February 4, 2009

123 People

123 People is the ultimate people search! This Web site helped me locate a friend I haven’t been able to get in touch with for the last seven years or so. You can also use it to check up on your favorite celebrities.

How does it work? Well, you simply type the first liquid cialis and last name of the person you're looking for into the search field and then click on the gold arrow button. That will start your search. It will then search the Web and compile all the results it found for that name.

The results include: images, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Web links, news, documents, blogs, biographies, tag clouds and social networking sites.

On the main page, you’ll also find three movie stars of the week and three music stars of the week. You can click on their links to visit the results for them.

You can also use the search feature to search for people by location using a city or zip code.

This is a great search engine, so be sure to check it out as soon as possible!

http://www.123people.com/

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February 3, 2009

USGenWeb Search US

My mom and I have continued looking into our old family documents and we’ve discovered that teaching runs in the family. My mom is teacher, her uncle was, his mother was and so on. And with this Web site, I can search by state for more information on them!

I started my search in Ohio and later on, I’ll search Pennsylvania where our family originally settled.

So, how does it work? Well, just pick a state and you'll then be presented with a search engine. Type in the name of the person you are looking for. It can either be just a last name or both first and last if you have them. Next, click Search Us and away you go!

On the results page, you will get results from all sorts of places. You’ll find birth certificate/death certificate, marriage license, cemetery listings, will records and census information.

Following generic cheap cialis the links can keep you busy with a wealth of information. I stumbled upon a link of local happenings in 1899 and I found an interesting read. It came up, because there was a Findley wedding that year. It was interesting to see what they had listed as local happenings that were noteworthy.

So, now it's up to you to go out there and search out your ancestors! You never know what you might find. I also think this site is a very good tool if you are looking for someone who immigrated or was born in the United States. Good luck!

http://www.usgenweb-search.us/

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Namepedia

Welcome to Namepedia, an encyclopedia for names! Have you ever wondered what your first name means? Would you like to find out how your last name originated? Maybe you’d like to find a baby name. Well, you can do all of that and more right here!

In the center of the main page, you'll find a search engine. It has four tabs above it: First Name, Family Name (last name/surname), Full Name and Real People. There's also a More option, but I didn’t use it.

Type in a first name if you just want to try it out. You can use your own name or you could use my name. I put in Amanda and clicked on Search.

After you search and choose the entry you want, you'll find the origin, meaning, relations, pronunciation and even a rating for the name on the page. It was really neat to listen to the different pronunciations of my name.

Along the top of the page, there free cialis coupon are more tabs. Some correlate with the search engine and some don’t. They are: First Names, Family Names, Real People, Baby, Interactive and More.

I really liked the baby section. You can even create your own list of baby names. To do so, you’ll need to register for the Web site. All you need to do is click on the Create an Account link at the top of the page, put in an e-mail address, a password and then log in. You should then get a confirmation e-mail. Now, choose how you’d like it to appear: public, friends only, private, whether the child is male or female, where they’ll live, what language they’ll speak and the 10 names you like.

People can then vote on the names you picked. That would be a great way to get your friends' and family's opinion on baby names you’ve chosen. Check out the list I created as an example here. They can then rate the names you picked and offer you three more ideas of their own. They can also leave a comment and then click on the Send My Opinion button.

If you’re into celebrities, the Real Name section is for you! Here you can search for famous people by name. For example, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Emmy Rossum. If you search, they’ll give you the full name of the celebrity, their nationality and what their profession is. Also, at the bottom, you'll find articles about them.

This Web site is definitely worth bookmarking for all your naming needs!

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January 23, 2009

Personalized YouTube Homepage

If you’ve been on YouTube's Web site recently, you might have noticed that you can now customize your own YouTube homepage! That's right, you can make it so that you get your subscriptions, recommendations and even a friend tracker all on one page. Let’s check it out, shall we?!

To begin, here's an example of a personalized YouTube homepage:

Now, I’ll walk you through the different parts (or modules, as YouTube calls them).

1.) Subscriptions

You can keep track of new videos from the channels you subscribe to. If you have many subscriptions, this feature will be quite useful!

2.) cialis offer Featured Videos

Your featured videos are those that YouTube has selected as interesting. The module’s a good starting place if you want to wade through them and maybe add some of your own favorites.

3.) Recommended for You

This one's my favorite! There are so many YouTube videos around, I hardly know where to start. Luckily, YouTube recommends videos based on your previous video choices in the Recommendations module.

Removing Modules

Removing and rearranging modules is very easy. In the top right hand corner of every module, there are some buttons that look like this:

To rearrange the module, simply click on the up or down arrows. Or, to delete the module, just hit the button with an "x" on it. Easy as pie!

Now, go on and have fun with your very own YouTube homepage!

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November 6, 2008

Bill O’Reilly’s web site hacked, attackers release personal details of users

September 24th, 2008

Posted by Dancho Danchev

Fox NewsIn what is slowly turning into a endless loop of hacktivism activities, Bill O’Reilly’s BillOreilly.com has been compromised during the weekend, with personal details including passwords in plain text for 205 of the site’s members already leaking across Internet forums, as a response to his remarks regarding Wikileaks as a “one of those despicable, slimy, scummy websites” which recently published private information of Sarah Palin’s private email.

On Friday, Wikileaks issued the following press release :

“Fox News demagogue, Bill O’Reilly, has been hacked and the details passed to Wikileaks. Wikileaks has been informed the hack was a response to the pundit’s scurrilous attacks over the Sarah Palin’s email story–including on Wikileaks and other members of the press, Hacktivists, thumbing their noses at the pundit, took control of O’Reilly’s main site, BillOReilly.com. According to our source, the security protecting O’Reilly’s site and subscribers was “non-existent”.

The following image, submitted to Wikileaks and confirmed by Wikileaks staff, offers proof of the hack. The image, clearly obtained from BillOreilly.com’s administrative interface, shows a detailed list — including passwords — of BillOreilly.com subscribers. Although Wikileaks has only released one page, it must be assumed that Bill O’Reilly’s entire subscriber list is, as of now, in the public domain.”

How did they do it “this time”?

 

According to the article at Wikileaks, the hacktivists seem to have been brute forcing the URL for the administration panel, and once successfully finding it, access the unencrypted data :

“According to Marston, the hackers were able to access the list by trying a large number of variations of the website’s administrative URL. He said all affected members have received an email and a phone call informing them of the breach and urging them to change their password. The site has since been completely locked down, Marston said.”

Moreover, it’s also worth pointing out that the passwords were stored unencrypted, evidence of the practice can also be seen within the screenshots of the admin panel. As far as the website’s administrative URL is concerned, it has since been changed once it leaked online (w3.billoreilly.com/pg/jsp/admin/managecustomers/newpremiummembers.jsp), which isn’t excluding the opportunity for abuse of the subscribers email addresses in spear phishing attacks, “for starters” since some of the users have already admitted of using the same password at different web sites, including PayPal.

The impact of the breach, and the measures taken to notify the victims according to the site :

“The BillOReilly.com site experienced a minor hacking incident on Friday, September 19th, 2008.

** ALL CREDIT CARD INFORMATION FOR EVERY MEMBER IS SAFE
** NO MEMBERS WHO JOINED BEFORE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th, 2008 WERE AFFECTED AT ALL.
** 205 new Premium Members who signed up last week had their name, hometown, email address, & BillOReilly.com password stolen.
** We have contacted those 205 members by email and telephone.
** We are working with the proper authorities to track down the perpetrators. “

Another personal message issued by Bill O’Reilly regarding the process of tracking down the “perpetrators” was posted on Sunday :

“The FBI and Secret Service are close to indicting some of the perpetrators and we will keep you posted when the arrests are made. All premium members receive the full backing of our legal team and if anyone is hassled in the least, please inform us immediately. In the latest case, no proprietary information was obtained by hackers and we have safeguards in place to protect everyone who does business with us.

Rest assured that we are on this. Our defense of Sarah Palin has led some criminals to attempt to disrupt our enterprise. At this moment federal authorites and our attorneys are compling information against these people. Again, if any person is bothered in any way – please let us know. We stand behind our products but, most importantly, we stand behind you. We’ll get the bad guys. Count on it.

Bill O’Reilly
9/21/08″

Who’s claimed responsibility? 4chan members planning at Ebaumsworld using “secret words” :

“According to my source this is a common tactic among the secret hacking group hidden amongst the users of ebaumsworld. he states “yeah we will start planning on 4chan so ebaums doesnt get in trouble…we use secret words and stuff to let the others know who we are” when i asked why he was telling me all this he said “man this has just gone too far.. at first it was a joke then we found out that the same usernames and passwords worked for those peoples paypal accounts and im afraid of what they will buying cialis without prescription do.”

It appears that the “forum fraction” is also planning a DDoS attack against BillOreilly.com according to this interview, which wouldn’t be the first time the site has been under DDoS attack, and definitely not the last. From an analyst’s perspective, nation2nation hacktivism conflicts always provide the best and most accurate understanding of a particular’s country’s capabilities into this space, compared to hacktivism actions basically sticking to the standard practices as DDoS attacks, which just like any tip of the iceberg receive most of the attention due to the ease of measuring their impact next to the rest of the hacktivism tactics used.

The bottom line – good time to point out why you shouldn’t use the same password on different web services, and that the big picture having to do with Wikileak’s vision of a little less secrecy, and a little bit more transparency, ultimately better serves the world and gives power to the people whose collective consciousness, if not brainwashed, is supposed to be shaping the way we live.

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