Project Honey Pot

Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If one of these addresses begins receiving email we not only can tell that the messages are spam, but also the exact moment when the address was harvested and the IP address that gathered it.

To participate in Project Honey Pot, webmasters need only install the Project Honey Pot software somewhere on their website. We handle the rest — automatically distributing addresses and receiving the mail they generate. As a result, we anticipate installing Project Honey Pot should not increase the traffic or load to your website.

We collate, process, and share the data generated by your site with you. We also work with law enforcement authorities to track down and prosecute spammers. Harvesting email addresses from websites is illegal under several anti-spam laws, and the data resulting from Project Honey Pot is critical for finding those breaking the law.

F-Secure Online Health Check

F-Secure Online Heath Check

F-Secure Health Check will tell you if your computer is protected. It checks that you have up to date security applications and finds vulnerabilities in your installed software. It then guides you to a solution when issues are discovered.

Internet Explorer and 32Bit version of windows only.

Very easy to use and a good way of checking your system to ensure your running the latest and secure software versions. If you administrator account is separate from your normal user account, you will need to log into your administrator account to run the check.

Twitter Blocker - Twitter AntiSpam

http://tweetblocker.com

"Tweetblocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers. Using highly advanced filtering, we catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily find spammers."


Tweetblocker provides an easy way to run and assessment against your followers and obtain a rating against them. Whilst not flawless with its ratings it also provides a way of reporting spammers to improve the service.

PhishTank - A Community Project

http://www.phishtank.com/

Able to spot a phishing email in your mail? Submit it to the phishtank community or alternatively join the community to verify phishes submitted to the tank to help other internet users. There is not set time you need to devote to submitting or verifying phishes so you can devote as much time as you like to helping the community.

Every bit helps.

Mount A Hard Disk (EXT3 / EXT4) Automatically at bootime - Ubuntu

First you will need to make a directory for the hard drive to be mounted to.

Open a terminal.
sudo mkdir /etc/media/disk-1

Then you will need to edit fstab to mount the partition on booting. I am going to assume you know how to back up the fstab file, once backed up.
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add an additional line
/dev/sdb1 /media/disk-1 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,users,user_xattr,user 0 0

then save.

(If you are mounting an ext4 filesystem simply change ext3 to ext4)


Now we need to take ownership of the partition otherwise you will need to keep opening it as root to write to it.
sudo chown -R YourUserName:YoursUserGroup /media/disk-1

Now reboot. When Ubuntu loads the partition should feature on your desktop and accessible for read and write.

ScribeFire Blog Editor - Firefox Add On

ScribeFire Blog Editor

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. Supports a lot of different blogging platforms, tags (categories, multiple blogs, entry viewing, posting, drafting and more) and is extremely easy to use. This is the firefox plugin I use often to update this blog from within Firefox rather than having to open and log into blogger in a different tab.