Recognise and Prevent Cyberspace Stalking
Stalking in cyberspace is an emerging menace which has many similarities to the effects of physical stalking like psychological trauma, anxiety, depression and even loss of job. Even though cyberspace stalking does not present the prospect of bodily harm, in the virtual world too most victims know the aggressors and most are women. Here are a few ways to recognise the danger and prevent being stalked in cyberspace.
In cyberspace, most forms of harassment are conducted by emails, Internet or other electronic communication devices. The stalker can also rope in other internet users to join him in his stalking habits.
If the victim of cyberspace stalking is less than 18 years of age, a parent or an adult must be informed of the situation as soon as possible. Unreported the situation may worsen to the extent of leading to loss of life as well.
Install a filtering program to block unwanted emails or messages in social networks and chat rooms.
The Internet Service Provider may be contacted with specific complaints against stalking or if the ISP is unresponsive, change the login information manually.
It is essential to store all evidence of stalking in order to build up a proper case for prosecution. Create a blacklist folder in your computer where you can save all communication from the stalker in their original form.
Finally get in touch with the local police department if stalking continues despite all types of precaution on your part.
Use the Net to Discover Old Friends
With the passage of time, many among us lose touch with old friends. As priorities in life change, so does the immediate social circle. But now the internet can help you to get in touch with your old neighbourhood pal or school chum. Here are a few ways to rekindle old ties over the internet.
Reunion.com is an amazing site for digging up old contacts. You can search for long lost friends or just see who is looking for you. You can even use the site to organize and track people down by creating a profile for yourself and then search by name or school. Best of all, the site is free and you only need to register yourself to get started.
The whole world is talking about Facebook. The exceedingly popular social networking site not only allows you to create your own social circle but tracks people down from your past with their present contact details.
Classmates.com is much more than a site for finding friends from school or college. It can help you to look up co-workers from your previous jobs and help active or ex-military personnel to recover old buddies. You can get started on this site by setting up your profile based on your state and school in which you studied.
How to Keep Your Wireless Internet Hacker-Proof
Individuals and businesses across the world are increasingly going for wireless internet connection. However along with offering convenience and the aesthetic factor such wireless connections might also become a hazard if broken in by unauthorized people and then used for illegal purposes. Here are a few ways to keep your Wi-fi connection hacker-proof so that others cannot access your internet connection for mischievous purposes.
Follow the basics - switch off your wireless router when not in use. This is because it is easy for someone around you to access your internet if you are out or sleeping.
For more serious protection, change your name and password after you have already connected to the router interface which is generally done by opening the IP of the router. Most wireless routers get hacked because users are either too forgetful or lazy to change the default password.
Disable the services you do not require as these can leave gaps which may then be exploited by miscreants for hacking into your internet.
Enable a firewall as well as a logging feature if your wireless network has one. However don’t forget to monitor these at regular intervals.
Finally, use authentication which will provide the surest protection to your internet against hackers.
Get the Max Out of Your Google Search
If you happen to have a computer and Internet access, chances are that you cannot have escaped Google. While billions of net users go to Google for looking up anything under the sun, here are a few tips on maximising your Google search.
Start off by going to the right Google site – Google.com if you are from US, Google.ca if from Canada or Google.co.uk for those in the United Kingdoms. Similarly Google has extensions for many countries and to narrow your results further click on ‘Search: Pages from X Country.
Begin and end the topic of your search with quotation marks. This will vastly narrow down your search. If you are looking for the definition or meaning of some term, type “define” and then the word you want to know about.
By going for “Advance Search” you can ask Google to search for only certain words and not others. You can also specify the type of file you want to download like a PDF or PowerPoint file. Other than this, the advance search can also be used for looking for sites published on a certain date or particular language.
At the top left of the page, there different links to Images, News, Shopping and Maps – each of which can help you to further refine your search. Finally you may also find useful links from “Google Services and Tools” after entering “About Google”. For internet junkie Google Lab is a worth a visit as it gives a peek into the latest things the Google guys are working on.
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Breaking Free from the Desktop
Imagine a world where from any computer in the world connected to the internet you can access your desktop environment complete with your software which only your desktop had through a simple login and password. Or on the other hand imagine an office where every PC everyday has a unique desktop with new, pristine components each time they log on. All this and much more is what Virtualization promises as the need for computing increases, the world wide web holds the key to information and the internet connectivity gets better and faster by the day virtualization is a topic on every CIO’s lips.
“Desktop virtualization is a rapidly expanding new market with tremendous upside potential” says Gordon Payne, senior vice president and general manager, Citrix Systems. Gordon does have a point considering the virtualization industry is going on an upsurge like never before. According to a report research company IDC predicts that by 2010 there will be 41 million physical servers deployed worldwide, a 700% increase since 1995. The servers currently deployed as virtualized are 22% and that number is projected to reach 45% in just 12 months.
Why the shift to a virtual environment can probably be understood if the problems of desktop management are considered. Desktop management today is manual, time-consuming and expensive. Ensuring data security and regulatory compliance is complex when desktops are distributed over a geographical spread. While traditional desktop management tasks include installing and maintaining hardware and software, spam filtering, and administering user permissions besides data security being a major area of concern in desktop environment. Virtualization promises to do away with all this completely and make work flow simpler by easer access to applications, softwares alongwith better data security and backups. Also as the need for high end computing increases virtualization keeps the computer as simple and application free as possible.
All this has created a huge virtualization opportunity and it’s perhaps the best news for virtualization companies like Citrix Systems, Vmware and more. Consider the case of Citrix Systems which had in the recent years enhanced its virtual infrastucture solution portfolio through acquisition of Xensource, last month announced a series of applications around virtualization. Their desktop delivery solution XenDesktop promises an “unparalleled end user experience”. So bullish are they on virtualization that an entire portfolio of end to end virtual applications to infrastructure is ready to be served and customers seem more than willing to try out the new virtualization dish. Their XenDesktop product line offers customers a choice of five different editions with varying levels of functionality designed to make desktop virtualization a mainstream reality for customers of all sizes. This includes a free version and goes upto Enterprise and Platinum editions for high end customers. If companies like Citrix are on the backend infrastructure and applications, on the other end are companies that are betting their new apps on virtualization. Companies like Microsoft, Google to Dell or just about any IT giant are now riding the virtualization wave.
To get a better perspective lets understand on a basic level how virtualization and virtual desktop works. Here is a primer. Normally you a user load the software through a CD/DVD or download it from the internet. The software resides on the hard disc of your computer. Documents, spreadsheets, and presentations you create reside on your computer and through email or through applications like Microsoft’s Shared View or Google Docs you can share them. If your hard disc crashes or there is a hacker attack on your system all data is lost. Now take this to the enterprise level where there are 1000’s of computers and information creation, sharing and security is of vital concern. So is the concern for software availability, licensing, updation and much more. Imagine if all this could happen from a cloud meaning all information of your company created by 1000’s employees resides in a data center and can be accessed or shared as per need. Or from the same cloud if software could be served to your computer. In other your words you simply login through a user name and a password on any machine and you could get your applications, documents and everything else you may need. As an enterprise all it requires is a creative IT department and in effect all people in the organization can actually be served a new computer virtually each time they logon.
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How big is the virtual desktop market? Souma Das, Area Vice President, Citrix India calls “The online desktop as ‘the next big thing in IT revolution’. With around 40 million internet subscribers in India, there is a huge opportunity. Desktop virtualization is the next level of innovation at Citrix.” Smaller companies like Nivio.com too are betting on the market based on a consumer driven model which aims at the common man, students, mobile professionals or just about anybody.
It isn’t just software companies that are betting on virtualization hardware companies are at it too. Hardware companies like Wyse, HP and others hoping virtualization will drive thin client sales. Consider the case of HP 2533t Mobile Thin Client which is probably betting on a totally new segment of consumers. Like laptops fitted with Windows of Linux operating system the virtualization market is going the same way. HP is supporting Citrix’ XenDesktop on its industry-standard ProLiant serevers and Compaq thin client.
Word processing, email, and now even all the software getting virtual. What next? Will it be the OS?
Puneet Mehrotra was recently in Houston to view Citrix’s virtualization initiative
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