It is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers.The software was generally available to customers starting on September 4, 2012 and worldwide through multiple channels in September 2012.
Windows Server 2012 includes version 8.0 of Internet Information Services (IIS). The new version contains new features such as CPU usage caps for particular websites.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org
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MANILA, Philippines — President Benigno Aquino III has signed into law the Date Privacy Act that seeks to boost investment in the fast growing information technology and business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) industries.
Republic Act No. 10173, which is based on standards set by the European Parliament and aligned with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Information Privacy Framework, is intended to protect the integrity and confidentiality of personal data.
The new law, signed by the President on August 15, paves the way for the creation of a National Privacy Commission under the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).
It was a priority measure of the administration through the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council.
The law covers all types of processed personal information.
It does not apply, however, to the following:
1. Information about government officials or employees that are related to their official functions or positions;
2. Information about an individual who previously performed or is presently performing service under contract for a government institution;
3. Information relating to any discretionary benefit of a financial nature such as the granting of a license or permit by the government to an individual;
4. Personal information processed for journalistic, artistic, literary or research purposes;
5. Personal data processed by the central monetary authority and law enforcement and regulatory agencies;
6. Information necessary for banks and under financial institutions; and
7. Personal information collected from residents of foreign jurisdiction.
Section 5 of the law specifically affords protection to journalists who may use leaked information in their reporting.
Business Processing Association of the Philippines president Benedict Hernandez said the new law brings the Philippines to international standards of privacy protection.
“Much of our work involves confidential personal and company information, and client firms of our IT-BPOs want to know that the Philippines provides international standards of protection to safeguard their information,” Benedict said.
The local IT-BPO sector has been clamoring for such a measure for several years now since a lot of information processed by call centers and BPO offices here are sensitive and confidential data from companies abroad.
Investor confidence, particularly in the booming BPO sector, is therefore expected to get a boost from the enactment of the law, as the industry strives to generate $20 billion in revenues and 1.2 million direct employment by 2016.
(With additional report from Patrick Villavicencio)
source: http://www.interaksyon.com/infotech/aquino-signs-data-privacy-act-into-law
BNShosting is proud to host the official website of EDNAS SCHOOL http://ednasschool.edu.ph/
EDNAS School of Dagupan City is one of the awarded school in Excellence in Education Transformation.
EDNAS upholds its goal of national competitiveness as its Grade School and High School Department bagged honors and bested 16 other competing regions in the country in the recently concluded 2012 National Schools Press Conference (NSPC) held at Holy Trinity University, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan last April 9 to 12.
Staffers of ‘The Torch’, the official student publication of the Grade School Department topped as the National Champion in the on-the-spot Best Infomercial and 3rd Place in Best Script for Scriptwriting and Radio Broadcasting English competition, whipping out 16 broadcasting teams in the Philippines.
Adding pride and eminence not only to the institution but also to the entire Ilocos Region is Maria Patricia G. Precioso, a fifth grader, who garnered National Best Anchor (3rd Place) and Russell Vincent F. Manaois, a sixth grader, who snagged National Best in Technical Application (3rd Place) in the said countrywide event.
The winners in broadcasting are: Keno Roberto S. Frianeza, Jerico Miguel T. Rangel, Muriel Louise U. Aquino, Russell Vincent F. Manaois, Maria Patricia G. Precioso, Cheska Nicole L. Matabang and Anton Louis Vivencio M. Villaflor IV.
Meanwhile, Justine C. Tanael of the High School Department ranked 2nd in the first-ever Collaborative Publishing Contest in the country.
Benedict M. Uson trained the winners in broadcasting while Dierva A. Bernardo coached the high school contestant.
Among the other regions which participated and snatched the top five spots in the said national confab were CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, Cagayan Valley and Davao Region. The EDNAS School takes pride as it is the only school which brought home 11 medals and a trophy for Region One.
Bitstop Network Services, Inc. and Dun & Bradstreet Philippines, Inc. (D&B)
recently inked an agreement which authorizes Bitstop to market and sell
D&B’s suite of Online Trust Solutions (OTS) as an affiliate partner.
“We believe that a synergy exists between D&B and Bitstop,” says Jennifer
Non, D&B’s Marketing Manager. “Bitstop is an established player in the IT
space, offering a wide range of products and services including web hosting.
OTS is a complementary, value-add service that Bitstop can offer to its web
hosting clients.”
Enhancing trust and confidence in online transactions
With the explosive growth of the Internet and e-commerce, businesses are now
faced with the pressing dilemma of reassuring its customers regarding the
legitimacy of its existence and its ability to provide the products and
services that they claim to offer. Recognizing this need, D&B launched the
Online Trust Solutions offering in May 2011 to the Philippine market.
Quite simply, D&B’s suite of Online Trust Solutions offers the business
community the opportunity to enhance the trust and confidence in the online
space by displaying verified and validated information through the display
of a D-U-N-SR RegisteredT seal on their website, emails, and other
electronic documents. “D&B’s Online Trust Solutions provide a way for
companies to communicate to their website viewers – who are basically their
potential clients, suppliers and partners – that their company’s identity
and information has been verified by a third party, and that the website
being viewed is actually owned and maintained by their organization,” Non
explains.
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D&B provides solution sets that meet a diverse set of customer needs
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Johar Alam is a “Philippine-educated” Chairman Internet Data Center Indonesia, OpenIXP Administrator, Junior Internet Indonesian who helped setup one of the most successful internet exchanges in the Asia Pacific region.
He will be going on a vacation in Manila next week. Sir Bayani Benjamin Lara requested him to give a short talk about their experiences in running one of the Indonesia’s Internet exchange, and to give some insights on how it has helped improve domestics routing in their country. Also he will be discussing how he was able to build a very tight “community among the ISP’s there.
He will also be talking about how they built IDC Indonesia, one of the “hippest” places to do network deployments and maintenance.
Check the profile of Johar Alam at http://id.linkedin.com/pub/johar-alam-rangkuti/19/169/4a3
Over the weekend a vulnerability was discovered in the TimThumb image resizing script. On Monday Mark Maunder, the CEO of Feedjit and the one who originally discovered the issue, blogged about his site becoming compromised and how he discovered TimThumb was the weakness that allowed it to happen. Since that blog post the issue has been confirmed by TimThumb’s creator and patches have been published in an attempt to fix the problem.
TimThumb is a script primarily used for on-the-fly resizing and cropping of images, though another feature allows images from remote websites to be fetched and cropped as well, storing them on the server. The list of allowed remote websites is listed within the plugin, and checked against any fetched files.
As John Ford explained on the VaultPress blog, TimThumb’s vulnerability “allows third parties to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in the TimThumb cache directory.” This file would allow the attacker to further compromise the site in any way. VaultPress further recommended deleting the TimThumb file from any sites that don’t explicitly require them, and updating it in cases where they do. Ford also recommended using the built-in WordPress functions such as add_image_size to resize images, avoiding TimThumb entirely.
Sucuri Security’s David Dede echoed Ford’s statement, saying “if theme/plugin authors were properly leveraging add_image_size vs. adding TimThumb they would be in a safer position today.”
Sucuri also provided a list of a few dozen themes within the WordPress.org theme directory that are using the TimThumb script in some way. According to achat in the wordpress-dev IRC channel yesterday, TimThumb may be explicitly restricted via the theme review guidelines soon. Authors of any compromised themes were going to be contacted, and if necessary, their themes updated by the team at WordPress.org.
TimThumb can be used in any PHP environment, on any content management system, though it is known for being extremely popular in commercial WordPress themes. As the news has spread this week a number of WordPress theme shops have responded.
WooThemes published instructions for updating the TimThumb scripts within their themes. Their themes were updated, though version numbers weren’t bumped. Graph Paper Press, ThemeShift, and ThemeLab have updated the versions of TimThumb within their themes as well. Elegant Themes has published updates to their themes to remove TimThumb from them entirely.
TimThumb was originally developed by a friend of Darren Hoyt’s name Tim, though development is currently run by WordPress developer Ben Gillbanks. Since the news of the vulnerability he has been working to update it via its Google Code Project.
Security issues are never fun. Have you used TimThumb in a client’s project, or used it within a theme of your own? Have you spent any time this week updating sites to repair this vulnerability?
source: http://wpcandy.com/reports/timthumb-security-vulnerability-discovered
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ROOTCON is an annual hacker conference and Information Security gathering. It aims to share best practices and technologies through talks by qualified speakers and demos of exciting stuff (hacks, tools, tips, etc). Learn about solutions, products, techniques and critical tips to build and enhance your security practices & policies from awesome speakers and action-packed activities.
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Social media are talk technologies. They are the means of production in an age of communication. They aid in the production and exchange of knowledge and information and culture, based on human interests. They are media in which people see themselves represented. Their impact is as much psychological and social as it is technical.
In recent years, social media have come off the page. Social tools have become more talkative, obile, and real-time. They have taken a conversational turn. And as these social tools increasingly facilitate relationships and communication, their role in these deeply personal and social dynamics has become a matter for design. The need for a deeper understanding of the fit between tools and social interactions calls for a new design practice. This is social interaction design.
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/fred.zimny/sx-d-principles-of-social-interaction-from-adrian-chan-2012
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