(ISC)² SecureDubai Event - 4 December 2008

Date: 4 December 2008
Venue: Etisalat Academy, P.O.Box 99100, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Time: 9:00am - 6:00 pm

Please join (ISC)² at their first ever, Secure Dubai event. You can earn 8 CPEs at this event if you are an (ISC)² Member in good standing. The focus of this 1-Day programme will be Emerging Threats.

This 1-Day conference will shed light on the most recent SCADA security incidents, available standards and SCADA security best practices. Attendees will be given insight into the risks and vulnerabilities of IP-enabled ATM's as well as their supportive
infrastructure with a focus on security best practices, configuration and operation of ATM architecture. Sessions will engage in emerging threats in the UAE, their impact on businesses and the users, Web 2.0 security, Botnets and their effect on our Web activity and the best ways of protecting ourselves against this phenomenon.

Don't miss "Hacking the Human" and keynote session by Lance Spitzner, President and CEO, HONEYTECH.

Hear from top IT security industry experts such as Omar Sherin, Analyst, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Q-Cert, Tareque Choudhury, Head of BCSG Practice, MEA, BT Global Services, Dimitris Petropoulos, Managing Director, ENCODE. The conference is
chaired by the (ISC)2 EMEA Managing Director, John Colley.

Seating Is Limited!

Register now to reserve your seat or visit the (ISC)² Website for more detailed information about the conference:

SecureDubai Event Details

NOTE: This conference is complimentary for all (ISC)² members. A 10% discount is also offered for ISSA/ISACA/ALIG members and an additional 10% discount is offered to RSA Attendees.

The 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have - Gizmodo Australia

1. Install a hard drive in a laptop
2. Perform a clean OS install on a machine with two OSes
3. Swap out the battery on your iPod/iPhone
4. Jailbreak an iPhone
5. Wire your house for Ethernet and Coax cable
6. Use BitTorrent and RSS to automatically download new shows from trackers
7. Use an A/V receiver to its fullest capability (every port is taken)
8. Calibrate an HDTV without the manual
9. Use a DSLR in full manual mode
10. Hack the encryption and mooch your neighbour's Wi-Fi
11. Solder cleanly enough to get around a circuit board
12. Use your 3G phone as a Wi-Fi access point
13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
14. Design a webpage in HTML by hand that features a picture of your cat
15. Use Photoshop to imperceptibly doctor a photo
16. Abstain from buying extended warranties
17. Know where to buy cheap cables and accessories
18. Fix your parents' computer over the phone without looking at a computer
19. Enter the Konami code
20. Comment on Gizmodo from your phone
21. Type quickly using T9 texting
22. Program a universal remote
23. Contribute code to the Linux kernel
24. Hide porn from your significant other
25. Avoid DRM on everything
26. Know how to back up your data to networked storage—and actually do it
27. Watch TV shows on the internet for free
28. Edit together digital video ripped from YouTube
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator
30. Reset expired trial software by messing with the registry
31. Hackintosh your PC
32. Download pre-release movies from Usenet
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
34. Get around web content filters on public computers
35. Get into a Windows computer if you forgot your password
36. Securely erase your data so it can't be recovered
37. Share a printer between a Mac and a PC on a network
38. Build a fighting robot
39. Write your own Firefox plugins
40. Navigate and reorganise the files on your computer in DOS
41. Get something on the front page of Digg
42. Get through to executive customer service
43. Rip a CD to V0 quality MP3s
44. Rip a DVD to DivX
45. Build your own computer from parts
46. Swap out the hard drive in your DVR for a bigger one
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS
50. Talk about things that aren't tech related


For the source and more information, visit:

Gizmodo Australia

Gulfnews: UAE set to change domain name norm

Gulfnews: UAE set to change domain name norm:

"'In [the] third quarter of 2009, we will start implementing the Arabic domain names,' Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer at the .ae Domain Administration of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) told Gulf News.
He added that the UAE 'will very likely be the first country' worldwide where a complete non-English domain name would be available.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a worldwide organisation responsible for internet management worldwide, is finalising the process of assigning languages to countries, according to Al Zarouni.'In [the] third quarter of 2009, we will start implementing the Arabic domain names,' Mohammad Al Zarouni, chief technology officer at the .ae Domain Administration of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) told Gulf News.
He added that the UAE 'will very likely be the first country' worldwide where a complete non-English domain name would be available.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a worldwide organisation responsible for internet management worldwide, is finalising the process of assigning languages to countries, according to Al Zarouni."

The American University in Dubai organizes the 11th ISSAF Conference | AUD

The 11th Information Systems Security Assessment Framework (ISSAF) conference was held on Thursday, the 23rd of October, at The American University in Dubai (AUD) in the presence of the University's faculty and student bodies, along with prominent dignitaries and local and international company representatives from within the Information Technology sector.

For more information, please visit:
The American University in Dubai organizes the 11th ISSAF Conference | AUD

Or visit AUD at:
http://www.aud.edu/

VISIT GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK!

Visit the official website below:
GITEX TECHNOLOGY WEEK

Can't make it? Then follow GITEX on Gulf News:
http://www.gulfnews.com/indepth/gitex2008/index.html

The Launch of aeCERT Operations

aeCERT, shortly after gaining the official accreditation by the UAE Cabinet as the national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) under Direct number (89/5), has launched its operations on Monday 14th of July 2008. The launch was announced during a news conference that took place in Abu-Dhabi at the Emirates Palace Hotel.
Read more on this at the aeCERT Website:
http://www.aecert.ae/aecertoperations.html

You can visit the aeCERT stand in Gitex from October 19 - 23, 2008.

UPDATED 2012: Get an iTunes Account Without a Credit Card

Get an iTunes account username and password even if you are outside the Unied States, Canada, Australia and other iTunes countries! An iTunes account without a gift card or a credit card. Just follow the Step-by-step guide for getting an iTunes account for downloading Apple iPhone apps for free without needing a credit card. Nothing illegal here :)

So, you’ve got a shiny new iPhone or iPod touch, and you’d like to load all those shiny apps that everyone keeps talking about. But, oh noes! You don’t have a credit card, or the App you want isn’t available in your country’s store. Or, you’re sick of this week’s Free Single Of the Week. This guide will let you create a free account for any country the iTunes store runs in. Interested? Good, let’s continue!

1. First of all – select the iTunes store in which you’d like to have an account. You can use the store selector towards the bottom of the iTunes store homepage.
2. When the front page loads up for your desired country – go and click on the top app from the “Top Free App” section.
3. When the app page loads, hit the ‘Get App’ button.
4. The login prompt will appear – click on ‘Create New Account’
5. Click Continue, then tick the “I Accept” box, and click Continue again
6. Fill out your details on the next page (you’ll need a real, valid email address), and click continue
7. And now, here is where it gets interesting. If you have followed each of the previous steps, you should now have a ‘None’ option as a payment method. Select that :)
8. After that, fill out your details. If you don’t live in the country you’re creating the account in, make up an address. (Like say, for example, one of Apple’s Retail Store locations if they have some in that country. – http://apple.com/retail ), then click Continue
9. You will now see a message telling you to click on the confirmation link sent to the email you supplied earlier.
Then check your email inbox (or spam folder), open the email and click the confirmation link
10. iTunes will pop up, and here you’ll enter your brand new iTunes account data
11. If all goes to plan, you will be greeted with a congratulations page.
12. You’re done! You can now download free music (namely the ‘Free Single Of The Week’), as well as some free TV shows in some stores, and all the free apps that are available to you in the App Store

Now, I have iTunes accounts for Australia, the United Kingdom, the USA, and now Canada!

Wait… why couldn’t I just create an account without going to the app store first?
If you try and create an account straight from the log on box/when you purchase some music, you will be missing the ‘None’ option from Step 7.

Can I fill out my credit card details for another country’s store?
Not unless it was issued in the country that you’re trying to add it to – iTunes will verify the location of where the card was issued. So, for example, you couldn’t use an Australian Visa card in the United States store.

Hey, I have a question that isn’t answered here….
Just leave a comment below, and I’ll try and help where I can.
This was yet again a reader request :) Thank you again :)