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News : Have Facebook accounts been hacked in Bangalore?

kartook — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:45:30 +0000

Bangalore: Across the world, thousands of Facebook users have been spammed. The spam is a flood of porn and violent images and other graphic content spread across the site over the past couple of days.

News : Cyber attacks hit Fujitsu local government system

kartook — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 03:28:33 +0000

A Fujitsu computer system run by about 200 Japanese local governments has been hit by a series of cyber attacks and is in a vulnerable condition, the company said Thursday. The online system, developed to enable local residents to request official certificates and documents on the Internet, was paralysed twice on Wednesday afternoon, a Fujitsu [...]

News : Notorious eBay hacker gets 3-year suspended sentence

kartook — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:15:55 +0000

Vladuz, the Romanian hacker who repeatedly accessed off-limits parts of eBay’s website and then publicly taunted company officials over the security lapses, has been handed a suspended three-year sentence, according to news reports.

The Bucharest appeal court issued the sentence on Wednesday to 23-year-old Vlad Duiculescu, AFP reported. He was arrested in Romania in 2008, [...]

News : Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites

kartook — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:25:01 +0000

Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites , Beware of BEAST decrypting secret PayPal cookies

By Dan Goodin in San Francisco Posted in ID, 19th September 2011 21:10 GMT

Researchers have discovered a serious weakness in virtually all websites protected by the secure sockets layer protocol that allows attackers to silently decrypt data [...]

Tech : RealVNC demos BIOS-based server at IDF 2011

kartook — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:38:12 +0000

VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is one of the of oldest remote desktop solutions around, and while its RFB (remote framebuffer) protocol can require a little more bandwidth than the competition, it’s long been praised for its broad cross-platform support and elegant simplicity. Last year, RealVNC teamed up with Intel to incorporate a bona fide VNC [...]

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kartook — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:41:12 +0000

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News: Intel’s 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Link shines a light on future computers

kartook — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:28:30 +0000

Using copper cables to transfer data around a computer? Get your head out of the sand, Intel thinks that’s on the outs and is touting its recent accomplishments with Silicon Photonics and integrated lasers, using light pulses to move data at 50Gbps.The emphasis is on low-cost, high-speed fiber optics, the removal of cable clutter, and [...]

VMware Launches Open-Source Cloud

kartook — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:09:14 +0000

VMware has entered the cloud game by offering an open-source package called Cloud Foundry, a Platform-as-a-Service that should strike fear in the hearts of its competitors, especially the likes of Salesforce.com, Microsoft and Rackspace. The platform will offer developers the tools to build out applications on public clouds, private clouds and anyplace else, whether the [...]

news : Linux Journal Insider – March 2011

kartook — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:52:43 +0000

This month, Shawn and Kyle talk about the tools they keep in their pockets. Smart phones are much more than just phones, and with Linux you’ve got multiple choices for handset operating systems — and this multiple choice test has only correct answers! Get a taste of the “Linux in Your Pocket” issue of Linux [...]

News : The New Features in LibreOffice 3.3

kartook — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:18:47 +0000

The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3

The first stable release of the free office suite is available for download

The Internet, January 25, 2011 – The Document Foundation launches LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice [...]