Download the 2 files (PDF):
Symantec Report on the Underground Economy.pdf
UE Report Executive Summary.pdf
Extract:
The Symantec Report on the Underground Economy is a survey of cybercrime activity in the underground economy. It includes a discussion of some of the more notable groups involved, as well as an examination of some of the major advertisers and the most [...]
I stumbled onto this awesome video while ‘youtubing.’ Any fan of The Joker would love it.
LOL
A friend of mine sent me a 417 page book - Understanding Microsoft Virtualization by Mitch Tullock and the Microsoft Virtualisation . It is free from Microsoft Press.
It covers:
An overview of the differing types of virtualization
Server Virtualization & Hyper-V in depthServer Virtualization Management & Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Application Virtualization & App-V
Presentation Virtualization & Terminal Services [...]
Split between two times, I don’t know which to use. Should I use Mauritian time to wish happy new year or the UK time. If both, then I will be somehow celebrating new year twice in the same year. I therefor add this to my presidential agenda: Regional Times will be abolised and we will [...]
Though it is a convention to use the 2009 calendar, it would be nice to hear people actually pronounce the year properly - “Year of our lord, 2009.”
Anyway, since I don’t believe in the time line of the Gregorian calendar, I shall skip the Lord thingy. But Christians should say it - Old English is [...]
The AP Stylebook is recommended if you want to write good (American) English. It tells you when to hyphenate, to spell the numbers and to choose the correct word. What is the difference between assassination, homicide, manslaughter and murder? The AP Stylebook will tell you. The Ask the Editor section on their website is very [...]
Global stock markets plunged.
Oil prices varied eratically.
69K people were killed in China by the Ghengu Earthquake.
Fidel Castro no longer ‘rules’ Cuba. His brother Raul Castro does.
Russia and Georgia went to war over South Ossetia.
Musharraf resigned as President of Pakistan.
Terrorists killed 195 people (incl. a Mauritian) in Mumbai.
Tibet and China have been still at “war.”
The relations [...]
Unlike many of you, I had never watched Armageddon before earlier this morning. And I admit - it’s a brilliant movie, unlike the ones made nowadays. Kudos to you, J.J. Abrams. (@ J.J.A - don’t screw up my new Trek movie or I shall dephase you! :P)
Aside from screwing up the laws of physics, the [...]
It seems with the growing popularity of social networks on the Net, some media have an unlimited pool of pictures that they use and abuse. Nowadays, when a suspect is arrested, the first thing some people do is to type this person’s name of Facebook or to see if he can get his or her [...]
I have an eye on the Jensen learning web which keeps me abreast in my interest on learning, accelerated learning techniques and recent discoveries on the Brain. This month’s issue of the newsletters deal with the danger of cell phone.
Extract from the newsletter
Like most of us, you probably used your cell phone over the [...]