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#Security Alert : Facebook Two-Factor Authentication fail ! Last year Facebook has launched a security feature called Login Approvals or two-factor authentication. This is a follow-up security update regarding Facebook Login from Facebook. They have already integrated Facebook login email alerts to get notification emails or SMS messages whenever a suspicious person uses your Facebook account from a different location. Christopher Lowson , on his blog explains the Facebook Two-Factor Authentication, which is really another biggest fail of Facebook Security. But that feature is not enough to ensure your account's security and that is why Facebook has launched "Login Approvals". This feature is very similar with Google 2-step verification which associates a mobile device with your Facebook account and authenticates the login by sending a verification code at your mobile phone device. According to this feature, When user will logging into your Facebook accou...

THOR : Another P2P Botnet in development with extra stealth features The research community is now focusing on the integration of peer-to-peer (P2P) concepts as incremental improvements to distributed malicious software networks (now generically referred to as botnets). Because "botnets" can be used for illicit financial gain,they have become quite popular in recent Internet attacks. A " botnet " is a network of computers that are compromised and controlled by an attacker. Each computer is infected witha malicious program called a "bot", which actively communicates with other bots in the botnet or with several "botcontrollers" to receive commands from the botnet owner. Attackers maintain complete control of their botnets, andcan conduct Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks,email spamming, keylogging, abusing online advertisements, spreading new malware, etc. However, the first botnets that use peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for remote control of the compromised machines app...

Twitter, As secondary publisher  could be sued  for an illegal tweet If a Twitter user posts an illegal tweet, they could get sued, but Twitter could be sued itself as a secondary publisher according to  Zack Whittaker . Legal analysis site Out-Law published a very interesting, theoretical piece, which describes how Twitter could fall foul of the law through no apparent fault of its own but by giving its users free reign over what they say. A case of mistaken identity in Australia illustrates the point. Someone wrote a hateful blog about writer and television personality Marieke Hardy. She wrote a blog post accusing Joshua Meggitt of being its author and used her Twitter account to draw attention to her post.Hardy was wrong to finger Meggitt as the author of the original material and she reportedly paid Au$15,000 (£10,000) to settle the case. Will Twitter still be held liable for the libel? One more thing, Those who retweeted are not being pursued....

Anonymous : A Declaration of the Independence of CyberSpace Anonymous declare a Note on Independence of Cyber Space : Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, we come from the Internet, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, we ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one; therefore we address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty it always speaks. We declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us, nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. You are toothless wolves among rams, reminiscing of days when you ruled the hunt, seeking a return of your bygone power. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor ...

Hackers steal Michael Jackson 's entire back catalog from Sony Entertainment giant Sony has confirmed that hackers accessed its systems and compromised Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue, including many unreleased songs. Michael Jackson's entire back catalogue has been stolen by Internet hackers. Sony music suffered its second major security breach in a year, with thieves targeting songs and unreleased material by the superstar singer. It's alleged they downloaded more than 50,000 music files worth $253 million in the biggest ever cyberattack on a music company.The news comes just a year after Sony paid $395 million for the seven-year rights to the songs following Jacko's death. The buy-up came with a stash of unreleased tracks including duets Jacko did with the late Queen singer FreddieMercury and Black Eyed Peas star will.i.am, 36. Sony had been planning to release them on up to 10 albums, which would have netted a fortune. It is thought that the hack occ...