tudy .ro – Tudor Damian
I plan to live forever. So far, so good.
SCE 2010 RC is out
Jan 20th
Yesterday, David Mills, Senior Product Manager on System Center announced that the System Center Essentials 2010 Release Candidate is available. This is from the Nexus SC blog:
Microsoft® System Center Essentials 2010 provides a unified IT management solution that enables you to simply and efficiently perform complex management tasks across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware, software and IT services from a single console.
Essentials 2010 -
- Delivers single console monitoring and management with summary information, common tasks, alerts and reports, allowing you to quickly see and manage your IT environment.
- Provides rapid provisioning, importation, management and live migration of virtual servers.
- Simplifies complex management tasks like packaging and deploying software, and configuring Microsoft and third-party updates.
- Helps quickly solve problems using integrated alerting, expert knowledge and troubleshooting for servers, PCs and IT services running in your IT environment.
Microsoft launches Kodu
Jan 15th
If you’re into maths, design or programming, this new visual programming language called Kodu designed especially for creating games might be the thing for you. Even though it was originally released for Xbox-360 only, it’s now available on the PC as well. Here’s a list of features from the official Kodu website:
Kodu provides an end-to-end creative environment for designing, building, and playing your own new games.
- High-level language incorporates real-world primitives: collision, color, vision
- Runs on Xbox 360 and PC
- Interactive terrain editor
- Bridge and path builder
- Terrain editor – create worlds of arbitrary shape and size
- 20 different characters with different abilities
White Hat Hacking course round-up
Dec 6th
Okay, now that the WHH course is over, here’s a quick link to all the presentations [in Romanian]:
- www.slideshare.net/Tudy/white-hat-hacking-1 (social engineering, hacking ethics)
- www.slideshare.net/Tudy/white-hat-hacking-2 (privacy, social media security, wireless networks)
- www.slideshare.net/Tudy/white-hat-hacking-3 (information security, web threats, network/security best practices)
Also, for all those who attended the course, I have some extra content available for download on whh.tudy.ro. For the ones that weren’t present at the last meeting: you may contact me directly for access. 
A big thanks to MAP UBB for their help in organizing this, and of course to all the attendees, along with a note that I’m still available for any questions/discussions you might want to raise on the subject. 
White Hat Hacking course #3
Dec 1st
This Saturday I’m holding the third and last part of my White Hat Hacking course.
This one is going to address information security (malware, botnets, phishing, crimeware, scareware, ddos attacks, etc), web threats (SQLi, XSS, CSRF, RFI) and some general network/security best practices.
White Hat Hacking course #2
Nov 27th
After last week’s meeting, where we talked about hacking ethics and social engineering, tomorrow it’s time for the second part of my WHH course – this time about privacy, social media security and wireless networks.
The time and location are the same.
White Hat Hacking course
Nov 20th
Just got back from Sinergija ‘09 in Belgrade, thus the delay in announcing this: after last year’s course’s positive feedback, I’ll be holding the White Hat Hacking course again this year, starting tomorrow.
Even if it’s roughly the same outline as last year, there’s going to be some extra/updated content. To sum things up, I’ll be addressing topics such as social engineering, hacking ethics, systems security attacks, penetration testing, web and wireless security.
You can find more details on the time and place of the event on the event page.
Windows 7 – academic launch
Nov 5th
After last week’s Microsoft Academic Program opening in UBB Cluj, this week is time for the official academic launch of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. I’ll be the one talking a bit about the latter (Win 2008).
More details on the launch announcement page.
