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After four long years, here comes a new version of PuTTY, the popular free telnet/SSH client for Windows and Unix platforms. PuTTY 0.61 brings new features, bug fixes, and compatibility updates for Windows 7 and various SSH server softwa...
Matching post #78,592 · by chain · Jul 14, 2011 4:26 AM
The Kostolnik family's nightmare is over - the neighbor that has hacked into their Wi-Fi network and misused the access for terrorizing them has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. The 46-year-old Barry Ardolf, a former Medronic comp...
Matching post #78,591 · by chain · Jul 14, 2011 4:18 AM
As the Google+ invasion continues, Facebook is feeling the heat. Although Facebook still has over 700 million users, some estimates say that Google's social network is on track to top 20 million users by this weekend. That's over 1 milli...
Matching post #78,590 · by chain · Jul 14, 2011 4:13 AM
A survey has revealed that fully 30 per cent of British parents' Facebook "friend" requests to their children get rejected, and that many then resort to using other people's login details in order to keep track of their offspring's Web-2...
Matching post #78,589 · by chain · Jul 14, 2011 4:05 AM
Open...and Shut Facebook isn't necessarily the new Compuserve, and Google might not be angling to be the Hotel California of tech, but all of the big web giants seem intent on locking their users into experiencing a single-vendor web. ...
Matching post #78,587 · by chain · Jul 11, 2011 4:05 PM
David Beckham's website was hacked and defaced on Sunday in an attack timed to coincide with the birth of his first daughter. Instead of the usual content about football and his celebrity friends, visitors to Golden Balls' website who...
Matching post #78,586 · by chain · Jul 11, 2011 4:00 PM
Microsoft has disabled the search results on its Security Centre after malware-spreaders abused the function to promote shady pornographic websites serving Trojans as well as cheap thrills. Only the Security Section of Microsoft's webs...
Matching post #78,585 · by chain · Jul 11, 2011 3:57 PM
Yahoo! is being criticised for the new Ts & Cs for its webmail service, which give it the right to scan your emails as well as making you responsible for telling anyone who might be emailing you, but the ICO has no problem with the chang...
Matching post #78,584 · by chain · Jul 11, 2011 3:51 PM
What difference dose it make who made it, as long as t was updated and looks good. thats what its all about.
Matching post #78,481 · by chain · Jun 8, 2011 3:31 AM
I was looking through some News when i came across this Video and I foud it to be interesting, on how the group AnonymousFeels that they arnt a bunch of hackers or terriosts. but misunderstood people from all over. So I've added it here...
Matching post #78,552 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:52 AM
The time has come. I have reached the end of the 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux series, and it is time to wind down and reflect on my experience. Just as I did last month with 30 Days With Google Docs, I will list my top five complaints, foll...
Matching post #78,551 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:43 AM
Paul Ceglia, the man who claims he has a contract that entitles him to 50 percent ownership in Facebook, has lost his high-power legal representation at a critical juncture in the case. Ceglia filed a notice of substitution of counsel...
Matching post #78,550 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:36 AM
The security breach of the week goes to... (drum roll please...) Sony! The website for Sony Pictures France was hacked Monday, June 20th, and 177,172 emails were taken through a SQL injection attack. As CNET notes, it was the same method...
Matching post #78,549 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:28 AM
Rapid updates, manageability gaps make Chrome and especially Firefox tough to accept for large businesses with managed networks and stability concerns. In my experience dealing with businesses, it's rare to find them using anything oth...
Matching post #78,548 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:12 AM
Zombie movie star Simon Pegg was obliged to warn his followers after his Twitter feed was hacked to post links to malware. Supposed links to a screensaver for Pegg's alien comedy Paul actually contained a Trojan horse. A Twitter update...
Matching post #78,547 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:02 AM
MasterCard's website became difficult to reach on Tuesday following the launch of an apparent denial of service attack. Twitter user @ibomhacktivist claimed responsibility for the reported assault, which it said had been motivated by M...
Matching post #78,546 · by chain · Jun 29, 2011 10:00 AM
The Metropolitan Police are still holding a 19-year-old man on suspicion of involvement with the LulzSec group of hackers. LulzSec itself, via Twitter, refuted claims that he is some sort of leader. The group also posted the identities...
Matching post #78,536 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 1:10 PM
Google has released a new version of Chrome Frame – the Internet Explorer plug-in that turns Microsoft's browser into a Google browser – letting users install the plug-in even when they don't have administrator privileges on their machin...
Matching post #78,538 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 1:16 PM
Open...and Shut As much as 95 percent of the world's software is written for internal, enterprise use, rather than by vendors for sale, a point famously made by Eric Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Much of this software, in turn...
Matching post #78,537 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 1:14 PM
It appears that LulzSec is the latest target of hacking. If this story on Australia’s ABC technology Website is accurate, then the hacktivist group has made itself unpopular enough to become itself a target. TeamPoison says it posted...
Matching post #78,535 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 1:02 PM
Thousands of Australian websites have irretrievably lost their data and email files following a malicious security hack on Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT. The company has been scrambling to save data and get cus...
Matching post #78,534 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 12:46 PM
Google has released an extension for its Chrome browser that helps developers and security testers identify websites that execute unsafe code on end user computers. The release of DOM Snitch, as the experimental extension is known, com...
Matching post #78,533 · by chain · Jun 22, 2011 12:42 PM
Yet another web authentication authority has been attacked by hackers intent on minting counterfeit certificates that would allow them to spoof the authenticated pages of high-profile sites. Israel-based StartCom, which operates StartS...
Matching post #78,531 · by chain · Jun 21, 2011 2:11 PM
While there have been cyber attacks made against other companies and government organizations in the last couple of months, Sony has been by far the company that has suffered through the most attacks. Today CNet's News.com reports that y...
Matching post #78,530 · by chain · Jun 21, 2011 2:09 AM
This morning a post on Pastebin outlined a serious security issue that was spotted at Dropbox: for a brief period of time, the service allowed users to log into accounts using any password. In other words, you could log into someone's ac...
Matching post #78,529 · by chain · Jun 21, 2011 1:51 AM
