Archive for May, 2007

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer - and information security vendors

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

The Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) is a tool put out by Microsoft to help analyze security problems in Microsoft Windows. It does this by scanning the system for security problems in Windows, Windows components such as the IIS web server application, Microsoft SQL Server, and Microsoft Office. One example of an issue might be that permissions for one of the directories in the wwwroot folder of IIS could be set at too low a level, allowing unwanted modification of files from outsiders.

Versions 1.2.1 and below run on Windows 2000, XP, and 2003, provide support for IIS versions 5 through 6, SQL Server 7 and 2000, Internet Explorer 5.01 and above, and Microsoft Office 2000 through 2003. Version 2.0 adds support for Microsoft Office XP and any other software supported by Windows Update. Version 2.0.1 is an update to MBSA 2.0 to enable compatibility with the new Windows Update (WU) offline scan file.


External links

  • Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer at Microsoft

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Voice over IP Security Alliance - a VoIP application

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:

VOIPSA’s mission is to promote the current state of VoIP security research, VoIP security education and awareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools.


External link

  • Official site

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Security policy - Security

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

A security policy is a definition of what it means to be secure for a system, organization or other entity. For an organization, it addresses the constraints on behavior of its members as well as constraints imposed on adversaries by mechanisms such as doors, locks, keys and walls. For systems, the security policy addresses constraints on functions and flow among them, constraints on access by external systems and adversaries including programs and access to data by people.

Because the security policy is a high level definition of secure behavior, it is meaningless to claim an entity is “secure” without knowing what “secure” means. It is also foolish to make any significant effort to address security without tracing the effort to a security policy.


Significance

If it is important to be secure, then it is important to be sure all of the security policy is enforced by mechanisms that are strong enough. There are organized methodologies and risk assessment strategies to assure completeness of security policies and assure that they are completely enforced. In complex systems, such as information systems, policies can be decomposed into sub-policies to facilitate the allocation of security mechanisms to enforce sub-policies. However, this practice has pitfalls. It is too easy to simply go directly to the sub-policies, which are essentially the rules of operation and dispense with the top level policy. That gives the false sense that the rules of operation address some overall definition of security when they do not. Because it is so difficult to think clearly with completeness about security, rules of operation stated as “sub-policies” with no “super-policy” usually turn out to be rambling ad-hoc rules that fail to enforce anything with completeness. Consequently, a top level security policy is essential to any serious security scheme and sub-policies and rules of operation are meaningless without it.


See also

  • Access control
  • Computer security policy
  • Enviromental design
  • Information Protection Policy
  • Information security policy
  • National security policy, Military strategy
  • Network security policy
  • Photo identification
  • Physical Security
  • Policy
  • Remote Access Policy
  • Security
  • Security engineering
  • User Account Policy

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HMS Grenville - launched

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Four Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Grenville. Vice Admiral Sir Richard Grenville was an Elizabethan sailor, explorer, and soldier:

  • Grenville, a 12 gun schooner of 69 tons purchased in Newfoundland on 7 June 1763, having formerly been called Sally, and used as a survey vessel. Broken up in Match 1775.
  • Grenville, a destroyer leader launched on 17 June 1916 and sold in December 1931.
  • Grenville, a G-class destroyer launched on 15 August 1935 and sunk 19 January 1940.
  • Grenville, a U class destroyer, launched 12 October 1942, and disposed of in 1979.

The Royal Canadian Navy also operated a fishery protection vessel, HMCS Grenville, launched in Toronto in 1915.


References

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Voice over IP Security Alliance - VoIP

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:

VOIPSA’s mission is to promote the current state of VoIP security research, VoIP security education and awareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools.


External link

  • Official site

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Signaling gateway - security threats to VoIP.

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

A Signaling Gateway is a network component solely responsible for translating signaling messages (i. e. information about call establishment and teardown) between one medium (usually IP) and another (PSTN). For example, a signaling gateway might translate between ISUP and SIP. A signaling gateway is often part of a softswitch in modern VoIP deployments.


See also

  • Media gateway

Links

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NAPT - address current and

Friday, May 25th, 2007

NAPT (Network Address Port Translation) is a variation of NAT (Network Address Translation). It is also referred to as PAT (Port Address Translation) by Cisco, and RAPT (Reverse Address and Port Translation) or RAT in some implementations.

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Network security policy - IP Security

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

A network security policy is a generic document that outlines rules for computer network access, determines how policies are enforced and lays out some of the basic architecture of the company security/ network security environment. The document itself is usually several pages long and written by a committee.
A security policy goes far beyond the simple idea of “keep the bad guys out”. It’s a very complex document, meant to govern data access, web-browsing habits, use of passwords and encryption, email attachments and more. It specifies these rules for individuals or groups of individuals throughout the company.

Security policy should keep the malicious users out and also exert control over potential risky users within your organization. The first step in creating a policy is to understand what information and services are available (and to which users), what the potential is for damage and whether any protection is already in place to prevent misuse.

In addition, the security policy should dictate a hierarchy of access permissions; that is, grant users access only to what is necessary for the completion of their work.

While writing the security document can be a major undertaking, a good start can be achieved by using a template. National Institute for Standards and Technology provides a security-policy guideline.

The policies could be expressed as a set of instructions that could be understood by special purpose network hardware dedicated for securing the network.


See also

  • Internet security
  • Security engineering
  • Computer security
  • Network security
  • Industrial espionage
  • Information security
  • Security policy


External links

  • National Institute for Standards and Technology

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Stock.xchng - site

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

stock.xchng is a website providing stock photography for non-commercial and personal uses with the restrictions specified by the uploader of the image [1] [2].

The site was launched in February 2001 with the motive to provide a place where users exchange their photos free of charge. In 2005, the site had 200,000 registered users in the USA and more than 275,000 photos. The site is a subsidiary of Dream Interactive. [3]


External links

  • Official website
  • Stockxpert.com (Sister site)
  • Dream Interactive (Parent company)

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Lior Haramaty - VoIP security research VoIP

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Lior Haramaty (born in Tel-Aviv, Israel in 1966) is the co-founder of VocalTec Inc. (1989) and the inventor of the Audio Transceiver () that enabled the creation of Voice Over Networks products and eventually the VoIP industry, that changed the face of the telecommunication industry.

According to Om Malik, “Two entrepreneurs barely out of their teens, Lior Haramaty and Alon Cohen, founded VocalTec Communications in 1993 based on the promise of packet voice technology they observed as members of the Israel Defense Force…. the idea of commercializing packet voice did not occur to anyone until the arrival of Lior and Alon.”<ref>Malik, Om. “The Voice over IP Insurrection”, September 19th, 2004.</ref>

TMCnet’s Internet Telephony Magazine - , “In fact, at that time the company’s CTO, Lior Haramaty, knew more about VoIP than just about anyone else, and we were fortunate to have him as a columnist in this magazine for a number of years.
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NTIA New Directions in Telecom A Conversation with Assistant Secretary Larry Irving - , “Lior Haramaty, co-founder and Vice President of technical marketing of VocalTec Communications”<ref>NTIA. “http://www.ntia.doc.gov/forums/telecom/bios.htm]”, Feb 4, 1998.</ref>


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Richard Spikes - patented

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Richard Spikes (1884-1962) was an African-American engineer from San Francisco, California. He designed a system of automobile directional signals, which he installed on a Pierce-Arrow car in 1913. In 1932 he received a patent for an automatic gear shift device.


Inventions

Richard Spikes patented or developed the following inventions:

  • Railroad semaphore (1906)
  • Automatic car washer (1913)
  • Automobile directional signals (1913) - manufactured by Pierce Arrow
  • Beer keg tap (1910) - purchased by Milwaukee Brewing Company.
  • Self-locking rack for billiard cues (1910)
  • Continuous contact trolley pole (1919) - used on on the famous San Francisco Key Line.
  • Combination milk bottle opener and cover (1926)
  • Method and apparatus for obtaining average samples and temperature of tank liquids (1931)
  • Improved automatic gear shift (1932) - licensed the patent for $100,000
  • Transmission and shifting thereof (1933)
  • Automatic shoe shine chair (1939)
  • Multiple barrel machine gun (1940)
  • Horizontally swinging barber chair (1950)
  • Automatic safety brake (1962)


Trivia

His most famous invention was the beer keg tap (1910)

Note: While Richard Spikes was working on his automatic safety brake in 1962, he lost his vision. As a result, Richard Spikes designed a drafting machine for blind people, in order to assist him in his inventing.

Richard Spikes - Automatic gear shift U.S. Patent 1,889,814 issued 12/6/1932

Richard Spikes patented an improved automatic gear shift in 1932. His object was to develop a gear shift where the gears for the various speeds were in constant mesh. Richard Spikes invented a novel clutch mechanism for his gear shift, he used levers to shift gears.


External links

  • Units that shaped the evolution of automatic transmission

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North Brazil Current - the current

Monday, May 21st, 2007

North Brazil Currents is a term of the complexion of Atlantic Southern equatorial current and the Atlantic equatorial counter current, Guinea current. These stream in opposite directions, and fluctuate in their strength, thus making it very difficult to sail fast in the respective area.

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VoicePulse - VoIP

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

VoicePulse is a New Jersey based communications company that uses its VoIP network to deliver phone service to residential and business consumers.

VoicePulse was founded in North Brunswick, NJ in April 2003 by Ravi Sakaria and Ketan Patel.


External link

  • VoicePulse Corporate Web Site

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TelSIP - VoIP

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

TelSIP is a SIP-based Voice-over-IP communication technology developed in Europe. The network is completely private as no account needs to be opened to access the network.

Requirements for network is a TelSIP Phone that comes with a TelSIP number already pre-assigned. Mobility and ease of use are the trademarks of TelSIP. TelSIP Phone works through any Internet connection, including 56K modems without any degrade in audio quality.

As of 31st August 2007, the TelSIP network has closed down.


Company Profile

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Company Name: Coolnection Tech. Co. LTD.
Country/Territory: Taiwan

Address: 14F-3, Number 137, Section 1, Fushing S. Road., Taipei, TW, Taiwan

Products/Services We Offer: Telephones & Parts
Business Type: Manufacturer
Industry Focus: Telephones & Parts , New Product , Others , Related Products

Geographic Markets: Worldwide
No. of Employees: 11 - 50 People
Certificates: FCC and CE
Year Established: 2001
Sales: International@Coolnection.com
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Support: Europe-support@Coolnection.com


THE PHONES

CL-1005 USB TelSIP-VoIP Phone
CL-2005 WIRELESS 2.4GHz VoIP Phone
CL-3005 WIRELESS 2.4 GHz VoIP & PSTN Phone


TelNEURO Technology

PC-based SIP VoIP solutions generally have problems with firewall traversal. The TelSIP product line boasts its user-friendliness because of the TelNEURO technology, developed applying the most advanced neuronal network algorithmic (Artificial Intelligence main motor) to the multiplicity of NAT scenarios and implementations deployed all over the Internet. As a result of this research, the final TelNEURO smart NAT traversal approach is an inventive, efficient and effective firewall traversal solution.

TelNEURO minimizes the possibility of an unsuccessful firewall traversal situation that will require a configuration setup from the user side, and helps TelSIP automatically configure itself within milliseconds.

Some of the most critical issues that the TelNEURO technology has overcome are:

  1. IEEE 802.11 wireless networks. One of the most complex scenarios for WiFi VoIP connectivity is a two NAT network connection both with port-restricted NAT implementations. This TelNEURO advantage allows TelSIP users to place and receive calls from Notebooks connected to WiFi 802.11 wireless networks at airports, hotels, business centers, etc.
  2. Residential and small enterprise full-cone NAT firewalls. Those are the majority of home and middle-size office used NAT firewall deployments. TelNEURO goes through them with no need of system administrator configuration at all.
  3. Big Corporation’s symmetric firewall/NAT. TelNEURO analyzes the symmetric behavior and chooses the right approach to establish a successful TelSIP communication. If TelNEURO detects that the firewall blocks all connections, TelNEURO itself will change its behavior and use the resources available in the net allowing TelSIP to establish in and out communications through the network.


External links

  • Network closed notice.

TelSIP Official siteDownload of driver version 3.2.4 available.
TelSIP Exclusive for Netherlands and GermanyDownload of driver version 3.2.2 available.
TelSIP Exclusive for Baltics: Latvia, Estonia, LithuaniaDownload of driver version 3.2.4 available.
TelSIP Exclusive for RussiaDownload of driver version 3.2.4 available
TelSIP Exclusive for KoreaDownload of version 3.2.4 available. Phones CL-1005,CL-2005,CL-3005 available.
Reseller of TelSIP for IranDownload of driver version 3.2.4 available.
Reseller of TelSIP for TaiwanDownload of driver version 3.1.2 available.
TelSIP for JapanDownload of driver version 3.2.5 available
TelSIP CLUB: TelSIP Exclusive for Middle-EastSite has Discussion Forum. Download of driver version 3.2.4 available.

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VocalTec - VocalTec

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

VocalTec Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:VOCL), is an Israeli telecom equipment provider. The company was founded in 1989 by Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty, who invented and patented the first Voice over IP audio transceiver. VocalTec continues to be a leading VoIP company, with major customers such as Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia.

VocalTec released the first ever Internet VoIP program in February 1995. The company went public during 1996, and in 2005, completed a business combination with Tdsoft, a provider of VoIP gateways.

Today VocalTec specializes in providing carrier-class multimedia and voice-over-IP solutions for communication service providers. The company offers a wide portfolio of solutions enabling the flexible deployment of VoIP next generation networks.


References

  • VocalTec official site

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Voice over IP Security Alliance - address current and emerging

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) was launched in early 2005 to bring together Voice over IP and information security vendors, providers, and thought leaders to address current and emerging security threats to VoIP. The stated mission statement is:

VOIPSA’s mission is to promote the current state of VoIP security research, VoIP security education and awareness, and free VoIP testing methodologies and tools.


External link

  • Official site

Links

List of world leaders by countries - current state

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

  1. REDIRECTList of current heads of state and government

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Rial - links Official

Friday, May 18th, 2007

The Rial or Riyal (ريال in Arabic or Persian) most often refers to the currencies of Middle Eastern countries:

  • Iranian rial, the official currency of Iran
  • Omani rial, the official currency of Oman
  • Qatari riyal, the official currency of Qatar
  • Saudi riyal, the official currency of Saudi Arabia
  • Yemeni rial, the official currency of Yemen
Other spellings
  • Cambodian riel, the official currency of Cambodia
  • Brazilian real, the official currency of Brazil

Rial may also refer to:

  • Rial (racing team), a German Formula One team that raced between 1988 and 1989
  • Riyal (software), an astrology software

Links

  • Home - Engin Australia's leading broadband phone company. Engin allows broadband users to make VoIP calls and save.
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List of state leaders in 54 BC - leaders to address current

Friday, May 18th, 2007

55 BC state leaders - Events of 54 BC - 53 BC state leaders - State leaders by year



Asia

  • Korea -

    • Dongbuyeo - Hae Buru, King of Dongbuyeo (86 BC– 48 BC)
    • Silla - Bak Hyeokgeose, King of Silla (57 BC– AD 4)


Europe

  • Roman Republic

    • Consuls: Appius Claudius Pulcher and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (54 BC)

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Call control - of VoIP gateways.

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

In telephony, call control refers to the software within a telephone switch that supplies its central function. Call control decodes addressing information and routes telephone calls from one end point to another. It also creates the features that can be used to adapt standard switch operation to the needs of users. Common examples of such features are “Call Waiting”, “Call Forward on Busy”, and “Do Not Disturb”.

Call control software, because of its central place in the operation of the telephone network, is marked by both complexity and reliability. Call control systems will typically require many thousands of person years in development. They will contain millions of lines of high level code. However they must and do meet reliability requirements that specify switch down time of only a few minutes in forty years.

The required functionality and reliability of call control is a major challenge for Voice over IP (VoIP) systems. VoIP systems are based on Internet standards and technology which have not previously attempted to satisfy such complex and demanding requirements as those that specify call control.

An alternative name often used is call processing.

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