Company anti-spam czar Mark Risher made a posting on Tuesday focusing on Yahoo’s new plans towards spam protection. “At Yahoo, we take spam seriously,” said Risher. According to the posting, “It’s a huge challenge and the bad guys are always out there trying to make a buck with their scams, but we’re committed…
Beware of Fake Obama Websites that can put your computer into severe problems. Hackers are more intellegiant, ever before. Yes, hackers developed Fake Obama Websites to spread the virus. As per the reports from Panda Security firm, hackers are using dozens of fake websites that are linked to Barack Obama’s…
Picotux 100 is the world’s smallest Linux computer. Its CPU has a 32-bit ARM7 running at 55 MHz, 8 MB of SDRAM and the basic version comes with 2 MB flash memory and Ethernet support. Application like web server, telnet will be run on this computer. GCC for c/c++ and fortran compilers are…
Credit and debit card transaction processing company Heartland Payment System warned that it had found evidence of a network breach that had compromised consumers’ credit-card numbers. Heartland Payment System Credit and debit card transaction processing company serving more than 250,000 customers worldwide. A week back auditors hired by the company found malicious…
Microsoft Inc. has released fixes for Windows. Totally three bugs has been fixed. Among them two are ‘critical’ and one is ‘moderate’. Microsoft last week released patches for three vulnerabilities in the Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol in Windows. Schultze said the critical bugs are very serious that can exploit them…
Software giant Microsoft has been charged with abusing the Monopoly in the Operating system segment. The latest verdict from the European Commission charges Microsoft of harming healthy competition by bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with its flagship Operating System – Windows. Microsoft’s IE, continues to be, by far the most used…
Software makers, security vendors, and government agencies joined together to prepare list of softwares mistakes that can lead to vulnerabilities. The brainchild of Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, and Steve Christey and Bob Martin, both of the MITRE Corp., the Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors includes issues that are…
How secure your website?, asks Netcraft network-monitoring firm. According to the reports from Netcraft, one out of seven SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Digital Certificates are weak. According to the survey by Netcraft, the vast certificates in the internet issued by RapidSSL – now owned by VeriSign are prone to security…
Google developer website is used for distributing malware, says McAfee Inc, the leader in intrusion prevention and security risk management. RSA – An security Divison of EMC reported an phishing email that re-directs to Fake CNN site which spreads trojans. Now McAfee has reported a similar issue with code.google.com website. Code.Google.com…
“Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier”, this was the statement made by Google in their release of Opensource Web browser called Chrome. How about the next release of Google Chrome?. What is going to be…
An new phishing email is circulated in the internet, which looks like from CNN website. But it is not so. Its a phishing email that links to a fake CNN website offerring an video content of Israel-Hamas conflict, but instead hosts a trojan that can steal sensitive informations from the user…
Steve Ballmer has announced that the Windows 7 Beta1 will available for download sooner this week, possibly by Jan 9th itself. Delivering the keynote at CES 2009, the Microsoft head declared that “Our TechNet and MSDN customers can get Windows 7 Beta 1 right now.” The rest of the world…
Finally Yahoo’s dreams to launch Internet & TV together has come true, after they unveiled their joint partner list for introducing Web TV. At the consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, Yahoo Inc. announced their partners deal with major companies like Samsung, LG, Sony for launching a High Definition TV that…
Latest the deal from Microsoft got leaked out. Yes, Microsoft plans to tie with Verizon, a deal that will provide its search engine on Verizon Wireless cell phones for the period of five years. In the early november, Google planned to tie with verizon for the same purpose. Various press…
Major search engine gaint Google & famous chinese search engine Baidu has apologised on Wednesday after chinese government blamed them of spreading search links that lead to pornographic contents. Chinese government raised their concern over pornography early this week and accused 19 Internet companies, including Google & Baidu. Chinese government…
China has the World’s largest internet users, which ranges from 240 million to 250 million. To purify the internet culture, china has issued a rule to ban all the pornography websites, blogs, forums, video sharing, cummunity websites & search engines. This rule includes the leading search engine gaint Google &…
Matthaus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann, the founders of the startup Mobile-facts, have been successful in giving a makeover to the Google’s smartphone operating system, Android, as a desktop operating system. Surprisingly the duo took only about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook. In an interview to…
The latest information from the Net Application indicates that Mozilla firefox & Safari started to lead the browser market. Leading web browser Internet Explorer from microsoft started to decline during the late 2008 & will continue the same during the 2009, news from Net Applications. The Mozilla Firefox & Safari…
The Web’s most comprehensive open encyclopaeida, the Wikipedia has reached its fund raising goal. The Wikimedia foundation, which is the non profit foundation behind Wikipedia has raised 6.2 Million US dollars as funds from contributors. Jimmy Wales, the founder of this foundation had appealed for support in late December. The…