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Chinese hackers target Indian government

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:39 PM PST

A day after Google made public that they were under a well organized attack from Chinese hackers news has trickled in that certain Chinese hackers have targeted computers within the Government trying to snare many top level administrators. Apparently an email was sent to top level bureaucrats from a dormant email id. This allowed the hackers the opportunity to access a backdoor within the network for getting access to that computer’s hard disk.

According to the timing that these attacks coincided with the Copenhagen summit last year, there is a theory that Chinese hackers might have tried to get an idea of India’s stand before hand. The Prime Minister’s Office has confirmed about the attack on systems but noted that computers with sensitive material are sanitized and do not have access to the Internet.

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Why China?

A lot of experts are saying China has a long term plan to use its cyber hackers to control the internet or atleast develop the ability to cause great harm. I think that idea is a little over stretched. China does have one of the most comprehensive system of monitoring and censoring content on the internet. It might soon have the highest number of Internet users but the content is very controlled. To acheive this sort of monitoring mechanism would need a huge number of hackers who are working round the clock trying to monitor the massive internet population.

This essentially gives some of these Chinese hackers an ability to be trying their hands at attacking systems and networks outside China. Whereas there is nothing wrong in being aware and vigilant about cyber security, I do not think it is correct to be too carried away with conspiracy theories that will soon start floating on the internet along with some parts of the print and television media.

Link: India Today

Image Credit: Tech Shout

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Top 5 Social Ways of Searching People for Hiring

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 08:46 AM PST

Have you always wondered if there is a best way to hire people for the job? What is the best way to measure the profile and decide if he/she is fit for the job or not?

HR section of every company goes through the process of Standard Test and Interviews to select the best candidate for the job. A lot of time companies take risk in hiring a person by making odd choices. They are continually experimenting with the type of profiles and learning to find the best way to hire a candidate. But all this is slowly changing due to the online social media. Currently, everyone can express themselves to the world through online social platform like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Blogs.

A research on human psychology has found out that maximum number of people's online profile matches with that of their real profile, offline. This is a great finding which means that companies can trust on the online profile to judge a person. Therefore, a new way of HR sector is emerging where people are hired through Online search.

Gone are the days when you have to search for the job, the job will find you if you make your online presence strong. We are already seeing this change, where a person being hired are contacted through their blogs or twitter Id.

Below are the five effective ways of finding people for hiring :

1. LinkedIn Paid Service

LinkedIn is a social networking platform for business professionals. Though it has a very less user base than Facebook and other networking sites, these users are networking for business purpose. Thus it forms a very important part of the business eco-system.

You can create an account for free in LinkedIn. It lets you enter your education and professional records and connect with other personals in your business community. It also has a feature through which your connections in the community can write recommendations in your profile. This provides a more authentic way of adding value to your profile.

The paid service in the LinkedIn allows you to search and view profiles of 55 million professionals. It also allows you to send messages beyond your contact, reaching more people. The advance search of LinkedIn allows you to make a targeted search and get fast result and get a high response rate.

LinkedIn has become a very strong part of the corporate networks and is very influential. Hence, LinkedIn is the best way to find and hire authentic candidates.

2. Orkut Jobs Community and search

Orkut is a social networking platform owned by Google. It has a very large community from countries like India and Brazil. One of the strongest feature of Orkut is its community section. There are numerous job related communities in Orkut, and most of the interested folks join one of them.

The Orkut job community allows you to upload resumes and let the potential recruiters find you. The recruiters can search for profiles in the Orkut Job community and contact the candidate through mails or online social exchange. It is a very good way to be noticed by the employer.

A employer can just join these communities and find the suitable candidate.

3. Facebook Jobs Groups and search

Facebook is one of the most popular and top social networking site. It already has around 350 Million users and many groups and communities. Facebook is the right portal to find people and know more about the candidate. Hence it is a best recruiting tool you can have and its free. Facebook Group

Firstly, there are many Job groups in facebook who are sharing information about their job interest. These groups can be useful to find peoples who are searching for jobs or are interested in changing their job.

Facebook's people search is also a great way to find people with interests in your kind of business. Typing a relevant keywords in the Facebook search will immediately bring you closer result of people with matching profile. You can narrow down your search via location and workplace. This is why social networking sites like facebook can be effectively used to recruit candidate by connecting with them.

4. Buzzom People Search

One of the fundamentals of Hiring is efficient people search. You want to get the right person for the right job. The best Buzzom People Search way to provide this is by allowing employers to search for people in an efficient way. One of such application that allows you to search for people is buzzom search.

Currently, Buzzom search allows you to search people in Twitter via their bio, location, names and tweets. Name and location search might be less important than the bio search in case of job. Entering a proper keywords in the search will immediately give you the person whose profile matches to your search query.

In Twitter everyone is sharing vital news and professional suggestion. If you search for any professional terms than you are likely to find a person who is passionate about the subject. Hence Twitter is much better in those terms but an efficient search is still required to leverage this. Buzzom is among very few such applications which focuses to bring the best result. It can be a great way to find people and hire them for either job or work.

5. Yahoo and Google Groups

Recruiting through social search is not like the traditional approach where you have the CV and the mark sheets, it is more about communicating and connecting with the candidate to understand and measure their fitness to the job. And all the above are the ways that let you connect to the people. Even before the advent of Facebook and Orkut, the Internet had something called forums and groups where people communicated their ideas. Those groups and forums still exist today.

In order to use Google and Yahoo group effectively, one needs to find a suitable group and join the conversation. This will allows you to find more about the individuals in the group. This way you can always bring the connection in the online forums to offline relationship to an efficient employee.

Summary

Social networking has allowed the HR process to be more humane in nature. Though the social approach requires time and patience, it is worthwhile investment. Social search is not typing the keyword and getting the result, it's about connecting with the result and bringing a worthwhile value into it.

Every system is being influenced by the social networking sites, among them HR is the most affected because the networking platforms have opened a huge potential for people to connect and do online business. HR system can benefit a lot from the new way of hiring people if done efficiently.

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Get Free PDF Password Remover

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 05:55 AM PST

PDF files are very useful and at times very frustration. Sometimes work pdf files have passwords to protect them but it is not always a good idea. A password is sometimes quite a problem when people using a pdf document are working collaboratively.

Thanks to details provided by a DW follower Owen Lee, I got to know that a software which removes password from protected PDF documents can be downloaded and used for free. This is part of a giveaway by Any PDF Tools.

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About PDF Password Remover

This is not a hack tool, you can remove password restrictions applied by the author only if you know the original password.
Just download the tool and install it. Open a .pdf file with a password and remove the restrictions.
This allows the user to copy, edit and even print the document without the restrictions.
It is a stand alone application which does not require Adobe reader or Acrobat on your computer.
Best feature is Batch Decryption which allows the decryption of 200 Acrobat files at once.

So if you want to download the PDF Password Remover go ahead and download it. Do download it fast as it is being made available for free only until 24th Februdary 2010.

Link: PDF Password Remover

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Gmail goes secure with https; It is a reaction to China?

Posted: 14 Jan 2010 03:00 AM PST

By now everyone knows that Google has threanted to dump their opearations in China after their certain Gmail accounts were hacked by Chinese. The issue was that most of these accounts were of Chinese dissidents inside China while some of them were even in Europe and the US.
Google has yesterday announced that all the Gmail accounts will be sent over secure servers. This means it will work by default on HTTPS rather than HTTP.

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Gmail HTTPS

Gmail allowed you to before use HTTPS by making those changes in your settings.
This was used as usually unencrypted data travels faster than encrypted one.
Now all of Gmail accounts will have default HTTPS. You can notice the difference the minute you log into your Gmail account.
This is true for Gmail but not for all Google accounts.
Using encryption is ideally known to be a good idea when using Gmail with Wifi, especially in a public space.
If you want to disable the default HTTPS, you can make the changes at Settings.

Gmail HTTPS is actually not such a big deal. It did not really need to announce this on their blog as it is not really a new feature but just something that was optional is now by default. So was this a reaction or way to Google watchers that they will be a lot more secure. Remember inspite of support for Google over its complaints regarding their servers being attacked in China it might start a problem considering sometimes the media can be very paranoid as far as security concerns.

I think Google has known that it has stirred a hornet’s nest and to ease of anyone trying to indirectly imply that Chinese hackers could hack into Gmail because Google takes the security lightly; Google has thwarted such concerns by announcing all Gmail accounts will have default HTTPS.

What do you think? Is Gmail’s default HTTPS a reaction to the issue it has with China?

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