'Dilbert's' 9-point financial plan worthy of economics Nobel - MarketWatch
Topic: Business
1:35 pm EST, Jan 17, 2008
I've actually just finished this book and it used the Dilbert material on the last page. The concepts weren't all that new to me, but its a good quick read on investing that can be done in 2 days.
I also recommend this book. To those who are already investment savvy it may seem like common sense. But no one ever told me the simple advice in this book. It also has simple graphs and metrics to show how these techniques will earn more money than if you invest like an average person that doesn't know any better.
Created by Academy award nominated director Fredric Golding and presented by Fortify Software (www.fortify.com), The New Face of CyberCrime gives a face to the criminals' intent on hacking into your systems today. Who are they? How do they think? What makes them successful? You'll also hear candid interviews with many industry leaders and executives of large organizations taking steps against these attacks. Understand how they think about these threats and what they are doing about them throughout their companies.
I went to the Thrasher's game last night. They beat the Penguins 3-2 in a shoot out. After the winning goal they played this movie clip on the big screen.
Really?! That is your go to celebratory movie clip!? Frick'in hilarious. At that moment I still felt like a winner being a Pens fan.
“HACKERS, welcome! Here are detailed circuit diagrams of our products — modify them as you wish.”
The OSD is a versatile recorder. Using a memory card or a U.S.B. storage device, it saves copies of DVDs, VHS tapes and television programs from satellite receivers, cable boxes, TVs and any other device with standard video output.
Because the OSD saves the recordings in the popular compressed video format MPEG-4 (pronounced EM-peg), the programs can be watched on a host of devices, including iPods and smartphones. The OSD is for sale at Fry’s, Micro Center, J&R Electronics and other locations for about $230.
With AppJet, you write your entire app using JavaScript, including the server logic and database. This simplifies the process of building a web app, because it lets you do everything in just one language. JavaScript is easy to learn, but still pulls its weight for advanced uses. In fact, the AppJet site itself and the AppJet framework are written in server-side JavaScript.
The first thing I thought of when I saw this is a web hackers wet dream. A host and framework for creating javascript apps with easy hooks for storage and HTTP request/response objects.
Dominick Baier came up with a good idea to extend the HtmlEncode() and UrlEncode() methods to implement Microsoft's AntiXss version of these same methods.
Part of the research I've been doing on static analysis has included identifying sources of potential tainted data in ASP.NET and the source-sink connectivity. During analysis if a source passes through a sanitizer we don't flag a vulnerability. Even if that sanitizer is a worthless piece of shit. (Yes, I'm talking to you...people who like to use .* in your Regex validators) We already provide pre-built validators in the product I work on, but what if we could also reduce the number of unsafe ways data is used in a program. Which brings us back to Dominick's use of Extensions. Imagine if the user could use a "Secure" Label control or a "Secure" Databound Literal control that would automatically filter a XSS attack when the Text property is accessed. Of course you could achieve that type of functionality without Extensions but I thought it was an interesting use of the new language feature.
