RSA Conference continues to play an integral role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated. The focus on cyberthreats grows each day and RSA Conference is the educational and training environment to prepare you to meet these challenges. RSA® Conference is a unique learning experience and delegates want to hear from industry experts.

RSA Conference Europe 2010 is taking place from 12th – 14th October at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel in London. If you want to  pre-register your interest now, you can save £100 on the Delegate fee, when registration opens next May.

Save £100 on the 2010 Delegate fee: Register your interest now

RSA conference 2010: History

RSA Conference is helping drive the information security agenda worldwide with annual industry events in the U.S., Europe and Japan. Throughout its 19 year history, RSA Conference has consistently attracted the world’s best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for conference attendees to learn about IT security’s most important issues through first-hand interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. As the IT security field continues to grow in importance and influence, RSA Conference plays an integral role in keeping security professionals across the globe connected and educated.

RSA developed the RSA Conference in 1991 as a forum for cryptographers to gather and share the latest knowledge and advancements in the area of Internet security. Today, the RSA Conference and related, RSA Conference branded activities, are still managed by RSA, the Security Division of EMC, with the support of the industry. RSA Conference event programming is judged and developed by information security practitioners and other related professionals.

RSA Conference 2010: More Resources

If you want more detailed information about RSA conference, check out some of the following resources:

• RSA Conference 2010: Registration and Rates

• RSA Conference 2010: Agenda

• RSA Conference 2010: Travel and Venue

For most users, DNS lookups are handled automatically through an Internet service provider; they’re not tasks most of us see or devote much thought to. You do have the option, however, of using your own third-party DNS resolver. That’s where Google Public DNS comes in.

Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider.

To try it out:

• Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or
• Read Google configuration instructions.

Google Public DNS and Your Privacy

What exactly will Google be watching with its new Google Public DNS service?

Here’s the breakdown of what is and isn’t collected:

• Your IP address: yes. But only temporarily. That data, Google says, is never stored for more than 24 to 48 hours, and it’s collected solely to identify technical problems and help protect from attacks.

• Your name or other personally identifying information: no. Google assures this type of data is never collected.

• Your location: yes. Google says it permanently stores “metro-level” info on your whereabouts for the purpose of debugging and improving the Google Public DNS experience. Most of this information is held for two weeks, Google says, though a “small subset” is sampled for permanent storage. The company promises that it never ties the location data to any other information collected from your session.

• The Web sites you look up: yes. But again, Google says that information is not stored along with any data that would identify who you are.

• Lots of technical details: yes. Google Public DNS permanently logs technical items such as your request type, transport protocol, and the length of time it takes the system to complete your requests. You can see a full list of these technical details on Google’s official Public DNS privacy policy.

None of the information collected, Google says, is ever tied to your Google account, stored as part of your profile on any other Google service, or shared with any third-party provider.

Google Public DNS: More Resources

If you want more detailed information about Google Public DNS, check out some of the following resources:

• Google Public DNS: An Introduction

• Google Public DNS: Performance Benefits

• Google Public DNS: Security Benefits

• Google Public DNS: Setup Instructions and Support

• Google Public DNS: Privacy Policy

• Google Public DNS: Official FAQ

Verdict:

Some users will say that providing public DNS servers is just another step in Google’s world domination plans. Others might find out that the benefits outweigh the doubts and concerns. It is definitely not bad to have another option in this field especially with the increasing censorship around the world

Source: Google

WordPress is a very powerful CMS (Content Management System). It has tons of capability and can be extremely powerful. There’s only one thing in the way from all of this power and you as the blog owner – your theme. Here are only a few of the many great snippets of code that will take your current theme creation and make it that much better. Please, use them.

Tip 1- How to Disable Commenting on Posts Older Than 1 Month

A great way to reduce the amount of spam you receive is to disable the ability to comment on posts that are more than 1 month old. Just paste the following in your functions.php file. Note: To change the amount of time from 1 month, just replace 30 (days) with any number of days you want.

<?php
<pre>function close_comments( $posts ) {
	if ( !is_single() ) { return $posts; }
	if ( time() - strtotime( $posts[0]->post_date_gmt ) > ( 30 * 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) {
		$posts[0]->comment_status = 'closed';
		$posts[0]->ping_status    = 'closed';
	}
	return $posts;
}
add_filter( 'the_posts', 'close_comments' );
?>

 

Tip 2 – How to Add an Automatically Changing Copyright Year in Your Footer

This is a common sight on most sites, something like a “Copyright 2007 – 2009″ or something similar in the footer. Thing is, it’s been more than a month since the new year and yet I’m still seeing “2008″ as the current year on some sites. This is how you can:

Copyright © 200x-<?php echo date('Y'); ?> stoufis.gr.

Tip 3 – How to Disable Search Engine Indexing on a Certain Category

This code snippet is more for SEO purposes, possibly to avoid duplicate content or something similar. Make sure search engines don’t index any posts in a certain category by applying this to your head tags in header.php. Note – Change the category number of 4 to the category you want to prevent search engines from seeing.

<?php if ( is_category('4') || in_category('4') ) {
<pre>    echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex">';
}

 

Tip 4 – How to Add a Simple “Tweet This” Link to Each Post

Twitter is getting more and more popular each day. To make this benefit you, why not add a nice little “Tweet This” button to each blog post? Put this somewhere in The Loop in single.php.

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=I just read <?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Send this page to Twitter!" target="_blank">Tweet This!</a>

"We're at about 10.2 percent (IPv4 address space) remaining globally," John Curran, president and CEO of ARIN told InternetNews.com. "At our current trend rate we've got about 625 days before we will not have new IPv4 addresses available. We're still handling IPv4 requests from ISPs, hosting companies and large users for IPv4 address space, but that's a very short time period."