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Big internet company from the United States, Google, appeared to be a mouthpiece for the people of Libya. Google ever did it during the regime of President of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak cut off internet connection. Now, Libya under the power of President Muammar al-Gaddafi also blocked Internet services, including social networking site Twitter. So, Google took the initiative to launch the service of speak to tweet for the people of Libya. The service allows Libyan people to preach the information about the situation in the country to the outside world. They only need to call the phone numbers provided by Google. Furthermore, Google will process and disseminate the information through Twitter account. And, as broadcasted on Al Jazeera TV, this is the phone number provided by Google to be a mouthpiece of the people of Libya: +1 650 419 4196, +3 906 622 0729 4, +4420331 8451 4. GOOGLE LAUNCHES SPEAK TO TWEET SERVICE #LIBYA #BENGHAZI #TRIPOLI PHONE NUMBERS ARE :  +16504194196, +3...

What is Wireshark? Wireshark is the world's most popular network protocol analyzer. It is used for troubleshooting, analysis, development and education. What's New Bug Fixes The following vulnerabilities have been fixed. See the security advisory for details and a workaround. o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that Wireshark could free an uninitialized pointer while reading a malformed pcap-ng file. (Bug 5652) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. CVE-2011-0538 o Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of the Red Hat Security Response Team discovered that a large packet length in a pcap-ng file could crash Wireshark. (Bug 5661) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. o Wireshark could overflow a buffer while reading a Nokia DCT3 trace file. (Bug 5661) Versions affected: 1.2.0 to 1.2.14 and 1.4.0 to 1.4.3. CVE-2011-07...

Google has just acquired a small German software company called Zynamics. The company, which was founded in 2004, focuses on reverse engineering — that is, analyzing software (malware in particular) for which no source code is available. It's an incredibly interesting and complicated problem to try to solve, which makes the Zynamics team and product a perfect fit for Google, a company that's known for tackling interesting and complicated problems. A Google rep said in an e-mail, "We're delighted to have the Zynamics team aboard and hope their tools and skills in fighting malware will help us better protect Google's users." While we're not completely sure what the fate of the company will be, we do know that its goals and expertise line up particularly well with Google's aims in online security. Currently, Zynamics's offerings focus on the needs of information security specialists and malware analysts. Its products are allegedly both innovative and time-saving. The company's ...

A letter to all Anonymous from Anonymous Hackers : Operation shutdown ! A letter released by Anonymous Hackers for all Anonymous .... as shown below : Anonymous We are anonymous, and we are Legion, for every one of us you find, and everyone you manage to take down, ten shall take his place, we do not forgive, we are many and therefor can't forget. We have conflicting goals and wants, yet we act as one, therefor we are the face of chaos, we are the perfect observer, composed of people from every standpoint and therefor impartial and the only true Harbingers of judgment.  We laugh in the face of tragedy, we mock those in pain, we ruin the lives of other people simply because we can, these things we do for the lolz and we do them with no remorse, no caring, no love, and no sense of morality, we attack all things in this way, we can, we will, and we have destroyed countless that stand to harm anonymous. Our power lies with our numbers. We choice to use loic in our attacks. W...

Nessus 4.4.1 Latest Version Download ! New in this version: Scan Scheduling Nessus 4.4 lets you configure scans to run periodically on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Configure your scans and let Nessus start them at the most appropriate time Enhanced Reporting Nessus 4.4 lets you compare different scans. It also contains two new report templates: "Executive" and "Detailed". Reload plugins during a scan Nessus 4.4 can reload its plugins and configuration files while scans are on-going. No need to interrupt any scan to make use of the newest plugins distributed through the ProfessionalFeed. Lower memory requirements Nessus 4.4 reduces the per-scan memory requirements to half of what the previous version required. The idle size of the Nessus process can be further reduced by changing the backend memory requirements in the configuration file Download : Cilck Here