DermOrganics Review

"DermOrganic^® products are made using ingredients that are synergistic to your hair and skin to replenish from the outside what your hair and skin need inside for health and vitality. From the shampoo cleansers made from EFA lipids and amino acids, to conditioners blended with vegetable proteins, to treatments rich in natural moisture factors and all based on a proprietary lipid-rich emulsification systems, DermOrganic products outperform standard hair and skin care formulations to deliver exceptional results to salon treated hair." - from the DermOrganic website

I was pleasantly surprised with these products. First we'll talk about the hair products. Of late, I've been having issues with my hair.  I have to sleep with a CPAP machine and the straps make my hair flat and causes breakage. I started wearing a cap and that has solved the breakage issue, but its still flat.  After just one use of their hair products (shampoo, masque, and leave-in treatment), my hair already looked thicker. It left my hair feeling silky smooth after I washed it and its not so flat on top So I differently recommend these products. Another small notes, the smell of the hair product have a great scent to them.

Now about the facial products. Occasionally I get breakouts so I was excited to see how these products work. They have a soapless facial cleanser, facial moisturizer, and a hand & body moisture lotion. I was very happy with the results. My acne started clearing up almost immediately and it didn't leave my face dried out. And the lotion left my skin feeling soft and smooth. I definitely recommend these products. You can find their products at DermOrganic

Review by Aimee Tate

Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from DermOrganic to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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CaseApp Review

Ok I have to say that I love personalizing stuff with things I like, I mean who doesn't. So if you like that and you don't have a tendency of dropping your phone, then you need to check it out HERE.  If lack of protection is an issue for you on your phone then this may not be the case for you. That's why this case is great for me but not for Aimee, she drops her phone a lot.This case will keep the back of your phone from minor scratches but not sure how safe it would be to drop it and I'm not going to test it. As you can see from the pictures this case is more for the look and you can pretty much customize it with any picture, including ones uploaded from your owe computer.Their website is very easy to navigate and picking a picture is easy. I got the case pretty quickly after picking the image, took less than a week.

So let's get to this...

Style : Love it, it doesn't add anything to the phone bulk or weight and you can personalize it as you can see I picked my favorite wrestler CM Punk.

Protection : Very little so if you are a person that drops your phone a lot this is not for you but if you are like me and are very aware of your phone safety you should be good but just be careful, this case is very thin and has no protection for the front of the phone.

Price : $34.00 I guess this is for the personalization process, it's a bit much for my taste.

Overall : I love it, but I am very careful with my phone. The personalization is what attracted me to it, the price makes me second guess it, but if you want something personalized its a good deal. 

Review written by Cody Tate.

Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from CaseApp to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V Giveaway

Hosted by:

NYSavingSpecials and Your Fashion Resource, 

Co-hosted by

Melissa Say What?, Barbara's Beat, LibbysLibrary, Confessions Of A Mommy Of 5, Stay a Stay at Home Mom, Capri's Coupons,  Books R Us,  Mama Making Changes, Maria's Space, Monster Freebies, Simply Sherryl, Spaceships and Laser Beams, Quick Tattletails, Monica's Rants Raves Reviews, The Stuff of Succes and  Mom Knows It All

Come and join us on these great giveaway.  This is a great item for the summer.

One lucky winner will take a

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-HX200V

Value$479

US Only

June 17 to July 12

Enter below

Good Luck

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Disclosure:  Blogging With The Tate's is not responsible for prize.  If you have any questions about this giveaway please send an email to nysavingspecials@gmail.com.  All entries are optional, if you do any of the tasks you can collect the entries, even if you do one entry it will be counted on the giveaways as you did all of the tasks on that group, but if the winner tasks is a tasks you did not complete, a second winner will be chosen.  If the winner tasks is the one you did you will be the winner.

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Getting Ready for Summer Giveaway

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 NYSavingSpecials 

and 

Your Fashion Resource

Co-Hosted by:
Barbara's Beat, BabyDashCo, Capri's Coupons, Maria's Space, Stay a Stay at Home Mom, My Natural Family, Simply Sherryl, The Parenting Patch, The Mommy Nest, My Devotional Thoughts, All in a Day's Work , Kaisy Daisy's Corner  

Come and join us on this great giveaway

"Getting ready for Summer"
We will have 3 winners, all prizes will be ordered and shipped from Toysrus.com. 

Prize #1 Any bike up to $150 (kids or adult/Safety accessories not included)

Prize #2 Step2-Touring-Wagon-Functions Value $119 (if not available winner can pick another wagon up to $119)

Prize # 3 Scooter up to $80 (Safety accessories not included)

US Only

June 1 to June 30

All entries are optional

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Disclosure:  Blogging With The Tate's is not responsible for prize. If you have any questions about this giveaway please send an email to nysavingspecials@gmail.com.  All entries are optional, if you do any of the tasks with the 10 extra entries, even if you do one entry you can get the extra 10 entries  but if the winner tasks is a tasks you did not complete, a second winner will be chosen. If the winner tasks is the one you did you will be the winner.

NYSavingSpecials is responsible for prize.

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Landmine - Advanced Clandestine Defensive System

Been on our website for sometime, but we wanted to release some additional information to the public about Landmine, our sophisticated custom defensive sensor that detects advanced targeted intrusions with ease.

Check it out! - http://www.digitaloperatives.com/work/landmine_marketing.pdf

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VitaminsBaby.com- Blankie Buddy Review/Giveaway

Vitaminsbaby is an awesome company. Fast communication, fast shipping and great items. Vitaminsbaby has so much stuff on their website to buy. They have clothes for infants and toddlers, shoes, accessories, and books. Some of the outfits come with an adorable Blankie Buddy. The Blankie Buddies are also sold by themselves.  I was sent the Blankie Buddy Bear to review. 

This "Buddy" is absolutely adorable and is great for babies of all ages to snuggle with. My nephew, who is 1 1/2, and my great nephew, who is 1, loved it instantly. Its very soft and not at all cumbersome like other blanket stuffed animals. Another huge plus, its completely machine washable. There are many different Blankie Buddies to choose from, bear, bunny, giraffe, lion, monkey, puppy, dragon, elephant, and an owl. You get a 2-pack for only $16. You can find them  HERE. I was also sent a Blankie Buddy Superplush Bear to giveaway, which is a great value at $16. You can find them HERE. This is made of super soft material, 100% Polyester and also machine washable. Enter below to win this snuggly little "buddy".

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Disclaimer: I was sent these products for free from VitaminsBaby to review for my honest opinion. I only recommend products or services I use personally and believe will be good for my readers. Your opinions may vary from my opinions.

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Hackers that solve problems...

The nation and the world at large are struggling to come to grips with the fact that we are now more than ever vulnerable in our daily lives to adversarial actions in cyberspace.   Digital Operatives has been working in computer/network/cyber security focused engagements since 2005.  Those engagements have included penetration testing, source code auditing, cyber technology development, advanced technology research and development, and just good old fashioned technology hacking.  It's rather hard to believe it has been so long, but as a company, we've learned so many things along the way.  Specifically in this upcoming series of posts, I hope to share some insights with the community into what we've learned as a team, and how the worldwide community in general may better respond to these structural and fundamental vulnerabilities in the current and future digital age.

Having a more effective strategy:

In many client engagements we are asked for advice on best practice security measures that can help counter adversarial threats.  As hackers, we tend to chuckle a little inside, because the best practice security measures simply don't work.  Best practices may offer solace to CIO's and CSO's that need to feel like they are doing something, but strategically speaking, best practice makes you an easy to defeat target of opportunity.

This is why it is so important to think like hackers during these engagements and help the customer understand that strategic and asymmetric thinking are key aspects of successfully defending a computer system and network.   We currently are developing and selling technologies specifically cultured around this asymmetric and strategic thought process.

Take PAINT (Process Attribution In Network Traffic) as an example.  The idea for PAINT came to me one evening in November 2011.  I had recently been analyzing malware communications protocols and infrastructure and had thought to myself that it seemed ridiculous that none of the current network packet analyzers that I knew about or had worked with were able to discern the source or destination of a packet on a system.  At first, it seemed obvious to me that people were already doing this analysis manually.  I, in fact, have many times run the "netstat -ano" command since the release of Windows XP to see which process was handling packets on which ports.  We decided to submit the idea to DARPA's Cyber Fast Track on the basis that it would require research into what was actually possible (beyond the notion of correlating netstat output to Wireshark).

Believe it or not,  the idea seemed so obvious, that the initial response was rather muted.  Once we started to get the prototype working, the government, as our primary customer for PAINT, started to realize how cool the capability actually was.  We believe this is largely due to the fact that, for a rather small investment, a radically more effective and efficient way to conduct malware analysis and network attribution was born.

This is one part of what we do at Digital Operatives.  We develop low-cost, high-payoff technologies that help to radically change the game.  We like using creativity and innovation when advising clients, because at the end of the day, thinking strategically in this age is the only way to be successful.

Trust me your adversaries are thinking that way.

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