A Power Plant Hack That Anybody Could Use

The night before the start of this week's Black Hat hacker conference here in Las Vegas, security researcher Dillon Beresford gave a demonstration to a small audience in his room at Caesar's Palace. The topic: how a hacker could take over the Siemens S7 computers that are used to control engines, machines and turbines in tens of thousands of industrial facilities.It was a...

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Spam King Sanford Wallace Indicted for Facebook Spam

Notorious spam king Sanford Wallace is facing federal fraud charges for allegedly breaking into Facebook accounts and sending 27 million spam messages in 2008 and 2009.Sanford WallaceWallace, 43, allegedly used a phishing attack to steal usernames and passwords from victims and then used the stolen credentials to post spam to victims walls, the U.S. Department of Justice...

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Startup Aims to Get the Poor Online With Phone Numbers

U.K. startup Movirtu plans to help 3 million or more people in poor countries use mobile services by giving them personal phone numbers, not phones.Working with a U.N.-affiliated initiative called Business Call to Action (BCtA), Movirtu will offer the numbers, which it calls mobile identities, through commercial carriers in developing countries in Africa and South Asia. People in those countries who typically borrow phones from others will be able to log into the carrier's network and use their own prepaid minutes and bits of data. The service...

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Chinese Hackers Blamed for Database Theft

Hackers have stolen the personal data of 35 million users of the South Korean social network Cyworld and search engine Nate, the company that runs them, SK Communications, has admitted. The country's regulator, the Korea Communications Commission, said in an official statement that SK Telecom had traced the attack to IP addresses in China, and involved the theft of phone...

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Fusion-io to Buy IO Turbine to Reach Virtualized Servers

Flash storage vendor Fusion-io has agreed to buy IO Turbine for up to US$95 million to extend its on-server cache products to virtualized environments.IO Turbine provides software that allows cache storage on servers to be shared across multiple virtual machines. The software will complement Fusion-io's flash products, which use solid-state storage media as a cache for heavily used data in order to minimize the amount of data that has to travel over storage networks. Fusion-io's components have so far been limited to use with data-intensive applications...

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Computers That You Can Wear

It’s an exciting time for the wearable-computing industry. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared in a recent interview that wearable computers were the next big thing for Silicon Valley, and the past few months have seen a flurry of new product announcements in the arena.A device that records everything you see for later playback, a bracelet that comfortably and discreetly...

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Healthcare Industry Leads Market in IT Hiring

Flush with federal funds and under the gun of federal regulatory deadlines, the healthcare industry is leading the market in IT jobs creation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics job placement services.The bureau indicated that IT jobs in healthcare are expected to grow by 20% annually through 2018, "much faster than average." There are currently 176,090 healthcare...

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Google, Microsoft Bicker Over Patents

Google and Microsoft continued a very public and heated exchange on Thursday that sparked after Google's top legal officer accused rival companies -- Microsoft included -- of using "bogus patents" to fight a "campaign against Android."Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond started the conversation on Wednesday in a post on The Official Google Blog complaining that rivals...

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Google Shows How Not to Complain About the Patent Mess

Yesterday, Google Chief Legal Officer David Drummond blogged about the patents arms race that has major tech companies building gigantic portfolios of pricey patents, then using them to launch lawsuits or extract licensing fees (or, sometimes, to defend themselves against other companies launching lawsuits or extracting licensing fees). He called his post "When patents attack...

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Ink-O-Dem Refill Service: Good Quality, Modest Bargain

The Ink-O-Dem ink-refilling system has been on my mind for some time. As PCWorld’s Serial Refiller, I’ve been trying refilled and remanufactured black and tricolor cartridges for my HP Photosmart e-All-in-One, assessing their ease of use, output quality, and page yield. So far, all have been somewhat to significantly cheaper than the printer vendor's own cartridges; none,...

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iPhone Leads Smartphone, but Samsung Still Gains

Apple became the top smartphone maker globally for the first time in the second quarter, IDC confirmed.Apple shipped 20.3 million iPhones in the second quarter, ahead of Samsung, Nokia, RIM, HTC and others, in that order.In the first quarter of 2011, Apple shipped 18.7 million iPhones, second to Nokia's 24.2 million smartphone shipments. Notably, Nokia is undergoing a transition...

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Open Source Effort Will Deliver Low-Cost Wi-Fi for All

One of the great things about open source software is that it doesn't just bring a wealth of benefits to businesses. Rather, by making low-cost, high-quality software widely available to everyone, it also has the potential to change lives around the world.Most of us are familiar with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) effort to put low-cost computer hardware in the hands of...

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Google+ Startup Beats Twitter, Facebook

Google+ is going great guns right out of the gate, with the site starting out far better than rivals Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace did.Google+ , the social network Google launched just over a month ago, already has more than 25 million visitors, according to Comscore, an Internet traffic watcher.Comscore said Google+ hit the 25 million visitor mark just shy of its one-month...

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Google Web Page SEO Secrets Of Listing On Google First Page

Every business owner I consult with views a Google first page listing as the holy grail of online business marketing. It's rare to discuss any business growth strategies without someone complaining they can't get their products & services on the first page on Google. Google web page SEO secrets of listing on Google first page outlines strategies for the first page of Google. This google website page first technology placement is achievable. I consult for several different business across 42 different countries and I have noticed a definitive...

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4 great ways to money on the Internet

Everyone loves money. Who don't? As today, the Internet has become a must in every house, there are a lot of people who started to think " How can i make a penny from the Internet?". And the answer is, yes you can! But how? 1. Sell your template or website design onlineIf you love web design ( and can create beautiful design), this should be an option for you. As the Internet...

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Windows & Linux : Why Windows is still number 1

Hurmm...let see..which one should i use?Windows or Linux? If you're computer geek, the question might pop up on your mind. But, what about other people who is not a computer geek? Let have a look at the graph below : source : wikpedia.org The Operating System winner goes to... Microsoft, as always , ( although the number is dropping down year by year ). This shows...

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