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 […]
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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 […]
Just today, I got an e-mail from “Hakin9 Newsletter newsletteren@hakin9.org” with the following content. As is Russia Hackers are pleased to announce RH2.5 KIT ver 2011 that people can use to hack & secure computer systems by knowing exactly how a hacker would break into it. Collection of Advanced Hacking Guides & Tools. PDF Guide: […]
Cisco have announced the End of Life for Cisco MARS. “Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of life dates for the Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis, and Response System. The last day to order the affected product(s) is June 3, 2011.” The end of an Era, for probably the largest deployed SIEM tool out there. I think […]
Google’s latest Gmail phone calling feature hit the ground running with over one million phone calls placed from Gmail in first 24 hours the feature was available, Google said Thursday via Twitter.The big question is how many will make Gmail calls in the following 24 hours after people have gotten over the novelty of […]
Cisco is reportedly looking to buy Skype before the Internet phone provider goes public. The blog TechCrunch posted over the weekend that Cisco made an offer for Skype before it completed its IPO process. The site attributed the unconfirmed information to “reliable sources.” It would be a multibillion purchase as Skype is looking to raise […]
John Stewart said in the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report that the hacking industry is now so advanced that malware writers are copy-protecting their own wares and are better funded and more astute than the forces of IT security. “Why do hackers succeed? They’re lucky, they’re patient and they’re brilliant. They’re also better funded […]
The suspects, who are 17 and 18 years old, were arrested on Wednesday by appointment at a central London police station, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. They are still being held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit fraud and of contravening the Computer Misuse Act. The two are thought to have participated in […]
What is the purpose of this alert? Microsoft has been made aware of an issue with a McAfee DAT file update – released Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – that has been causing stability issues on Windows XP client systems. The symptom is caused by a false-positive detection on a core Windows file (svchost.exe). Once the […]