19 December 2011
IT security and control firm,Sophos,is cautioning computer users to be careful while typing the URLs, following the results of a Sophos study into the scale of ‘Typosquatting’.Typosquatters register misspellings of popular websites in the hope that they will be able to make money out of traffic from unintentional typing mistakes made by internet surfers. Sophos [...]
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19 December 2011
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, an investor in some of the world’s top companies, on Monday unveiled a $300 million stake purchase in fast-growing microblogging site Twitter, gaining another foothold in the global media industry. Alwaleed, a nephew of the Saudi king with a personal net worth estimated by Forbes magazine in March to [...]
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19 December 2011
Beware. Katrina Kaif is beautiful but she is the most dangerous celebrity in the Indian cyber space, followed by Deepika Padukone. That’s according to internet security company McAfee’s the ‘Most Dangerous Indian Celebrity’ study. Commenting on the findings of the report, Venkatasubrahmanyam Krishnapur, senior director, McAfee India, said, “In a celebrity crazy country such as [...]
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18 December 2011
IT security and control firm, Sophos, is cautioning computer users over the careful use of USB memory sticks, following the results of a Sophos study into the contents of lost drives. Sophos’ Australian office conducted the experiment by purchasing a job-lot of found USB sticks from a lost property auction run by major transit authority [...]
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18 December 2011
There has been a dramatic decline in the spam volume during year 2011 finds the Cisco Connected World Technology Report (Part 3). According to Cisco Security Intelligence Operations (SIO), spam volume dropped from more than 379 billion messages daily to about 124 billion messages daily between August 2010 and November 2011—levels not seen since 2007. [...]
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18 December 2011
Researchers have successfully transmitted 186 gigabits of data per second (GBps), accomplishing a new world record and helping usher in the next generation of high-speed network technology. The rate is equivalent to moving two million gigabytes per day, fast enough to transfer nearly 100,000 full Blu-ray discs – each with a complete movie and all [...]
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10 December 2011
Hackers broke into the Congress party website and replaced Sonia Gandhi’s profile page with sexual innuendo, apparently timing the attack with the party president’s 65th birthday on Friday. It was not clear when the attack took place and Congress party leaders were not available for comment. The official website(www.congress.org.in/) was inaccessible to the public at [...]
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09 December 2011
Scientists have created an interface that will help Facebook users to keep their personal information secret. Signing up for an app or game, Facebook users could override their global privacy settings. But now Penn State University researchers have devised a sign-up interface to tackle the problem, the Daily Mail reported Monday. Researchers claim that many [...]
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24 November 2011
Finally, Google is bidding bye to Google Wave. After a year-long tickers and notifications on wrapping up the social network site, Google today announced that Wave will be shut down on January 31, 2012. The official statement read: “As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned [...]
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24 November 2011
Whenever idiotic passwords are discussed, the following story always comes up: five years ago, a group of Slovak hackers breached Slovakia’s National Security Bureau (abbreviated NBU), which stores tons of classified information. It was an easy hack. The NBU’s master login/password was simply nbusr/nbusr123. After cracking it, the hackers publicized the information, much to the [...]
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10 October 2011
India’s new telecom policy will bring cheer to consumers with the government Monday proposing to remove roaming charges for subscribers within the country, exponentially increasing broadband availability and speed and allowing for mobile numbers to be ported to any part of the country. According to the draft of the New Telecom Policy unveiled by Communications [...]
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01 October 2011
World’s thinnest nanowires will drive computers super fast in the near future using light, a new research claims. Nanowires will use a ‘photonic chip’ at its core to perform functions in computing and electronics. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and the Australian National University engineered a nanowire thousand times thinner than a human hair [...]
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01 October 2011
Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo Inc if the opportunity presents itself and has held discussions with other potential buyers about options. Asked whether Alibaba might like to pick up the ailing US Internet company, Ma told an audience at Stanford University that he would [...]
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30 September 2011
Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook’s activities outside the United States and Canada after complaints by European and U.S privacy campaigning groups [...]
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30 September 2011
Google Inc has bought Zagat, the popular dining recommendations and ratings authority, jumping into a niche Web market alongside the likes of OpenTable Inc, Yelp and Yahoo Inc. The shares of restaurant-booking service OpenTable, which also publishes reviews and ratings, were down more than 8 percent to $57.50 in midday trading after hitting a low [...]
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30 September 2011
A deluge of malicious e-mail-borne malware has left a clear mark on the threat landscape for September. finds Symantec Corp. in its ‘September 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report’. Approximately 72 per cent of all e-mail-borne malware in September could be characterized as aggressive strains of generic polymorphic malware, first identified in the July Symantec Intelligence Report. [...]
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30 September 2011
IT security and data protection firm, Sophos, has cautioned Skype users to be careful following the discovery of an automated attack, designed to spread fake anti-virus software. Skype users receive unsolicited calls in the form of a computer-generated voice message warning users that their computer security is not up-to-date, directing them to a specific website [...]
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14 August 2011
The Mac operating systems has surpassed Linux in popularity as a development environment in North America according to the recently released Evans Data North American Development survey. Mac LinuxAlthough Windows remains overwhelmingly the most popular operating system for development with over 80 percent of developers using it, Linux has slipped to third place with only [...]
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29 July 2011
British police arrested a teenager believed to be a leader of computer hacking groups that boasted attacks on the networks of the CIA, Sony and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. The arrest of the 19-year-old man, who UK police said goes by the hacker nickname “Topiary,” may be the most significant to date in a global [...]
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29 July 2011
If some latest reports from the American media on a purported statement by the US Treasury are anything to go by, Apple Inc. has more cash than the US government. “According to the latest daily statement from the US Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance of $73.8 billion at the end of the [...]
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27 July 2011
Symantec Corp. today announced the publication of its July 2011 Symantec Intelligence Report, now combining the best research and analysis from the Symantec.cloud MessageLabs Intelligence Report and the Symantec State of Spam and Phishing Report. This month’s analysis reveals a significant increase in activity related to what may be described as a aggressive and rapidly [...]
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27 July 2011
Facebook has made it easier for users to opt out of its controversial facial-recognition technology for photographs, an effort to address concerns that it had violated consumers’ privacy. The deployment of “Tag Suggestions” technology — designed to speed up the process of labeling friends in photos — had renewed concerns about how the world’s largest [...]
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26 July 2011
Networking vendor Dax Networks launched DX-2824-IRW, a broadband VPN router for Rs.. 21,700. The company says that with a high performance processor, DX-2824-IRW delivers internet access control and network protection against hacker attacks and intrusions. It also features packet layer and application layer (layer 7) filtering based on URL and keywords, and schedule-based Access Control [...]
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26 July 2011
Websense Security Labs has found an alarming number of Facebook scams taking advantage of the tragedy in Oslo, Norway. According to the Internet security firm, the scam seems to be infecting one user every second. The scam is a form of ‘clickjacking’ that replicates itself on users’ walls after they click on fake posts within [...]
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26 July 2011
The head of a U.S. agency that helps respond to cyber attacks resigned suddenly after several high-profile attacks on government computer systems but the Department of Homeland Security declined on Monday to comment on the reason. Randy Vickers resigned as director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team on Friday, according to an email from [...]
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24 July 2011
Google has fixed a bug in its URL removal tool that allowed anyone to remove content from Google’s search listings. The web firm told V3 that the problem has been resolved, and that there did not appear to be any widespread malicious use of the flaw. “We’ve confirmed that there was an issue within the [...]
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24 July 2011
A 38-year-old Japanese man is facing up to two years in prison after being arrested on suspicion of storing a computer virus without a legitimate reason. Yasuhiro Kawaguchi of Ogaki, Gifu Prefecture, is the first to be arrested under new laws brought in earlier this month in the country which bans the storage of a [...]
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23 July 2011
India’s largest telecom services company Bharti Airtel has announced a 20 per cent hike in pre-paid tariffs for ‘Advantage’ and ‘Freedom’ packs in six circles. The hike is applicable for calls as well as SMS sent within Airtel network. After the hike, the users of the ‘Advantage’ pack will now have to pay 60 paise [...]
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23 July 2011
Microsoft and Anna University signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday to launch the I-Spark program in the institution. The prografm is an attempt to bridge the gap between industry needs and student readiness by accelerating adoption of technology which strengthens IT competencies among students and creates better employment opportunities, said a press release. [...]
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23 July 2011
According to data from ComScore, the number of unique Google+ visitors stood at 19.93 million between June 29 and July 19. Users from the US and India stood at 5.31 million and 2.85 million, respectively. The two countries also emerged as the top countries on Google+. Another 0.87 million users were from the UK, 0.71 [...]
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