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USA Recruit Hacker Master for Its Cyber Defender

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The USA Goverment with the command from its president, Barrack Obama, want to seriously strenghten its cyber facilities by increase their defending capability to protect it from any attacker. Recently, the US Goverment already recruiting a legendary hacker, Jeff Moss.
Jeff Moss has a famous reputation in the hacker world. He also the founder of the [...]

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Microsoft’s KUMO, Is that really a new search engine?

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Microsoft is planning to introduce a new search engine named Kumo. Kumo in japanese language means cloud or spider, this search engine rumored to be replaced Microsoft’s Live Search that soon will be re-branded. Kumo based on technology from its Barney Pell’s Powerset acquisition. Microsoft confirmed,
“Microsoft is using the Kumo.com URL for internal testing purposes [...]

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NEW: Google Chrome 2.0 - Fast but lacking features

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Google has released Chrome 2.0. The speed-demon browser gets an additional kick of speed, a few more features, and a load of bug fixes.

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D-Link router’s CAPTCHA flawed, WPA passphrase retrieved

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It took only a week for the researchers at SourceSec to find a flaw in the CAPTCHA implementation of D-Link’s recently introduced CAPTCHA in its routers, originally aimed to prevent DNS changing malware from automatically achieving its objective.
According to SourceSec, the flawed implementation allows an attacker/malware to retrieve the router’s WPA passphrase with user-level access [...]

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Protect yourself from vishing attacks

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You might have heard about online “phishing” scams designed to steal money from unsuspecting Web users, but now criminals are using another type of scam called “vishing” to commit the same crimes.
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission filed lawsuits against two telemarketing firms in Florida and a company claiming to sell extended automobile warranties for [...]

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Microsoft Starts Planning Internet Explorer 9

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) just shipped in late March, but Microsoft is already asking users for input on its replacement.
The company has said it is trying to release updates to its venerable browser much more quickly than in the past. Meanwhile, some long-time Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) watchers contributed their own feedback as to what users [...]

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Google Chrome wins browser updating race

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Browser vendors all update their software often to patch for security issues. The problem is that not all browser users update to the latest versions quickly, if at all.
A new study from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Stefan Frei and Google’s Thomas Duebendorfer looked at how quickly users were updating their browsers based on [...]

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