Hacker gets offer from Microsoft

According to the media, the Austrian hacker Peter Kleissner got a offer from Microsoft. This wouldn’t be news-worthy if Kleissner hadn’t programmed and offered to sell a so called bootkit – that is a rootkit that hides within the Master Boot Record of a hard disk and gets loaded before the operating system kernel and thus can hide very well within the OS. As it gets loaded so early, a bootkit in general is also capable of bypassing even full disk encryption for example with TrueCrypt.

Hackers forces on twitter

A researcher looking into the attacks that knocked Twitter offline last week discovered another, unrelated security problem.

At least one criminal was using a Twitter account to control a network of a couple hundred infected personal computers, mostly in Brazil. Networks of infected PCs are referred to as "botnets" and are responsible for so much of the mayhem online, from identity theft to spamming to the types of attacks that crippled Twitter.

GTA Chinatown Wars for iphone

Rockstar Games, the developers behind the Grand Theft Auto series, announced on Monday that Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars will be coming to Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch this fall.

Microsoft reports attacks using IIS vulnerability

A vulnerability in Microsoft's software for housing Web sites is now being used for "limited attacks" on the servers it's running on, the company said Friday.

Microsoft disclosed the Internet Information Services (IIS) vulnerability on Monday and said Friday it's still working on a security update to fix the problem. In the meantime, the advisory has instructions for a workaround, including disabling various elements of the vulnerable FTP (File Transfer Protocol) service to upload and download files.

BHUVAN - Indian Earth Observation Visualization

Bhuvan gives you an easy way to experience, explore and visualize IRS images over Indian region developed by ISRO(Indian Space Research Organization) with a very important role played by National Remote Sensing Agency.

Bhuvan hopes to offer superior imagery of Indian locations specifically with spatial resolutions ranging from 10 m to 100 m. But this kind of detail isn't readily available yet. If it were, Bhuvan would then be better than the free version of Google Earth, which can display up to 200m.

Fastest Opera 10 relaeased

Opera has finally released the final version of its web browser, the Opera 10.

Nokia's Netbook

Nokia will bring its rich mobility heritage and knowledge to the PC world with the new, Windows based, Nokia Booklet 3G.Powered by the efficient Intel Atom processor, the Nokia Booklet 3G delivers impressive performance with up to 12 hours of battery life, enabling people to leave their power cable behind and still be connected and productive. Delivering the rich experience of a full-function PC inside an ultra-portable aluminum chassis, the new mini-laptop weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thin, and has the features one would expect from the world's leading mobile device manufacturer. A broad range of connectivity options - including 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi - gives consumers high speed access to the Internet, including Nokia's broad suite of Ovi services, and allows them to make the most of every moment and every opportunity.

Useful information in e-mail headers like IP of sender

Every e-mail message sent starts from header(lines of text which has info. about mail message). Headers have useful information about the sender of the mail. We can not see the content of the header directly. The method of
show the header of e-mail message are different in different e-mail application,which i will mention in my next post. Following informations we can get from the e-mail header.