Minimum Requirement to Run Android 2.2

• Java Platform(JDK)
• Powerful RAM at least 1GB
• Min. 2GB Free Space of HD

Android Running on Computer

Follow below steps to get Android 2.2 platform on Computer

1. Download Android SDK

2. Extract the zipped folder and navigate to “Tools” folder inside the extracted folder

3. Open the script named “Android” from the “Tools” folder

4. If you are already having JDK installed on your computer, then you will see a new admin windows. If now having JDK on your computer, then go ahead and install that from here. After installation of JDK, go ahead and click “Android” script

5. Android script will start he SDK manager. Go ahead and navigate to “Available Packages” menu in the left sidebar options

6. There you will see only one link listed. Check that link and then it will start getting package information from repository. If you are getting a message that “Fetch failed because of https” then go to the Settings” option in left panel and check the box which says “Force to use http for https” and then Come back to “Available Packages” and click on that single item available in the list. That will fetch lot many packages from the repository

7. Now go ahead and check four items shown in the picture below. These items are nothing but the Android 2.2 Froyo OS files. After checking the files, go ahead and click on “Install Checked” at bottom of the window

8. Installation of files will take some time. After successful installation, go to “Virtual Devices” option in left panel and click on “New” in that window. Now you are going to add one device in SDK manager. Go ahead and fill up the new form with the same data as mentioned in the picture below, after that click on “Create AVD”.

9. Remember, Adding device may take some time and even may left your system hanged for few minutes. But you will have to have patience in that interval and don’t restart your computer. Once the device will be added in hat list as “A valid Android Virtual device”, you can click on the “Start” button after selecting the newly added device to start the Android Platform on your computer

10. Done! Now you can use the Android platform on your computer to feel the OS from Google. To use Android applications, you will have to get “Eclipse” on your system as well.

You can install Android 2.1 or older versions as well by selecting the packages for that in the step 7 of the steps mentioned above.

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Facebook will send a notification if someone tries to log in from a device that hasn’t been registered; however, the feature must first be activated manually in My Account/Settings. This describes the social networking platform’s new security measures in a nutshell.

In Account Security, users can choose to “receive notifications for logins from new devices”. When a user subsequently tries to log in, Facebook will ask for a computer name and will automatically send an email notification to the user. If the user ticks “Don’t ask me again for this computer”, Facebook will remember the device. The announced option to receive SMS text notifications was not available in our first tests; it may not be available yet in Germany or the UK.

The email notification about the suspicious incident only contains the computer name entered. No information which could be used to trace the person who tried to log in, such as the IP address from which the login attempt originated, is included. Strictly speaking, it isn’t even the device which is registered, but the browser where the relevant cookie is stored. Those who alternate between Firefox and Chrome have to register both browsers. Facebook’s iPhone app seems to bypass device registration completely at the moment.

Facebook also plans to request further information to verify a user’s identity in case of a “suspicious login” – users may, for instance, be asked to enter their date of birth or identify a friend in a photo. All of these measures seem rather error prone; just imagine the situation of people who have carelessly accumulated a few thousand “friends”. This could be the reason why the feature hasn’t gone live yet. In any case, repeated logins via various public proxies didn’t trigger such requests.

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AthCon is an annual, European two-day conference targeting particular areas of information security. It’s aim: to bring leading information security experts together.

The first AthCon will be held on the 3rd of June 2010 in Athens, Greece.  Attacking techniques of exploitation and various forms of penetration testing have become an important component of any organisation. This conference aims to provide a venue for understanding the ever evolving changes as well as new threats. AthCon is a non-product, non-vendor-biased conference. The aim is to present the best research and cutting edge exploitation techniques from the fields’ leading experts.

Athens IT Security Conference 2010: More Resources

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

• Athens IT Security Conference 2010: Registration and Rates

• Athens IT Security Conference 2010: Speakers

• Athens IT Security Conference 2010: Travel and Venue

Here is a 20 minute video which guides you through the process of locking down a typical FaceBook account for increased privacy and user security.

Be advised in the video that since this was a new “Demo” account your options may vary and your lock down process may be more complicated than what ZDnet have demonstrated.

Additionally please note that for some reason, the “Instant Personalization Pilot Program” setting under Application Privacy was not viewable in this demonstration.

ZDNET