Key Logger – Invisible to the best in Anti-Spyware Industry

See Everything Then Type!
A new device has been introduced to the marketplace that is a huge danger to anyone who uses a PC that is not theirs. It is known as a key tracker and it sits between the keyboard and the PC. As can be seen in the pictures it is very discreet but is probably one of the most dangerous items of equipment to personal information that is readily available. These devices record every key that is pressed on the keyboard. Due to it's position (it sits between the keyboard and the PC) the information is logged by the tracker before the PC knows about it and as such is very difficult for the PC to detect. They are available in both USB and PS2 formats so pretty much any PC can be logged. The user puts the tracker in line, leaves it there for a set amount of time and then retrieves it. They can then download the data onto their own PC.

KILLER Features:
1. The 32K keystroke logger will store 32,000 keystrokes.
2. Record and save e-mail, instant messages, password recovery, internet addresses, chats, search terms and more.
3. Available in both USB and PS2 formats so pretty much any PC can be logged.
4. Due to it's position ,is very difficult for the PC to detect.
5. These trackers cost less than £30 and they are definitely out there already.

Advice:
If you intend to use a PC that is not yours (ie hotel business centre, internet café, airport etc) I would advise looking at the back of the PC to see if one of these trackers has been placed in line (scrambling under a desk is the better alternative to losing your email details). If you cannot get to see the back of the PC, I would suggest you don't use it for anything personal. If a tracker is there and you do not notice it, whoever placed it there (could be any user of that PC before you) will be able to recall all of your keystrokes - logins, passwords etc.

Google Adwords No More Safe

After Google Orkut Exploits, now it seems Google Adwords is facing some real anxious moments.
Recently Researchers at security software developer Exploit Prevention Labs have uncovered hard evidence that cybercriminals are using Google AdWords to infect unsuspecting users with malware.

Modus operandi is....

Advertisers pay Google for the sponsored links to appear following specific search queries. Clicking on one of the malicious links, though, takes the user to the real website – but along the way they are unknowingly redirected to www.smarttrack.org, which hosts a Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) exploit that attempts to install a backdoor keylogger.

Exploit Prevention Labs first learned of this new attack vector on April 10 when a user of the company's LinkScanner Pro safe surfing software ran a Google search on the phrase "how to start a business." The top-ranked sponsored search listing appeared to be from AllBusiness.com, a legitimate business, yet the hyperlink actually led to a site that attempted to install a password-stealing keylogger on the user's PC. LinkScanner Pro blocked the threat and automatically reported the discovery back to Exploit

Although Google has terminated this particular offending account, the discovery highlights problems facing all sponsored search vendors -- how to determine the legitimacy of any individual advertiser, and how to determine whether a redirected link is being used legitimately.


Now, Think THOUSAND times before clicking any of the links of Google Adwords, be'cas you don't want to get punched in the FACE.

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The First Programmer

Ever given a thought , who would have been the first programmer in history of programming.

The First Programmer Was a Lady!!!!

Over a hundred years before a monstrous array of vacuum tubes surged into history in an overheated room in Pennsylvania, a properly attired Victorian Gentleman demonstrated an elegant little mechanism of wood and brass in a London drawing room. One of the ladies attending this demonstration brought along the daughter of a friend. She was a teenager with long dark hair, a talent for mathematics, and a weakness for wagering on horse races. When she took a close look at the device and realized what this older gentleman was trying to do, she surprised them all by joining him in an enterprise that might have altered history, had they succeeded.

Ada Lovelace is popularly credited as history's first programmer. She was the first to express an algorithm intended for implementation on a computer, Charles Babbage's analytical engine, in October 1842.

Analytical Engines and digital computers are very good at doing things over and over many times, very quickly. By inventing an instruction that backs up the card-reading device to a specified previous card, so that the sequence of instructions can be executed a number of times, Ada created the loop--perhaps the most fundamental procedure in every contemporary programming language.
Even thought the Engine was yet to be built, Ada experimented with writing sequences of instructions. She noted the value of several particular tricks in this new art, tricks that are still essential to modern computer languages--subroutines, loops and jumps.

Ada died of cancer at the age of thirty-six. Babbage outlived her by decades, but without Ada's advice, support, and sometimes stern guidance, he was not able to complete his long-dreamed-of Analytical Engine. Because the toolmaking art of his day was not up to the tolerance demanded by his designs.


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Legend called Lara

"History Repeats itself" , True they say.
Another unparalleled genius left the arena in lows, but no one ever can replace him from numero uno spot.


Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed "The Prince of Port-of-Spain" or simply "The Prince") is a West Indian cricketer. Lara is acknowledged as one of the world's greatest batsmen, having several times topped the Test batting rankings and being the current world record holder for the highest individual innings score and the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket.

No-one since Bradman has built massive scores as often and as fast as Lara in his pomp. Even his stance was thrilling - the bat raised high in the air, the weight poised on a bent front knee, the eyes low and level. Then the guillotine would fall, sending the ball flashing to the boundary.

Lara has shown an almost unparalleled ability to build massive innings, and holds several world records for high scoring. He has the highest individual score in both first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994) and Test cricket (400 not out for the West Indies against England in 2004). He also holds the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in November 2005. He is the only man to have reclaimed the Test record score, having scored 375 against England in 1994, a record that stood until Matthew Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003. His 400 not out also made him the second player after Don Bradman to score two Test triple-centuries, and the second after Bill Ponsford to score two first-class quadruple-centuries. He has scored eight double centuries in Test cricket, second only to Bradman's twelve.



The elegance, the strokeplay, the sportsmanship of this great sportsman will live forever.

POland Land of coders!

"Last year's TopCoder Collegiate Challenge drew 21000 registrants from around the world, but half of the 48 finalists were from former Soviet bloc nations, including the winner, Petr Mitrichev of Russia, who also won last year's Global Code Jam."

The region's universities are producing so many top programmers that many firms are changing tack – and setting up shop at the source.

IBM, Motorola, and Google have all opened research labs here in Krakow in recent years, while Deutsche Telecom, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, and other giants have come to Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, and other cities where universities churn out skilled coders.

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Best Places to Work

Technology-related companies accounted for three of the top 10 great employers—Google was number one, shooting to the top in its very first appearance in Fortune Magazine's annual list of the 100 best places to work, released Jan. 8.

Some other companies which come in list are Genentech,Network Appliance,Cisco Systems,Adobe Systems, Yahoo, qualcomm ,etc.

Complete article at here..