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According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military website. Although it was not immediately clear who has been behind the attack, the National Police Agency began investigating the assault that has been discovered by AhnLab, a leading Internet security firm based in Seoul. Most computer analysts declared that the episode was a distributed denial of service cyber crime attack. Usually, in such cases, the infected computers also known as zombies try to access targeted websites at the same time in an attempt to overwhelm the sites with a surge of traffic that crashes their servers. According to a statement released by a South Korean government official the computer system at the Blue House has not been damaged too bad. "We were attacked, but it was def...

Shortly before the release of the final version of Firefox 4, the Mozilla developers have introduced the " Web Apps " project. These apps are expected to play a major role play in future browsers, and in such a future, the browser will not just be for viewing web pages but will be a platform for locally installed applications. Web Application programmers need do little more than create a manifest; this is a specification which lists the structure and content of the application, and is enough to deploy the app. Applications are able to share resources and will make use of the HTML5 specification for offline caching of these resources by means of the application cache. Instead of users having to go through the normal procedure of installing and launching applications, Mozilla provides new JavaScript functions to perform these tasks. A User Agent will install the app, launch it, and grant additional privileges. Mozilla is making available experimental Web Apps extensions for ...

India is an emerging economy investing in computerization and broadband for rapid and balanced economic development. The Indian government has embarked on large egovernance programs and enablers like the Unique ID program (UID) which provides a unique biometric based ID for all Indian residents. The private sector has begun using ecommerce and the IT industry has established India as a leading destination for IT services. Grooming our children in computer use is a well recognized essential. Today's generation is a technology savvy one. It is quite common to observe young children surfing and gaming on the Internet. Most children do not realize what a pre-computer era was. But the impetus on cyber education to ensure use of the Internet in a responsible, safe and secure manner is lacking in educational curriculums. The onus on cyber education is largely placed on the Indian parent who may not be familiar with computers or the Internet. This generation gap does not make them good teache...

Inj3ct0r , Milw0rm moved to new domain 1337day.com ! Milw0rm (also called milwOrm) is a group of "hacktivists" , now back with new domain 1337day.com . Its Inj3ct0r 1337 Team exploits and 0day exploits database site. Mirror :  https://77.120.120.218/  .There are more than 15 thousands of Exploits are available on  Milw0rm / Inj3ct0r / 1337day . News Source : Milw0rm members | Via email

As expected, Canonical has released a third alpha for Ubuntu 11.04, code named "Natty Narwhal". This development milestone is the last of three planned alpha releases, which will be followed by two betas – as previously previously reported, there will be no release candidate for Ubuntu 11.04. Natty Narwhal Alpha 3 is based on the 2.6.38-rc2 Linux kernel and features indicator improvements, as well a new look for the Unity Dash and a resize function. Ubuntu 11.04 sees Unity, as the distribution's new default desktop developed in-house by the Ubuntu developers, replacing the GNOME Shell and, as previously announced, the replacement of Oracle's open source OpenOffice.org office suite with the LibreOffice community fork. Package updates in the development preview include version 3.3.1 of LibreOffice, Firefox 4.0 Beta 12, version 2.13 of the Transmission BitTorrent client and Upstart 0.9.0 – version 1.0 of Upstart was released on 2 March. Other changes include updates ...

Anonymous Hackers open letter to Google  against a Blogger ! One of the Anonymous just Publish a New OPEN LETTER to GOOGLE company for Reminding them the   Universal Declaration of Animal Rights adopted in Londonon September 23, 1977 , Because one of the Blogger Blog have publish a video in which shown a puppy was tortured physically and psychologically to his death for 20 agonizing minutes which is asphyxiated, beaten, burned and trampled , between other terrible actions. The Video & Words of Their Open letter are as shown below : English version: Dear Sirs of Google: On February 8, 2011 was published in a "snuff" video of your company blog Blogger, whose url was:  https://letumcanis.blogspot.com This video was shown as a puppy was tortured physically and psychologically to his death for 20 agonizing minutes which is asphyxiated, beaten, burned and trampled , between other terrible actions.Its author, who calls himself 'Asesino Knino' (Dog Murdere...

iTunes 10.2 comes with several new features, improvements and security fixes. libpng is updated to version 1.4.3 to address multiple vulnerabilities, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution. For Mac OS X v10.5 systems, this is addressed in Security Update 2010-007. A heap buffer overflow issue existed in ImageIO's handling of JPEG images. Viewing a maliciously crafted JPEG image may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. A buffer overflow existed in libTIFF's handling of JPEG encoded TIFF images. Viewing a maliciously crafted TIFF image may result in an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. A buffer overflow existed in libTIFF's handling of CCITT Group 4 encoded TIFF images. Viewing a maliciously crafted TIFF image may result in an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. libxml A double free issue existed in libxml's handling of XPath expressions. Proc...

A dozen students were arrested by the Nye County Sheriff's Department for allegedly changing their grades in the school computer system. Police say Tyler Coyner is suspected of stealing the password to the grade system at Pahrump Valley High School and then selling the password to others. The alleged crime went on for two semesters. Police say Coyner even went as far as changing his own grades, making himself the salutatorian at graduation. Coyner and another suspect, Matthew Miller, are also accused of stealing a television from Wal-mart and possessing fake ID's. They are facing charges of altering computer data, conspiracy to commit a crime, burglary and grand larceny. Ten other un-named students, all under the age of 18, have also been charged in the incident.