A phishing kit is a do-it-yourself collection of tools that makes it easy for someone who lacks technical skills to launch a phishing exploit. The kit contains all the graphics, Web code, text and instructions the average person needs to put up a malicious website.

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This Web-based application for securely transferring funds was acquired by eBay in 2002. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

FACTA is an amendment to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It was added to protect consumers from identity theft. What does FACTA stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What kind of security attack relies on human interactions?
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Phishing attack uses pop-up message on bank sites
Security researchers have discovered a new phishing method that forces pop-up login messages to appear on legitimate banking websites.

Hacker tools and techniques

Ping is an Internet program that allows a user to verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests.

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This command line utility allows a user to track the hops a packet takes to reach its destination. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

TTL tells a network router whether a packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded. What does TTL stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What open source command-line tool for monitoring network traffic works by capturing and displaying packet headers and matching them against a set of criteria?
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White Paper: How Does Ping Really Work? by Global Knowledge

Using ping command for troubleshooting Windows network connectivity

Permitting Ping: ICMP Exceptions

Facebook is currently the most popular free social networking website. It allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.

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The official Facebook developers site allows developers to collaborate by using this type of server program. What’s the secret word?
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Acronym Challenge

The Facebook API allows developers to add social context to their applications by incorporating profile, friend, page, group, photo and event data. What does API stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What tracking device on the White House Web site has come under fire because it’s not mentioned in the site’s privacy policy?
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Retailers boost data collection, but data privacy issues persist

Salesforce.com developers getting social with Facebook apps for enterprise

Widgetbox provides good example of how to use Facebook Developer Toolkit

White Paper: Sales 2.0: How Businesses Are Using Online Collaboration to Spark Sales by Oracle

Storage as a Service is a business model in which a company rents space in their storage infrastructure to individual end users or businesses. In the enterprise, Storage as a Service is being driven by economic factors, as well as runaway data growth, compliance requirements, security issues and disaster recovery mandates.

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This is a conventional storage model, in which space is allocated beyond current needs, in anticipation of growing need and increased data complexity.
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On a storage area network, TP is a flexible storage allocation scheme where each user is assigned a minimum amount of storage space depending on what’s required for them to do their job effectively. What does TP stand for?
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Tech Trivia

What’s the name of Amazon’s Storage as a Service?
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Storage as a Service FAQ

Small storage vendors walk in the clouds, too

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This term describes the relationship between the height and the width of a display. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Where would you find an electron gun in your old TV set or monitor?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see something an older TV set needs to display digital broadcasts:
est-pot oxb
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Acronym Challenge
An EPG for digital TV allows the user to interact with a guide to scheduled programming. What does EPG stand for?
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Cisco banks on DTV for the enterprise
In 2008, Cisco announced products and applications to drive the market for enterprise video and digital television for business.

White paper: Successfully delivering Internet television
Internet television offers new opportunities for generating greater revenues and reaching wider audiences.

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This word describes sound in the range that’s audible to humans. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Does sound move more quickly through air or a solid?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see the name of the pattern created by audible energy:
undos avwe
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Acronym Challenge
Vorbis is an audio codec. What does “codec” stand for?
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USB audio glitches
Serdar Yegualp explains how to deal with USB audio problems, such as stuttering and glitching.

A flash mob is a group of people who organize themselves, using electronic media such as cell phones or the Internet, to gather together in a public place, behave in a predetermined manner for a predetermined period of time, and then quickly disperse. The first flash mobs were considered either pranks or performance art. More recently, flash mobs have gathered for other purposes, including protests and charity. Last week, T-Mobile used the flash mob concept for an ad.

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In this model of human interaction, people expand their connections by accessing the connections of acquaintances. What’s the secret word?
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Tech Trivia
Who first proposed the “six degrees of separation” theory?
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Acronym Challenge
GPS messaging is a little like a digital sticky note that mobile users access when they enter a specific location. What does GPS stand for?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters for the name of a device that became prominent because of its wireless email capabilities:
rabbyclerk
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Twitter tries to shore up security in wake of hack attack
As many as 33 high profile Twitter accounts were breached just days after a widespread phishing scam targeted users of the social network.

Sales 2.0
This white paper explores how sales and marketing professionals are using online collaboration and social networking to spark sales.

Ubuntu is an open source Debian-based Linux distribution that is considered suitable for users without extensive technical knowledge. Ubuntu distributions include Edubuntu (for educational users), Xubuntu (for users with limited processing power) and JeOS (for “just enough operating system,” a lightweight version for virtual appliances).

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Ubuntu is often run from this type of distribution — an operating system on some bootable medium.  What’s the secret word?
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GIMP is a freely available open source application for creating and manipulating graphic images. What does GIMP stand for?
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Tech Trivia
Fill in the missing Ubuntu codename: _____ _____; Intrepid Ibex; Jaunty Jackalope
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Acronym Challenge
GIMP is a freely available open source application for creating and manipulating graphic images. What does GIMP stand for?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble these letters to see a software distribution model that allows code to be copied, modified and distributed along with the same stipulation:
pycflote
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Pam Derringer reports on the release of Ubuntu 8.10.

The Enterprise Linux Log blog covers Ubuntu.

The Macintosh was the first widely-sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) and a mouse. Apple introduced the Macintosh (popularly known as the Mac) on January 24th, 1984.

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Twenty years ago, computers were usually referred to as either Apples or ____ -compatible. What’s the secret word?
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What does the X in OS X stand for?
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Tech Trivia
How did people interact with computers before the introduction of the GUI?
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Word Scramble
Unscramble the letters to see a word for something simulated on a computer screen:
spokedt
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See specs for the original Mac and the commercial that introduced it.

Wikipedia has an entry about the Macintosh.

Apple offers a Macintosh product guide.

CNET News looks at the future of the Mac.