To understand what the BeOS and Haiku operating systems are, we first must remember that BeOS was developed with the multimedia user in mind. BeOS wanted to be what OS X has become today: an easy to use, attractive operating system. However, BeOS was a niche OS, destined for the…
Rapid7 Receives 2010 Frost & Sullivan Product Line Strategy of the Year Award
BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Rapid7®, the leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced that Frost Sullivan has awarded the Company its 2010 Product Line Strategy of the Year Award in vulnerability management. According to the full report and analysis of the vulnerability management market by Frost Sullivan,…
Stuxnet-Like Trojans Can Exploit Critical Flaw in Chinese Industrial Software
A critical security flaw in supervisory-control-and-data-acquisition (SCADA) systems used in China raises the possibility of another Stuxnet-like attack, a security researcher said. The latest stable version of KingView, the SCADA software developed by Beijing WellinControl Technology Development, contains a critical heap overflow vulnerability, wrote Dillon Beresford, a security researcher at…
Judith Acosta: How to Defend Yourself Against the Media’s Fear Tactics: Confessions of an Ex-Ad-Woman (Part 2)
Has it really become that hard? Is there no place quiet in the world? Have the media and the golden arches made their presences felt everywhere? Continued here:Judith Acosta: How to Defend Yourself Against the Media’s Fear Tactics: Confessions of an Ex-Ad-Woman (Part 2) Tags: Golden, golden-arches, media, place-quiet, presences,…
Sophos: Android a Big Target of Facebook-based Attacks
Sophos Senior Technology Consultant Graham Cluley agrees with a BitDefender study showing Facebook as a growing attack vector for smartphone malware. Sophos has seen a similar pattern, and Android phones are often the easiest targets, Cluley said in a sit-down interview Tuesday. “The iPhone operates in a more controlled environment…
DOJ Wikileaks-Twitter Probe Draws Heat in Europe
An influential group of European politicians is protesting the U.S. government’s attempt to pry Wikileaks-related information out of Twitter, saying that EU privacy rules may have been violated. The parliamentary maneuver expected tomorrow comes as London-based lawyers for Wikileaks editor Julian Assange warned that their client could face illegal rendition…
European politicos protest DOJ WikiLeaks-Twitter probe
An influential group of European politicians is protesting the U.S. government’s attempt to pry WikiLeaks-related information out of Twitter, saying that EU privacy rules may have been violated. The parliamentary maneuver expected tomorrow comes as London-based lawyers for WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange warned that their client could face illegal rendition…
Selena Gomez’s Facebook and Twitter Hacked Wednesday Morning
TMZ reports that someone has hacked Selena Gomez’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. Was it a Justin Bieber hater or a hacker pro? The hacker allegedly wanted to show how easy it is to get into these accounts, but they also decided to add some anti-Bieber comments. Here they are: “Oh…
Selena Gomez — Facebook Page Hacked
1/12/2011 10:10 AM PST by TMZ Staff Selena Gomez‘s Facebook page was hijacked this morning by a hacker who claims he/she was out to teach Mark Zuckerberg a lesson! Early this morning, Selena’s most recent updates had been removed and replaced with some vulgar language … including a line that read,…
Selena Gomez Facebook ‘hacked’
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Article source: http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32545/f/492401/p/1/s/29d22ecd/l/0L0Sdigitalspy0O0Cshowbiz0Cnews0Ca2975770Cselena0Egomez0Efacebook0Ehacked0Bhtml0Drss/story01.htm Tags: facebook, hacking, myspace, social media, twitter Category: Social Media Threats