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The Heartbleed Bug

   "The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users."

 lnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging (IM) and some virtual private networks (VPNs).
The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.

Here Are the Things Proven To Make You Happier

By Eric Barker

What’s the secret to a head full of happy thoughts?

Time to round up the research on living a happy life to see what we can use.

First, yeah, a good chunk of happiness is controlled by your genes but there’s a lot you can do to make yourself happier. Many of these techniques have been repeatedly tested and even worked with the clinically depressed.

Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude

I can’t emphasize this one enough. Showing gratitude for the good things you have is the most powerful happiness boosting activity there is.

It will make you happier.

It will improve your relationships.

It can make you a better person.

It can make life better for everyone around you.

Bronze medalists are happier than silver medalists. Why? They feel grateful to get a medal at all.

Every night before you go to bed write three good things that happened to you that day. Jotting those down is pretty much all it takes to get a boost in well-being over time.

There’s a second lesson here: the reverse is also true. Keeping track of the bad things will make you miserable. A convenient memory is a powerful thing. Do not train your brain to see the negative, teach it to see the positive.

Wanna make yourself and someone else extremely happy? Try a gratitude visit. Write someone a letter thanking them and telling them how much what they have done for you means. Visit them and read it in person. It’s a proven happiness WMD. More info here.

Do what you are good at as often as you can

“Signature strengths” are the things you are uniquely good at and using them increases happy thoughts. Exercising signature strengths is why starving artists are happier with their jobs.

Think about the best possible version of yourself and move toward that. Signature strengths are the secret to experiencing more “flow” at work and in life.

Spend as much time as possible with people you like

Spend as much time as possible with people you like. The happiest people are social with strong relationships. Not spending more time with people we love is something we regret the most.

Being able to spend more time with friends provides an increase in happiness worth up to an additional $133,000 a year. (Values for your other relationships are here.)

Being compassionate makes us happier (causal, not correlative.) Share the best events of your day with loved ones and ask them to do the same. And compliment them — we love compliments more than money or sex.

But I’m an introvert, you say? A little bit of extraversion here would do you good. Happiness is more contagious than unhappiness so with amount of exposure to others well-being scales.

Money is good. Many other things are better.

After about 75K a year, money has minimal effects on happiness. Read that again. Not that money won’t increase happiness but if you want to be happier your time and energy are better spent elsewhere. It will not increase your moment to moment mood.

The Amish are as satisfied as billionaires and slumdwellers can be surprisingly happy. The happiest of all income groups is people making 50-75k a year. Money is good but wanting money can be bad.

How to Protect Yourself From the Heartbleed Bug

SEE ALSO: The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now

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The issue involves network software called OpenSSL, which is an open-source set of libraries for encrypting online services. 

Secure websites — with “https” in the URL ("s" stands for secure) — make up 56% of websites, and nearly half of those sites were vulnerable to the bug.

Secure websites — with “https” in the URL ("s" stands for secure) — make up 56% of websites, and nearly half of those sites were vulnerable to the bug. In theory, a cybercriminal could have exploited Heartbleed by making network requests that could piece together your sensitive data. The good news: There isn't any indication that a hacker caught wind of this; it seems the researchers were the first to locate the problem.

But the scary part is that attackers could have infiltrated these websites, extracted the information they wanted and left no trace of their presence. Thus, it's hard to determine whether someone ever exploited the bug, or if your account information was compromised.

What to do

First, check which sites you use are affected. If you don't want to read through the long list of websites with the security flaw, the password security firm LastPass has set up a Heartbleed Checker, which lets you enter the URL of any website to check its vulnerability to the bug and if the site has issued a patch. [Update: We've compiled a list of popular sites and whether they were affected.]

Next, change your passwords for major accounts — email, banking and social media logins — on sites that were affected by Heartbleed but patched the problem. That patch should also include reissuing any digital certificates that might be vulnerable. However, if the site or service hasn't patched the flaw yet, there's no point to changing your password. Instead, ask the company when it expects to push out a fix to deal with Heartbleed.

A big cause for concern is related to sites that have your sensitive information, such as Yahoo and OKCupid (most people aren't logging into NASA.gov with private data). Both companies have since issued a patch to fix the security hole, so users with accounts with those companies — including Yahoo Mail, Flickr and so on — should update their passwords immediately.

It's important to wait to get the "all clear" sign from a company or service before changing, especially now that this bug is out in the open. Changing a password before the bug is fully patched wont' make things any better.

Facebook and Twitter use OpenSSL web servers, though it's still unclear whether or not they were vulnerable to the issue.

Facebook and Twitter use OpenSSL web servers, though it's still unclear whether or not they were vulnerable to the issue.Facebook reportedly issued a security patch, as did Google.

Other websites that have issued an OpenSSL software security update include WordPress, Amazon Web Services and Akamai.

Some websites not considered vulnerable include AOL, Foursquare and Evernote, among others.

"It's a big deal for Internet users, especially when it comes to protecting financial information," Joe Siegrist, CEO and cofounder of LastPass, told Mashable. "Some financial organizations are using more conservative web security choices like Microsoft, which is not vulnerable to the bug, so users should check and see if their bank has been affected."

Make sure to keep an eye on sensitive online accounts, especially banking and email, for suspicious activity for the next week or so.

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BONUS: What Is the Heartbleed Bug?

Dell Launched Dell PowerEdge R920 which has 6 TB Memory

Dell, one of the largest PC manufacturers in the worldwide kicks of its Solutions tour in SM Aura last March 18, 2014 with some guest audience from Mongolia have joined the event.

Dell Solutions Tour announced about their new marketing strategy, also their innovation in redefining storage economics. Some of the speakers were from different countries, also Chris Papa, the marketing manager of Dell Philippines, discussed some of the new products of Dell specially here in Asia-Pacific region.

In 2013, Dell broke ground with its impressive line of Windows 8-powered products, including the Latitude 10 tablet, Optiplex 9010 All-in-One with optional touch screen, Latitude 6430u ultrabook, and the XPS 12 hybrid convertible tablet-notebook PC. These became the toast of the client PC market as they received acclaim from PC experts and tech editors from leading publications and blogs.

ow in 2014, Dell unveils its brand new series of full-featured enterprise storage. The new Dell SC4000 Series arrays demonstrate Dell's continued innovation to bring full-featured, enterprise class, low cost but high performing, smaller scale solution. The new storage array series, with an all-flash solution that can cost 76% less than competing pure flash arrays.



FYI, Dell has been constantly number 1 in store devices sales.

Launched during the event is their newest server:
Dell PowerEdge R920 which has 6 TB Memory
• A world record 4-socket Linux benchmark result of 24,150 benchmark users on the SAP SD 2-Tier benchmark.
• A 71% improved performance over the previous best E7-4800 4-socket SAP SD benchmark.
• Nearly the same performance in an SAP environment compared with the previous generation 8-socket servers, providing up to a 50% cost savings in software licensing to the customer.

Digital Marketing Analytics For start-Ups

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Data scientist Seshu Edala accurately nailed it in his think piece on Forbes.com: “So much data and so little business intelligence. That’s the irony of the information age, which is adding another 2.5 quintillion bytes to the data universe each day.”

Credit goes to Web 2.0 which took off exponentially in 2004, bannered by major features and technologies such as social networking sites, user created websites, self-publishing platforms, tagging, and social bookmarking which started the information revolution. And in recent years, cloud computing and the explosion of connected devices—smartphones, tablets— were added to the ever-growing list.

Four Things You Can Do Now to Increase Traffic to Your Website

How much web traffic can you generate with 26K Twitter followers, 1K Facebook Fans and a few thousand people in your Google Plus circle? I share from experience: not a lot.

Distribution is challenging for publishers. You may write articles that are perfect for the topical pages on Facebook Paper, until you read the publishing sites for those articles: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, All Things D, etc.

What is completely unfair about the distribution challenge is that content quality isn’t so disparate. Bloggers oftentimes write far more compelling and interesting pieces than writers for the bigger outlets.

What I want to do is share a few secrets of how you can increase distribution of your content now. It’s not going to bring parity to writing for a big publisher, but I get a few hundred thousand unique readers to this site every year and this is how I do it:

Triberr

Triberr is a grassroots distribution network for bloggers. The idea is pretty simple: leverage the social networks of all bloggers (the aggregate of many distribution networks) to promote each piece of content.

If you look on my Twitter page, I share up to 80 unique pieces of content from the network although I may publish two articles max on any given day (I should point out that all sharing is manually done and voluntary). The Triberr sharing mechanism leads to amplification across many small distribution channels and the results are quite effective: compare my effective social network (described above) to fact that I have potential reach of 140 million people through Triberr. That’s quite a difference.

The creators of Triberr, Dino Dogan and Dan Cristo are also expanding the network by offering paid campaign opportunities for bloggers and a host of other cool stuff. It’s a pretty great distribution channel that has greatly amplified my traffic.

Incidentally, I hear a lot of people say that they tried Triberr and don’t “get it.” To this I respond that they should want to increase their distribution enough to learn how to use it (it’s really not so difficult, but I remember the learning curve).

Email list

When I get my haircut they ask me for my email. They may give me a haircut if I don’t give it to them, but I figure it’s not a big deal and I spew my email address for them to type into the computer.

The concept is pretty simple. If you use Google Analytics, you can see how many repeat visitors you have to your site. You’ll be surprised how many people visit only one time. If you had a pop-up email box that invited them to get your content via email on a semi-regular basis you could turn a stranger-o-blog into a friend-o-blog, proverbially speaking. Point being, you could do a heck of a lot more with an email address than a hair salon could.

If you don’t like pop-up boxes – you might be surprised to find out they are far more effective than any other method of capturing email addresses.

If you think you can do the same with social networks instead of email – you’re wrong. Email is much better than social to reliably have your stuff read. But by all means, feel welcome to do this with Facebook and enjoy the benefits of each Facebook Fan seeing your posts one out of every hundred times.

A last note about email, be careful to comply with CAN-SPAM provisions. Use a reputable email service such as AWeber, MailChimp or one of the social CRM SaaS tools, and give the appropriate disclosures and opt-out links. If a service like Gmail decides you are a spammer, then your email communication will never be received by its intended recipients.

BundlePost

If you’re not familiar with BundlePost, it is a solution that automates back-office social media content, curation and scheduling functions. In other words – they find and curate social content to help people and businesses maintain relevance in the social space. It’s a cool tool, and its founder Robert Caruso is both a social media fanatic and a champion of small publishers.

BundlePost announced last week that they are indexing blog content to potentially offer to their users. If you think about the Facebook Paper example (or LinkedIn), hopefully you’ll see why a platform like BundlePost indexing smaller blogs is a big deal. If you have quality content (relative to other writers), then there is a possibility you’ll gain distribution.

You can register your blog with BundlePost here.

Write / syndicate content on leaderswest (or elsewhere)

So, this solution isn’t going to get you a ton of traffic but there are a lot of great sites that will allow you to publish unique content or syndicate your content on their site. On leaderswest, you get full G+ author attribution, Twitter attribution through Twitter cards and on all Twitter / Buffer shares, Twitter follow in the headline and all social networks listed in the footer, email notifications, and pretty decent distribution of your content. You can write unique content or syndicate your previously written content (which is published with a “noindex” tag so that no one gets into Google’s doghouse for duplicate content). Send me a tweet if you’d like more info.

Also, you can submit your URL to Social Media Today or Business2Community to get access to even larger distribution networks (much larger compared to my site, actually). I have experience with the folks at Social Media Today and syndicating with them is easy and they are really great about keeping writers informed about publication.

I’m sure there are plenty of sites similar to these out there if you look, too. People need content.

Bonus: Pay for it

One last tactic for increasing your distribution is to pay for it. The opportunities to pay for distribution are limited only by your imagination and your budget. AdWords, Facebook, Twitter… heck if you paid me enough I would read your content. Every. Single. Word. 

If you have some experience with these platforms or if you have additional ideas, please take the time to leave a comment.

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