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Day: April 24, 2006

Mac OS X found to be vulnerable to virus attacks

Security experts are concerned over the increasing vulnerability of the Mac operating system to virus attacks. Once almost immune to viruses and malware, Mac users are finding that they too are falling victims of online criminals, like Windows system users.

Security experts have pointed out flaws in Mac OS X that make Mac users easy targets of online attacks. For example, there is high probability that a hacker or a virus creator can surreptitiously access Macs and run malicious code without the user even knowing about it.

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What’s your Japanese Name?

Check at following links

http://www.dsfy.com
http://www.japanese-name-translation.com
http://www.japanesetranslator.co.uk/your-name-in-japanese/
http://www.takase.com/Names/NameInJapanese.htm
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ft5k-ymd/Yn.html
http://www.thejapaneseconnection.com/japanese-translation.htm
http://www.kanji-name.com
http://www.yournameinjapanese.com

For ur names in other languages
http://www.omniglot.com/links/yournamein.htm

What is difference between Authentication and Authorization?

Authentication
An authentication system is how you identify yourself to the computer. The goal behind an authentication system is to verify that the user is actually who they say they are.

Authorization
Once the system knows who the user is through authentication, authorization is how the system decides what the user can do. A good example of this is using group permissions or the difference between a normal user and the superuser on a unix system.

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http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/security/auth.html
http://www.iis-resources.com/modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=7