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Homeless.co.il was hacked by turkish hackers

Earlier today it was published that Turkish hackers managed to grab a list of user details (32k) including emails and password. (add to this 72k email accounts that were hacked)

When will site owners learn to use hash codes instead of password ???

From my point of view the owner of the site should be blamed for the damage as much as the hackers who did it, you can expect someone to build a site not to mention a leading site and treat security as an after thought !

For anyone wondering who is effected… the list is open on the wild it took me several min to find it in order to look if I've been personally hit (i wasn’t worried much as i do use password generator to supply password on the fly to sites that I'm surfing at…and not having the same password for all of my accounts)

Some point of interest by looking at the list:

The list contains 3026 distinguished domains … of course i cant list all the domains here  due to the space of this post so i left only the ones with more then 3 people coming from.

As you can see… we have large representation of Remax, Amdocs, Cellcom, Pelephone, Orange, Comverse, HP, Intel… and even some government accounts….

lots of security officers have already had to react… or probably will do tomorrow…

I wonder how many ISPs and public mail users comming from gmail/walla/hotmail/yahoo … use the same password that was published on the excel for their own email/pay pal accounts… my guess is that that out of 27k ISPs account some do…

If you ever used homeless… and have one pass for all…change your password asap !

IASA Israeli Chapter 2nd Meeting (Tomorrow)

IASA Israeli chapter 2nd meeting will take place tomorrow and this time it will be based on community-led discussions around Architecturally significant topics.

Q: What does "community-led discussions" mean ?
A: Any participant will be able to propose any topic she finds interesting from a software architecture perspective. Other participants who find the topic interesting will join the discussion in a dedicated meeting room. 

Q: I want to propose a discussion topic. What do I need to do ?
A: either proposed it using in the Linkedin discussion, or propose it spontaneously during the introductory part of the meeting where we will gather divide to topics to time slots.

Q: I do not want to propose a topic. Just to join a discussion. Can I ?
A: Yes, of course. We will not force you to propose a topic (J) and you are very welcome to join any discussion topic you find interesting.

Q: If I choose a topic and later change my mind and want to move to another discussion, can I ?
A: Yes, If you choose to enter a discussion and after some time you find it less in your interest you are welcome to move on to another discussion - no hard feelings

Q: Are there any examples of such architecturally significant topics you intend to propose ?
A: Yes. Here are some samples:

SOA Patterns
Architecture Styles and Patterns
Architecture performance plan
Cross platform development
RIA vs. Web vs. Desktop
Object Oriented Design Evaluation and Measurement
Architectural Patterns and Anti Patterns
High scalability challenges and new technologies
Software Reuse in Practice
...
[ Your own subject here ]
...

You are welcome to come and attend the event. (Free of charge)

Date: Thursday, July 08, 2010 from 5:00 PM - 7:45 PM (GMT+0200)
Location:
HP Raanana
Dafna 9
Raanana ISRAEL

For more information click here: IASA Israeli Chapter - 2nd Meeting

IASA Israeli Chapter Management Team.
Danny Cohen, Hayim Makabee, Michael Kalika, Ohad Israeli.

IASA Israeli Chapter - 2nd Meeting [ 8.7.2010 ]

The IASA - International Association of Software Architects - Israeli Chapter 2nd Meeting will take place on Thursday 8th of July between 17:00 and 19:45 at HP Ranana - Daphna 9, Ranana.

The 2nd meeting will start with a small introductory presentation of selected Architecturally significant topics after which we will separate  into small working groups in order to have an inner discussion on a specific architectural related topics.

You may ask which topics would the workgroups themes will be ?

This is the part where we will ask for your involvement... If you have a topic on your mind you are welcome to suggest it over our forums and the most requested topics will be selected for discussion.

Link to linkedin forum discussions

17:00 - 17:15 - Gathering
17:15 - 18:00 - Introductory presentation - Architecturally significant topics
18:00 - 18:15 - Break
18:15 - 19:30 - Group led discussions
19:30 - 19:45 - Future roadmap & work plan

No more Vuvuzela :-)

Like the rest of the world I suffer too from watching football games these days and having to hear the Vuvuzela horrible noise.

So finally yesterday I've decided to try and see if my Bose Quiet Comfort 15 can handle it…

With a touch of a button… I now can hear only the game noise without this loud background noise !

Recommended for any football fan out there ! (although its a bit pricy)

TechEd 2010 North America – Videos & PPTs

Microsoft released all the TechED 2010 North America – New Orleans (June 7-11th) Videos & PPTs !

Of course you need to go video by video in order to download them…

So to save you the time… I’ve prepared a list of direct links to the videos, ppts high resolution and low plus the mp4 version.

Note that the PPTs+High Quality Videos download size is 81gb !

Enjoy !

Some of the Microsoft sites in Israel were dns hacked today

For the last couple of hours… and only now recovering several of Microsoft sites with co.il (Israel) ending were hacked.

Among these sites you were able to see:

www.msn.co.il

www.hotmail.co.il

www.live.co.il

blogs.microsoft.co.il

A group of Turkish hackers took responsibility of changing the dns register… now how this could have happened… it might be that some domain register helped the hackers to accomplish their task… i wonder if someone from Microsoft is going to investigate to the source of this…

SharePoint & Office 2010 – Cool & tasty virtual launch event !

Today at 10:00 am Microsoft Israel celebrated the opening of the SharePoint & Office 2010 Launch event… why am i blogging about it ?

Well the event is a virtual launch event that is due to take place over the next couple of months… and I was waiting to see how Microsoft Israel are going to organize this virtual event.

At 16:30 someone knocked at our door and had a package to deliver to me from Microsoft Israel … When i opened the package this is what it looked like:

Welcome to the virtual conference… as close to real conference as it can…

When i opened the package i saw this:

No traffic jams, no parking not even a tie…

Box full of cool ideas to help you pass the virtual event :-)

First of all a sign to the door… In the next hour I’m virtual… please do not disturb…

I will have some usage of this to get disconnected from my wife and kids :-)

A small package saying to connect… you need to disconnect

Even in the virtual world get spoiled with some thing real…

And lastly…

GREAT IDEA !

Thanks Shelly, Michal… and probably Lior whom was probably involved somehow with the idea.

Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools is out !

Pro Power Tools just had been released to the Visual Studio Gallery today !

This cool little add-on really add things that Microsoft forgot to add to Visual Studio…

Things like:

Searchable Add Reference Dialog
The new Add Reference dialog makes it faster and easier for you to find the reference that you are looking for and add it to your VB, C# or F# project. 

Before:

After:

Highlight Current Line
As the resolution of monitors increases, it’s becoming more difficult to find the caret in the code editor.  The highlight current line extension makes it easy to find the caret by highlighting the line that the caret is on in the editor.  You can even configure the default colour by changing the setting for “Current Line (Extension)” and “Current Line Inactive (Extension)” in Tools Options Fonts & Colors.

Before:

After: (Note the highlighted line where the cursor is)

HTML Copy
This extension provides support for the HTML Clipboard format when copying code from the editor.  This means that you’ll no longer have to go fix up the formatting of your code when you paste it into a TFS bug form or any other HTML based control.

Triple Click
It’s never been easier to select a line of code from the mouse by simple triple-clicking anywhere on the line.

Align Assignments
This extension is useful for making your code a little more readable by aligning the assignments when you type Ctrl+Alt+] such that it takes this:

And turns it into this:

Colorized Parameter Help
This extension improves consistency with the editor by applying syntax highlighting to the contents of the Parameter Help window for C# &VB. 

Move Line Up/Down Commands
This extension maps the Alt+Up Arrow & Alt+Down Arrow keys such that they will move the current line of code or the selected lines up and down through the editor. 

Column Guides
Since Visual Studio 2002, there has been a not so secret registry key which allowed user to draw a vertical line in the code editor.  This is very useful to remind developers that their full line of code or comments may not fit one a single screen. Thanks to this extension this feature has returned with UI configure it.  Simply place the cursor at the appropriate column and select Add Guideline from the context menu

Download and install is over here

ALT.NET Israel Spring 2010 - Scalability

On the last Friday I've joined the ALT.NET Israel Spring 2010 meeting where i had a chance to record some of the sessions while joining other session…

So here is the first out of few of my recordings… the Scalability discussion.

Note: the video is in Hebrew

DevAcademy is over, now for the REAL Conf. ALT.NET Spring

So you think you heard enough of Visual Studio, Silverlight & C# 4.0 at the Microsoft Developer Academy 4 (Israel) and you are ready for the real world ???

Think Again !

Alt.NET Spring (#3) [Israel] will take place on this Thursday and Friday.
( 25-26/03/2010 )

About the format:
The goal of ALT.NET conferences is to have community discussions and knowledge sharing between the community members. During the first day of the conference, the planning stage, attendees will be able to offer sessions / request sessions on issues close to their hart. By the end of the planning stage we will have an agenda for the following day.

The conference day will include multiple discussions at each one of the discussion slots, discussion can take place with 2 people or with a room full of people. There is no need to stay till the end of the session… if you feel that you do not contribute to a session you can leave and attend another session of your choice.

Read more over here

Where?
Sears Israel (SHC ISRAEL)
Hamanofim 9
Akershtein Building A – 3rd floor
Hertzelia
[ MAP ]

When?
Thursday – Planning 25.03.2010
18:00-19:00 – Registration & refreshments
19:00-20:30 – Building the schedule and list of sessions for Friday
20:30-……. – Coffee / drinks at one of the pubs around

Friday – Conference Day 26.03.2010
09:00-09:30 – Registration & Refreshments
09:30-09:40 – Opening talk
09:40-10:50 – Discussion round 1
11:00-12:10 – Discussion round 2
12:20-13:30 – Discussion round 3
13:30-14:00 – Lunch
14:10-15:20 – Discussion round 4
15:20-16:30 – Discussion round 5
16:30-17:00 – Summery
17:00- …… – Coffee / drinks at one of the pubs around

Do you need to register ?
Please do register over the following link as it will help us with the planning.