Security researcher, who discovered the vulnerability in the system of domain names (DNS) said on Thursday that the hacker attacks on computers in the Internet is increasingly taking place, using a vulnerability in Internet domain names. "I think that we are increasingly going to celebrate this kind of attack. We have already seen them," - said Den Kaminsky (Dan Kaminsky) - Director of penetration testing at IOActive, who discovered threat DNS vulnerability about five months ago. "We are doing everything we can to mitigate and reduce the attacks." In its way, there is a problem in the system DNS, which translates web addresses into numeric IP-address and acts as a phone book on the Internet. An attacker using this vulnerability could redirect Internet users to malicious sites, even if they obtained the address of the site is quite normal. For example, someone wanted to open the site of a bank, but instead the user sees a fake site that even looks like the original, but nevertheless, he would collect the user's secret information, such as passwords imposed them.

Intel Corporation introduced at the forum IDF technology Kill Pill, which allows the laptop to protect against theft, writes TG Daily. Module Kill Pill posted on the motherboard. Thus, for example, formatting the hard disk will not allow to get rid of the protection system.

Kill Pill allows web interface to track computer via GPS and its IP-addresses. Also laptop can photograph the man seated behind him and send a snapshot of the present owners.

The owner of a laptop could send him a special message that erase encryption keys of the firmware and make the contents of the hard disk unreadable. In order to restore the information to allocate sufficient again deleted keys on a laptop.

Interesting idea:) interesting to see her in reality:)

The new wave of spam collapsed on computers users with fake copy of the Internet browser - Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Spam messages are known as "Internet Explorer 7" and are presented as if it were sent from the department of the corporation Microsoft. In the message itself is no explanation, only a link to download the "download the latest version", as well as the link "about this mailing", - a brief description of the so-called service of the Microsoft. After clicking on the link to download, the user is sent to fake browser page, which tries to download the file volume of 136K b, under the name "update.exe". Executable file, in turn, infect user's computer and downloads the malicious software. Last month, used a similar tactic with unsolicited email supposedly from Microsoft, for contamination computers. Attacks were aimed at installing malicious software on victim's computer, under the guise of photographs of naked actress Angelina Jolie.

August 11, many users of popular free email service Gmail have been unable to enjoy their mailboxes… when trying to authenticate, the system returns an error "Temporary Error (502)." Later, at the official blog Gmail, Google formally apologized to those users, who raised this setback.

Manager products Tod Jackson said in the blog Gmail: "Normally we do not publish our blog reports on issues such as this, but in this case we want to make an exception, as it affected too many people." About 20 million users daily visit Gmail, and the whole system has more than 100 million accounts.

At the virtual machines VMware, which found the most recent update on the company - ESX 3.5 Update 2, has failed. As it turned out, in corporate configurations after turning off virtual machines - again, they are not included. Since midnight, August 12, around the world began to detect the problem.

According to a statement Nimera Martin (Martin Niemar), group manager of product marketing infrastructure virtual VMware, license code VMware has caused disruption.

"We had problems with ESX 3.5 Update 2. This is really a problem licensing" - said Martin Nimer. "Currently we know that the re-incorporation of licensing impedes the virtual machine after it stops, and it prevents a virtual machine to move from one host to another." Nimer said that there is no patch for VMware, which eliminates the problem would, however, is currently being actively pursued work on correcting the problem.

It has been a month from the day debut last model communicator from Apple - iPhone 3G. Together with him was launched online service App Store. Steve Jobs, using the case, presented the audience some selected facts and figures:

     * At the moment, users have downloaded more than 60 million programs for its iPhone and iPod touch, averaging 2 million downloads a day;

     * Total revenue from downloaded applications amounted to about $ 30 million. 70% of this amount went to the developers, and the remaining 30% - a corporation Apple.

     * If sales continue at the same pace as now, the Apple corporation will be able to earn at least $ 360 million for the year. "Sales of these things will soon reach half a billion" - Steve Jobs said in an interview with Wall Street Journal. "Who knows, maybe he will reach 1 billion mark in after a while… I have never seen anything like for his entire career."

     * Of the $ 21 million to get developers for the first month, about $ 9 million spent tens creators of bestsellers. The Corporation Sega, for example, said that she was able to sell more than 300 thousand copies of its popular game Super Monkeyball, valued at $ 9.99 for 20 days.

     * Dzhobs believes that a wide selection of applications for the iPhone - is what distinguishes it from the offspring of competing cellular phones. "We think that the future will be different phones on the proposed software" - said he Wall Street Journal.

Officials say that the population of China's most active among the inhabitants of the planet uses the Internet. More than 253 million people in the country are in the network - according to the statistics information center of China Research Network (CNNIC). This figure is more than the number of World Wide Web users in the United States - 223 million people. The statistics were collected for the month of June, company Nielsen Online. If one looks at the percentage, then among all U.S. residents, Internet use 71% of the population. In China the figure is not as great - only 19% of residents enjoy the Internet, but given the current trend - Chinese should soon overtake U.S. on this indicator. "For the first time the number of Internet users in China surpassed those in the U.S. and China came out on top in the world," - said the representative of CNNIC. Approximately 95% of all World Wide Web users in China surf the network, using high-speed Internet channels. Here is another interesting fact: Nearly 500 million Chinese use mobile communication.

On this Monday, the technical details of the vulnerability in the system of domain names (Domain Name System, DNS), who most recently Done a lot of noise in the press, accidentally were published in a very popular blog on security. Dan Kaminsky - director of information security firm IOActive, discovered the vulnerability in DNS. He had planned to disclose the vulnerability found them at the upcoming Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, scheduled for next month. Now, with details on its opening unexpectedly leaked to the press. On Monday, the executive director of the company Zynamics - Halvar Flake, published in his blog an error in DNS. In response to his message, the company on security Matasano Security, which the original details were known vulnerability, published confirmation statements mystery Halvara Fleyka in its company blog. Since then, the communication company Matasano Security has been removed, but it still can be seen in the search results Google.
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Another legend computer industry emerged from a "big game"… Hector Ruiz resigned from the post of president of AMD. It was the second man in the company after Jerry Sanders and gave AMD the benefit of not one year hard work.
The last working day at the company's CEO Hector Ruiz held in a small office AMD. His post will take Dirk Meyer. The moderator will be the first time by AMD people c engineering education.
Yet Hector Ruiz does not lose ties with the company. It will be a member of the board of directors, but will not be able to significantly influence the activities of micro-electronics giant.

Renowned developer, whose nickname Kris Kaspersky, reported on its phenomenal find. He told that found a universal way of hacking systems based chip company Intel. The same developer said that under threat, without exception, are all computers regardless of operating system, whether Windows XP, Vista, Linux, BSD or MacOS. In doing so, in order to infiltrate the system can be used Java-scripts or hacker attacks on the protocol TCP / IP. At the core of the attack lies with a certain error, which allow many manufacturers of devices using the chip company Intel. Soon Chris Kaspersky clearly demonstrate the results of their research. This will happen at the world conference Hack In The Box, which will be held in October 2008 in Malaysia.

According to customer support center corporation Sony, in the middle of this week expected software (firmware) versions 2.41, which would eliminate a variety of errors reported by users to update their software PlayStation3 game consoles to version 2.40.
Keep in mind that confirmation has come from the center customer support Sony. As the CVG, a corporation official statement on the version 2.41 software has not yet been published. Sony has so far silent on the technical problems on version 2.4. ON 2.4 upgrade was an important game consoles PlayStation3, allows users to access updated game interface XMB.

16-layer Blu-ray discs - this is no longer fiction. Double layer discs, volume 50 GB (to 25 GB at Layer) has long been sold. Shortly Sales appear Blu-ray discs, the volume of 400 GB.

The most interesting fact is that the new 16 - layer discs can be easily read by any modern Blu-ray drives and DVD players, because it uses the same technology company Pioneer to read the data. A prototype of such a disk already exists, and could not yet recorded in the home, but developers solve this problem soon. Just learned that on 13 July the company Pioneer tell all the details and details of its latest development.

Referring to a newspaper Nikkei, Thomson Financial reports that Nintendo plans to sell "localized" version of its portable system, DS (handheld gaming console company Nintendo) at stores sales of mobile phones, although the manufacturer has not yet provided any data on what exactly This form will be of "localization".

Nintendo said that it is preparing to debut gaming device this month in Taiwan, and later this year, sales of portable gaming console will be launched in China.

Late last month, Nintendo announced that it will start selling its home seventh generation gaming console Wii in Taiwan July 12.

Meanwhile, Sony Corporation reported that plans to work with authorities to prepare tayvanskimi domestic game developers starting in September this year. They will create new games for gaming consoles PlayStation.

Google is going to launch a new service in Britain, called Street View. Street View service will be complementary to Google Maps and will instantly receive high-quality fresh images of a locality. The photos will be easy to see passersby who accidentally hit the shot.

But Privacy International, a British human rights organization, believes that the development of new Google violates the rights of citizens. "In our view, Google's need to have the consent of each person who enters the picture, because this picture is used for commercial purposes" - said Simon Davis, representative of the aforementioned human rights organization.

Service Street View is already running in the U.S. and allows users to view pictures streets of many large cities in the country. In Britain Street View service should start this week. First photos will be available only streets of London.

As statistics show, laptops often stolen in even the most secure locations. But recent studies have shown that there is one place where every person has a big chance of losing your laptop - this airport.

If you believe this Ponemon Institute, one of the largest 36 U.S. airports have reported losses of more than 10000 laptops every week, when laptops than 65% never returned to their owners. 2000 laptop lost in a medium-sized airports, where than 69% of them never are. People do not believe that there is somehow hope to return their laptop: 77% do not believe that they will get back their personal computer, and 16% did not take any action. Employees advised airports constantly monitor your laptop, and not to lose sight of him.