social Engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.
Kevin Mitnick is / was one of the best social engineers around. So much so that the US law enforcement agencies had to put him behind bars for the stuff he did, which he always claimed was just out of curiosity, and not of any malicious intent. The point is, he know what he did, has accepted it, and probably does not regret it. He has written two books (maybe more, I know of only two) titled The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion.
Both come highly recommeded, and worth a read for anyone who cares about themselves not being ripped off by any social engineer, which means, in other words, practically everybody.
Social Engineering and Kevin Mitnick are two very abuzz phenomenon these days. By social engineering, one implies the following:
Social Engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.
Kevin Mitnick is / was one of the best social engineers around. So much so that the US law enforcement agencies had to put him behind bars for the stuff he did, which he always claimed was just out of curiosity, and not of any malicious intent. The point is, he know what he did, has accepted it, and probably does not regret it. He has written two books (maybe more, I know of only two) titled The Art of Deception and The Art of Intrusion.
Both come highly recommeded, and worth a read for anyone who cares about themselves not being ripped off by any social engineer, which means, in other words, practically everybody.
Some days back I had
mentioned about an
Apollo Four Forty song called,
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub, and recently found out that it is derived from a similar song by
Van Halen, called
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love from
The Best of Both Worlds, CD 2.
Now you listen to both of them and tell me which one is better, I think that Apollo 440’s version is better, since it’s more techno. But we now know where the guitar licks came from!
Some days back I had
mentioned about an
Apollo Four Forty song called,
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub, and recently found out that it is derived from a similar song by
Van Halen, called
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love from
The Best of Both Worlds, CD 2.
Now you listen to both of them and tell me which one is better, I think that Apollo 440’s version is better, since it’s more techno. But we now know where the guitar licks came from!
Well, my AV and Internet Security Suite, Kaspersky updated itself (it does that every three hours, actually) and wanted to restart the operating system (it never specified it wanted to restart the machine, which is interesting).
Now the timing could never have been worse. I am on an uptime record, and that thing wants a restart… I am helpless, I will give the restart to it. Will restart the uptime statistics, what else can be done? 
Well, my AV and Internet Security Suite, Kaspersky updated itself (it does that every three hours, actually) and wanted to restart the operating system (it never specified it wanted to restart the machine, which is interesting).
Now the timing could never have been worse. I am on an uptime record, and that thing wants a restart… I am helpless, I will give the restart to it. Will restart the uptime statistics, what else can be done?
They Might Be Giants have come up with an album for kids (though it is funny even for older people) called Here come the ABCs. I reco it, go get it and hear it atleast once. Pretty hilarious, I must say. With songs like Pictures of Pandas Painting, Letter / Not a Letter, Who Put the Alphabet In Aplhabetical Order? and C Is For Conifers, the whole album is pretty darn comic.
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And yes, the latest uptime report: System has been up since the last 4 days, 12 hours, 32 mins and 26 secs!