Top 10 Secret Societies Mysteries Through history there have been many secret societies and conspiracy theories about those societies. This is a list of 10 of the most famous and popular secret societies or alleged secret societies. 1. Members of the Skull and Bones (George Bush is left of the clock) [1947] The Order of Skull and Bones, a Yale University society, was originally known as the Brotherhood of Death. According to Judy Schiff, Chief Archivist at the Yale University Library, the names of the members were not kept secret until the 1970s, but the rituals always have been. The society is surrounded by conspiracy theories; the most popular of which is probably the idea that the CIA was built on members from the group. 2. Freemasons Annual Meeting [1992] The Grand Masonic Lodge was created in 1717 when four small groups of lodges joined together. Masons conduct their regular meetings in a ritualized style. In order to become a Mason, you must generally be recommended by a current mason. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Why It Pays to Submit to Hackers | Wired Business Every big online security breach seems to end in a big lecture. Use strong passwords, users are told. Make fresh logins for every website. Back up your data. Encrypt all your stuff. That familiar chorus began again after our own Mat Honan suffered a hack attack in which three different internet accounts were seized and three computing devices wiped of their data. If that advice sounds familiar, it should. That lecture, in turn, followed similar admonitions after Gawker Media let 1.3 million usernames and passwords fall into the hands of hackers in December 2010. ‘Anyone who believes simply educating people is going to solve the problem has been proven wrong.’ The lectures clearly aren’t working and that, behavioral economists say, is because we already know how we should protect ourselves online, we just choose not to do so. “Imagine you live in a suburb, and there’s a stop sign on your way home. “That’s what lulls people into complacency — this regularity of nothing happening.
The African chief converted to Christianity by Dr Livingstone 18 March 2013Last updated at 20:59 ET It is 200 years since the birth of David Livingstone, perhaps the most famous of the missionaries to visit Africa in the 19th Century. But as author and Church historian Stephen Tomkins explains, the story of an African chief he converted is every bit as incredible as Livingstone's. According to the title of one biography, David Livingstone was "Africa's Greatest Missionary". This is an interesting claim about the Lanarkshire-born man, considering that estimates of the number of people he converted in the course of his 30-year career vary between one and none. The variation is because Livingstone himself wrote off his one convert as a backslider within months of his baptism. The irony is that this one backslider has a much better claim than Livingstone to be Africa's greatest missionary. His name was Sechele, and he was the kgosi or chief of the Bakwena tribe, part of the Tswana people, in what is now Botswana. The greater problem was polygamy.
How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions By The GuardianMonday, January 21, 2013 21:15 EDT Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the corner of St James’s Square and Pall Mall. But these office blocks in one of London’s most expensive districts are part of a surprising secret commercial property empire owned by the Vatican. Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the church’s international portfolio has been built up over the years, using cash originally handed over by Mussolini in return for papal recognition of the Italian fascist regime in 1929. Since then the international value of Mussolini’s nest-egg has mounted until it now exceeds £500m. The surprising aspect for some will be the lengths to which the Vatican has gone to preserve secrecy about the Mussolini millions. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2013
The Simplest Security: A Guide To Better Password Practices Refresher – Password Usage Let’s be honest, passwords are annoying. These days, we need a password or PIN everywhere. While we may find them annoying, and even take them for granted, it is important to remember why passwords are important: passwords are often the first (and possibly only) defense against intrusion (MacGregor). Passwords are simpler and cheaper than other, more secure forms of authentication like special key cards, fingerprint ID machines, and retinal scanners. Password Cracking While passwords are a vital component of system security, they can be cracked or broken relatively easily. Another easy way for potential intruders to nab passwords is through social engineering: physically nabbing the password off a Post-It from under someone’s keyboard or through imitating an IT engineer and asking over the phone. How To Choose Good Passwords No Dictionary Words, Proper Nouns, or Foreign Words No Personal Information Length, Width and Depth Extra Protection New Year’s Resolution
Yamao Yōzō Viscount Yamao Yōzō (山尾 庸三?, November 5, 1837 – December 21, 1917) was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became an influential member of the Meiji era government of Japan. Early life[edit] Yamao was born in Aio-Futajima, a village in Chōshū domain (present day Yamaguchi city Yamaguchi prefecture), and had received the traditional training of a samurai at a private school in Edo. Study in Scotland[edit] Return to Japan[edit] After returning to Japan after the Meiji Restoration, Yamao joined the new Meiji government and was for a while in charge of the Yokohama Shipyards (later part of Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries). Yamao assumed the office of rector of the Imperial College of Engineering and was a strong advocate of the need for technical education to support the industrialization of Japan. Yamao was elevated to the rank of shishaku (viscount) in the kazoku peerage system. Auld Lang Syne[edit] Reference and further reading[edit] Beasley, W. External links[edit]
Blood Dragons - The Vampire Encyclopedia Blood Dragons are fallen knights of Bretonnia, neither good nor evil. They are strong in combat and any they find to be a worthy opponent becomes one. Due to this, they have little spellcasting ability. History Edit These vampires are descended from Abhorash, who refused to feed on an innocent human. The Red Duke This Blood Dragon terrorised Aquitaine before he was pierced by his own lance at the battle of Ceren in 1454. Best Practices for Enforcing Password Policies No matter how secure you make a user’s password initially, she will eventually choose her own password. Therefore, you should set account policies that define a secure password for your systems. Account policies are a subset of the policies configurable in Group Policy. Here’s a look at the key settings you will work with. Enforce Password History This sets how frequently old passwords can be reused. Note: To prevent users from working around the Enforce Password History settings, you should prevent users from changing passwords immediately. Maximum Password Age This determines how long users can keep a password before they have to change it. Note: Windows Server 2008 R2 notifies users when the password expiration date is approaching. Minimum Password Age This determines how long users must keep a password before they can change it. Note: Keep in mind that a minimum password age could prevent a user from changing a compromised password. Passwords must have at least six characters.
Lina Cavalieri - le Belle Epoque beauty and Italian Opera Star Lina Cavalieri was called the most beautiful woman in the world - and she may have been. She was born Natalina Cavalieri on Christmas Day in 1874 in Viterbo, Latium, Italy. She lost her parents at the age of 15 and became a ward of the state. She became a famous beauty of le Belle Epoque and audiences flocked to see her as well as hear her. After retiring from the stage Lina Cavalieri ran a cosmetic salon in Paris, wrote an advice column for make-up for women, and published a book, My Secrets of Beauty in 1914 at the age of 40 which detailed over a thousand valuable recipes for beauty and bath preparations of her own.
On Writing and Creativity: Worldbuilding Revisited, part III — Writing Worldbuilding Into Our Books Three weeks ago, when I began this series of posts on Worldbuilding (first installment here, second installment here) one of our regular readers — Razziecat — offered (as usual) a terrific comment (thanks, Razz!). In it, she quoted the wonderful Lois McMaster Bujold, who once said, “The world comes into being as the story passes through it.” This is one of those things I wish I had said first, because it is so simply and elegantly stated, and because it is so very true. And so in today’s continuation of the Worldbuilding series, I am going to focus on the ways in which I incorporate my worldbuilding into the actual writing of my books and stories. Bujold’s statement about worldbuilding actually works on several levels. But at a more fundamental level, I find that when I’ve done my worldbuilding well, the actual writing — the prose itself — reflects elements of the setting. There were bodies. Second, present the information unobtrusively. Finally, stay true to voice and point of view.
Password Management Best Practices This document describes and justifies password management best practices as applied in medium to large organizations. It offers reasoned guidance to IT decision makers when they set security policy and design network infrastructure that includes passwords. The guidance in this document is focused on how to best manage user passwords. It is not intended to address the special challenges and techniques that arise when managing privileged passwords, that belong to administrators, service accounts, etc. Look for the marks throughout this document to find best practices. User authentication and passwords Definitions Identification The unique identifier that a user types to sign into a system or application is that user's login ID on that system. Authentication technologies Authentication technologies may be categorized as follows: Generally, it is more secure but less convenient to use multiple forms of authentication -- e.g., a one time password token combined with a password or PIN. Human factors
Bartolomé de las Casas Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. (Seville, c. 1484[1] – Madrid, 18 July 1566), was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples. Arriving as one of the first European settlers in the Americas, he participated in, and was eventually compelled to oppose, the atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. In 1515, he reformed his views, gave up his Indian slaves and encomienda, and advocated, before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, on behalf of rights for the natives. Life and times[edit] Background and arrival in the New World[edit]