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| Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, LulzSec hacker |
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Traitor in Anonymous hackers Group
Anonymous threatens to DDOS root Internet servers
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An upcoming campaign announced by the hacking group Anonymous directed against the Internet's core address lookup system is unlikely to cause much damage, according to one security expert.
Internet might Shutdown on March 8
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Cyberwar is a New Yellowcake ?
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“Today’s cyber criminals have the ability to interrupt life-sustaining services, cause catastrophic economic damage, or severely degrade the networks our defense and intelligence agencies rely on,” Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) said at a hearing last week. “Congress needs to act on comprehensive cybersecurity legislation immediately.”
iCloud's Got Popularity
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Speaking at the Goldman Sachs annual Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco this afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again described the service as part of the company's strategy for the next decade, adding that more than a 100 million people were using it.
CIA site hacked by Anonymous
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Anonymous hacks call between FBI and Scotland Yard about hackers
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A recent trans-Atlantic call between the FBI and the UK's Scotland Yard in which operatives from the two law enforcement agencies discussed ongoing cases regarding a number of alleged hackers was intercepted and recorded—by hackers.“Do you want to talk about cheese?” is the conversation opener in a trans-Atlantic phone call intercepted by hacker collective Anonymous between the FBI and the UK’s Metropolitan Police (aka Scotland Yard).
Antiphishing standard in the works from Google, Facebook, others
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The 15 companies will be announcing on Monday DMARC.org, which stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance--a system for verifying that e-mails are coming from legitimate companies and not importers trying to trick people into clicking a phishing link.
Websites Doubled in Size just in 1 Year
The Internet now has 555 million Websites, up from just 255 million at the end of 2010.
Did you launch a new website last year? If so, you’re not alone. According to Web monitoring service Pingdom, there were a total of 555 million websites online, as of December 2011. Of those, 300 million were created in the last year alone.
That’s not the only staggering statistic available in Pingdom’s thorough report. Here are a few others to chew on:
- There are currently about 2.1 billion Internet users in the world, compared to the world’s total population of about 6.99 billion. Of those online, 922.2 million come from Asia, 485 million of which come from China alone. The US and Canada combined account for only 271.1 million Web surfers.
- Of the 2.1 billion Internet users, 45 percent are under the age of 25.
MegaUpload owner:A Hacker | Millionaire | Stylish
While the shutdown of MegaUpload has brought out a variety of responses from people on the Web, the bizarre account of the arrest of Megaupload's founder seems similar to a a Hollywood-style action movie.
Since the closure of file-sharing site MegaUpload and the following Anonymous attack on federal and music industry sites, details regarding the arrest of MegaUpload founder Kim “Dotcom” Schmitz have been made public. German national, 38-year-old Schmitz was spending the day in his country mansion hideaway when dozens of police officers with helicopters swarmed the home. Schmitz then engaged several electronic locks throughout the household and refused to allow police entry into the $23 million mansion in Coatesville, New Zealand. As police officers forced their way into the home, Schmitz barricaded himself in the mansion’s safe room. After police sliced through the safe room door, they found him next to a sawed-off shotgun.
Web Gang
Five men believed to be responsible for spreading a notorious computer worm on Facebook and other social networks and pocketing several million dollars from online schemes — are hiding in plain sight in St. Petersburg, Russia, according to investigators at Facebook and several independent computer security researchers.
A member of the Koobface gang posted to Foursquare, showing an office, complete with coordinates, in St. Petersburg.
The men live comfortable lives in St. Petersburg — and have frolicked on luxury vacations in places like Monte Carlo, Bali and, earlier this month, Turkey, according to photographs posted on social network sites — even though their identities have been known for years to Facebook, computer security investigators and law enforcement officials.
One member of the group, which is popularly known as the Koobface gang, has regularly broadcast the coordinates of its offices by checking in on Foursquare, a location-based social network, and posting the news to Twitter. Photographs on Foursquare also show other suspected members of the group working on Macs in a loftlike room that looks like offices used by tech start-ups in cities around the world.
It's all about Google+
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Your comment then appears in your Google+ feed where other people can respond and potentially trigger an ongoing discussion. As with your regular posts, you can share your comments with the entire Google+ world or limit it just to specific circles. Your comment will also appear in Google+ results when other people search for the same topic.
HotSpot Shield strengthens VPN
The HotSpot Shield VPN now incorporates an anti-malware site blocker. HotSpot Shield maker AnchorFree has built an extra wall of protection into its popular virtual private network software, available today.
The update adds a malware site guard to the VPN client without requiring you to download a new version of the program because the changes have all been made on the server, not on your computer.
With the anti-malware site guard in place, HotSpot Shield will throw up a warning like the one you see in the screenshot above. Available on Windows, Mac, and iOS, the new anti-malware site protection is based off a database of more than 3 million malicious sites. Between the three operating systems, AnchorFree says that HotSpot Shield has more than 10 million active monthly users. Since the site guard is implemented on the server-side, it will be available in the coming HotSpot ShieldAndroid app, too.
For people who use the free, ad-supported version of HotSpot Shield, the new guard will block malware sites. If you upgrade to the ad-free and bandwidth-prioritized Elite version, you will also receive protection against three additional types of passive Web threats. These include otherwise safe sites that have been infected by third-party malware, phishing sites, and sites that promulgate spam.
AnchorFree CEO David Gorodyansky said during a phone call on Tuesday that the update makes HotSpot Shield a complete secure browsing solution. "There was no issue for us in integrating the secure browsing with the VPN."
Wikipedia Closing?
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Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate — that, if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including Wikipedia.
This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made. Here’s how it’s been described by the three Wikipedia administrators who formally facilitated the community’s discussion. From the public statement, signed by User:NuclearWarfare, User:Risker and User:Billinghurst:
Google Chrome 17
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While the last few Chrome release candidates have focused on adding new features, Google is shifting the focus back to speed with the upcoming release of Chrome 17.
First noticed by testers of the most recent beta release of Chrome, Google now starts to pre-render pages as the user types them into the address bar according to the official Google Chrome blog. The feature has many similarities to the Google Instant tweak of the search engine. As Chrome watches what the user types and starts to auto-populate the result, it will choose to pre-render the most likely choice. For instance, a frequent visitor of this site will simply have to type “D” and watch the Digital Trends address autofill in the omnibar as well as watch the site start loading. The quicker page loads are most notable on frequently visited pages as well as bookmarked pages.
CSS3 technology replaces JavaScript functionality
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It is a known fact that JavaScript allows us web developers to create some amazing interactions with web user interfaces, and now with some thought, ingenuity, and knowledge, the same types of effects can be created with the tools and technology of CSS3.
This post will highlight several CSS3 techniques and tutorials that push the envelope and create similar effects that in the past were relegated to just JavaScript only functionality. The examples are organized into three sections, Image and Photo Galleries, Text and Typography, and finally Navigation and Drop-Down Menus. Each example will highlight the CSS3 technology, provide a screen capture of the demonstrated usage, and supply a snippet of the CSS3 code that helps to make it all happen. Many of these examples are quite useful while others are just making a statement for the importance of CSS3 and its place in the future for web development.
Image and photo galleries
Polaroid Photo Gallery by Chris Spooner on Line25 utilizes CSS3 -webkit and -moz prefixes with transform, rotate, box shadow, and z-index properties to create this imaginative photo gallery and the tutorial provides the clues behind the code. The demonstration is available for viewing in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome.
This is a snippet of the CSS3 code that highlights the use of transform to create part of the Polaroid-like gallery:
ul.gallery li a {
position: relative;
float: left;
padding: 10px 10px 25px 10px;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #fff;
-moz-box-shadow: 0px 2px 15px #333;
}
Private browsing: it's not so private
Research by Stanford University to investigate the privacy of the "private browsing" feature of many Web browsers suggests that the tools aren't all that private after all, and that many kinds of information can be leaked by browsers when using the mode. The paper is due to be presented next week at the USENIX security conference.
"InPrivate Browsing" in Internet Explorer, "Incognito mode" in Chrome, and "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari all strive to do the same two things: make it impossible for users of the same computer to figure out which sites the browser has been used to visit, and make it impossible for sites to know whether or not a particular user has previously visited them.
Firefox 9 with fancy JavaScript optimizations
Another six weeks have gone by, and another version of Firefox has been released. Still not officially "live," Firefox 9 improves on Firefox 8 with a JavaScript engine that's up to 30 percent faster and, well, not a whole lot else. Mac OS X users will have a little more to gain, as Firefox 9 also includes two-finger gestures for backward and forward navigation on that platform.
The new version includes a number of bug fixes to improve stability and security, better support for HTML5, CSS, and MathML, and some improvements to its Do Not Track feature to allow scripts to know if tracking is enabled or not. All told, the new release includes more than one thousand bug fixes and improvements.
Speed Up an Internet Connection
How to Speed Up an Internet Connection
Instructions
Things You'll Need
- Cable Modems
- Modems
- DSL Lines
- ISDN Lines
- 1Configure your browser so it won't display graphics, animations, sound, video or other multimedia content (see "How to Turn Off Sounds, Pictures or Video on Web Pages").
- 2Surf when Internet traffic is low. Heaviest traffic is usually on weekends and evenings.
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