Over the past two months there has been an increase in targeted hacking attacks against pro-Tibetan NGO's and Individuals. These attacks appear to have been primarily focused on installing Trojan software on end user PC's for the collection of data through keystroke logging and other methods.

http://www.protectyour.org/ is a publicity campaign to raise awareness around the issue of domain name ownership. An important topic these days when domains get snatched up quickly. The campaign has clearly spelled out how to prevent this and is worth checking out!

Overview

The first NTRS was held November 10th, 2005 at CompuMentor. The focus was "Optimizing the Consultant / Nonprofit Relationship". Approximately 35 people attended. The meeting was 2hrs. There was a good mix of IT and non-IT, and consultant and nonprofit staff. We also had a few for profit software vendors in the room. The format was one facilitator leading a discussion among the audience - there was very little presentation, no computer technology assistance generally.

Networking Notes

These notes were taken at an informal Emerging Technologies discussion held at CompuMentor on July 5, 2005.  The aim of the discussion was to examine ways in which new technologies impact (positively or negatively) nonprofit organizations. The notes are also attached.

CompuMentor needs your help! We developed a
guide for non profits to use to do a security audit of their window desktops
and networks. We need a few mentors to take this into the real world and do an
audit following the steps in the guide and reporting back to us on what, if
anything, was missing. The audit should
be done on a small non profit or business.

This is a shorter project commitment than usual, lasting only a month. Please e-mail mentor@compumentor.org if you're interested in volunteering for this.

This IT resource was developed by CompuMentor's Healthy & Secure Computing campaign and was created in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. It provides advice on getting technology systems working again in small- and medium-sized nonprofits where business continuity plans were not sufficient or did not exist.

CompuMentor is a US-based nonprofit dedicated to providing technology support to nonprofit organizations. Here is a list of CompuMentor programs that are providing technology resources to nonprofits recovering from disasters:

Implementation Materials

The HSC program includes guides for implementing our recommended baseline technologies. These materials include both step-by-step directions for manual implementation and automated installation tools, where possible. If you follow these guides you will insure that your computer and network installations are indeed healthy and secure.

These guides are included in the appendixes, and are available on the HSC program Web site.

Appendices
Appendix 1 - Implementation Guidelines

General Documentation

Nonprofit IT staff fall into two common roles, the IT manager and the accidental techie. An IT manager is a staff member with an IT support background whose primary job responsibilities include IT support for the organization. This role is responsible for most IT decision making. An accidental techie is a staff member with basic IT skills, but whose primary responsibilities are not IT-related. Often the accidental techie participates with management to make IT decisions rather than taking sole responsibility for those decisions.