General security

Estimating Projects Part III

In previous articles on planning and estimating projects, we explored the basic principle of estimates. Estimating cannot really determine precisely what we

Domain theft and the possibilities for recovery of the stolen domain names

Introduction On October 24th 2012, Diigo, a social bookmarking website allowing signed-up users to bookmark and tag web pages, had its domain, diigo.com

Low fidelity prototyping: The cheapest corrections in design stage ever!

Agenda: 1. Prototyping – what is it? 2. The design process. 3. Showing the project to client before developers will write any line of code. 4. Changes in

Introduction to Anonymizing Networks – Tor vs I2P

The Right to Anonymity Every operation made in cyber space, every visited web site, and every web service accessed, leave traces of the user's experience on

Getting Domain Information

1. Introduction When analyzing malware we can gather a lot of information just by identifying the IP addresses and domains the malware software uses. Most m

Chapter 12 – Applications of Biometrics

Passwords are not secure and are useless as an access control… at least that is what many vendors and security consultants try to tell managers today. Instea

The Internet Underground: Tor Hidden Services

Some people think onion routing or the Tor network is for criminals and people with something to hide. Well, they are half right. The Tor network was designe

Legal and Technological Concerns Regarding the Use of BIOS Anti-theft Technologies

1. Introduction In 2006, a laptop containing personal and health data of 26,500,000 veterans was stolen from a data analyst working for the US Department o

Estimating Projects, Part II

For part 1 of this series, please click here. In the first part, our discussion of the estimation focused primarily on the general principles of creating an

Estimating Projects, Part I

Each of us who has ever worked in any programming project has had to deal with one of the biggest problems we face when creating projects. It is, of course,