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By Patricia E. Beeson


We all want to become more confident and feel good about ourselves so we can live our very best life. Here are some ways to gain confidence and raise self-esteem:Do something that requires a decision and a follow-through.Have you been putting off writing that letter to aunt Martha? Is there a friend you've been meaning to call? Wash the car, tidy the garden or clean the house. You'll gain confidence by setting goals (even small ones) and following through on them.Enjoy something you do well.

This ignores two important facts. One is that we are not simply victims of our external situations. We can choose our response to any given situation. When we look at one person caught in a traffic jam having a tantrum and another relaxing in their car like they are on a beach, we can see that the same situation has brought out two different responses. The traffic jam does not have an automatic response it brings out in people. It is a neutral event and we choose to shed a positive or negative light on it based on our own beliefs and thoughts.

Allow being judged. This is something that can be really hard, but guess what. In order to boost self confidence to great heights, you must be able to do things your way and be OK with other people disliking what you do. Again, almost everybody in the world judges people, I judge people for sure. If somebody tells me that I am something negative that I know I am. Let's say ugly, or fat... I can simply laugh it off and say, "So what, I can't change my genes and this is the way I am, do you have something else you want to judge me by, please get it off your chest?". See there is nothing a person can say to you that you can't counter in one way or another. Have really strong beliefs. The two tips above come down to one thing and that is having a strong self belief and solid ground in your confidence. There are many exercises you can take in order to really learn how to gain self confidence. You must get your beliefs in order first, otherwise you will always have a doubt in your mind somewhere. People are experts at destroying their own beliefs by having negative thoughts. STOP negative thoughts now.

At the end of the day, you've interacted with others and will notice that you feel much lighter.Learning to become more relaxed is a great life enhancer. People who are more relaxed have fewer problems with their memories and are more likely to take the bumps in the road of life in stride.

You weren't born a shy person. You aren't a shy person because it has something to do with your genes. Shyness isn't a life sentence. Most people tend to think of themselves as shy people because at times they feel insecure. If you feel insecure from time to time, it doesn't mean that you are shy!Here's a simple exercise for you. Think of situations when you felt truly confident, relaxed and extroverted. Done? Now think about it. If there were so many situations when you felt you were a confident person, you can't be shy by nature. And that means that you can change yourself and become 100% confident person. Read some articles on how to gain confidence, take action and you'll get rid of your shyness!

Patience. Learning how to gain self confidence is like fishing with a fishing rod, in a way. Let me explain. have you ever tried to fish with a fishing rod and you see something happen. You reel in to see if something happened. You find the fish has broke lose. You get pissed and throw it back in the water. This happens 5-10 times before you catch anything. In the mean time your friend is pulling up the fish every single time and he is laughing of joy. He is patient... he knows that when the fish bites, it takes a little bit of time before the hook is 100% attached. The point here is that, if something doesn't work for you, throw the rod back in and try again. When you want to give up the most, you know you are the closest!

Dating is simply defined as the act of meeting a person and taking time to know him/her better. This is usually a very exciting process, especially for first timers in dating. The first date is crucial in forming the foundation for a potential relationship. As they say, first impression lasts, and I agree. When your first date doesn't go as well as planned, your date may choose not to see you again. This can feel disappointing since most of us long to meet and connect with someone who can actually complement our personality. Losing the opportunity to build a lasting relationship with someone can feel frustrating, but I've found out that confidence is the key to a successful first date. Here are 4 important tips on gaining self-confidence while dating.First, look good. The number one thing that your date will see during your first date is your outward appearance. Good personal hygiene and dressing appropriately is a plus point for a successful first date.

How to gain confidence to speak a foreign language? If you are asking yourself this question, you are in the right place! I'm going to show you three tips on how to work on your confidence, stop being shy and become a fluent speaker. Here they are!This is the most important thing that you need to understand. There are no mistakes - there is only feedback. You can't learn anything without making mistakes. Making mistakes is an inherent part of learning new languages. Treat mistakes as your friends, because they are your friends - they will help you learn a new language!

If you get out of bed in the morning and you immediately moan to yourself about the weather, the prospect of work, your looks, etc., then guess what? You will be destined to have a bad day. You are priming your subconscious to create a bad day for you.Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." And he was right. If you think positive thoughts when you get up in the morning, then you will enjoy a much better day, regardless of what actually happens.Accomplishments are necessary when you are learning how to gain confidence. They give you a sense of value and self worth. It's important that you set yourself new goals on a regular basis, making sure that they are set small to begin with. As your self confidence grows, you should set yourself increasingly more challenging goals.

Fourth, be yourself. There is no better way to impress your date than by just being yourself! Show him/her the real you; don't pretend to be someone else you are not. By being who you are, you become more comfortable with the way you present yourself as well as the way you engage in conversations. This increases your self-confidence because you don't have to pretend, you just simply show your date the real you.First dates are very exciting, yet it can cause most people feel anxious. It is important to gain confidence especially with first dates to increase the chances of forming lasting relationships with someone new. Through gaining self-confidence, you increase your chances of being successful with your first date and many more.




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Tips on How to Gain Self Confidence

By Patricia E. Beeson


We all want to become more confident and feel good about ourselves so we can live our very best life. Here are some ways to gain confidence and raise self-esteem:Do something that requires a decision and a follow-through.Have you been putting off writing that letter to aunt Martha? Is there a friend you've been meaning to call? Wash the car, tidy the garden or clean the house. You'll gain confidence by setting goals (even small ones) and following through on them.Enjoy something you do well.

This ignores two important facts. One is that we are not simply victims of our external situations. We can choose our response to any given situation. When we look at one person caught in a traffic jam having a tantrum and another relaxing in their car like they are on a beach, we can see that the same situation has brought out two different responses. The traffic jam does not have an automatic response it brings out in people. It is a neutral event and we choose to shed a positive or negative light on it based on our own beliefs and thoughts.

Allow being judged. This is something that can be really hard, but guess what. In order to boost self confidence to great heights, you must be able to do things your way and be OK with other people disliking what you do. Again, almost everybody in the world judges people, I judge people for sure. If somebody tells me that I am something negative that I know I am. Let's say ugly, or fat... I can simply laugh it off and say, "So what, I can't change my genes and this is the way I am, do you have something else you want to judge me by, please get it off your chest?". See there is nothing a person can say to you that you can't counter in one way or another. Have really strong beliefs. The two tips above come down to one thing and that is having a strong self belief and solid ground in your confidence. There are many exercises you can take in order to really learn how to gain self confidence. You must get your beliefs in order first, otherwise you will always have a doubt in your mind somewhere. People are experts at destroying their own beliefs by having negative thoughts. STOP negative thoughts now.

At the end of the day, you've interacted with others and will notice that you feel much lighter.Learning to become more relaxed is a great life enhancer. People who are more relaxed have fewer problems with their memories and are more likely to take the bumps in the road of life in stride.

You weren't born a shy person. You aren't a shy person because it has something to do with your genes. Shyness isn't a life sentence. Most people tend to think of themselves as shy people because at times they feel insecure. If you feel insecure from time to time, it doesn't mean that you are shy!Here's a simple exercise for you. Think of situations when you felt truly confident, relaxed and extroverted. Done? Now think about it. If there were so many situations when you felt you were a confident person, you can't be shy by nature. And that means that you can change yourself and become 100% confident person. Read some articles on how to gain confidence, take action and you'll get rid of your shyness!

Patience. Learning how to gain self confidence is like fishing with a fishing rod, in a way. Let me explain. have you ever tried to fish with a fishing rod and you see something happen. You reel in to see if something happened. You find the fish has broke lose. You get pissed and throw it back in the water. This happens 5-10 times before you catch anything. In the mean time your friend is pulling up the fish every single time and he is laughing of joy. He is patient... he knows that when the fish bites, it takes a little bit of time before the hook is 100% attached. The point here is that, if something doesn't work for you, throw the rod back in and try again. When you want to give up the most, you know you are the closest!

Dating is simply defined as the act of meeting a person and taking time to know him/her better. This is usually a very exciting process, especially for first timers in dating. The first date is crucial in forming the foundation for a potential relationship. As they say, first impression lasts, and I agree. When your first date doesn't go as well as planned, your date may choose not to see you again. This can feel disappointing since most of us long to meet and connect with someone who can actually complement our personality. Losing the opportunity to build a lasting relationship with someone can feel frustrating, but I've found out that confidence is the key to a successful first date. Here are 4 important tips on gaining self-confidence while dating.First, look good. The number one thing that your date will see during your first date is your outward appearance. Good personal hygiene and dressing appropriately is a plus point for a successful first date.

How to gain confidence to speak a foreign language? If you are asking yourself this question, you are in the right place! I'm going to show you three tips on how to work on your confidence, stop being shy and become a fluent speaker. Here they are!This is the most important thing that you need to understand. There are no mistakes - there is only feedback. You can't learn anything without making mistakes. Making mistakes is an inherent part of learning new languages. Treat mistakes as your friends, because they are your friends - they will help you learn a new language!

If you get out of bed in the morning and you immediately moan to yourself about the weather, the prospect of work, your looks, etc., then guess what? You will be destined to have a bad day. You are priming your subconscious to create a bad day for you.Abraham Lincoln once said, "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." And he was right. If you think positive thoughts when you get up in the morning, then you will enjoy a much better day, regardless of what actually happens.Accomplishments are necessary when you are learning how to gain confidence. They give you a sense of value and self worth. It's important that you set yourself new goals on a regular basis, making sure that they are set small to begin with. As your self confidence grows, you should set yourself increasingly more challenging goals.

Fourth, be yourself. There is no better way to impress your date than by just being yourself! Show him/her the real you; don't pretend to be someone else you are not. By being who you are, you become more comfortable with the way you present yourself as well as the way you engage in conversations. This increases your self-confidence because you don't have to pretend, you just simply show your date the real you.First dates are very exciting, yet it can cause most people feel anxious. It is important to gain confidence especially with first dates to increase the chances of forming lasting relationships with someone new. Through gaining self-confidence, you increase your chances of being successful with your first date and many more.




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Posted at 1:10 AM |  by taoufiq
By Tera Marsh


Some people like riding horses across grassy fields. Others like to sail their boats in treacherous waters. You like to do both, except you prefer to do so in the safety of your own home. Battling vicious Nazi armies or flying through space, video games let you live out your fantasies and more, and this article has all the tips you require.

Set a timer when you are playing video games. It can be easy to get caught up in playing games and lose track of time. If you want to only play for one hour, set an alarm and quit when it goes off. This way you don't let games consume your life.

Monitor your child's video game playing time. Video games are extremely fun and very addictive. A child can get sucked into a game for hours on end if there is no parental supervision. Pay attention to the child's time and force breaks and maximum playing times to make sure your youngster still enjoys the world around him.

If you are interested in the world of gaming, but don't really have time to play games yourself, you should know there is a whole subset of gamers who make videos for others to watch. These come in two forms, competitive and "lets play." Let's play videos often include entertaining commentary.

After setting up a system regarding how long and how often your children can play games, put that in writing. Post the rules in a visible location and make sure you review them often. If a situation arises where your child disagrees with you, simply refer back to the rules that have been previously set up.

When you're playing a new game, always take the time to fully explore your surroundings. Being inattentive can cause you to miss important cues and clues, including time-saving shortcuts and valuable hidden items. Don't feel rushed just because the game tells you that you need to hurry; you will usually have enough time to look around.

If you are thinking about selling some of your used video games online, only accept cash or cash at time of pickup. There are so many scams that can happen online. Either use a reputable company like Paypal that will pay you in cash or only accept cash when the buyer picks up the game.

Don't play continuously for too many hours. Get up, stretch, walk around, get your blood flowing and your lungs full of air. It's important to get at least 5 minutes of movement in every half hour to keep your brain fully oxygenated and your body in healthy condition at all times.

You can develop problems with your wrist and fingers with excessive game play. A good way to minimize the fatigue and problems associated with this, try exercising your hands and wrists with stress balls or other devices. This will allow you to play for longer periods of time and might actually improve your gaming skills.

To save some money on your video games, think about subscribing to a service that you can rent games from. The cost of these rental agreements for a year is usually less than the price of two games. You can keep the games until you beat them and just send them back and order another one.

To improve your performance, turn down the music. When you need to concentrate on a particularly difficult game or level, check the options for a way to turn off the in game music. Even if you are not actively paying attention to it, a small part of your brain is. Turning it off allows you to devote your full brain power to the game.

Play against your friends, family and even strangers. Games play in the same way over and over again, no matter how "random" they claim to be. Truly playing against the best means beating other human beings, as if you can beat others like yourself, you'll be the best in the game.

Whether you want to own a virtual pet or beat back alien forces on the Earth, a video game is out there which lets you do just that and more. Having some hints to make you a better gamer won't hurt! Read as much as you can do gain the knowledge you need to be victorious!




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Best Ways To Improve Your Video Gaming Fun

By Tera Marsh


Some people like riding horses across grassy fields. Others like to sail their boats in treacherous waters. You like to do both, except you prefer to do so in the safety of your own home. Battling vicious Nazi armies or flying through space, video games let you live out your fantasies and more, and this article has all the tips you require.

Set a timer when you are playing video games. It can be easy to get caught up in playing games and lose track of time. If you want to only play for one hour, set an alarm and quit when it goes off. This way you don't let games consume your life.

Monitor your child's video game playing time. Video games are extremely fun and very addictive. A child can get sucked into a game for hours on end if there is no parental supervision. Pay attention to the child's time and force breaks and maximum playing times to make sure your youngster still enjoys the world around him.

If you are interested in the world of gaming, but don't really have time to play games yourself, you should know there is a whole subset of gamers who make videos for others to watch. These come in two forms, competitive and "lets play." Let's play videos often include entertaining commentary.

After setting up a system regarding how long and how often your children can play games, put that in writing. Post the rules in a visible location and make sure you review them often. If a situation arises where your child disagrees with you, simply refer back to the rules that have been previously set up.

When you're playing a new game, always take the time to fully explore your surroundings. Being inattentive can cause you to miss important cues and clues, including time-saving shortcuts and valuable hidden items. Don't feel rushed just because the game tells you that you need to hurry; you will usually have enough time to look around.

If you are thinking about selling some of your used video games online, only accept cash or cash at time of pickup. There are so many scams that can happen online. Either use a reputable company like Paypal that will pay you in cash or only accept cash when the buyer picks up the game.

Don't play continuously for too many hours. Get up, stretch, walk around, get your blood flowing and your lungs full of air. It's important to get at least 5 minutes of movement in every half hour to keep your brain fully oxygenated and your body in healthy condition at all times.

You can develop problems with your wrist and fingers with excessive game play. A good way to minimize the fatigue and problems associated with this, try exercising your hands and wrists with stress balls or other devices. This will allow you to play for longer periods of time and might actually improve your gaming skills.

To save some money on your video games, think about subscribing to a service that you can rent games from. The cost of these rental agreements for a year is usually less than the price of two games. You can keep the games until you beat them and just send them back and order another one.

To improve your performance, turn down the music. When you need to concentrate on a particularly difficult game or level, check the options for a way to turn off the in game music. Even if you are not actively paying attention to it, a small part of your brain is. Turning it off allows you to devote your full brain power to the game.

Play against your friends, family and even strangers. Games play in the same way over and over again, no matter how "random" they claim to be. Truly playing against the best means beating other human beings, as if you can beat others like yourself, you'll be the best in the game.

Whether you want to own a virtual pet or beat back alien forces on the Earth, a video game is out there which lets you do just that and more. Having some hints to make you a better gamer won't hurt! Read as much as you can do gain the knowledge you need to be victorious!




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Posted at 1:02 AM |  by taoufiq
For those of us following or taking part in the various hacktivist activities happening around the globe on a regular basis, doxing is a regular feature. We wake up in the morning to find the personal lives of businessmen, hackers who have made target of themselves for one reason or another, government employees, and a host of others spilled out onto the Internet for the entire world to see. Doxing can be a tool for use in security testing, investigation, or research on the positive side. But it can also be a tool for humiliation, harassment, and worse on the negative side.
In the Part I of this article, we will discuss what exactly doxing is and the tools and techniques we might use to carry out such an attack. In the Part II of this article we will talk about the steps we can take to at least lessen its impact, should we find ourselves on the receiving end of such efforts.

What is Doxing?
The word doxing is a simple word involving a bit of mangling of the English language in order to communicate a somewhat more complex concept. We arrive at doxing by starting with documents, shortening it to docs, applying a bit of leetness to make it dox, then transforming it into a verb: documents -> docs -> dox -> doxing. But what is it?  Doxing is the process of locating, to the greatest extent possible, all of the information available on an individual, this being generally followed by the exposure of the information discovered to a group or the general public. Those following along might also realize that doxing, information reconnaissance, OSINT, and a number of other similar concepts are all very closely related, so much so that we might successfully argue that they are slight variations on describing the exact same concept.

We commonly see doxing used by hacking groups such as Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, and so on. An excellent example is the large scale doxing of law enforcement-related personnel by Anonymous in December of 2011, an act which was reportedly carried out in revenge for the close attention being given to hacktivist groups by various law enforcement agencies. In this particular attack the information on over 7000 people was exposed, including names, addresses, social security numbers, email contents, passwords to sensitive systems, and a great deal of other information.
On the white hat side of the fence, a somewhat more restrained form of doxing is also used, although generally much more limited in the set of techniques available, and generally lacking the public exposure of information. Doxing techniques may be used by penetration testers, security researchers, incident responders, and investigators to collect information on potential targets, track down information regarding the origins of tools used in attacks or malware, or to locate the originator of an attack. In March of 2012, the FBI is said to have used information gained from doxing and turned over by another hacking group to arrest Hector Monsegur, a.k.a Sabu, who is widely supposed to have been the founder and/or leader of LulzSec.
Ultimately, doxing is searching for information on an individual, although usually taken to a much greater length than the typical light cyberstalking or ego surfing many of us engage in on a daily basis.
Why Would Anyone Want To Do This?
The motivations behind doxing, whether originated by the good guys or the bad guys, are generally not positive for the person who is the target of such activity. As we mentioned, doxing is used by those who are considered to be on the dark side, hackers (in the bad sense) and hacktivist groups, and also by others such as stalkers, identity thieves, internet trolls, and so on. Usually people in this group seek out said information to attack or harass their targets in some fashion. The specific motivations here may vary somewhat, but we can quickly come up with specific cases in which the entirety of the available data on an individual might be used including name, address and social security number (the identity theft trifecta), account credentials, telephone numbers, and so on.
Even on the light side, where we might find an investigator, incident responder, law enforcement, or other similar personnel using such techniques, the consequences for the target will likely be at least unpleasant, if not targeted at the same ultimate goals. In actuality, much of the set of techniques we would call doxing is simply referred to as investigation in such communities.
What are the Consequences of Being Doxed?
The consequences of doxed information being exposed can range from slight irritation to serious threat to health, livelihood, or potentially life. We can very quickly see where exposing information on a person’s social activities, sexual preference, medical history, and other such interesting bits of information may be seriously damaging. This type of exposure could easily result in public embarrassment, severe reputational damage, loss of employment, identity theft, and worse.
A fairly serious example of doxing and subsequent attacks can be seen in the actions taken by Anonymous against Aaron Barr, then the CEO of HBGary Federal, a defense contracting company. In February of 2011, Barr announced his infiltration of Anonymous and said he would expose the information he had found in a talk at a security conference that year. As with most cases of poking a wasp nest with a stick, this ended badly. Anonymous doxed Barr and attacked the HBGary Federal servers, later posting tens of thousands of emails from the HBGary Federal systems on the Internet, as well as the body of personal information on Barr himself. They subsequently took over social networking accounts, compromising servers, and generally causing quite a bit of havoc. Ultimately, this series of attacks resulted in Barr resigning, reputation damage to Barr and HBGary Federal, some level of investigation by the US House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, and the US Congress.
Doxing Techniques
A number of different sources can provide information for doxing efforts. We can, for instance, collect from social networking sites and tools, people-oriented search tools, pay search sites, public records, and any of a number of other places. Some such sources or tools are generic and will show data on nearly any name we care to enter, and others are very specific and pertain to a particular company, city, or the like.
Typically when we start to dox someone, we will have some small amount of information to start with. A name, depending on how common the name is, is a good starting point; a name and an email address are better. If we have an email address on which to search, we may immediately turn up other sources of information, particularly if the target in question uses the email address as a common account name, posts online frequently, etc. Given a name, email address, and a city, we may be able to turn up a home address, employer, professional organizations, local sports teams or hobby groups, and so on. Each additional piece of information we turn up adds to the body of information we have and makes validating the next piece of information along the path much easier. The more information we have to begin with, the easier our job is.
If we are starting with a weak set of information, or the target has a very common name (James Smith would be a problem), we may have to do a bit of inference at the beginning. One of the most likely starting points would be to pin down a physical location to a smaller area. If we know James Smith had a particular IP address at some point, we look this IP up to find which ISP or company this IP belongs to. Based on this, we might narrow down our search parameters to the areas this ISP serves or this company operates in. Of course the danger exists that our inference is entirely wrong, and we have just gone down the wrong path entirely. But we do have to start somewhere.

Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites can provide a virtual gold mine of information for doxing purposes. A typical person who is at all active online will typically have accounts on at least two or three social networking sites. Depending on the site in question, we may find all manner of personal information (some not fit for public consumption) including current and past employers, education, physical location data, and a plethora of other items.

Of benefit to those using such sites to collect information is the myriad of privacy and sharing settings, each being entirely unique to a particular site. Those of us who are security professionals may have a good grip on handling such settings and may be aware of the need to restrict our personal information, putting us in a better position than the common user to properly safeguard our information. In some cases, this may not be good enough to completely protect us. The companies who run these social networking tools regularly update their privacy settings, and many of them allow “friends” to take actions like tagging pictures with names and re-sharing information, thus circumventing our security efforts.
Additionally, friends, family, co-workers, et al may provide another avenue for gathering information, even if the target has a properly secured account and is extremely careful. Given a particularly chatty friend on a social networking site, we may not even need information directly from the target. This is one of the main reasons that doxing efforts often extend outside of the target in question.

We may also be able to bypass the security measures on a social networking account by simply asking for access to the information through whatever friending mechanism available for the service in question. Such an approach will often enjoy success if we create an account impersonating someone who the target already knows or has some history with, such as a friend, co-worker, classmate etc. We can see an excellent example of this in the Robin Sage incident in which a security researcher impersonating a woman managed to friend over 300 people and gain access to all manner of sensitive information, including classified military information on troop movements.
General Online Content
Although social networking sites provide us with one of the richest sources we may find, they are by no means the only sources available. We can find all types of information by looking for online resumes, blog postings, postings to newsgroups, archives of local newspapers, newsletters from professional organizations, records of births, deaths, and marriages, any of a number of public records and other data. The problem we encounter when digging for such data is finding what we actually want in the massive volume we might need to sift through.
People-oriented Search Tools
Given this enormous body of information available to search, it is helpful to filter some of this through sets of tools that will do some of the work for us. Fortunately, there are a number of services that will conduct searches oriented around individuals and will often give us at least some portion of the information we seek for free. Some of the more common tools include:
• Pipl.com
• Spokeo.com
• Zabasearch.com
• Mylife.com
• Peekyou.com
 and many, many, others. These sites will commonly turn up names, addresses, birth dates, family members, pictures, documents, employers, and quite a bit of other information. Such sites do not exist out of pure altruism, so they will often display a certain amount of information as a hook and then ask for a payment to access the remainder. We can usually get enough free information from such search engines on which to base further searches or general digging, making these sites worth a visit.
In addition there are a number of pay sites that exist for the purpose of performing “background checks,” allowing us direct access to databases of information collected on individuals. These sites will likely include the same set of information as the people-oriented search engines (in fact they may be the same company), but the better sites will also have access to more difficult to reach records such as criminal proceedings, court documents, mortgage documents, and other similar items that are public or semi-public records. Most of this data is available to the individual in general, should we choose to look for it, but it often requires considerably more legwork and expense to obtain. A few background check sites include:
• Intelius.com
• Ussearch.com
• Peoplefinders.com


Information about Domains and Networks
Considering the connectedness of the average computer-savvy person these days, chances are we will be able to turn up an IP address or domain name connected to them in some fashion. Given a small amount of such information, unless the person has been particularly careful, we will often be able to quickly find a good deal more with a few simple searches.
Whois searches and searches of DNS records can often give us contacts for the domain or IP in question, sometimes even being directly connected to the individual who is our target. While this seems unlikely and entirely too easy, such information is often present. Aggregation tool sites such as Netcraft.com, IPinfoDB.com, and yougetsignal.com can also provide us with additional information such as where the system on the other end of the domain name or IP might be physically located, what software it is running, and any of a number of other useful bits.
Lastly, we would be remiss to not mention the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org. The Wayback Machine archives the content of a huge number of web servers on a regular basis, and looking at changes to a website over time can be extremely instructive.  It may be that the system on the other end of a domain name contains no interesting information now, but it might have a month ago, or a year ago, or five years ago. The Wayback Machine can be en extremely helpful tool for many research efforts.
Our Friend Google
 Google can be the doxers best friend. We all know what Google is and how easy it is to type "firstname lastname" into the search field and get a few hits. There are, however, considerably more advanced ways of searching Google that will get us better results.

Google hacking is the use of advanced operators in search engine queries (not necessarily just Google), in order to enable more targeted searches. As we mentioned, this is not specific to Google and similar search parameters can be used with most any search engine. Lists of advances operators can generally be found on the page for the search engine in question. For Google, the advanced operators can be found here http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861 and for Bing here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx. For most any search engine, we can find the advanced operator listing by searching for the engine name and “advanced operators”. While we will find some variation in query construction between different engines, the construction is usually fairly similar.

A large body of work exists for using advance operators to perform very specific searches, alongowith a few books. The book Google Hacking for Penetration Testers by Johnny Long (available from Syngress) is an entire volume dedicated to this specific subject. Although it is a bit long in the tooth at this point, it is still a good resource.  We can also look to the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) at http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/ or http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/ for a database of specific searches. These databases contain a wide variety of security specific searches and are available to the public through a few simple clicks.
Metadata
Metadata is data about data, and we can find such data associated with almost any file with the exceptions to this being vanishingly small. We can see a common example of metadata in the creation and modification timestamps associated with almost all files. Metadata can provide us with another excellent source for our doxing efforts. We can find this data in word processing documents, presentations, image files, videos, and any of a number of similar artifacts. In this metatdata, we can often locate various interesting items such as usernames, hostnames, network paths, various dates, hardware information, and a variety of other interesting bits. For files created on hardware containing GPS capabilities, we may also find embedded GPS coordinates for the location where the file was created, databases or temporary files containing a history of physical locations, and the like. Overall, metadata is definitely worth taking a look at if we find files in the course of our search.
There are number of tools that can provide us with the capability to sift through metadata. For general usage, we can use Metagoofil (although this is now a bit aged and requires some effort to get working properly), FOCA which is in the same general vein as Metagoofil, ExifTool which ostensibly handles image formats but actually does a great number of other formats as well, and several others. Becoming familiar with metadata tools can lead to all sorts of interesting information.
Maltego
Any of a variety of other tools might assist us in our reconnaissance efforts whilst doxing. While it would be nearly impossible to develop an exhaustive list, there is at least one that deserves a special mention, namely Maltego. Maltego is “an open source intelligence and forensics application”. Maltego enables us to conduct, in many cases, a certain portion of our doxing in an automated fashion. Maltego, given a starting place, such as an IP address, hostname, name, etc… will attempt to ferret out other related items of information.

Results from Maltego can be hit or miss, depending on the information available to find. It is absolutely fantastic at tasks like combing through data for an organization. We may also discover a larger set of information from Maltego than we can comfortably cope with, is we are not careful to limit its scope.
Keeping Track
Last, but certainly not least, we will want some method for keeping track of the information we find. We could absolutely use a simple text editing tool like Notepad, Gedit, or the like. Such tools are very useful for taking notes as we go along, but ultimately not a good tool in the long run. In the case where our research has been thorough enough to include multiple individuals, a plain text document will quickly become a difficult task to keep up with and will not lend itself well to searching or correlating information.
As with many larger sets of data, or data we might need to manipulate in various ways, spreadsheets and/or databases are a very handy tool. We will typically want to develop a common template for our doxing efforts, so we do not miss particular items by oversight, i.e.:

• Maiden name
• Facebook account
• Twitter account
• IP addresses
• System names
• Domain names
• Blog URL
• Name
• Address
• DoB
• SSN
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Employer
this, of course, is a very small sample and our template would need to cover considerably more. In an exhaustive doxing effort, we would likely end up with a stack of such collections of data.
There are also a few commercial tools are purpose-built for just such a use. CaseFile is one such tool, and was created by the makers of Maltego. This provides us with a much more tailored solution, but may be overkill for some smaller efforts.

Part II
In the next part of this article, we will be discussing the opposite side of the doxing equation, namely anti-doxing. Now that we have covered what doxing is and how it is performed, we will talk about how we can protect ourselves and help to mitigate such an attack when we are on the receiving end.

Doxing and Anti-Doxing – Part I

For those of us following or taking part in the various hacktivist activities happening around the globe on a regular basis, doxing is a regular feature. We wake up in the morning to find the personal lives of businessmen, hackers who have made target of themselves for one reason or another, government employees, and a host of others spilled out onto the Internet for the entire world to see. Doxing can be a tool for use in security testing, investigation, or research on the positive side. But it can also be a tool for humiliation, harassment, and worse on the negative side.
In the Part I of this article, we will discuss what exactly doxing is and the tools and techniques we might use to carry out such an attack. In the Part II of this article we will talk about the steps we can take to at least lessen its impact, should we find ourselves on the receiving end of such efforts.

What is Doxing?
The word doxing is a simple word involving a bit of mangling of the English language in order to communicate a somewhat more complex concept. We arrive at doxing by starting with documents, shortening it to docs, applying a bit of leetness to make it dox, then transforming it into a verb: documents -> docs -> dox -> doxing. But what is it?  Doxing is the process of locating, to the greatest extent possible, all of the information available on an individual, this being generally followed by the exposure of the information discovered to a group or the general public. Those following along might also realize that doxing, information reconnaissance, OSINT, and a number of other similar concepts are all very closely related, so much so that we might successfully argue that they are slight variations on describing the exact same concept.

We commonly see doxing used by hacking groups such as Anonymous, LulzSec, AntiSec, and so on. An excellent example is the large scale doxing of law enforcement-related personnel by Anonymous in December of 2011, an act which was reportedly carried out in revenge for the close attention being given to hacktivist groups by various law enforcement agencies. In this particular attack the information on over 7000 people was exposed, including names, addresses, social security numbers, email contents, passwords to sensitive systems, and a great deal of other information.
On the white hat side of the fence, a somewhat more restrained form of doxing is also used, although generally much more limited in the set of techniques available, and generally lacking the public exposure of information. Doxing techniques may be used by penetration testers, security researchers, incident responders, and investigators to collect information on potential targets, track down information regarding the origins of tools used in attacks or malware, or to locate the originator of an attack. In March of 2012, the FBI is said to have used information gained from doxing and turned over by another hacking group to arrest Hector Monsegur, a.k.a Sabu, who is widely supposed to have been the founder and/or leader of LulzSec.
Ultimately, doxing is searching for information on an individual, although usually taken to a much greater length than the typical light cyberstalking or ego surfing many of us engage in on a daily basis.
Why Would Anyone Want To Do This?
The motivations behind doxing, whether originated by the good guys or the bad guys, are generally not positive for the person who is the target of such activity. As we mentioned, doxing is used by those who are considered to be on the dark side, hackers (in the bad sense) and hacktivist groups, and also by others such as stalkers, identity thieves, internet trolls, and so on. Usually people in this group seek out said information to attack or harass their targets in some fashion. The specific motivations here may vary somewhat, but we can quickly come up with specific cases in which the entirety of the available data on an individual might be used including name, address and social security number (the identity theft trifecta), account credentials, telephone numbers, and so on.
Even on the light side, where we might find an investigator, incident responder, law enforcement, or other similar personnel using such techniques, the consequences for the target will likely be at least unpleasant, if not targeted at the same ultimate goals. In actuality, much of the set of techniques we would call doxing is simply referred to as investigation in such communities.
What are the Consequences of Being Doxed?
The consequences of doxed information being exposed can range from slight irritation to serious threat to health, livelihood, or potentially life. We can very quickly see where exposing information on a person’s social activities, sexual preference, medical history, and other such interesting bits of information may be seriously damaging. This type of exposure could easily result in public embarrassment, severe reputational damage, loss of employment, identity theft, and worse.
A fairly serious example of doxing and subsequent attacks can be seen in the actions taken by Anonymous against Aaron Barr, then the CEO of HBGary Federal, a defense contracting company. In February of 2011, Barr announced his infiltration of Anonymous and said he would expose the information he had found in a talk at a security conference that year. As with most cases of poking a wasp nest with a stick, this ended badly. Anonymous doxed Barr and attacked the HBGary Federal servers, later posting tens of thousands of emails from the HBGary Federal systems on the Internet, as well as the body of personal information on Barr himself. They subsequently took over social networking accounts, compromising servers, and generally causing quite a bit of havoc. Ultimately, this series of attacks resulted in Barr resigning, reputation damage to Barr and HBGary Federal, some level of investigation by the US House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, and the US Congress.
Doxing Techniques
A number of different sources can provide information for doxing efforts. We can, for instance, collect from social networking sites and tools, people-oriented search tools, pay search sites, public records, and any of a number of other places. Some such sources or tools are generic and will show data on nearly any name we care to enter, and others are very specific and pertain to a particular company, city, or the like.
Typically when we start to dox someone, we will have some small amount of information to start with. A name, depending on how common the name is, is a good starting point; a name and an email address are better. If we have an email address on which to search, we may immediately turn up other sources of information, particularly if the target in question uses the email address as a common account name, posts online frequently, etc. Given a name, email address, and a city, we may be able to turn up a home address, employer, professional organizations, local sports teams or hobby groups, and so on. Each additional piece of information we turn up adds to the body of information we have and makes validating the next piece of information along the path much easier. The more information we have to begin with, the easier our job is.
If we are starting with a weak set of information, or the target has a very common name (James Smith would be a problem), we may have to do a bit of inference at the beginning. One of the most likely starting points would be to pin down a physical location to a smaller area. If we know James Smith had a particular IP address at some point, we look this IP up to find which ISP or company this IP belongs to. Based on this, we might narrow down our search parameters to the areas this ISP serves or this company operates in. Of course the danger exists that our inference is entirely wrong, and we have just gone down the wrong path entirely. But we do have to start somewhere.

Social Networking Sites
Social networking sites can provide a virtual gold mine of information for doxing purposes. A typical person who is at all active online will typically have accounts on at least two or three social networking sites. Depending on the site in question, we may find all manner of personal information (some not fit for public consumption) including current and past employers, education, physical location data, and a plethora of other items.

Of benefit to those using such sites to collect information is the myriad of privacy and sharing settings, each being entirely unique to a particular site. Those of us who are security professionals may have a good grip on handling such settings and may be aware of the need to restrict our personal information, putting us in a better position than the common user to properly safeguard our information. In some cases, this may not be good enough to completely protect us. The companies who run these social networking tools regularly update their privacy settings, and many of them allow “friends” to take actions like tagging pictures with names and re-sharing information, thus circumventing our security efforts.
Additionally, friends, family, co-workers, et al may provide another avenue for gathering information, even if the target has a properly secured account and is extremely careful. Given a particularly chatty friend on a social networking site, we may not even need information directly from the target. This is one of the main reasons that doxing efforts often extend outside of the target in question.

We may also be able to bypass the security measures on a social networking account by simply asking for access to the information through whatever friending mechanism available for the service in question. Such an approach will often enjoy success if we create an account impersonating someone who the target already knows or has some history with, such as a friend, co-worker, classmate etc. We can see an excellent example of this in the Robin Sage incident in which a security researcher impersonating a woman managed to friend over 300 people and gain access to all manner of sensitive information, including classified military information on troop movements.
General Online Content
Although social networking sites provide us with one of the richest sources we may find, they are by no means the only sources available. We can find all types of information by looking for online resumes, blog postings, postings to newsgroups, archives of local newspapers, newsletters from professional organizations, records of births, deaths, and marriages, any of a number of public records and other data. The problem we encounter when digging for such data is finding what we actually want in the massive volume we might need to sift through.
People-oriented Search Tools
Given this enormous body of information available to search, it is helpful to filter some of this through sets of tools that will do some of the work for us. Fortunately, there are a number of services that will conduct searches oriented around individuals and will often give us at least some portion of the information we seek for free. Some of the more common tools include:
• Pipl.com
• Spokeo.com
• Zabasearch.com
• Mylife.com
• Peekyou.com
 and many, many, others. These sites will commonly turn up names, addresses, birth dates, family members, pictures, documents, employers, and quite a bit of other information. Such sites do not exist out of pure altruism, so they will often display a certain amount of information as a hook and then ask for a payment to access the remainder. We can usually get enough free information from such search engines on which to base further searches or general digging, making these sites worth a visit.
In addition there are a number of pay sites that exist for the purpose of performing “background checks,” allowing us direct access to databases of information collected on individuals. These sites will likely include the same set of information as the people-oriented search engines (in fact they may be the same company), but the better sites will also have access to more difficult to reach records such as criminal proceedings, court documents, mortgage documents, and other similar items that are public or semi-public records. Most of this data is available to the individual in general, should we choose to look for it, but it often requires considerably more legwork and expense to obtain. A few background check sites include:
• Intelius.com
• Ussearch.com
• Peoplefinders.com


Information about Domains and Networks
Considering the connectedness of the average computer-savvy person these days, chances are we will be able to turn up an IP address or domain name connected to them in some fashion. Given a small amount of such information, unless the person has been particularly careful, we will often be able to quickly find a good deal more with a few simple searches.
Whois searches and searches of DNS records can often give us contacts for the domain or IP in question, sometimes even being directly connected to the individual who is our target. While this seems unlikely and entirely too easy, such information is often present. Aggregation tool sites such as Netcraft.com, IPinfoDB.com, and yougetsignal.com can also provide us with additional information such as where the system on the other end of the domain name or IP might be physically located, what software it is running, and any of a number of other useful bits.
Lastly, we would be remiss to not mention the Wayback Machine at web.archive.org. The Wayback Machine archives the content of a huge number of web servers on a regular basis, and looking at changes to a website over time can be extremely instructive.  It may be that the system on the other end of a domain name contains no interesting information now, but it might have a month ago, or a year ago, or five years ago. The Wayback Machine can be en extremely helpful tool for many research efforts.
Our Friend Google
 Google can be the doxers best friend. We all know what Google is and how easy it is to type "firstname lastname" into the search field and get a few hits. There are, however, considerably more advanced ways of searching Google that will get us better results.

Google hacking is the use of advanced operators in search engine queries (not necessarily just Google), in order to enable more targeted searches. As we mentioned, this is not specific to Google and similar search parameters can be used with most any search engine. Lists of advances operators can generally be found on the page for the search engine in question. For Google, the advanced operators can be found here http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861 and for Bing here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx. For most any search engine, we can find the advanced operator listing by searching for the engine name and “advanced operators”. While we will find some variation in query construction between different engines, the construction is usually fairly similar.

A large body of work exists for using advance operators to perform very specific searches, alongowith a few books. The book Google Hacking for Penetration Testers by Johnny Long (available from Syngress) is an entire volume dedicated to this specific subject. Although it is a bit long in the tooth at this point, it is still a good resource.  We can also look to the Google Hacking Database (GHDB) at http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/ or http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/ for a database of specific searches. These databases contain a wide variety of security specific searches and are available to the public through a few simple clicks.
Metadata
Metadata is data about data, and we can find such data associated with almost any file with the exceptions to this being vanishingly small. We can see a common example of metadata in the creation and modification timestamps associated with almost all files. Metadata can provide us with another excellent source for our doxing efforts. We can find this data in word processing documents, presentations, image files, videos, and any of a number of similar artifacts. In this metatdata, we can often locate various interesting items such as usernames, hostnames, network paths, various dates, hardware information, and a variety of other interesting bits. For files created on hardware containing GPS capabilities, we may also find embedded GPS coordinates for the location where the file was created, databases or temporary files containing a history of physical locations, and the like. Overall, metadata is definitely worth taking a look at if we find files in the course of our search.
There are number of tools that can provide us with the capability to sift through metadata. For general usage, we can use Metagoofil (although this is now a bit aged and requires some effort to get working properly), FOCA which is in the same general vein as Metagoofil, ExifTool which ostensibly handles image formats but actually does a great number of other formats as well, and several others. Becoming familiar with metadata tools can lead to all sorts of interesting information.
Maltego
Any of a variety of other tools might assist us in our reconnaissance efforts whilst doxing. While it would be nearly impossible to develop an exhaustive list, there is at least one that deserves a special mention, namely Maltego. Maltego is “an open source intelligence and forensics application”. Maltego enables us to conduct, in many cases, a certain portion of our doxing in an automated fashion. Maltego, given a starting place, such as an IP address, hostname, name, etc… will attempt to ferret out other related items of information.

Results from Maltego can be hit or miss, depending on the information available to find. It is absolutely fantastic at tasks like combing through data for an organization. We may also discover a larger set of information from Maltego than we can comfortably cope with, is we are not careful to limit its scope.
Keeping Track
Last, but certainly not least, we will want some method for keeping track of the information we find. We could absolutely use a simple text editing tool like Notepad, Gedit, or the like. Such tools are very useful for taking notes as we go along, but ultimately not a good tool in the long run. In the case where our research has been thorough enough to include multiple individuals, a plain text document will quickly become a difficult task to keep up with and will not lend itself well to searching or correlating information.
As with many larger sets of data, or data we might need to manipulate in various ways, spreadsheets and/or databases are a very handy tool. We will typically want to develop a common template for our doxing efforts, so we do not miss particular items by oversight, i.e.:

• Maiden name
• Facebook account
• Twitter account
• IP addresses
• System names
• Domain names
• Blog URL
• Name
• Address
• DoB
• SSN
• Email addresses
• Phone numbers
• Employer
this, of course, is a very small sample and our template would need to cover considerably more. In an exhaustive doxing effort, we would likely end up with a stack of such collections of data.
There are also a few commercial tools are purpose-built for just such a use. CaseFile is one such tool, and was created by the makers of Maltego. This provides us with a much more tailored solution, but may be overkill for some smaller efforts.

Part II
In the next part of this article, we will be discussing the opposite side of the doxing equation, namely anti-doxing. Now that we have covered what doxing is and how it is performed, we will talk about how we can protect ourselves and help to mitigate such an attack when we are on the receiving end.

Posted at 2:23 PM |  by Narut0
By Maxnus Exodus


Introduction

The walking dead is a role wagering game set as a point as well as clicks adventure based upon the comics collection of Robert Kirkman. It was launched for Microsoft windows, PS3, Xbox360, iOS and Mac OS X. It was developed by Telltale Games and was planned to be released at the last months of 2011. It was kept back until the early 2012 because of delays in development problems.

The whole game constituted of 5 subsequent episodes that were released during April to November 2012. The retail versions of the first season were also released soon after the game releases. The game is set in Georgia and the events take place after the zombie catastrophe influencing the state.

Gameplay

All of the video game is a pure point and click adventure that is bet from the point of view of a 3rd person with a huge range of camera angles. The gamer takes the role of the hero person Lee Everett who aims to make it through as well as find help with his group of rag tag survivors. The gamer is enabled to connect with the people all over him as well as use the objects in his surroundings.

The personalities can also transfer objects as well as food items. The game is mostly based upon character development and tale as opposed to just zombie action like other games of this genre. Some sections of the game require player feedbacks as well as judgments that alter the gameplay as well as chronicle. The judgments have to be made in a timespan else the character remains quite and it impacts all of the gameplay. During action based settings the player is guided with onscreen prompts without which other people would die thus hiving all of the game to be rebooted from a point.

The telltale server determines the whole track of the choices made by unique players and contrasts them with the other gamers. The entire video game can easily be finished regardless of the selections made by gamers but the options identify the saga of the video game overall. The best attributes of the video game is that it permits multiple saves and you can also rewind the game to alter the decisions made and compare the impact of each choice made on the video game epic.

Setting

The complete walking dead collection is made in synchronization with the cartoons collection. The story is based with the start of the zombie catastrophe in the whole state of Georgia when most the society is stunned by it.




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Genuine synopsis of the video game, The Walking Dead

By Maxnus Exodus


Introduction

The walking dead is a role wagering game set as a point as well as clicks adventure based upon the comics collection of Robert Kirkman. It was launched for Microsoft windows, PS3, Xbox360, iOS and Mac OS X. It was developed by Telltale Games and was planned to be released at the last months of 2011. It was kept back until the early 2012 because of delays in development problems.

The whole game constituted of 5 subsequent episodes that were released during April to November 2012. The retail versions of the first season were also released soon after the game releases. The game is set in Georgia and the events take place after the zombie catastrophe influencing the state.

Gameplay

All of the video game is a pure point and click adventure that is bet from the point of view of a 3rd person with a huge range of camera angles. The gamer takes the role of the hero person Lee Everett who aims to make it through as well as find help with his group of rag tag survivors. The gamer is enabled to connect with the people all over him as well as use the objects in his surroundings.

The personalities can also transfer objects as well as food items. The game is mostly based upon character development and tale as opposed to just zombie action like other games of this genre. Some sections of the game require player feedbacks as well as judgments that alter the gameplay as well as chronicle. The judgments have to be made in a timespan else the character remains quite and it impacts all of the gameplay. During action based settings the player is guided with onscreen prompts without which other people would die thus hiving all of the game to be rebooted from a point.

The telltale server determines the whole track of the choices made by unique players and contrasts them with the other gamers. The entire video game can easily be finished regardless of the selections made by gamers but the options identify the saga of the video game overall. The best attributes of the video game is that it permits multiple saves and you can also rewind the game to alter the decisions made and compare the impact of each choice made on the video game epic.

Setting

The complete walking dead collection is made in synchronization with the cartoons collection. The story is based with the start of the zombie catastrophe in the whole state of Georgia when most the society is stunned by it.




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Posted at 2:12 AM |  by taoufiq
By Parker Mark


If you liked the Hunger Games trilogy, you will be happily surprised to discover that the major lead character in Assassin' Creed III: Liberation video game is a girl. Named Aveline de Grandpr, the game presents her as an Afro-French origin.

Set in the latter half of the 18th century in the scenery of the end of the French again the Indian Wars, and the onset of the American Revolution, the game pits Aveline and the player against the Spanish army in Louisiana.

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is the latest release for PlayStation Vita. The game is for the 18 + matured gamer' community. Ubisoft has created the game solely for the PS Vita and its touch and movement capabilities. The game has a terrific appearance and experience on PS Vita.

It is quickly one of the very best games readily available on portable in terms of the aesthetic encounter. The total use of Vita system with the front contact screens, the rear touch pad, cameras and the gyroscope makes it a well integrated established.

It is when while playing that you start to obtain a few dissatisfactions. The scenario accumulation is uneven, and you are primarily started into the video game with no sufficient background on Aveline and how she came to be the assassin. There is no effort in the game to progress the tale or the character.

The plot is set in an interesting era of American history - and many of you would wish to obtain more out of the storyline. A few of the side-missions help the situation by dwelling on her close-ones. These side objectives also provide a few extra benefits, but you'll dislike them after a while because of their dull nature.

If you are attempting to follow the story, you may be left doubting times. It will be like reading a mystery, with pages missing. Best is to get on with the mission and enjoy the action. In a novelty, the video game lets you change Aveline's garbs, and with each new dress she manages the situations in a different way.

She can move quickly undiscovered with some period outfits, but can't do, say, the tree climbing. Her main warrior dress makes her a complete killer with all readily available moves. The video game wades through numerous settings of crowded streets, of swamps and of ancient ruins.




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One of the awesome game of PS Vita: Assassin's Creed liberation

By Parker Mark


If you liked the Hunger Games trilogy, you will be happily surprised to discover that the major lead character in Assassin' Creed III: Liberation video game is a girl. Named Aveline de Grandpr, the game presents her as an Afro-French origin.

Set in the latter half of the 18th century in the scenery of the end of the French again the Indian Wars, and the onset of the American Revolution, the game pits Aveline and the player against the Spanish army in Louisiana.

Assassin's Creed III: Liberation is the latest release for PlayStation Vita. The game is for the 18 + matured gamer' community. Ubisoft has created the game solely for the PS Vita and its touch and movement capabilities. The game has a terrific appearance and experience on PS Vita.

It is quickly one of the very best games readily available on portable in terms of the aesthetic encounter. The total use of Vita system with the front contact screens, the rear touch pad, cameras and the gyroscope makes it a well integrated established.

It is when while playing that you start to obtain a few dissatisfactions. The scenario accumulation is uneven, and you are primarily started into the video game with no sufficient background on Aveline and how she came to be the assassin. There is no effort in the game to progress the tale or the character.

The plot is set in an interesting era of American history - and many of you would wish to obtain more out of the storyline. A few of the side-missions help the situation by dwelling on her close-ones. These side objectives also provide a few extra benefits, but you'll dislike them after a while because of their dull nature.

If you are attempting to follow the story, you may be left doubting times. It will be like reading a mystery, with pages missing. Best is to get on with the mission and enjoy the action. In a novelty, the video game lets you change Aveline's garbs, and with each new dress she manages the situations in a different way.

She can move quickly undiscovered with some period outfits, but can't do, say, the tree climbing. Her main warrior dress makes her a complete killer with all readily available moves. The video game wades through numerous settings of crowded streets, of swamps and of ancient ruins.




About the Author:



Posted at 2:08 AM |  by taoufiq
By Dorothy J. Cowan


Every person's ability to be successful in personal goal setting mainly depends on himself. Failure, likewise will depend on whether or not the person is determined, diligent, and persistent. Some, though, stay at the middle and choose not to set goals. Here are the five main reasons why they refuse to do so.

You need to be ambitious but it is practical to start modestly. It is not necessary to come up with goals that are too vague or enormous. It is possible to be overcome by lofty aspirations and quit prematurely without attaining anything. Be aware of possible stumbling blocks so you will know how to cope when these come along unexpectedly.

Another example of a goal that implies something negative is "stop staying up late." One positive way to rewrite this is to "go to bed early." Negative goals are not emotionally uplifting. Such goals may give you a harder time focusing and working on them. Rephrase any of your negative goals so they will sound positive.

Proceed according to stages. This is the purpose of the plan that was mentioned earlier. You need to set your goals in small components complete with the time and date for finishing each phase; the amount of work that has to be done; the details of the plan; and your observations. In other words, your objectives should be broken down in doable steps. If possible write your goal down on a piece of paper or encode the whole plan and save it on your computer. This will serve as your daily reminder of schedules, activities and intentions. Always make this conspicuous so you will never forget your goals.

They fear criticism. Some people do not want to be criticized. They hold back from setting good goals because sometimes other people tell them that they will never reach them, or they will just waste their money, effort, and time. You cannot avoid people who give destructive criticisms instead of those that can motivate you. However, you can do something to minimize the negative things you hear. You can surround yourself with people who also know the importance of goals. Be with people who have set or reached goals. And if you still receive criticisms, one way or another, use them as your stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks.

Concentrating on Too Few Aspects. Focusing on too many goals is just as ineffective as focusing on too few areas. You see, too much or too little of something is not good. Most people set goals that are only focused on their work, career, or family. Do not neglect some other aspects in your life like things that make you happy; things like learning how to bake your favourite cookie, competing in an amateur bicycle race, or writing a book. In setting personal goals, balance is also important.




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Reasons Why People Don't Set Goals

By Dorothy J. Cowan


Every person's ability to be successful in personal goal setting mainly depends on himself. Failure, likewise will depend on whether or not the person is determined, diligent, and persistent. Some, though, stay at the middle and choose not to set goals. Here are the five main reasons why they refuse to do so.

You need to be ambitious but it is practical to start modestly. It is not necessary to come up with goals that are too vague or enormous. It is possible to be overcome by lofty aspirations and quit prematurely without attaining anything. Be aware of possible stumbling blocks so you will know how to cope when these come along unexpectedly.

Another example of a goal that implies something negative is "stop staying up late." One positive way to rewrite this is to "go to bed early." Negative goals are not emotionally uplifting. Such goals may give you a harder time focusing and working on them. Rephrase any of your negative goals so they will sound positive.

Proceed according to stages. This is the purpose of the plan that was mentioned earlier. You need to set your goals in small components complete with the time and date for finishing each phase; the amount of work that has to be done; the details of the plan; and your observations. In other words, your objectives should be broken down in doable steps. If possible write your goal down on a piece of paper or encode the whole plan and save it on your computer. This will serve as your daily reminder of schedules, activities and intentions. Always make this conspicuous so you will never forget your goals.

They fear criticism. Some people do not want to be criticized. They hold back from setting good goals because sometimes other people tell them that they will never reach them, or they will just waste their money, effort, and time. You cannot avoid people who give destructive criticisms instead of those that can motivate you. However, you can do something to minimize the negative things you hear. You can surround yourself with people who also know the importance of goals. Be with people who have set or reached goals. And if you still receive criticisms, one way or another, use them as your stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks.

Concentrating on Too Few Aspects. Focusing on too many goals is just as ineffective as focusing on too few areas. You see, too much or too little of something is not good. Most people set goals that are only focused on their work, career, or family. Do not neglect some other aspects in your life like things that make you happy; things like learning how to bake your favourite cookie, competing in an amateur bicycle race, or writing a book. In setting personal goals, balance is also important.




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Posted at 2:05 AM |  by taoufiq
By Dean Miller


Be it for stopping up sensitive info, expanding on the computer platforms existing random access memory capability or to offer relieve in transporting data elsewhere, a 1TB external hard disk is certainly a very welcome product. Storage devices such as these can be purchased in several several formats, wired and wireless, although homeowners who are designed to connect as a result of the computers USB port in many cases are the most popular on the market. Let's examine a portion of the points to consider if looking out for a trusted external hard drive 120gb .

Performance - aim for one of the high-capacity sata raid which will transfer at a rate no less than 480MB involving data for each second mode a computer or laptop to external device. As well, look meant for products which offer the latest USB 3. 0 certified hard disks as that transfer rates on the unit is a great deal compared to the much more standard USB 2. 0. If you store a lot of data, like high-resolution graphics or downloadable movies, than you may certainly treasure the considerably increased performance that comes with high transfer and USB 3. 0 devises.

Data Safeguard - an element that is of high significance to many is having the option to secure delicate data and files. Not necessarily difficult nowadays to find hardware of this nature which is sold with such pleasing features since password protection, automatic reassurance options, hardware encryption together with built-in diagnostics.

Back-up devices without a means to secure the details are still commonly to choose from, these might be acceptable for simple back-up needs in the house, but should really be stopped for online business purposes. For the highest protection, a USB external storage device might well come with a security slot which aids you bind the unit in position, which prevents unauthorized removal.

Ease of use - would like to store some of your most precious data while on an external tricky than you want to be sure knowing methods to retrieve it afterwards. Accessing facts and entering the appropriate passwords, if applicable, all has to be a simple and quick process. Having the ability to use an online tech support team service is desirable. Some of the 'plug and additionally play' devices might sound the easiest option, although a lot of these often come with an extra software package if wishing to install the latest security functions. A good rationale is for any good mix of initial set-up and security-based functions.




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Exactly what to Search for in the Greatest 1TB External Hard Drive

By Dean Miller


Be it for stopping up sensitive info, expanding on the computer platforms existing random access memory capability or to offer relieve in transporting data elsewhere, a 1TB external hard disk is certainly a very welcome product. Storage devices such as these can be purchased in several several formats, wired and wireless, although homeowners who are designed to connect as a result of the computers USB port in many cases are the most popular on the market. Let's examine a portion of the points to consider if looking out for a trusted external hard drive 120gb .

Performance - aim for one of the high-capacity sata raid which will transfer at a rate no less than 480MB involving data for each second mode a computer or laptop to external device. As well, look meant for products which offer the latest USB 3. 0 certified hard disks as that transfer rates on the unit is a great deal compared to the much more standard USB 2. 0. If you store a lot of data, like high-resolution graphics or downloadable movies, than you may certainly treasure the considerably increased performance that comes with high transfer and USB 3. 0 devises.

Data Safeguard - an element that is of high significance to many is having the option to secure delicate data and files. Not necessarily difficult nowadays to find hardware of this nature which is sold with such pleasing features since password protection, automatic reassurance options, hardware encryption together with built-in diagnostics.

Back-up devices without a means to secure the details are still commonly to choose from, these might be acceptable for simple back-up needs in the house, but should really be stopped for online business purposes. For the highest protection, a USB external storage device might well come with a security slot which aids you bind the unit in position, which prevents unauthorized removal.

Ease of use - would like to store some of your most precious data while on an external tricky than you want to be sure knowing methods to retrieve it afterwards. Accessing facts and entering the appropriate passwords, if applicable, all has to be a simple and quick process. Having the ability to use an online tech support team service is desirable. Some of the 'plug and additionally play' devices might sound the easiest option, although a lot of these often come with an extra software package if wishing to install the latest security functions. A good rationale is for any good mix of initial set-up and security-based functions.




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Posted at 1:52 AM |  by taoufiq
By Van L. Shipman


You can find anxiety symptoms in women commonly at late teenage because that's the time a lot of hormone alterations takes place within their body. There are millions of women who suffer from anxiety symptoms. Women experience physical, emotional, psychological, and social changes during anxiety. Among all these symptoms, psychological symptoms can cause more effects as it affects the individual mental status.

Hormonal Imbalance.Hormonal imbalance is the major cause of anxiety symptoms in women. This disorder starts in women during the perimenopause stage which is several years before the onset of menopause. The alteration in progesterone hormone levels can create panic during premenstrual and menopause stages.Brain chemistry.Improper function of the brain chemicals is also one of the critical causes of anxiety symptoms in women. If the neurotransmitter has a problem in functioning, then it will lead to anxiety symptoms. This condition can be rectified by proper medication and treatment.

Light-headedness.Light-headedness is feeling of dizziness which will not allow the patient to stand or sit properly and having difficulty in maintaining balance. If light headedness persist for long without exhibiting other symptoms then it is mostly due to anxiety and you need not worry about brain tumor and other head related ailment.Vomiting and nausea.This is a common anxiety symptoms in women. Central nervous system takes control of both vomiting and nausea symptoms. Acute anxiety can make the body to malfunction leading to nausea and vomiting.

Perspiration.Sweating occurs naturally when you exercise or during hot weather. However, when you become over anxious and afraid for unknown reason you will start to perspire badly in normal condition.Palpitation.Palpitation occurs when the heart pounds irregularly. Chest, neck, throat are the areas where you can feel the palpitation. Heart pounding is something each one of us would feel at some point in our life, but during anxiety palpitation is felt very often.Shaking and trembling.You feel shaky when you are anxious.High level stress and severe tension arising due to anxiety can lead to this condition.

Personality.Women with low esteem and poor coping skills easily become victims of this medical condition. Women should learn to confidently face the world and try to improve their skills in order to meet the prevailing situations.Women should learn to have control over their lives and should stay away from the various causes that trigger anxiety. Anxiety symptoms in women are clearly visible and one has to consult the health practitioner immediately to seek assistance.Today, many women are victims of anxiety due to the hectic and busy lifestyle. Anxiety symptoms in women are triggered due to various internal and external factors. To alleviate the symptoms exercise is the best remedy, but many won't feel like doing it. However, once you start your exercise program, you will get motivated by the great results.

Here you can find few alternative treatments useful to treat anxiety symptoms in women: Acupuncture.This is an ancient Chinese practice where physician use needles to prick in the pressure point to stimulate the body's energy flow to treat anxiety symptoms in women. Acupuncture is one of the best alternative treatments for these symptoms. Acupuncture not only heals the medical condition but also identifies and treats the underlying cause of anxiety.

Yoga.Yoga is a good alternative treatment for anxiety symptoms in women. The different postures, breathing exercises popularly known as pranayama, meditation along with the unique philosophy of yoga have shown great results to get over this medical condition.Aromatherapy.Aromatherapy is gaining more popularity in recent years to treat anxiety disorders. Essential oils such as jasmine oil, sandalwood oil, neroli oil, Melissa oil, lavender oil, bergamot oil, cypress oil, and rose oil is used during bathing and massaging to heal this disorder. It gives a soothing effect and relieves one from stress and tension.

Exercise regularly.Regular exercise can lower the risk of anxiety by releasing endorphins in your body. The release of this hormone will make you feel happy and rejuvenating. Experts believe that a short and regular session of 20 minutes, three to four times a week can serve the purpose. Medication.And the last but not the least, medication should be taken with the proper prescription of a medical practitioner. The prescription may include sleeping pills to relax you. The treatment of anxiety symptoms in women may include Serotonin and Venalafaxin.Before starting any treatment you must know about its side effects and duration of the treatment. Following above methods will help you to relieve from severe anxiety.




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Top 5 Psychological Anxiety Symptoms in Women

By Van L. Shipman


You can find anxiety symptoms in women commonly at late teenage because that's the time a lot of hormone alterations takes place within their body. There are millions of women who suffer from anxiety symptoms. Women experience physical, emotional, psychological, and social changes during anxiety. Among all these symptoms, psychological symptoms can cause more effects as it affects the individual mental status.

Hormonal Imbalance.Hormonal imbalance is the major cause of anxiety symptoms in women. This disorder starts in women during the perimenopause stage which is several years before the onset of menopause. The alteration in progesterone hormone levels can create panic during premenstrual and menopause stages.Brain chemistry.Improper function of the brain chemicals is also one of the critical causes of anxiety symptoms in women. If the neurotransmitter has a problem in functioning, then it will lead to anxiety symptoms. This condition can be rectified by proper medication and treatment.

Light-headedness.Light-headedness is feeling of dizziness which will not allow the patient to stand or sit properly and having difficulty in maintaining balance. If light headedness persist for long without exhibiting other symptoms then it is mostly due to anxiety and you need not worry about brain tumor and other head related ailment.Vomiting and nausea.This is a common anxiety symptoms in women. Central nervous system takes control of both vomiting and nausea symptoms. Acute anxiety can make the body to malfunction leading to nausea and vomiting.

Perspiration.Sweating occurs naturally when you exercise or during hot weather. However, when you become over anxious and afraid for unknown reason you will start to perspire badly in normal condition.Palpitation.Palpitation occurs when the heart pounds irregularly. Chest, neck, throat are the areas where you can feel the palpitation. Heart pounding is something each one of us would feel at some point in our life, but during anxiety palpitation is felt very often.Shaking and trembling.You feel shaky when you are anxious.High level stress and severe tension arising due to anxiety can lead to this condition.

Personality.Women with low esteem and poor coping skills easily become victims of this medical condition. Women should learn to confidently face the world and try to improve their skills in order to meet the prevailing situations.Women should learn to have control over their lives and should stay away from the various causes that trigger anxiety. Anxiety symptoms in women are clearly visible and one has to consult the health practitioner immediately to seek assistance.Today, many women are victims of anxiety due to the hectic and busy lifestyle. Anxiety symptoms in women are triggered due to various internal and external factors. To alleviate the symptoms exercise is the best remedy, but many won't feel like doing it. However, once you start your exercise program, you will get motivated by the great results.

Here you can find few alternative treatments useful to treat anxiety symptoms in women: Acupuncture.This is an ancient Chinese practice where physician use needles to prick in the pressure point to stimulate the body's energy flow to treat anxiety symptoms in women. Acupuncture is one of the best alternative treatments for these symptoms. Acupuncture not only heals the medical condition but also identifies and treats the underlying cause of anxiety.

Yoga.Yoga is a good alternative treatment for anxiety symptoms in women. The different postures, breathing exercises popularly known as pranayama, meditation along with the unique philosophy of yoga have shown great results to get over this medical condition.Aromatherapy.Aromatherapy is gaining more popularity in recent years to treat anxiety disorders. Essential oils such as jasmine oil, sandalwood oil, neroli oil, Melissa oil, lavender oil, bergamot oil, cypress oil, and rose oil is used during bathing and massaging to heal this disorder. It gives a soothing effect and relieves one from stress and tension.

Exercise regularly.Regular exercise can lower the risk of anxiety by releasing endorphins in your body. The release of this hormone will make you feel happy and rejuvenating. Experts believe that a short and regular session of 20 minutes, three to four times a week can serve the purpose. Medication.And the last but not the least, medication should be taken with the proper prescription of a medical practitioner. The prescription may include sleeping pills to relax you. The treatment of anxiety symptoms in women may include Serotonin and Venalafaxin.Before starting any treatment you must know about its side effects and duration of the treatment. Following above methods will help you to relieve from severe anxiety.




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Posted at 1:46 AM |  by taoufiq
By Jeromy Michaels


If deep inside you do want to create financial independence for yourself and your folks thru your social marketing business, you ought to be spending just about all of your time concentrating on MLM recruiting. Sponsoring and recruiting is where the money is. Ask any successful network marketer and they'll tell you that's where the cash is. That's the honest truth.

Take a couple of minutes to think about it. Your company's products might be the most fantastic thing ever invented, but if all you do is pitch the product and get one sale per buyer then actually all you're doing is the same as being a sales helper on a commission.

Now, instead if you target recruiting to your MLM opportunity and coaching your new people to sell your product effectively, now do you see there will be lots of folk doing what you were doing, and your business will be growing quicker because of them. On your own you can only be well placed to sell 100 units of the product in a single month. But once you have a well-trained and effective team kind you could eventually be selling hundreds of thousands of units every month!

MLM Recruiting It's a Numbers Game

If you take the time to look at any of the heavy hitters in the network marketing business those people who may even be earning seven-figures each year, you'll likely not be confounded to find out that the bulk of their money is made as there are perhaps a half a dozen or so top producers on their team of thousands. That's six, not hundreds. Merely a smattering if you have six fingers. The crazy thing is they might not have personally sponsored those other heavy hitters.

The great majority of folks in social marketing quickly lose interest in their companies, or just don't make it. Only 30 percent who sign up will actually last past the first quarter. Who is able to say why? Maybe folks are lazy. But it is a doleful fact. Only three percent out of this 30% will become those who make six and 7 figure incomes. The others may do very well and just make a few thousand bucks a month ; many people are quite contented doing that.

Those 3 p.c. will become the big hitter stars. So if you're considering network marketing think about this, how are you going to personally find the time and the most effective method to signup and sponsor at least a hundred new team members knowing full well that only thirty will stick around. It's a matter of numbers like anything in business ; the action to take is look forward to recruiting that small % who will make you lots of your earnings.

How to Increase your Recruiting Success

To end up with one hundred new team members think about that : to sponsor that amount of new team members you're going to present your social marketing chance to presumably well over one thousand folks. Depending on your business, it could be more. Glaringly making a regular flow of prospects is what you want, but how are you going to do that? How are you going to make that happen?

There is no set way of going about MLM recruiting, some strategies work for some while they do not work for others, it's all a numbers game like we said, and it's all a method of sieving and sorting and finding out what's best for your business. If you can discover a way to get your opportunity in front of a significant number of folks continually, give them an easy and good show, all you have got to do is chase up with those people that have expressed an interest to join.

One of the quickest and simplest methods is by using a web MLM lead generation system. You can just about set the system on auto, you set it up, you popularize the system and then the system attracts those folks that are looking to modify their lives. You are left to concentrate on other facets of your business.

If you're lucky enough to have a large budget, you might need to consider running an advertising campaign off-line, online or both, to promote your business venture. One good idea is to draw together a co-operative who can split the price of advertising and then split the results within the co-op. If you like face to face MLM recruiting methods, then stick fast to it if it is effective. Whatever rows your boat. You just need 100 people - the probabilities are ten of them might be heavy hitters, who knows? So get on with it!




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MLM Recruiting Insider Techniques

By Jeromy Michaels


If deep inside you do want to create financial independence for yourself and your folks thru your social marketing business, you ought to be spending just about all of your time concentrating on MLM recruiting. Sponsoring and recruiting is where the money is. Ask any successful network marketer and they'll tell you that's where the cash is. That's the honest truth.

Take a couple of minutes to think about it. Your company's products might be the most fantastic thing ever invented, but if all you do is pitch the product and get one sale per buyer then actually all you're doing is the same as being a sales helper on a commission.

Now, instead if you target recruiting to your MLM opportunity and coaching your new people to sell your product effectively, now do you see there will be lots of folk doing what you were doing, and your business will be growing quicker because of them. On your own you can only be well placed to sell 100 units of the product in a single month. But once you have a well-trained and effective team kind you could eventually be selling hundreds of thousands of units every month!

MLM Recruiting It's a Numbers Game

If you take the time to look at any of the heavy hitters in the network marketing business those people who may even be earning seven-figures each year, you'll likely not be confounded to find out that the bulk of their money is made as there are perhaps a half a dozen or so top producers on their team of thousands. That's six, not hundreds. Merely a smattering if you have six fingers. The crazy thing is they might not have personally sponsored those other heavy hitters.

The great majority of folks in social marketing quickly lose interest in their companies, or just don't make it. Only 30 percent who sign up will actually last past the first quarter. Who is able to say why? Maybe folks are lazy. But it is a doleful fact. Only three percent out of this 30% will become those who make six and 7 figure incomes. The others may do very well and just make a few thousand bucks a month ; many people are quite contented doing that.

Those 3 p.c. will become the big hitter stars. So if you're considering network marketing think about this, how are you going to personally find the time and the most effective method to signup and sponsor at least a hundred new team members knowing full well that only thirty will stick around. It's a matter of numbers like anything in business ; the action to take is look forward to recruiting that small % who will make you lots of your earnings.

How to Increase your Recruiting Success

To end up with one hundred new team members think about that : to sponsor that amount of new team members you're going to present your social marketing chance to presumably well over one thousand folks. Depending on your business, it could be more. Glaringly making a regular flow of prospects is what you want, but how are you going to do that? How are you going to make that happen?

There is no set way of going about MLM recruiting, some strategies work for some while they do not work for others, it's all a numbers game like we said, and it's all a method of sieving and sorting and finding out what's best for your business. If you can discover a way to get your opportunity in front of a significant number of folks continually, give them an easy and good show, all you have got to do is chase up with those people that have expressed an interest to join.

One of the quickest and simplest methods is by using a web MLM lead generation system. You can just about set the system on auto, you set it up, you popularize the system and then the system attracts those folks that are looking to modify their lives. You are left to concentrate on other facets of your business.

If you're lucky enough to have a large budget, you might need to consider running an advertising campaign off-line, online or both, to promote your business venture. One good idea is to draw together a co-operative who can split the price of advertising and then split the results within the co-op. If you like face to face MLM recruiting methods, then stick fast to it if it is effective. Whatever rows your boat. You just need 100 people - the probabilities are ten of them might be heavy hitters, who knows? So get on with it!




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