admin @ December 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Well, it certainly looks like one and almost behaves like any real UFO — except we have identified it.We are talking about an exciting development at Entecho here in Australia where they are working on the Hoverpod, a manned aerial vehicle that not only can hover but also fly up to 3000 m at speeds […]
admin @ December 24, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Introducing Weave
We’re now launching a new project within Mozilla Labs to formally explore this integration. This project will be known as Weave and it will focus on finding ways to enhance the Firefox user experience, increase user control over personal information, and provide new opportunities for developers to build innovative online experiences.
Just like Mozilla enables […]
admin @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation’s leading military research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no classified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ORNL visitors […]
admin @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Hackers have succeeded in breaking into the computer systems of two of the US’ most important science labs, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
In what a spokesperson for the Oak Ridge facility described as a “sophisticated cyber attack,” it appears that intruders accessed a database […]
admin @ December 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has warned that its computer systems have been infiltrated by one or more hackers who skirted system’s security to gain access to personal information on the lab’s visitors. The information was then used in a phishing scheme that attempted to convince victims to open a malicious e-mail attachment. The lab […]
admin @ December 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A laptop stolen during a recent blood drive contained sensitive information on 268,000 Minnesota-region blood donors, Memorial Blood Centers said Wednesday.
The laptop was in a briefcase that was stolen just before 7 a.m. Nov. 28 as workers were setting up a blood drive, said Laura Kaplan, manager of marketing and communications with the blood center. […]
admin @ November 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
IT security and control firm Sophos has welcomed news that a teenager from New Zealand, believed to be the brains behind an international cyber gang, has been arrested.
The gang was allegedly responsible for infecting more then one million computers, stealing bank and credit card information, and embezzling more than USD 20 million. It is suspected […]
admin @ November 30, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Fasthosts has announced that “a number” of its customers’* FTP spaces were raided as a result of the major hack that triggered a police investigation last month. It has applied a system-wide reset of thousands of passwords as a result.
The Gloucester-based webhosting firm yesterday performed the emergency reset of control panel, PCP, FTP and SQL […]
admin @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A 48-year-old man caught up in an internet love triangle was sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing his rival after being dumped by the woman they both competed for.
Thomas Montgomery of Cheektowaga, New York, pleaded guilty in August to the shooting death of 22-year-old Brian Barrett while he sat in a pickup truck […]
admin @ November 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Increasingly worried over Internet providers’ behavior, a nonprofit has released software that helps determine whether online glitches are innocent hiccups or evidence of deliberate traffic tampering.
The San Francisco-based digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation hopes the program, released Wednesday, will help uncover “data discrimination” _ efforts by Internet providers to disrupt some uses of their […]
admin @ November 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tragic story of Tony Harris by now…the son/son-in-law of a loving wife, a soon to be born child, a devoted step-father and his wife… Tony Harris goes to Brazil to play basketball and life takes a tragic turn… But…is United Air Lines hospitable? Sympathetic? NO! instead of giving the […]
admin @ November 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m sure you’ve all heard the tragic story of Tony Harris by now…the son/son-in-law of a loving wife, a soon to be born child, a devoted step-father and his wife… Tony Harris goes to Brazil to play basketball and life takes a tragic turn… But…is United Air Lines hospitable? Sympathetic? NO! instead of giving the […]
admin @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A TEENAGE hacker who managed to get around the Aussie government’s $84 million internet filter scheme has been recruited by the opposition Labor party to design its cyber safety policy.
Tom Wood has now become the subject of a slanging match between the Labor and Liberal parties.
Liberal Communications Minister, Helen Coonan, denies that Wood “hacked” the […]
admin @ November 21, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A 19-year-old from Uppsala, Sweden, has been found guilty on seven counts of unauthorized access to Swedish university servers and research computers. He is also suspected by the FBI of breaking into servers at Cisco Systems and stealing classified source code.
The man, who was no older than 16 when the crimes were committed, was found […]
admin @ November 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A new day, a new Trojan to infect our computers. This time it’s Troj_Small.Jiu, a Trojan horse which was discovered by security vendor Trend Micro that informed the infection can be installed by other malware or as a standalone file by any user. “This Trojan arrives as a file dropped by other malware. It can […]
