Reuters
Thu Feb 18, 2010 (Reuters) - A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness.
The latest virus -- known as "Kneber botnet" -- gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information back to hackers, NetWitness said in a statement.
A botnet is an army of infected computers that hackers can control from a central machine."
The company said the attack was first discovered in January during a routine deployment of NetWitness software.
Further investigation by the Herndon, Virginia-based software security firm revealed that many commercial and government systems were compromised, including 68,000 corporate login credentials and access to email systems, online banking sites, Yahoo, Hotmail and social networks such as Facebook.
"Conventional malware protection and signature-based intrusion detection systems are, by definition, inadequate for addressing Kneber or most other advanced threats," Chief Executive Amit Yoran said in a statement.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Eric Auchard in Londo
Friday, February 19, 2010
Social networking, govt sites hacked in global attack | Reuters
Reuters
(Reuters)Thu Feb 18, 2010 - A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness.
The latest virus -- known as "Kneber botnet" -- gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information back to hackers, NetWitness said in a statement.
A botnet is an army of infected computers that hackers can control from a central machine."
The company said the attack was first discovered in January during a routine deployment of NetWitness software.
Further investigation by the Herndon, Virginia-based software security firm revealed that many commercial and government systems were compromised, including 68,000 corporate login credentials and access to email systems, online banking sites, Yahoo, Hotmail and social networks such as Facebook.
"Conventional malware protection and signature-based intrusion detection systems are, by definition, inadequate for addressing Kneber or most other advanced threats," Chief Executive Amit Yoran said in a statement.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Eric Auchard in London)
(Reuters)Thu Feb 18, 2010 - A new type of computer virus is known to have breached almost 75,000 computers in 2,500 organizations around the world, including user accounts of popular social network websites, according Internet security firm NetWitness.
The latest virus -- known as "Kneber botnet" -- gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers and reports the information back to hackers, NetWitness said in a statement.
A botnet is an army of infected computers that hackers can control from a central machine."
The company said the attack was first discovered in January during a routine deployment of NetWitness software.
Further investigation by the Herndon, Virginia-based software security firm revealed that many commercial and government systems were compromised, including 68,000 corporate login credentials and access to email systems, online banking sites, Yahoo, Hotmail and social networks such as Facebook.
"Conventional malware protection and signature-based intrusion detection systems are, by definition, inadequate for addressing Kneber or most other advanced threats," Chief Executive Amit Yoran said in a statement.
(Reporting by Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Eric Auchard in London)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Men risk anticlimax with anatomy-boosting pants...
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters)Friday 12 Feb.2010 - Hundreds of British men are risking a Valentine's Day anticlimax for their partners by stocking up on anatomy-boosting underpants ahead of the most romantic weekend of the year.
British department store group Debenhams said Thursday it had seen a 76 percent surge in online sales of the 18 pounds-a-pair ($28) underwear in the past week.
The pants work by using a lift and hold feature at the front, like a male version of the cleavage-boosting Wonderbra.
"The briefs mean that no man ever needs to feel inadequate again on the most passionate day of the social calendar," said Rob Faucherand, head of men's accessories buying at Debenhams.
"However we can't be held responsible for what happens once the pants come off," he added.
(Reporting by Mark Potter)
LONDON (Reuters)Friday 12 Feb.2010 - Hundreds of British men are risking a Valentine's Day anticlimax for their partners by stocking up on anatomy-boosting underpants ahead of the most romantic weekend of the year.
British department store group Debenhams said Thursday it had seen a 76 percent surge in online sales of the 18 pounds-a-pair ($28) underwear in the past week.
The pants work by using a lift and hold feature at the front, like a male version of the cleavage-boosting Wonderbra.
"The briefs mean that no man ever needs to feel inadequate again on the most passionate day of the social calendar," said Rob Faucherand, head of men's accessories buying at Debenhams.
"However we can't be held responsible for what happens once the pants come off," he added.
(Reporting by Mark Potter)
Monday, February 15, 2010
Another water Hazard Question.
Another water Hazard Question. forums.iseekgolf.com
Was involved in a discussion today at the club about different rulings & this one came up;
Ball enters a lateral hazard. Player measures his allowed club lengths then drops the ball. The ball strikes the ground on slope that drops back into the hazard. The ball lands & stops on that spot.Does not roll back into the hazard. Player walks back up slope to his bag to get the club he needs for his next shot. walks back down the slope to where his ball had stopped to find that it had rolled back into the hazard. What is the ruling in this case?
Was involved in a discussion today at the club about different rulings & this one came up;
Ball enters a lateral hazard. Player measures his allowed club lengths then drops the ball. The ball strikes the ground on slope that drops back into the hazard. The ball lands & stops on that spot.Does not roll back into the hazard. Player walks back up slope to his bag to get the club he needs for his next shot. walks back down the slope to where his ball had stopped to find that it had rolled back into the hazard. What is the ruling in this case?
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Google debuts Buzz social networking - News - Software
ZDNet AustraliaBy Rupert Goodwins and Tom Krazit, CNET.co.uk
10 February 2010 Google announced on Tuesday that it was immediately rolling out Google Buzz, a location-aware social networking tool highly integrated with its Gmail client, Google Maps and a new Android app.
Available as a new tab in the standard Gmail interface, the service will share links, Gmail status updates, YouTube videos and Picasa photos. Other users can leave comments on each others shared data. Users to share Buzz can be automatically added from contacts, suggested by Google through frequency of correspondence, or selected individually. Buzz updates can be sent to Twitter, but as yet there is no automatic importation of tweets.
The service includes a recommendation engine that will try to suggest Buzz content users may find interesting, and will attempt to refine those recommendations over time by having users click "not interested" on recommended status updates if they don't want to see that sort of update again.
"Buzz also weeds out uninteresting posts from the people you follow — collapsing inactive posts and short status messages like "brb". These early versions of ranking and recommendations are just a start; we're working on improvements that will help you automatically sort through all the social data being produced to find the most relevant conversations that matter to you," the company said in a blog post.
"It has become a core belief of ours that organising the social information on the web is a Google-scale problem," said Todd Jackson, Gmail product manager, demonstrating Google Buzz at the company's headquarters a day before Tuesday's event. An astounding amount of social-media content is produced every day, across Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and personal blogs, and Google's faith that it could one day index and organise the entire internet has been shaken by this explosion in web content.
Google Buzz' location-based features will use GPS and various algorithms to identify where users are by place name; once users agree with its choice, they can leave Buzz updates that will appear on a new layer of Google Maps to friends, as well as being part of a general Buzz stream.
"A lot of the world's information is what's happening with my friends," said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at the company. "We can't achieve [Google's] mission unless we solve these parts of that problem."
Google executives said that they intended Buzz to be open, that it will respect users' privacy decisions, will not lock up data and will have an open application programming interface. An Enterprise Buzz, linked to Google Apps, will be made available later: meanwhile, Google Buzz is being rolled out to its first users now and will become available to all Gmail users over the next week.
Via CNET News.com and ZDNet.co.uk
10 February 2010 Google announced on Tuesday that it was immediately rolling out Google Buzz, a location-aware social networking tool highly integrated with its Gmail client, Google Maps and a new Android app.
Available as a new tab in the standard Gmail interface, the service will share links, Gmail status updates, YouTube videos and Picasa photos. Other users can leave comments on each others shared data. Users to share Buzz can be automatically added from contacts, suggested by Google through frequency of correspondence, or selected individually. Buzz updates can be sent to Twitter, but as yet there is no automatic importation of tweets.
The service includes a recommendation engine that will try to suggest Buzz content users may find interesting, and will attempt to refine those recommendations over time by having users click "not interested" on recommended status updates if they don't want to see that sort of update again.
"Buzz also weeds out uninteresting posts from the people you follow — collapsing inactive posts and short status messages like "brb". These early versions of ranking and recommendations are just a start; we're working on improvements that will help you automatically sort through all the social data being produced to find the most relevant conversations that matter to you," the company said in a blog post.
"It has become a core belief of ours that organising the social information on the web is a Google-scale problem," said Todd Jackson, Gmail product manager, demonstrating Google Buzz at the company's headquarters a day before Tuesday's event. An astounding amount of social-media content is produced every day, across Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and personal blogs, and Google's faith that it could one day index and organise the entire internet has been shaken by this explosion in web content.
Google Buzz' location-based features will use GPS and various algorithms to identify where users are by place name; once users agree with its choice, they can leave Buzz updates that will appear on a new layer of Google Maps to friends, as well as being part of a general Buzz stream.
"A lot of the world's information is what's happening with my friends," said Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product management at the company. "We can't achieve [Google's] mission unless we solve these parts of that problem."
Google executives said that they intended Buzz to be open, that it will respect users' privacy decisions, will not lock up data and will have an open application programming interface. An Enterprise Buzz, linked to Google Apps, will be made available later: meanwhile, Google Buzz is being rolled out to its first users now and will become available to all Gmail users over the next week.
Via CNET News.com and ZDNet.co.uk
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