The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 7,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 12 years to get that many views.
Clearly, antivirus, firewall and other security technologies aren’t enough. Companies need to think carefully about how and where they are storing customer data, who has access to it, and how to prevent prying eyes from stealing the data and sharing it with other cybercriminals and manipulating customers with e-mail phishing attacks.
1: Limit access to customer PII
Companies today have an open culture when it comes to data. But that policy shouldn’t be consistent across all data types, particularly personally identifiable information, or PII. In our company, we recently reviewed who has access to our customer database and noticed that not all of the authorized users needed access to certain types of data. As a result, we have pared down access to just a few employees.
2. Bulletproof your security software and your network
Protect customer data as you would financial data. Organizations can refer to publicly available guidelines, such as those published by the PCI Security Standards Council. You should encrypt all of your customer information at the database level to avoid unauthorized users from hacking into your accounts. You may want to consider Tokenization, which is a higher level of security. Often used for e-commerce transactions, including credit card data, tokenization replaces sensitive data with unique identification symbols so that PII stays out of the data stream.
Another option is to deploy anti-phishing software, which can secure the e-mail channel by blocking malicious e-mail messages purporting to be from you. The software does this by checking for proper e-mail authentication and issuing alerts when fraudulent activity is detected. These are just a few examples of the kind of security protections you need for customer data. A third-party security audit of your systems and processes can evaluate your infrastructure, provide recommendations and issue annual certifications.
3. Require that partners and vendors with access to customer data also have the best available protection
Agencies, software firms and e-mail service providers should have the same (if not better) controls as your company. For instance, if you use a marketing automation solution for campaign generation and tracking, your provider should require IP address blocking so that only users from within your firewall can access customer data and e-mail addresses. External IP addresses will be locked out if they obtain passwords and attempt to log in to a customer database.
If any of your partners stores customer data for you, understand exactly how they are securing their information systems and handling access control.
4. Get the help of a lawyer
If a breach occurs, your company could be on the line for thousands or millions of dollars in lawsuits and other fees to your customers. What type of protections can you build into your services to prevent financial disaster and what guarantees do you need to provide to customers if their data is compromised, lost, or stolen? This also applies to your marketing vendors. What are their obligations if a breach occurs in their systems? This could include legal fees and other financial penalties. Have your lawyer draft the appropriate language for your Web site, customer documentation and vendor contracts.
5. Educate your employees
Developing policies and providing regular training for employees handling customer data is imperative. Consider adding internal security measures to protect against the possibility of social hacking incidents. These are situations in which, for example, an employee who has access to your data has the account password stolen.
Record-setting swimmer Michael Phelps has satisfied some of his hunger for Americana since returning to the United States from his Olympic triumphs in China but has one special rendezvous he is looking forward to.Phelps, who touched down on Wednesday after winning an unparalleled eight gold medals in the pool in Beijing, has already chatted with Tiger Woods, done the rounds of morning TV chat shows and sampled some quintessential cuisine.
Michael Phelps
“It’s a good feeling to be back on American soil,” Phelps said on Thursday at a presentation of a grant to fund a Manhattan YMCA’s second grade swimming program, where every movement of the 14-time gold medalist in the pool brought choruses of “ooh’s” and “ah’s” from the children in the water. Phelps appeared at the YMCA to present a cheque of $20,000 from Visa to support youth swimming programs.Phelps has already done some hobnobbing, had his photographic portrait hung in the National Gallery and has more of the celebrity life lined up.
Michael Phelps
“I was at the launch of Tiger’s new (video golf) game last night. Being able to talk to him just for a little bit. He was saying how proud he was, congratulations,” said Phelps, who joked about how he could use lessons to help his golf.A week from Saturday he will host the season-opening edition of the Saturday Night Live TV comedy show. “It’s going to be interesting. I hope I’m literally not a fish out of water on that one,” said Phelps. “I’m already getting a hard time from some of my friends about it.”Phelps is also set to make a cameo appearance in the hit TV series ‘Entourage’, where he will be seen with Kevin Connolly.The Olympic swimmer said he was looking forward to getting home. “Once I get back to Baltimore I want to see my dog. I miss the little guy,” Phelps said about his white and black English bulldog named Herman, who he has not seen in a few months. “I’m just hoping he remembers me when I see him.”
Ya you are hearing correct, now the internet search giant Google has finally made its much-rumoured entry in the browser space. After the latest releases by Mozilla (Firefox 3) and Microsoft (IE 8 beta 2), here comes Google browser Chrome.
Google's Browser Chrome
Designed to better handle video-rich or other complex Web programmes, Chrome poses a tough challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics. Google calls the move “a fresh take on the browser” and said that it will be introducing a public trial for Microsoft Corp Windows users starting September 2.The software, which is in beta, will be distributed for free to PC users in over 100 countries via Google’s blog. The Internet search leader is also working on versions for Apple Macintosh and Linux users.
Lets take a look at the various features of this browser:
1.Special Tabs:Instead of traditional tabs like those seen in Firefox or Internet Explorer, Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window, not below the address bar.Web programmes can be launched in their own dedicated windows.This will definitely change the look and feel of this browser in comparison to other browser.
2.Speed Dial:As a default homepage, the browser offers a “speed dial” feature, similar to the one in Opera browser. This gives users a view of their most visited Web pages in 9 screenshot thumbnails.Similarly, users can also view some of their recent searches, recently bookmarked pages and recently closed tabs.
3.Privacy Mode:Like IE8 Beta 2, Chrome also comes with privacy mode or porn mode feature. This mode lets users create an “incognito” window where “nothing that occurs in that window is ever logged onto your computer.”This is a read-only feature with access to one’s bookmarks or favorite sites.
4.Address Bar:The browser has an address bar ‘omnibox’ with auto-completion features. It offers search suggestions, top pages that a user visited and pages he didn’t visit but are popular.The omnibox (“omni” is a prefix meaning “all”, as in “omniscient” – “all-knowing”) also gives suggests searches. The browser’s search blank keeps a track of keywords in a users’ previous visit, allowing one to type in, say, “cellphone” to pull up any web pages he visited recently that pertained to cellphones, say Nokia.
5.Security:For safe browsing experience, Chrome will regularly keep on downloading a list of harmful sites. This is the Internet search giant’s attempt to fight malware and phishing attacks.Google also promises that whatever will run in a tab will be filtered so that it doesn’t affect user’s machine.However, users who install plugins may loose this security feature.
6.Multitasking:The browser supports multi-tasking. Just like in a typical operating system each application is given its own memory and its own copy of global data structures. Applications will launch in their own windows so that if one should hang or crash it won’t affect the others.This will also prevent the whole browser from crashing because it’s essentially been partitioned off.
8.Java Script Virtual machine V8:Google Chrome has a new engine for loading interactive JavaScript code, dubbed V8, which is designed to run the next generation of future Web applications. V8 will speed up JavaScript performance in the browser.
Hello friends in this post i am going to told you about what Abhinav Bindra’s thinks about other athletes of India and what are the issues where Abhinav Bindra thinking did not matched with other athletes.
In an interview given to The Times of India he said, “Indian athletes have no respect for most officials”,he also added they have to be on good terms because one needs to survive. But most officials, and many of the so-called coaches who travel with the shooting team, know nothing about the sport. The athletes don’t talk about this because their careers are at stake. And the officials unfortunately don’t care.”He gave another insight into why Indian sports was in a mess, letting slip in the middle of a discussion that he flew to Beijing from Germany, where he had gone for training, on his own expense! “Though part of the expense of my training in Germany was funded by the government, the IOA refused to give me a ticket from Germany to China.
Abhinav Bindra
They said I had to first come back to India and I could get a ticket from here.The stunning disclosure by Abhinav Bindra that he paid for his own ticket to Beijing, unfortunately doesn’t really come as a surprise. Although he did not say it in as many words, the revelation told an eloquent story of the usual uncaring, bureaucratic sports officialdom. He did, however, say the current official set-up should be replaced with a professional body for each sport, headed by a CEO, who would be given targets. In other words, accountability could ensure brighter results.On the behavior of media he said that, the media’s obsession with cricket clearly touches a raw nerve with Bindra. “Why not just rename the sports pages ‘cricket pages’? In Australia, other sports like rugby are given as much importance as cricket, and Australia is a great cricketing nation. On answering a question of Times of India he said, We wanted to know what it would take to make India’s sporting power. Bindra didn’t have pat answers. “I have no magic solution,” he said. But he certainly knew that the current system was rotten and it would not create the transformation.
Here is a bad news for all the US because the outer edge of Hurricane Gustav reached the US Gulf of Mexico coast early Monday, with rain and tropical storm force winds beginning to lash New Orleans said by an official of US National Hurricane Centre.The outer edge of the storm is already over the Mississippi Delta and going in toward New Orleans now, according to radar,” centre meteorologist Patricia Wallace said.Nearly two million people have fled the state of Louisiana ahead of the hurricane in what is being called the largest evacuation in US history, and officials have shut down the area’s vital oil production facilities.
Hurricane Gustav reaches US coast
Hurricane Gustav reaches US coast
Reports of power outages in eastern portions of New Orleans began after wind and rain began hitting the city late Sunday.However, Gustav’s eye was not expected to make landfall until early afternoon on Monday.At 0300 GMT, the eye was located 220 miles (360 kilometres) southeast of New Orleans and moving northwest at 16 miles (26 kilometres) an hour.However, the hurricane had a wide swing, with tropical storm force winds extending as far as 220 miles (350 kilometres) outward, the centre said in its advisory.Still a category three hurricane, Gustav packed sustained winds of 115 miles (185 kilometres) per hour.Forecasters predicted a slight strengthening before landfall, but Gustav was expected to stay at category three for the rest of its journey across of the Gulf of Mexico.
Hello friends in this post i am going to tell you about the stars of Olympics 2008 at Beijing.This list of stars begins with the world class swimmer of America Michael Phelps.
Michael Phelps
1.Michael Phelps: Michael Phelps domination in the pool brought comparisons to former swimming great Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympics, a world record.Phelps tied Mark Spitz’s record of four gold medals won in single person events. Phelps had the chance to break Spitz’s record of 7 total gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics by competing in eight swimming events (5 of which were individual events): the 200 m freestyle, the 100 m butterfly, the 200 m butterfly, the 200 m individual medley, the 400 m individual medley, the 4×100 m freestyle relay, 4×200 m freestyle relay, and the 4×100 m medley relay.However, his 4×100 m freestyle relay team only won the bronze medal, and he personally placed for bronze in the 200 m freestyle.Thus, he fell short of that record. However, he did win eight medals in one Olympics, a feat only achieved by Alexander Dityatin, a gymnast, in the 1980.
Cathy Freeman
2.Cathy Freeman: Cathy Freeman had the honour to light the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony of the Games. She symbolised the desire to reconcile the white and Aboriginal populations of Australia.Ten days later, she won the 400m final which was a clear victory before an ecstatic crowd. Freeman’s family was poor and, like many Australian Aboriginals, suffered discrimination from white Australians. Once, after winning many races at a primary school competition, Cathy, who wasn’t given a trophy, had to watch as the white girls she had beaten received trophies.Her family worked hard to raise the money Cathy needed to take her to competitions in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne.
Naim Suleymanoglu
3.Naim Suleymanoglu: Naim Suleymanoglu was born to Turkish parents living in Bulgaria. He was nicknamed Pocket Hercules as he was only 1.47m tall and he was the second of only seven lifters to clean and jerk three times their bodyweight. He missed the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 as Bulgaria joined the Soviet Union’s boycott of the Games.He was almost a victim of politics when the Communist regime in Bulgaria forced its Turkish minority to adopt Bulgarian names. He was known as Naum Shalamanov. He defected in 1986 to Turkey. There was also a battle over which country he would represent in the 1988 Seoul Olympics.The Bulgarian government demanded and received $1,000,000 from Turkey to allow him to compete for Turkey. He won the featherweight gold in Seoul and repeated his triumph in 1992. In between he also retired briefly. When he went to Atlanta for the 1996 Games, it is safe to say that there was considerable pressure on him. After all, no weightlifter in history had won three successive gold medals. He engaged in a tremendous duel with Valerios Leonidis of Greece to clinch his third gold medal. And he did in style. By breaking his own world record.
Hassiba Boulmerka
4.Hassiba Boulmerka: The path to Hassiba’s victory in 1992 Olympics in Barcelona was charted in 1991 in Tokyo. In the Japanese capital, Hassiba had scored a stunning victory in the 1500m run at the World Athletics Championships.She returned to Algiers and was hailed as a national heroine and a role model for all Arab women who wanted to break away from their conservative and restrictive roles. However, she was also condemned by Islamic fundamentalists. That mean she was forced to move to Europe to train. No one in the wide world expected Hassiba to win in Barcelona.Especially after the manner in which Russia’s Lyudmila Rogacheva set a torrid pace and burned away the rest of the field. But two hundred metres from the finish, Hassiba drove past Rogacheva and cruised to victory. Hassiba’s success was regarded across the globe as the perfect answer to Muslim fundamentalists who had sought to restrict women from taking part in sport.
On Wednesday when Vijender singh entered into semi-finals,one more medal was secured in the crown of India.After this every Indian pray to god so that Vijender Singh converts this bronze into silver or gold.But today this hope of getting gold and silver died today,when Vijender Singh lost today’s semifinal to Cuban Emilio Correa Bayeaux in a closely contested semi-final at the Workers Gymnasium.But still we Indians are happy with Vijender Sigh performance and once again another Indian make pride of his nation.This is the first boxing medal for India in the history of Olympics.
Vijender Kumar cools down during men's middleweight (75kg) semi-final boxing match against Emilio Correa at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Vijender’s bronze is the third medal in what turned out to be the best Olympics for India. Last week shooter Abhinav Bindra gave the country its first ever individual gold while wrestler Sushil Kumar won the bronze Wednesday.
In the last I would like to congratulate Abhinav Bindra,Sushil Kumar,Vijender Singh their families and every Indian on this great success of Indian Trio.
Now its a high time for every Indian,another Indian at Beijing Olympics prove that Indians can do any thing.Now this time Sushil Kumar that won bronze medal at Beijing Olympics in men’s 66kg freestyle category. Sushil’s campaign seemed nearly over when he lost his first round battle against eventual silver medallist Andriy Stadnik but repechage provided him a ray of hope and the Indian proved simply irresistible as he beat three grapplers on the trot to win the bronze. Down in the dumps after his opening round defeat, Sushil came up with an incredible show, beating Doug Schwab (USA), Albert Batyrov (Belarus) and finally the losing semi-finalist Leonid Spiridonov (Kazakhstan) in the repechage rounds to earn his slice of history.
Sushil Kumar reaction after winning bronze for India.
Sushil Kumar with his medal.
Sushil thus became the second Indian wrestler after K D Jadhav who won a bronze in the 1952 Helsinki Games to win an Olympic medal.Incidentally, in the 2006 Doha Asian Games also, Sushil had beaten Leonid to win the bronze.Against Leonid, Sushil grabbed early initiative by scoring two technical points that proved decisive in the end.Though the Kazakh grappler scored one in the second period and managed to thwart Sushil, the Indian proved his superiority again in the third period and eventually prevailed 3-2 to trigger frenzied celebration among the Indians present at the Chinese Agricultural University.
Now in the last I would like to congratulate Sushil Kumar,his family and every well wisher of him on his wonderful victory.
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