In my own words...October 26, 2008 1:35 am

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

  
 
Transport Layer Security Protocol (TLS or TLSP) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), are cryptographic protocols that provide secure communications on the Internet for such things as web browsing, e-mail, Internet faxing, instant messaging and other data transfers. It operates at the transport layer of the OSI model by placing data into routeable packets with encrypted payloads in a manner that is invisible to the user of the application. There are slight differences between SSL and TLS, but they are essentially the same.
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In my own words...October 22, 2008 1:41 am

Verisign, Inc

  
 
VeriSign, Inc. is an American company based in Mountain View, California that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet’s thirteen root nameservers, the generic top-level domains for .com and .net, one of the largest SS7 signaling networks in North America, and the RFID directory for EPCGlobal. VeriSign also provides a variety of security and telecom services ranging from digital certificates, payments processing, and managed firewalls to mobile call roaming, toll-free call database queries and downloadable digital content for mobile devices. The company groups all of these functions under the banner of ‘intelligent infrastructure’ services. The company’s former payment processing service was sold to eBay in 2005.
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In my own words...October 21, 2008 1:37 am

Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer or HTTPS

  
 
Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer or HTTPS is a URI scheme used to indicate a secure HTTP connection. It is syntactically identical to the http:// scheme normally used for accessing resources using HTTP. Using an https: URL indicates that HTTP is to be used, but with a different default TCP port (443) and an additional encryption/authentication layer between the HTTP and TCP. This system was designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide authentication and encrypted communication and is widely used on the World Wide Web for security-sensitive communication such as payment transactions and corporate information systems.
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In my own words...October 10, 2008 3:32 am

Sql Injection 101

  
 
SQL injection is a technique that exploits a security vulnerability occurring in the database layer of an application. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed and thereby unexpectedly executed. It is in fact an instance of a more general class of vulnerabilities that can occur whenever one programming or scripting language is embedded inside another.
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In my own words...October 4, 2008 1:22 am

Kaspersky Lab

  
 
Kaspersky Lab is a computer security company, co-founded by Natalia Kasperskaya and Eugene Kaspersky in 1997, offering antivirus, anti-spyware, anti-spam, and anti-intrusion products. Kaspersky Lab is a privately held company headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional offices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the UK, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Japan, China, Korea and the USA.
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In my own words...October 2, 2008 1:30 am

Symantec Corporation

  
 
Symantec Corporation founded in 1982, is an international corporation which sells computer software, particularly in the realms of security and information management. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries and is part of the NASDAQ 100 and Fortune 500 2008. Symantec is one of the ten largest software companies in the world.
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In my own words...October 1, 2008 5:31 am

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In my own words...September 30, 2008 1:32 am

The Perfect Steak

 

INGRIDIENTS

  1. 2 (1 1/2) pounds boneless New York strip steaks, 2 1/2 inches thick
  2. 2 tablespoons olive oil
  3. Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  4. Vegetable-oil cooking spray
COOKING DIRECTIONS
 
Drizzle both sides of the steaks with olive oil; season with salt and pepper.
  1. Prepare a charcoal or gas grill and arrange coals for direct cooking. Lightly coat rack with cooking spray. Coals should be glowing white.
  2. Place the steaks on grill. Cook 8 minutes per side, for rare; 10 minutes for medium-rare. Let steak rest 1 to 2 minutes for juices to collect, then serve.

Yield: 2 servings

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In my own words...September 23, 2008 8:02 am

Slimming down naturally with food

  
 
All foods carry some calories. No food is actually "negative calorie" food. BUT the overall effect of certain foods in our body is that of "negative calories". Negative calorie foods are foods, which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain! Calories from these foods are much harder for the body to breakdown and process. In other words, the body has to work harder in order to extract calories from these foods. This gives these foods a tremendous natural fat-burning advantage.
 
A piece of dessert consisting of 400 calories may require only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat! According to this theory, for example, if you eat 100 calories of a food that requires 150 calories to digest, then you’ve burnt an additional 50 calories simply by eating that food. Typically, a 25 calorie piece of broccoli (100 gram) requires 80 calories to digest, resulting in a net loss of 55 calories from the body fat!! Thus, the more you eat, the more you lose weight!!!

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In my own words...September 15, 2008 12:46 am

Eat More and Loss Wieght More

  
 
Obese women on a low-fat diet lose weight, but they lose more if they eat more low-calorie-density fruits, veggies, and soups.

The finding comes from a year-long study based on the principles of the "Volumetrics" diet proposed by Penn State University researcher Barbara J. Rolls, PhD. Consumer Reports recently gave Volumetrics the top rating among popular diet plans.

The diet cuts way back on fats, which ounce-for-ounce carry more calories, making them more calorie dense than any other food. But the study offers a big bonus: You get to eat lots of water-rich, low-density foods such as fruits, vegetables, and soups.

It works in short-term studies. But can it work for longer periods?

Rolls, Julia A. Ello-Martin, PhD, and colleagues enrolled 97 obese women whose average weight was about 200 pounds. The women were stratified by age and severity of obesity and then randomly assigned to one of two diets.

Half the women went on a low-fat diet. The other half went on the same low-fat diet but was told to eat more water-rich fruits, vegetables, soups.

Of course, the women didn’t just go on a diet. They got lots and lots of help.

For the first six months, women in both groups had individual, 30-minute, weekly sessions with a dietitian. They also were taught new cooking techniques, including how to modify their favorite recipes to reduce their fat content. And they got lessons on grocery shopping, dining-out strategies, and meal/snack ideas.

Moreover, the women received behavior therapy stressing self-monitoring, goal-setting, social-support networks, coping with emotional eating, managing stress and the environment, overcoming obstacles, problem solving, and handling setbacks.

Physical wasn’t left out. All the women were given pedometers and were asked to increase their walking by 2,000 steps a day until they walked at least 10,000 steps a day.

For the second six months, the women attended one small group session and one individual session with a dietitian each month.

The only difference between the groups was that half the women got extra training in how to add low-density foods to their diets.

What happened? Seventy-one of the original 97 women finished the study. All the women lost weight. Those on the low-fat diet lost an average of 14 pounds. Those on the low-fat, low-density diet lost 17.5 pounds — even though they ate 25% more food by weight.

"Eating a diet that is low in calorie density allows people to eat satisfying portions of food, and this may decrease feelings of hunger and deprivation while reducing calories, Ello-Martin says in a news release.

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