DPeer2000: February 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012

I got ‘em all covered except #2!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/conversations/12-ways-to-live-a-better-life/2012/02/17/gIQAfOzMKR_ugcgallery.html?tid=ts_carousel

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Wow! Desktop OS on a phone!

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android

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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Travelling out of the country?

This is good no matter where you go!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/11/technology/electronic-security-a-worry-in-an-age-of-digital-espionage.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=If%20you%20go%20to%20China%20or%20Russia&st=cse

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0-day email attacks

A rare universal attack campaign aimed at taking over Webmail accounts via Flash:

A dangerous zero-day Flash attack revealed yesterday by Adobe patched along with other flaws in the application is the dreaded and relatively rare universal cross-site scripting threat. The vulnerability was spotted being exploited in the wild in targeted, email-based attacks.

"Universal XSSes are rare enough, but a zero-day floating around targeted attacks: wow," says Jeremiah Grossman, CTO for WhiteHat Security.

Ryan Barnett, senior security researcher for Trustwave, says it sounds a like a cyberespionage-type attack trying to remain under the radar.

Adobe's security update affects vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris; Adobe Flash Player 11.1.112.61 and earlier versions for Android 4.x; and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.5 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x. If exploited, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash and take over the victim's machine.

http://www.darkreading.com/advanced-threats/167901091/security/attacks-breaches/232601036/flash-zero-day-used-in-targeted-email-attacks.html

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Don't forget what day it is!

Here’s some clip art to make a card for that special someone in your life:

http://www.bing.com/editors-picks/category?q=valentines+day+clip+art&FORM=hphot3

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Gathering the best info

I've been reading Music Radar for several weeks now and find it totally chock-full of great information for musicians. Everything from recording your music to improving your technique. The latest one I read is my favorite so far - "50 steps to better electric guitar tone". Even though I'm not a guitar player, per se, this article has so many great tips in it that I've copied down every one of them and intend to pass them out to musicians that I play with. After all, if they sound better the whole group will sound better!

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/50-steps-to-better-electric-guitar-tone-528489#!1