Hacktivists group Anonymous state that they cannot support anymore what Wikileaks has become. Read some tweets exchange between Anonymous and Wikileaks here - https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/256208465511452672 Read Anonymous Press Release here - http://www.anonpaste.me/anonpaste/index.php?f12864c4aaa27e05#b85melA+HwnJhvVZbw93iqqnrdHJLNEJURQgWJSkAhk=... Read More
'A top-secret base in Taiwan, revealed on Apple Maps. The Navy SEALs' rehearsal site for the Osama bin Laden raid, found on Bing. Once again, commercial satellites have snapped images of things that governments would rather hide from public view. And once again, those governments are finding that there's not much they can do once this sensitive imagery ends up... Read More
The Chinese world leader in fourth generation communication networks, known as 4G, sets its eye on the U.S market. This latest technology is used for high volumes of phone calls, data, and high definition video. Its innovative low cost systems have already captured markets in Africa, Latin America and Europe. Many U.S. congressional leaders and others see this move as... Read More
Is your organization's network service up-to-date with the latest configuration best practices for High Availability and Load Balancing? Now is the time make sure, before you have an outage. Learn the latest from a Microsoft Exchange MVP who will help you identify where your High Availability network stands today and avoid future outages. Join J. Peter Bruzzese, Microsoft Certified Trainer... Read More
Security experts at Dell SecureWorks has been on the go discovering number of APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) threatening various sectors such as, energy and military. This is the second cyber espionage activity that Dell's CTU (Counter Threat Unit) has discovered this year. Dell's experts have found that Mirage (latest APT) has C&C (command & control) servers IP addresses originating from... Read More
Microsoft announces a massive giveaway to its 94,000 employees! According to v3.co.uk each Microsoft employee would get a Surface RT tablet, a Windows Phone 8 and a Windows 8 computer, which would cost Microsoft some $100 million. It is a noble gesture by Microsoft which would not only help keeping its employees happy but it would also raise the number... Read More
The global hosting service provider GoDaddy.com says that a series of internal network events has corrupted its router data tables and caused the intermittent service outages of last Monday. Go Daddy also denies claims made by hackers on Twitter that the outage was due to DDoS attacks against their services. Read the full press release here - http://www.godaddy.com/newscenter/release-view.aspx?news_item_id=410... Read More
Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch for vulnerabilities in Java 7 that have been widely exploited to spread malware. This Security Alert addresses security issues CVE-2012-4681 (US-CERT Alert TA12-240A and Vulnerability Note VU#636312) and two other vulnerabilities affecting Java running in web browsers on desktops. These vulnerabilities are not applicable to Java running on servers or standalone Java desktop applications... Read More
Authorities are investigating whether Mitt Romney's private email account was hacked, his presidential campaign stated. It was reported that an unnamed hacker had broken into the Republican private Hotmail account by guessing the answer to a security question about Mr. Romney's favorite pet. Read the full story here - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/9312904/Mitt-Romneys-private-email-account-hacked.html... Read More
A post by Terry Zink on MSDN blogs outlines how Android devices are being used to send spam. According to Terry, the spammers has control of a botnet that lives on Android devices and which is capable of logging to the user's Yahoo Mail account and send spam. Read the full blog post here - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tzink/archive/2012/07/03/spam-from-an-android-botnet.aspx... Read More