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A type of DoS attack (Denial of Service) was carried out during the day yesterday with Twitter and Facebook, two of the most popular web services and used social networking in recent times.

A type of DoS attack like the one carried out against Twitter and Facebook has the direct and primary goal to make the inaccessible web sites, submerging systems required data, so as to cause knee ’s infrastructure of ‘ whole service. L ‘attack was a ‘ single source ..read more

In the months of June and July we have emphasized the wave of attacks where the victim was Twitter, the first case Just (dot) ru and further Koobface.

In both cases the main feature was the spam on user profiles of links pointing to malicious sites containing malware.

Just to intervene in this direction, Twitter has started to filter the URLs classified as hazardous, as confirmed by Mikko Hypp

It seems likely to have implications with socio-political attack suffered yesterday from Twitter and other social networks including Facebook.

The hypothesis is advanced on the basis of statements made by a blogger of Georgian nationality, known as Cyxymu (a city of Georgia) and holds several accounts on various web 2.0 sites like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and LiveJournal, which accounts were the target by a few attacks in recent days because of his positions “pro-Western”, as stated by the same Cyxymu.

Are still ..read more

Tonight came updating Mac OS X 10.5.8:

What’s new:

- Safari version 4.0.2. - Increased search performance in the entire history of Safari 4. - The problem that caused that panel

We know the problems that exist for antivirus for Windows Vista. Some time ago, there was little alternative in the market, but now that is. And even taking into account what an antivirus for Windows Vista represents.

I think that if any program is branded as “good”, with the main feature is that it must have is a lightweight software, since most computers with the operating system as criticism can not afford heavy to install and use, taking into account the ..read more

The patch day that Microsoft provides for the month of August set on 11/08, as the day coincides with the usual second Tuesday of the month. The patch day the Italians will take on vacation, but returned to l ’start pc require major upgrades to the systems of Redmond. Nine patches released, five of which are labeled’ critical ‘and therefore deserving of immediate and specific attention . The remaining four patches from Microsoft are considered ‘important’.

To be affected ..read more

Twitter is under DoS attack. For more than half the microblogging service Mashable? Hard to tell, but the downtime of these services would even consider a large-scale attack, perhaps performed by a botnet of zombie computers.

Not only have to wait for other updates to Twitter from the team to understand how the attack.

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Apple has released the new update 10.5.8 for maintaining the operating system Mac OS X “Leopard”, which could be ’s last update before the release of the new operating system Mac OS X 10.6 “Snow Leopard” provided during the month of September.

Among the innovations and improvements made by ‘last update indicates the presence of version 4.0.2 of Safari, greater reliability of the Bluetooth transmission and the presence of a number of fixes to security breaches. As usual, l ..read more

“The European Commission report on the digital competitiveness published today shows how the digital industry in Europe has made considerable progress since 2005: today 56% of Europeans regularly use Internet, of which l ‘80% through a high speed (compared only a third in 2004), doing what the ‘Europe, the world’s number one broadband Internet. L ‘ Europe, the continent of the world’s first truly mobile, since it has more subscribers to mobile services that citizens (the rate usage of 119%). ..read more

Pwnie Awards are a sort of Oscar in the field of ‘information security that reward both the errors of software vendors, and discoveries of bugs and vulnerabilities more critical by the researchers.

The name derives from the word “own” (note the word own), typical of the hacker slang, which has the meaning of compromise or control.

These are annual awards that take place, after three years, at the conference

Firefox 3.5.2 and Firefox 3.5.x to post-bug reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian, enable the injection of code and Web content “spoof”, and then not coming from the source (URL) in use. Situation becomes even more serious in the context HTTPS / SSL.

Besides that Firefox 3.5.2 fixes several security bugs that do not occur in Firefox 3.0.x, including H-Online has made a careful analysis of the bug “fixati” and noted that some of the bugs fixed ..read more

3.5.2 final version in English of the Firefox browser for Windows operating systems. Below the main novit included all ’s new in this version:

Fixed several security issues. Images with an associated ICC profile are displayed properly on any monitor.

This completes the list of security fixes implemented in this version.

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3.0.52 final version in English of the Firefox browser for Windows operating systems. Below the main novit included all ’s new in this version:

Fixed several security issues. Images with an associated ICC profile are displayed properly on any monitor.

This completes the list of security fixes implemented in this version.

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One of the issues that typically concern the average user is strangely compiling Linux Kernel. I do not understand why, as this is a step beyond that required almost essential in order to streamline the forms necessary for the proper functioning of hardware, as well as the implementation of multiple patches that can be targeted to hardware or simply security.

Speaking here and, in turn, I realized that all this big problem very often is generated by the translation ..read more

Critical security flaw was discovered a few days ago in Adobe Flash, and quickly over the last few hours were distributed on an update. L ‘update through the Adobe Flash which is recognized as a version 10.0.32.18, solves about a dozen bugs.

The problems solved by ‘update released just avoid the potential execution of code by third parties. In fact the problem only partially solved because the security issue noted last week also extends to Adobe Reader and Acrobat: ..read more

In contrast to our happy students, who can relax with a quiet conscience, until the end of summer, American students will have to return for the party in a week or two. In order not to leave them unequipped for the formidable granite science, observers on-line edition of

Is attracting much buzz in the network news of the spreading of a crack for Windows 7 (in particular tested on Windows 7 RTM version 7600 which is practically the final version that will be distributed commercially). Obviously the thing that strikes most is the fact that this time the crack to activate Windows 7 is available even before the marketing of the new operating system.

As always happens with Windows now, we are stunned is the ease with which ..read more

Video surveillance in real time: Home Room

Home Room is a free software that allows you to set up a video surveillance system capable of monitoring real-time environment such as a home or a child who is in another room.

The software requires an internet connection and a Webcam or more. You must register on the site of the manufacturer and install the software on the machine which are connected Webcam. The images lead ..read more

A few days after the discovery of a serious flaw related to Flash, Adobe runs shelters for releasing a new update to its application. L ‘update fixes about a dozen bugs, and reduces the chance of suffering an attack by an attacker.

L ‘update brings Flash version 10.0.32.18 and affects Windows, Mac and Linux. L ‘installation dell ‘ update still does not eliminate the risks associated with vulnerabilities discovered some days ago because it also affects the application Adobe ..read more

Center for Strategic International Studies, both in this document published by the White House.

The U.S. Cyber Challenge is divided into three main strands:

DC3 Digital Forensics Challenge: direct from Cyber Crime Center of the Department of Defense (DoD) is focused on cyber investigation and computer forensics; Network Attack Competition: Under the auspices of the SANS Institute, will challenge competitors on the discovery and testing of the vulnerability of computer systems.

Those who get the highest scores attend ..read more

Not only ’s in PDF format), Miller and Mulliner explained how it is possible, through a series of concatenated messages, crash the iPhone and Android.

For now Windows Mobile is still the subject of analysis by two researchers, who say they are confident of finding a flaw in the system also made in Redmond.

As for iPhone, Miller Mulliner and managed, with a series of specially forged SMS, a crash CommCenter, the ..read more

Even before its actual availability in the RTM version of Microsoft anti-piracy protections Windows 7 have been circumvented. In recent days many sites have reported the online news reporting also clear links and adding that many details for obvious reasons mapping.

Microsoft Windows 7, according to official information released by the Redmond’s house in recent weeks, will be available in RTM starting next August 6. A few days before that date OEMs should receive a copy of the new ..read more

The bad news for fans of social networks

There is a new update for the Joomla CMS, release 1.5.13 has been released to correct vulnerabilities, including some classified as a high priority.

Joomla 1.5.13 was conducted just 3 weeks after the release of the previous version, and developers of content managers now have the opportunity to fix bugs in the fastest way through the broad participation of users and their records.

Joomla 1.5.13 is also available in localized versions in English and can be ..read more

Sophos as Troj / Agent-KPU, it presents as an email entitled “Novel H1N1 Flu Situation Update.” Is the file self-extracting zip over to extract a word document with some information on the spread of copies on a computer executable file that installs itself on another computer “exe” and copy in the system registry the information required to run at each startup.

According to the analysis of Sophos, the purpose of this trojan is to steal passwords and ..read more

Collin Mulliner and the famous hacker Charlie Miller had already spoken to us in the past of a potential security due to dell’iPhone Messaging. After Apple warned, the boys have not received a reply and then tomorrow will hold a live demonstration at the Black Hat Cybersecurity Conference in Las Vegas.

In particular, the problem is this: The SMS application has no limits with regard to writing in memory and consequently to a hacker simply create an overflow in order to ..read more

‘Internet System Consortium (ISC), maker of software, which released a report which explained the danger of a leak detected .

Suffice update remotely to crash BIND, causing the unexpected closure of the demon. To be affected are all versions of DNS servers, which work by master of one or more areas, and is not limited to instances of BIND that have the automatic update feature enabled. This means that the majority of DNS using BIND are in great danger. ..read more

Lenovo, with the launch of the Netbook IdeaPad S12, has tried to conquer the Netbook market. Indeed Lenovo aims with the really interesting news. IdeaPad S12 will be the first Netbook Lenovo to integrate cipset NVIDIA ION. The graphic chip NVIDIA ION is able to guarantee a computing power ten times higher than the ..read more

Dear readers today Microsoft is ready to release two patches of emergency: the first is to solve the security problem for all Visual Studio products and the other to increase the security of