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4chan users online bulletin board has been able to access the online information system used by student school district in New Jersey after the administrator password of the school was registered last week 4chan. The trouble began last Tuesday, according to Plainfield Board of Education, which serves a small school district just west of Newark. It is when someone sends you a link to the login page and the name of the administrator ("admin") and password ("poopnugget) District Information System Genesis 4chan, forum popular, but anarchy is best known as the place where David Kernell posted information on the account of his previous burglary Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Yahoo e-mail. web-based software used in Genesis about 160 schools in New Jersey to manage student records and to communicate with students and parents. It is not clear how much damage was caused, but 4chan members began posting screenshots soon as they could mess with the school system. A screenshot s...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO's military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a promise to erect a virtual wall in 2012, a defense official U.S. says Tuesday top. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn warned after a two-day visit to Brussels that cyber-threats were "mature" from a tool of espionage and disruption to a force cons destructive of critical infrastructure. "I think the discussion about NATO at this time, the step threshold is that we must be able to protect our own military networks, and frankly we're not there yet," Lynn said after meetings with EU and NATO and the private sector. [For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics] Pentagon number two recalled that NATO has made the fight against cyber threats a top priority in November, when NATO leaders agreed Cyber Incident Response Centre at full operational capacity in 2012 three years ahead of schedule . ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Mozilla and Google, on Monday took steps to give people privacy online, but most everyone said obstacles remain to create simple "Do not follow the software buttons for web browsing . Mozilla has proposed the addition of a signal of its popular Firefox browser that allows users to automatically prompt sites do not monitor their online activities. Web sites then decide whether to grant or desire to continue collecting data for purposes such as targeting Internet advertising. Firefox users would be able to convey what I want to watch a third based on advertising by setting the browsers send a "Do not follow the HTTP header" on each click or page view. "The problem with adding this to the head is that you have both browsers and sites to be implemented to be fully effective," the Mozilla technology and privacy of Alex Fowler, acknowledged in a blog. "Mozilla recognizes the chicken and egg problem, and will propose that this fun...

If you've noticed lately that Google search results is a bit of spam, you're not alone. In a blog post, Google senior engineer Matt Cutts acknowledged that "we have seen a slight increase in spam in recent months, and the tech pushes critical observers. Cutts then introduced new initiatives to improve the quality of Google search results. Among them: Google has a new "document-level classifier, which detects the best features of spam, such as key words often repeated, and Google is improving its ability to detect the hacked sites, which were a major source of spam last year, and is considering other changes, including a campaign against websites that are mainly copying content from other sites. But the question of "farm content" Cutts does not have all the answers. If you are not familiar with the term, you probably met some sellers of content. For example, many people call the media sites and content companies AssociatedContent Demand Media. A lot of...

TEHRAN - Iran has officially launched on Sunday cyber police unit to tackle crime on the Internet and cons of social networks that spread "espionage and strife," said Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam. The first country on the website of the surveillance equipment is in operation in the capital, Tehran, while police stations across the country have their cyber units at the end of Iranian year, March 21, was quoted as saying the state news agency IRNA. Ahmadi Moghaddam said police will counter-revolutionary groups and cyber dissidents who used the Internet, social networks in 2009 to launch protests against the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "With these social networks in our country, groups of counter-revolutionaries and dissidents be riots and other foreign countries and contact the fire, he said, referring to the anti-Ahmadinejad protests, which led to widespread unrest in Tehran, where tens of people died. Supporters of rival candidates used...