Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

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How to Protect Companies from Social Engineering Threats

Who Should Read This Paper: This paper provides security management information about the threats posed by social engineering and the defenses that are available to help resist social engineering hackers. Social engineering describes primarily non-technical threats to company security. The broad nature of these potential threats necessitates providing information about threats and potential defenses to a range of management and

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Ultimate List of Free Office Software from Microsoft version 2

Remember my post titled “Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft” which pointed to the kindly provided “Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft” post by Blake Handler a Tech Evangelist & MS Consultant, well now he’s gone along and  provided us all with version 2 of his Ultimate List of Free Windows Software from Microsoft post which contains

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Windows Live Ideas updating UI

Just noticed that Windows Live Ideas (http://ideas.live.com/) is now updating it’s UI and though the page contains some errors right now, it’s clear that all the Windows Live Services are starting to get the flair header along with the Windows Live Orb making the consistency between other Windows Live Services like Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Favorites and Windows Live Account etc

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Microsoft Zune Picture – Zune In The Wild!

Thanks to gizmodo and it’s awesome tipsters, we can now see an exclusive photo of the Microsoft Zune Player. And yes, it does look almost exactly like the other images that have appeared on Gizmodo before. The player also comes with a pair of magnetic headphones, which as you can see from the picture, stick to each other so they’re easier to manage. The

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Microsoft Releases Windows XP hibernate issue fix

Finally a fix to that damn “Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API” error message I get nearly all the time when tring to put my PC into hibernation. You use a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005, or Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.

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Rick Hallihan Spotted the Windows Live Local Van!

Don’t you just love it when you tell somebody about something that may interest them and then they go ahead and tell you about something that you find interesting, well I certaintly do. In fact the day before yesterday I told Rick Hallihan about the Windows Live Mail M8 Ad Survery as I thought he might be interested in it

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NASA admits losing the moon landing footage

NASA has now finally admited that they have lost the original moon landing footage of the Apollo 11 Mission to the Moon which took place in July 1969. The magnetic tapes were originally stored at the US National Archives but 2612 boxes, including the Apollo recordings, were later returned to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland but the problem is that many of

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Hosting-Unlimited Site Hacked!

Wow I just got two vBulletin forum message emails from admin@hosting-unlimited.net confirming that Hosting-Unlimted (where my site/blog used to be hosted) has now been hacked, and though lucky enough all the sites are hosted in a diffrent location than that of the main Hosting-Unlimted Site and forum it’s just to early to tell what the damage is and how far this hacker can go! Here’s

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Windows Live Mail M8 Ad Survey

Earlier this morning I posted about an interesting windows live mail survey that some of you have been asked to take, and well I’ve now had my own chance of taking this survey and I must say it’s quite an impresive survey. First of all the Windows Live Mail Survey will ask for your gender and age (not much use doing a

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Windows Live Favorites and Account UI Updated

Just noticed as did Kip my fellow colleague from LiveSide.net that Windows Live Favorites along with Windows Live Account has now been updated to the new Windows Live look which contains the flair header along with the Windows Live Orb, this look and feel is sure to be much welcomed as it brings more consistency between other Windows Live Services like Windows Live