Airport security has been in question many a times. This time Rhona Mahony managed to carry gunpowder safely bypassing airport security.

I also brought along a boarding pass for United flight 720 to Denver that I had created at home, in an computer art program. TSA agents accepted the boarding pass. They also took no notice at all of the gunpowder. Accepting the boarding pass was reasonable. Boarding passes that we design and print at home look just like ones designed by the airlines that we print at home. I had thought, though, that I might elicit a short conversation about the gunpowder. Mind you, I had packed the stuff safely. It was in three separate jars: one of charcoal, one of sulphur, and one of saltpetre (potassium nitrate). Each jar was labeled: Charcoal, Sulphur, Saltpetre. I had also thoroughly wet down each powder with tap water. No ignition was possible. As a good citizen, I had packed the resulting pastes into a quart-sized “3-1-1″ plastic bag, along with my shampoo and hand cream. This bag I took out of my messenger bag and put on top of my bin of belongings, turned so that the labels were easy for the TSA inspector to read.

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Best known 10 security breaches for year 2008 has been quoted here. Linda McGlasson, the author has also nicely put down the lessons learnt from those breaches.

To brief :

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After the recent out-of-band release of patch MS08-67 by Microsoft, the software giant has again released it MS08-78 out-of-band patch.

The patch is tagged as critical and affects Internet Explorer from 5.1 to 7 version. There are a few mitigating factors but I strongly feel that atleast desktop users or systems which is used to surf internet should apply the released patch. Work-around either wouldn’t work in few cases or attackers would come up with a way to bypass this work-around. Read more »

You might have already read this before on net, but anyways I am posting it here in case any1 missed. This picture is too funny.

Just read the inbox mail subjects

Hehe!

Wow!! Jumbo patch released by Microsoft after a long time (5 years). Out of these 28 patches, 23 of them have been rated Critical, 3 have been rated important and two as moderate. The patches were issued in eight updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, Office, SharePoint, Windows Media, and popular development tools, Visual Basic and Visual Studio.

So these has to be in top to-do lists of security consultants. So one more reason to work or say drive the clients to work to patch.

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Work at Home , Data Entry Jobs, Make money from home, Typing work from Home, Online Part time jobs, and i must also include another commonly used Google string “Data Entry Jobs” .

Ofcourse, every one likes to earn money online by investing less money, electricity, internet and their precious time. However the success ratio is very less. Its all because of Scammers. Many people afraid about internet job due to the increase of scammers these days. So what can we do to identify the scammers to get rid off these fears ? That is what we will be discussing here now. I found few websites which acts as a database to gather some review(positive as well as negative) about the Online Job Providers. Simply by giving their web address in the search bar of the webpage we can get the users feedbacks and reviews about them.

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