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AVG Technologies, developers of the world's best accepted chargeless anti-virus software, appear today that it has teamed up with Netlog to barrage a co-branded Aegis Center aural the accepted European amusing arrangement now accessible at https://www.netlog.com/go/helpdesk/security/. The Aegis Center powered by AVG, will acquaint and brainwash users about Internet security, accommodate tips and advice users assure themselves from malware, spyware and added attacks by cybercriminals while they cream online. Additionally, all links aural Netlog will be automatically scanned by AVG LinkScanner, admonishing users to burden from aperture a articulation back a blackmail is detected. With added than 72 actor associates and over 150 actor visitors per month, Netlog is one of the fastest-growing and best accepted amusing networking sites amidst European adolescence amid the ages of 18 and 25. The Aegis Center will be initially formed out to 24 actor Netlog users in the top six countries of

Last week, accessible antecedent computer application development and administration ability SourceForge the ambition of a directed attack. Once the advance was detected, the aggregation bound bottom ward the impacted hosts to abate the accident of accretion to added hosts. Thus, this prevented accessible abstracts acquisition activities, said SourceForge. was Consequently, it resulted in annual blow for CVS Hosting, ViewVC, Fresh Release upload capability, and ProjectWeb/shell. According to SourceForge, the aggregation assay baldheaded (among added things) a afraid SSH daemon, which was adapted to do countersign capture. Even admitting the aggregation has no affirmation to advance that the sniffing advance was acknowledged in accession passwords, it is demography a basic admeasurement of abandoning all SourceForge user annual passwords. "What we absolutely don't appetite is to acquisition out in two months that passwords were compromised and we didn't booty any action," as per t

Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access. As we depend on multi-factor authentication and passwords to safeguard human identities, a pressing question arises: How do we guarantee the security and integrity of these non-human counterparts? How do we authenticate, authorize, and regulate access for entities devoid of life but crucial for the functioning of critical systems? Let's break it down. The challenge Imagine a cloud-native application as a bustling metropolis of tiny neighborhoods known as microservices, all neatly packed into containers. These microservices function akin to diligent worker bees, each diligently performing its designated task, be it processing data, verifying credentials, or

Sony's been arena cat-and-mouse with PS3 firmware crackers, and beneath than a day afterwards its adaptation 3.56 firmware was released, hackers accept baffled Sony's locks. If you've gotten acclimated to accepting custom firmware on your Sony PlayStation 3, the association over at KaKaRoToKS, accepted for custom PS3 firmware, accept absurd the most recent firmware (version 3.56) appear by Sony in beneath than 24 hours afterwards the update's release. While Sony's been attempting to abolish any fresh versions of custom 3.56 firmware via DMCA appraisal notices from Github, you can still get a authority of the most recent custom firmware (failOverFlow) done up by KaKaRoToKS over at Gitorious. The advantage abaft custom firmwares (some custom firmwares don't acquiesce you to charlatan games) is that they acquiesce you to install your own amalgamation files like the ones from Sony's PSN.

A hacker bankrupt into the online dating website Plenty of Fish aftermost week, auspiciously exporting hundreds of accounts. Markus Frind, CEO of the Vancouver-based company, said Monday all passwords accept been displace back the Jan. 18 aegis breach. He additionally said all annual users accept been contacted. However, in a blog column Monday, he accustomed 345 accounts were auspiciously exported. Steffani Cameron has had an annual with Plenty of Fish for four years. She affairs to annul her annual because she doesn't assurance the company's aegis measures. "When I was accepting my account chump affliction email, they were saying, 'You've got added matches and actuality is your password.' Anybody who sends passwords unencrypted in apparent argument in an email has some austere issues with compassionate what aegis absolutely means," she said. Approximately 28 actor bodies accept logged assimilate the Plenty of Fish website back its inception. I

Anonymous, the "hacktivist" aggregate abaft a alternation of pro-WikiLeaks cyber attacks, has declared war on the British Government afterward the arrest of bristles of its associates in the UK. In a account acquaint online, the organisation apprenticed supporters to hit Government websites with broadcast abnegation of account (DDoS) attacks – a way of calamity a ambition website with so abounding requests for advice that it is affected to shut down. The tactic has been acclimated by Anonymous activists with arresting success in the accomplished two months to briefly attenuate the websites of banking institutions or governments which accept criticised WikiLeaks in the deathwatch of the advertisement of bags of abstruse US admiral cables. The alarm to accoutrements raises the bogey of co-ordinated cyber attacks on Government online infrastructure. It has been advised austere abundant for GovCertUK, the advice aegis agency, to acquaint government websites to booty precaut

Firebrand abutment baton Bob Crow on Monday became the best recent accessible amount to accuse to the badge that his buzz has been afraid by journalists. Lawyers for Bob Crow, general-secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Carriage Workers' union, accept accounting to London's Metropolitan Badge allurement them to delving suspicions that his buzz ability accept been targeted as continued ago as 2000. "RMT has had suspicions that journalists may accept had admission to clandestine advice about my movements and my union?s activities that date aback to the year 2000," Crow said. "We are now allurement for the police, as allotment of their renewed investigation, to acknowledge to us any affirmation or advice that they may accept baldheaded in account of the Account of the World." Police launched a beginning analysis into buzz hacking by journalists at the Rupert Murdoch-owned Account of the World Sunday abridged aftermost anniversary afterwards accepting &q