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What is the purpose of CASEScontact?

CASEScontact is a knowledge and e-learning community for people who would like to stay abreast new developments in such areas as New Technology, Security, Awareness, Vulnerability, etc

CASEScontact site that provides home users with the information they need to safeguard their information assets while protecting their home computers. Second, our information is for people who want to drive (surf) without becoming mechanics (techies). Hence, information is short, to-the-point and does not require the reader to be a techie or a nurd to fix the problem quickly on one.

Finally, our service is free to home-users others and, most importantly, the tools or software we offer you to fix your problem is usually FREE as well. We provide members with pertinent information, tidbits and other resources that help you in keeping abreast new developments and changes that affect your live and cyberspace experience For instance, some of the resources we provide to you help with the following - protecting your personal information such as age or credit card number against identity theft, - reducing spam by changing your surfing habits and installing the right anti-spam tools, - safeguarding your broadband connection by helping you check if your computer‘s firewall is installed correctly, - how to use your mobile phone‘s address book without having to be afraid of a hacker stealing its contents, and - protecting your wireless network at home in five easy steps for the technically challenged.

CASEScontact also acts as a laboratory to test out new ideas, approaches and security measures developed by CyTrap.org and its team.

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What is CASEScontact's philosophy?

CASEScontact DE is Germany‘s National Node of the Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement System (CASES), an international network between various governments used for exchanging information regarding information security awareness and prevention for citizens and SMEs (e.g. www.CASES-CC.org) For more information please also see: http://security.weburb.dk/frame/show/news/3195

CASEScontact is a public-private partnership – CASESkontakt.de is hosted at the International School of New Media (ISNM) – at the University of Luebeck in collaboration with the Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD SH - Independent State Center for Privacy and Data Security Schleswig-Holstein) and other organizations (e.g. www.EICAR.org, CASES-cc.org).

CASEScontact is an e-learning community whereby instead of re-inventing the wheel, members and subscribers share information, tools and ideas to help each other. Sharing knowledge and being part of this e-learning community benefits each individual. However, success depends also on members.

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Who are CASEScontact's content providers?

Various government and corporate parties support CASES.
Full Members in the CASES network are at this stage:

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Who are CASEScontact's users and members?

  • Teenagers – surfing on the Web
  • Family members – making sure the PC used by members is protected against attacks
  • John Doe – trying to protect himself against spam and spyware
  • Jennie – being wired in more ways than one

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What is CASEScontact good for or why should I become a member?

CASEScontact is very user friendly and allows to subscribe and benefit from various services. If you are concerned about your privacy, this is the place to be, since none of the information held about you will be shared with anybody for commercial or other purposes.

You have the choice to provide only as much information as you wish to CASEScontact, as long as it permits the latter to deliver the information or content you desire to you (e.g., cellular/mobile phone number to receive free alerts/advisories about computer viruses via SMS). CASEScontact is trying to let you be in the driver seat by deciding what type of services and content you need to make your life a little bit easier in today's fast moving environment.

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What is RSS?

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication (depending on who you ask), and is a markup language similar to HTML code used to construct a web page. RSS works by organizing text information in a way which makes information easily syndicated by other web sites, software, or database applications. To download RSS information to my machine, I use a news aggregation software called RSS Bandit - also has German version available - or use another one, such as, www.feedreader.com

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What is RSS bandit?

RSS Bandit is a software application used to manage subscriptions to news feed channels. When an RSS-compatible website publishes new information, the new content is written to an RSS file. RSS Bandit works by checking RSS "channel" subscriptions on a schedule set by the user, and then updates its browser with changes it finds since the previous update.

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How is RSS different than subscribing to CASEScontact‘s eMailed Threat Alerts and Newsletters?

Channel publishing serves many of the same functions an email newsletter would. The publisher writes something and publishes it; instead of sending the new information to your mail inbox, RSS Bandit automatically grabs the information from CASEScontact.org’s web site.

One of the major differences between an email newsletter and an RSS feed is the availability and readiness of up-to-the-minute information. If you forget to check CASEScontact.org for a Threat Alert update or you do not have to your mailbox, that could mean you might miss out on some vital security information.

With news feed subscriptions, You do not have to keep track of this sort of thing because the RSS aggregator remembers for you.

One other great thing about RSS is that it offers a summary of articles or the Threat Alert with a link to the full source of information online such as CERT (similar to the email version of the security.Weburb.dk newsletter). This makes it easy to quickly scan an article, see if it's interesting, and then read more or delete it.

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Where can I find new feeds?

CASEScontact.org has a news feed and so does Luebecker Nachrichten. Many niche publishers, also distribute artandicles using news feed channels.

If a site offers a channel subscription option, you generally see a little orange button with XML in white letters like this: XML feed

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What RSS Bandit do?

Easily subscribe to your favorite feed: RSS Bandit offers a wizard to automatically add the channel to the subscription list. Type the URL of the Website in the wizard and RSS Bandit will find the channel and subscribe to it.

Build a custom News Bin or Folder: News bins or folders organize articles for later reading, similar to the way folders in Mozilla or Eudora help organize email. To use my example of of Security Tips, assume I get 3 tips about reducing spam. If I want to keep 2 of them to refer to later, I can store these articles in the Security Tip for later reading.

Conclusion

Keeping up with new information at all the Websites you want to frequent is next to impossible -- there's just too many of them. Applications like RSS Bandit, however, make it easy, allowing you to subscribe to the information you want.

Like e-mail, the news is delivered to you as it happens. Built in search functionality makes finding news relevant to your needs a snap.

Downloads ( RSS Bandit and Feedreader are both free):

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Cordially,
Your ContactCASES Team

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