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Only Microsoft knows how the abutting adaptation of its Windows operating arrangement will attending and what it will be called, but big changes could be advanced for the OS that assemblage accredit to as "Windows 8." At this year's Consumer Electronics Appearance in Las Vegas, Microsoft appear that Windows 8 will abutment system-on-a-chip architectures appliance ARM processors. Unlike the x86 architectonics that today's Windows laptops and desktops assignment with, ARM-based chips tend to run such low-power accessories as tablets and smartphones. In his CES keynote speech, Microsoft CEO Steve Ball­mer said, "This advertisement is absolutely all about enabling a fresh chic of hardware, and fresh silicon ally for Windows, to accompany the widest accessible ambit of anatomy factors to the market." In added words, Windows won't be aloof for laptops and desktops anymore. Actual Facts Microsoft's ARM advertisement represents the firm's abando...

1600 New Web Sites Hacked by Hamdi HaCker ( The 077 ) !! List of Hacked sites :  https://pastebin.com/cdxbYKjz Zone-H Link :  https://www.zone-h.org/archive/notifier=The%20077 News Source : Hamdi HaCker ( The 077 ) | Via Fb msg

Over bisected of the websites, whose hostings are serviced by Smart Systems accept been restored. Currently, the aggregation gain with adjustment works. The server of Smart Systems was attacked by a accumulation of hackers, what has resulted in malfunction of 295 websites on January 29. Instead of the aboriginal content, the hackers acquaint anti-Armenian slogans in Turkish language. The websites of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, POPOK all-embracing announcement festival, School for Young Leaders, a ambit of online shops and bartering companies were amid those, which suffered from the attack. Besides, Armenian aperture of job announcements - job.am - and the website of Armenian accompanist Emmy, who will represent Armenia at Eurovision Song Contest 2011, were additionally down.

Lord of the Rings Director Peter Jackson was the ambition of a US$190,000 (£120,000) acclaim agenda artifice that approved to bond out a disturbing business. The recently-knighted Hobbit helmsman acclimated his American Express agenda to shop for items from the Michigan Toy Soldier Company, which specialises in the auction of actual miniatures. Richard Berry, buyer of the company, acclimated the capacity to cut counterfeit invoices in adjustment to accumulate his disturbing business afloat, a US cloister has heard, the Daily Telegraph reports. Berry, who admits fraud, faces a best book of 18 months abaft bars. Berry's lawyer, David Steingold, told the court: "He bare account and acclimated the acclaim card, and hoped to accord the money aback sales best up." "Things got out of duke because the abridgement didn't about-face around," he added. Sir Peter was not larboard out of abridged as a aftereffect of the scam. Berry, who has already paid Am Ex...

Microsoft has aloof appear aegis advising 2501696 acknowledging a fresh aught day blemish in all accepted versions of Windows (except Server Core). The blemish appears to acquiesce maliciously crafted web pages to assassinate cipher in any "zone" behindhand of which area is specified. Any applications that use Microsoft's HTML renderer can be attacked including Internet Explorer, but applications that consistently accessible web agreeable in the "Restricted zone" are not afflicted including Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail. There is affidavit of abstraction cipher in the agrarian and it seems to be alone a amount of time afore we see abyss aggravating to accomplishment this flaw. For individuals, or bodies who alone administer a baby cardinal of computers, Microsoft has provided a Fix it apparatus that allows to to administer their recommended settings after accepting to use GPOs or accepting to manually adapt anthology keys. The SANS Internet St...

If there is any agnosticism as to how deeply internet communications accept been belted in Egypt, We has produced some absorbing statistics. In the action of allegory spam, one of our Vancouver advisers noticed that spam basic from Egypt had about vanished. While there accept been letters that Egypt had cut off internet casework completely, there were adverse letters suggesting that one ISP that accounts for about 8% of Egyptian users was still online to some degree. According to our statistics, the bulk of spam accustomed from Egypt in the aftermost two canicule has alone by 85%. While I'm not advocating this as a adjustment to stop the spam problem, it seems to affirm media letters of the admeasurement to which internet admission is currently accessible (or unavailable, as it were) to the Egyptian people. While you may accept a lower adventitious of accepting an email proclaiming you've won the Cairo lottery, this won't accept any cogent appulse on the aggregate of s...

Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. A post on Facebook's Security page announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issued a permanent injunction against spammer Philip Porembski. US district court judge Jeremy Fogel made the judgement against Porembski, who ran a firm called PP Web Services. Porembski was alleged to have obtained the login details of at least 116,000 Facebook users, and sent more than 7.2 million spam messages to victims' online friends. Some of the spam messages directed users to phishing websites that stole usernames and passwords, while others made money for Porembski every time someone clicked on the links. A computer discovered by the Sacramento County Sherrif's Department, which was thought to belong to Philip Porembski, was found to contain more than 160,000 Face...

RAJKOT: A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberd's Facebook profile was hacked, someone hacked the Facebook profile of an IPS officer in Saurashtra. The unknown hacker uploaded embarrassing photos. The officer's profile picture was replaced with an obscene morphed photo. The miscreant has also changed the officer's basic information; political views, religious views, philosophy etc on his Facebook profile. The hacker also uploaded more than 24 photos of eunuchs to the profile. As soon as he came to know about it, the officer changed his hacked profiles and intimated his Facebook friends.