Open Camp 2011 will offer a forum for lectures and free discussions on topics such as Open Web, Open Government, Open Knowledge, Open source and Free Software. The event is organized by Mozilla Europe Electronic Frontier - Bulgaria.
Participants that are supporters of the freedom and open understanding of free software and open source software, of transparency in governance and real democracy.
http://opencamp.talkweb.eu
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
openSUSE Conference 2011 to be creative and open!
The openSUSE conference is where Free Software people meet. And a meeting of so many developers, artists, translators, documentation writers and others leads to great things! The latest Free Software technologies will be showcased, cool projects initiated and great ideas discussed. Last year, the conference was awesome and resulted in many new projects and collaborative efforts. This year, the conference will be combined with the SUSE Labs conference to bring even more brilliant minds together! The SUSE Labs conference has traditionally been about advancing low-level technology like the kernel and surrounding infrastructure as well as server related, deployment and management tools.
The openSUSE Conference 2011 will happen from Sunday 11th to Wednesday 14th of September in Nuremberg, Germany. This date shouldn’t conflict with too many other conferences. We’ll be open for registration and a pre-party on Saturday night! The website on conference.opensuse.org is being updated still and we’ll let you know once you can register.
We expect about 500 visitors this year and hence had to find a new location. A perfect spot was found in a previous industrial complex from AEG named ‘Zentrifuge‘. This cultural center might not be the ‘usual’ space for an IT conference but offers a very creative and open space, currently used for art and music. Exactly right for the openSUSE Free Software gathering!
The openSUSE Conference 2011 will happen from Sunday 11th to Wednesday 14th of September in Nuremberg, Germany. This date shouldn’t conflict with too many other conferences. We’ll be open for registration and a pre-party on Saturday night! The website on conference.opensuse.org is being updated still and we’ll let you know once you can register.
We expect about 500 visitors this year and hence had to find a new location. A perfect spot was found in a previous industrial complex from AEG named ‘Zentrifuge‘. This cultural center might not be the ‘usual’ space for an IT conference but offers a very creative and open space, currently used for art and music. Exactly right for the openSUSE Free Software gathering!
OpenSUSE 11.4
Unity is the new user interface (shell) designed and created by Canonical for the recently released Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating system. It's not a secret that many Ubuntu users hate Unity, but it looks like the openSUSE users want it in their distribution.
At the moment, only Unity 2D will be included in the openSUSE 11.4 GNOME:Ayatana software repository, and work on porting Unity 3D will continue. An 1-Click installer will also be available for those who want to test Unity under openSUSE.
Nelson Marques's Unity packages will include some nice features, such as launcher auto-hide, workspace selector, applications menu and files, and transparency enabled by default.
"There are transparencies because I enabled ‘composite’ on metacity, which works very nicely. As far as I could understand, the developers of Unity 2D are also looking into implementing Compiz with Unity 2D, which would be sweet." - said Nelson Marque.
Before uploading the Unity 2D packages, Nelson Marques will have to make sure that various Unity dependencies are properly implemented, and that Compiz is working very well.
At the moment, only Unity 2D will be included in the openSUSE 11.4 GNOME:Ayatana software repository, and work on porting Unity 3D will continue. An 1-Click installer will also be available for those who want to test Unity under openSUSE.
Nelson Marques's Unity packages will include some nice features, such as launcher auto-hide, workspace selector, applications menu and files, and transparency enabled by default.
"There are transparencies because I enabled ‘composite’ on metacity, which works very nicely. As far as I could understand, the developers of Unity 2D are also looking into implementing Compiz with Unity 2D, which would be sweet." - said Nelson Marque.
Before uploading the Unity 2D packages, Nelson Marques will have to make sure that various Unity dependencies are properly implemented, and that Compiz is working very well.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
10 Ways to Prevent Social Media Scams
Contributed By:
Robert Siciliano
The trouble with social media revolves around identity theft, brand hijacking and privacy issues.
The opportunity social media creates for criminals is to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims in phishing or other scams.
It was big news when someone had their Facebook account jacked by someone who impersonated the victim, claiming to have lost their wallet in the UK and begging for a money wire. Now it’s old news, but it’s still happening.
* Register your full name and those of your spouse and kids on the most trafficked social media sites. If your name is already gone, include your middle initial, a period or a hyphen. You can do this manually or by using a very cost effective service called Knowem.com
* Get free alerts. Set up Google alerts for your name and kids names and get an email every time someone’s name name pops up online. You want to see if someone is talking about you or using your name.
* Discuss social media with your kids. Make sure they aren’t providing their “friends” with personal information that would compromise their security or your families.
* Monitor what they do online. Don’t sit in the dark hoping they are acting appropriately online. Be prepared to not like what you see.
* Maintain updated security. Whether hardware or software, anti-virus or critical security patches, make sure you are up to date.
* Lock down settings. Most social networks have privacy settings that need to be administered to the highest level.
* Always delete emails you receive in social media from those who you don’t know. I’m messaged all the time by scammers and I’m sure you are too.
* Don’t enter all the “25 most amazing things about you” or whatever other games that extract your personal information. Nothing good can come from that.
* Always log off social media sites when you walk away from the PC. If you are ever at someone else’s home or on a public PC, this habit will save lots of aggravation. My sister-in-law, a Boston Bruins fan, left her Facebook open on the family PC. I changed her Facebook picture to the Philly Flyers and wrote Go Phillys! as her status. Bruins lost that night. I blame her.
* Do not activate geolocation services that tell the world your every move. Nothing good can come out of allowing anyone in the world to stalk your every move.
Robert Siciliano
The trouble with social media revolves around identity theft, brand hijacking and privacy issues.
The opportunity social media creates for criminals is to “friend” their potential victims in order to create a false sense of trust and use that against their victims in phishing or other scams.
It was big news when someone had their Facebook account jacked by someone who impersonated the victim, claiming to have lost their wallet in the UK and begging for a money wire. Now it’s old news, but it’s still happening.
* Register your full name and those of your spouse and kids on the most trafficked social media sites. If your name is already gone, include your middle initial, a period or a hyphen. You can do this manually or by using a very cost effective service called Knowem.com
* Get free alerts. Set up Google alerts for your name and kids names and get an email every time someone’s name name pops up online. You want to see if someone is talking about you or using your name.
* Discuss social media with your kids. Make sure they aren’t providing their “friends” with personal information that would compromise their security or your families.
* Monitor what they do online. Don’t sit in the dark hoping they are acting appropriately online. Be prepared to not like what you see.
* Maintain updated security. Whether hardware or software, anti-virus or critical security patches, make sure you are up to date.
* Lock down settings. Most social networks have privacy settings that need to be administered to the highest level.
* Always delete emails you receive in social media from those who you don’t know. I’m messaged all the time by scammers and I’m sure you are too.
* Don’t enter all the “25 most amazing things about you” or whatever other games that extract your personal information. Nothing good can come from that.
* Always log off social media sites when you walk away from the PC. If you are ever at someone else’s home or on a public PC, this habit will save lots of aggravation. My sister-in-law, a Boston Bruins fan, left her Facebook open on the family PC. I changed her Facebook picture to the Philly Flyers and wrote Go Phillys! as her status. Bruins lost that night. I blame her.
* Do not activate geolocation services that tell the world your every move. Nothing good can come out of allowing anyone in the world to stalk your every move.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Cairo Security Camp 2010
Bluekaizen, with the help of Nile university, is glad to announce the launching of the "Cairo Security Camp 2010" event. The event will be held on Monday 26th of July in the Auditorium Room in the main building of Nile university in the Smart Village (Building B2 - infront of Xceed).
Cairo Security Camp is targeting Network and Information Security Experts, Managers and Post Graduate Students. The event is not a security awarenes...s event !
Please, if you wish to attend, register on the website of BlueKaizen. Non-registered users will not be allowed to enter due to space limitation. You can check the list of speakers and their topics on http://www.bluekaizen.org/
P.S: the detailed agenda will be posted on http://www.bluekaizen.org/ before the 23rd of July.
Registration link: http://www.bluekaizen.org/events/event_0.php
For more inquiries, please contact:
info@bluekaizen.org
010-2675-570
Cairo Security Camp is targeting Network and Information Security Experts, Managers and Post Graduate Students. The event is not a security awarenes...s event !
Please, if you wish to attend, register on the website of BlueKaizen. Non-registered users will not be allowed to enter due to space limitation. You can check the list of speakers and their topics on http://www.bluekaizen.org/
P.S: the detailed agenda will be posted on http://www.bluekaizen.org/ before the 23rd of July.
Registration link: http://www.bluekaizen.org/events/event_0.php
For more inquiries, please contact:
info@bluekaizen.org
010-2675-570
Get notified of suspicious Facebook access to your account
For all of you who haven't figured it out already, there is a simple way to make sure that if someone breaks into your Facebook account and misuses it, you know it immediately. All that's needed is a simple change to you settings that takes less than 5 seconds altogether.
Just log in into your Facebook account, go to your Account Settings, change you Account Security, and choose to receive notifications for login from new devices:
You will receive an email notification if someone accesses you account from a computer or mobile device you haven't used before almost instantly, and if you have activated Facebook Mobile, you can receive the notification by SMS.
Just log in into your Facebook account, go to your Account Settings, change you Account Security, and choose to receive notifications for login from new devices:
You will receive an email notification if someone accesses you account from a computer or mobile device you haven't used before almost instantly, and if you have activated Facebook Mobile, you can receive the notification by SMS.
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