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Russian Hackers Eyed in Attack on Twitter, Google and Facebook
Anti-Georgia Russian hackers may have been behind yesterday’s global cyber attacks on Google, Facebook and Twitter.
The organised web assaults completely shut down social networking site Twitter and disrupted access to Facebook — nearly a year to the day since the outbreak of the Georgia-Russia war.
Search engine Google was also targeted but managed to fend off [...]
Analyst Predicts Apple Mini Computer in 2010
A prominent technology analyst predicted that Apple Inc. would release a “tablet” or mini-computer for sale early next year, and that it could boost the consumer electronics company’s revenue by 3 percent in 2010.
Speculation of a tablet from Apple has been swirling among analysts and technology blogs for a couple years as other PC makers [...]
Koobface Returns, Twitter knocked Offline
Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. “We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly.”
The denial-of-service attack coincides with the launch of a new Koobface malware run using Twitter messages as a distribution vector for fake security software [...]
Hackers Attack Twitter & Facebook
A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter, and Facebook also said it was looking into possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from [...]
On2 Technologies & Why Google Wants It
What does On2 do? According to On2’s annual report, the company owns a series of video compression technologies that help transmit video over bandwidth constrained cellular networks and high-def over the Internet. On2 has a proprietary platform that includes video codecs VP6, VP7 and VP8, Flix Pro, a Web development platform, Flix Publisher, a series [...]
Sony Has Two New eReaders, One is Pocket Sized for $199
Sony on Wednesday will unveil two new e-book devices, a pocket edition with a 5-inch screen for $199 and a touch-screen version starting at $299. The devices will be available at the end of August.
The company also plans to reduce all new releases and best sellers at its e-book store to $9.99 each, down from [...]
HP Delivers More Compaq Budget Laptops
Lately HP has been making good use of its Compaq brand to meet this demand for budget netbooks and notebooks. Verizon has been offering new FiOS customers a free Compaq Mini 10.1-inch netbook. Last week, Wal-Mart began selling a 15.6-inch Compaq mainstream laptop for $298. Now HP has announced two new additions to the Compaq [...]
US Marines Ban Twitter, MySpace and Facebook
The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately.
“These internet sites in general are a proven haven for malicious actors and content and are particularly high risk due to information exposure, user generated content and targeting by adversaries,” reads a Marine Corps order, issued Monday.
The [...]
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