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If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the “ dirty little secrets ” listed below may surprise you because we don’t usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you’ve probably encountered most of these issues and have a few of your own to add — and please, by all means, take a moment to add them to the discussion. Most of these secrets are aimed at network administrators, IT managers, and desktop support professionals. This list is not aimed at developers and programmers — they have their own set of additional dirty little secrets — but some of these will apply to them as well. >> 10.) The pay in IT is good compared to many other professions, but since they pay you well, they often think they own you Although the pay for IT professionals is not as great as it was before the dot-com flameout and the IT backlash in 2001-2002, IT workers still make very good money compared to many other professions (at least the ones that require only an a...

A Beijing college student claims that Microsoft's antipiracy program violates his privacy, according to a Chinese government-controlled news site. A Beijing college student has sued Microsoft Corp., claiming that its antipiracy program violated his privacy, a Chinese government-controlled news site reported last week. According to China.org.cn, a news portal run by China's State Council Information Office, Lu Feng has sued Microsoft and its Chinese subsidiary, Microsoft (China) Co., in a People's Court. Lu's lawsuit said Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) antipiracy software posed a threat to his privacy and the security of his PC, which runs Windows XP. He also claimed that he was not properly informed before XP installed WGA Notifications, a separate program that flags counterfeit copies and nags users running pirated versions. " The suit asks the court to order Microsoft to delete the information it harvested from Lu's PC, provide an uninstalle...

JavaScript is what is called a Client-side Scripting Language. That means that it is a computer programming language that runs inside an Internet browser (a browser is also known as a Web client because it connects to a Web server to download pages). The way JavaScript works is interesting. Inside a normal Web page you place some JavaScript code . When the browser loads the page, the browser has a built-in interpreter that reads the JavaScript code it finds in the page and runs it. Web page designers use JavaScript in many different ways. One of the most common is to do field validation in a form. Many Web sites gather information from users in online forms, and JavaScript can help validate entries. For example, the programmer might validate that a person's age entered into a form falls between 1 and 120. Another way that web page designers use JavaScript is to create calculators. Now its time to built your own javascript calculator! The following code represents a simple Fahrenh...

The bug, when paired with Firefox, allows hackers to hijack PCs and Macs. " The risk is more to firefox than Internet Explorer " Until fixes are in place for QuickTime, Firefox, and other affected applications, Symantec recommends that users update anti-virus software and browse with the fewest user privileges possible......... Read More>>

In terms of security a threat is an action or tool, which can exploit and expose vulnerability and therefore compromise the integrity of the given system. Not all threats are equal in terms of their ability to expose and exploit the vulnerability. In this regard the main threat to a network comes from malicious hackers and from intruders. The following are some of the major attacks which are known to be the major threats to any particular network. Exploit attack: In this type of attack, the attacker knows of a security problem within an operating system or a piece of software and leverages that knowledge by exploiting the vulnerability. Social engineer attack: With a social engineer attack, the attacker compromises the network or system through social interaction with an individual (such as through email or phone can) and tricks the individual into divulging information that can be used in a subsequent attack. For example, a hacker may call the employee, impersonate the network adm...

A worm targeting Windows PCs is spreading through the service's instant messenger, making the VoIP's chat software the latest to come under the hacker gun. Skype Ltd. warned its users Monday that a worm targeting Windows PCs is spreading through the service's instant messenger, making the Voice over IP (VOIP)'s chat software the latest to come under the hacker gun. Read More>>

So, if a company were to take Microsoft’s crown, who would it be? The graveyard of failed challengers is littered with names like ..... Cisco or Google or Apple or Amazon or Zoho ... Which one? Click here to read the full article>>