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Google in aggregate with micro-blogging armpit Twitter has offered a fresh account for tweeting after an internet connection. The account "speak-to-tweet" allows Egyptian users to leave voice-mail bulletin that will be angry into tweets. According to a description on Google's blog, the account has been advised accurately for users in Egypt who are clumsy acquaint through internet with others due to advancing abandon in the country. The fresh account "speak-to-tweet" allows anyone to punch any three all-embracing numbers and leave articulation messages. The letters will be automatically beatific out as tweets with #egypt. The numbers are +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855 that will advice Egyptians to break in blow after internet connection.

"Internet not working, badge cars burning," beatific out one Egyptian. "Today marks a abundant day for Egypt," beatific out another. These letters weren't advancing from adaptable phones or computers, but from an abecedarian radio sending out Morse Code about amidst the anarchy in Egypt. The Egyptian government's efforts to absolute communications aural the country has triggered a beachcomber of activism from an all-embracing accumulation of chargeless accent activists on the Internet alleged Telecomix. Organizing application babble rooms, wikis, and collaborative autograph tools, this abundantly bearding accumulation has formed to acquaint Egyptians about their communications options while accepting admission letters from them. Telecomix has ahead formed on chargeless accent efforts in Tunisia, Iran, China and added countries who accept approved to abridge or block genitalia of the Internet. Egypt has been articular as a "top priority" for...

Xtremeroot.net hacked by BoxHead (Belegit Network) Link :  www.xtremeroot.net/ofsec/ News Source : Ketan Singh

Insider threats, botnets and malware, and assay to abutment the Comprehensive Civic Cyber Initiative (CNCI) are amid areas of cybersecurity advance the Department of Homeland Aegis (DHS) will accomplish in budgetary year 2011. The DHS Science and Technology Homeland Aegis Advanced Assay Projects Bureau (HSARPA) is gluttonous proposals on 14 areas of cybersecurity assay it affairs to focus on this year, bristles of which will accord to the CNCI, a alternation of efforts to accommodate front-line aegis adjoin cybersecurity threats, according to a Broad Bureau Announcement acquaint on FedBizOpps.gov. The absolute amount of the accretion is $40 million. The DHS has been advance in cybersecurity for a brace of years through HSARPA, and this year shows the bureau absorption on both acceptable methods of aegis such ascomputer application assurance, enterprise-level aegis metrics, and arrangement resiliency, as able-bodied as added forward-thinking areas of assay such as authoritative aegi...

The United States is attractive for the abutting bearing of cyber warriors. The US Cyber Challenge Cyber Foundations competition, kicked off this anniversary by the nonprofit Centermost for Internet Aegis , is out to acquisition 10,000 acceptance with the abeyant to become "top accoutrements in cybersecurity." "The charge to acquisition artistic solutions to attention our advice systems and agenda basement has never been greater," said centermost arch controlling William Pelgrin. "The Cyber Foundations antagonism will advice us tap into the amazing aptitude beyond our nation's schools to analyze those with a affection for aegis and a admiration to put their abilities to acceptable use," he continued. The antagonism consists of a alternation of timed quizzes to analysis aerial academy acceptance in computer science categories advised key to attention networks and systems. Top-scoring acceptance will get status, prizes, and introductions to gov...

British antic MATT LUCAS has hit aback at accusations he has been autograph letters on Twitter.com while drunk, insisting his annual was afraid this anniversary (beg31Jan11). The Alice In Wonderland star's folio was adapted with several camp posts on Monday night (31Jan10), abrogation admirers assertive he had advantaged in booze afore hitting the web. The teetotal antic woke up on Tuesday (01Feb11) to acquisition a cord of replies from afraid followers and he appear an actor had taken ascendancy of his account. He writes, "Good morning all. Um, my Twitter annual was afraid aftermost night, so avoid any Tweets beatific because they didn't appear from me! "Thanks for your accusations that I was drunk. I'm teetotal. The aberration I fabricated was not logging out of my computer!"

The FBI would have conducted 40 raids yesterday and seized the computers of members of the loosely organized group of hackers known as Anonymous. Several members have posted their stories in online forums, including images of kicking in doors. The FBI has seized every computer in every house and other electronic devices such as game consoles and iPhones. The reports may be exaggerated, but the FBI has issued 40 orders in the case. The FBI was gathering evidence on the group's refusal of service attacks against Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Amazon. The group has launched attacks in retaliation for actions against Wikileaks site, which has published thousands of documents from the United States filed in December. Denial of service attacks are frustrating for victims and may also cause real economic damage. They are also against the law and raids. But Anonyme allegedly political reasons in the raid. The group said in a press statement that the denial of service attacks have bee...

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