There are so many hot or not picture voting sites out there that cover almost any subject imaginable but a video voting site that uses the same system is new to me. DizKiz pulls videos from youtube and lets the user vote for or against the videos. The majority of videos that they pull are funny ones - especially commercials, blunders, fakes and homemade fun movies.

Instead of voting hot or not you say Kiz which is supposed to mean kiss if you think the video is hot and Diz if you think it is bad and does not deserve a kiss. Users can upload new videos which is on the one hand great because new content gets added regulary by the users. It is however problematic if users do upload videos with questionable content that do not fit the overall theme of the website.

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Didier Stevens did it again with a pretty useful tool that could be used for backups that should be placed on another server on the internet. This is great if you want to separate site or operating system backups from the running server to avoid that both are not recoverable after a crash.

ZIPEncryptFTP is a C# command-line program, you will need the .NET 2.0 framework runtime to run it. It will write to the Application eventlog, so you need to run it the first time with administrator privileges, to register ZIPEncryptFTP with the eventlog.

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Many users are still unaware of the dangers that phishing could mean for their life’s. They might now that hackers try to lure unsuspecting users to fake websites hoping that their victims would try to supply login information, credit card details or social security numbers while trying to use the service. Those users already have difficulties identifying those first generation phishing websites that undoubtedly look and feel more professional with every passing day.

Anti-Phishing toolbars and implementations in the major browsers are useful but can, as you will see, give the user a false sense of security. This can be attributed to the fact that databases that contain the information are not updated in real time. Someone has to report a phishing website before it will be added to the database, it would be more than difficulty to create a automatic solution for this problem.

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I’m so glad that I made the change from bitcomet to uTorrent some time ago because uTorrent is by far the most efficient bittorrent client that I could get my fingers on until now. I receive great speeds, it does not use many resources on my computer, heck the client is only 173 KB in size.

A new uTorrent version was released two days ago which fixes a remote exploit which was discovered earlier on. Hackers were able to manipulate torrent files which would cause a buffer overflow at the targets computer which would make it possible to execute code on it.

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I’m currently developing a new proxy website which has some major advantages over most proxy websites on the internet. The proxy has no problem to handle logins to websites such as myspace, gmail and other login based systems. It is blazing fast and should be great for everyone.

I’m trying to build the service that way that the main use of this proxy is to access websites that have been banned by an administrator in your school, university or workplace or even by your government. The proxy can’t be used for massive downloads, spam, p2p and the like to avoid that it will ever get banned from the hoster.

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