The basic aim of the system is to make lives easier for Ubuntu users and to help them decide on buying of laptops and desktops. The review system however, is not completely user-controlled. There is software that runs the review test.

This will affect all corporate businesses (ones that are transaction based) and some regular features of services that explicitly rely on the Java plugin, ones like Facebook video chat and Google+ video chat.

Burp was caught stealing restaurant data from Zomato. Restaurant listings and other details match on both the sites, and the data is originally owned by Zomato.

Open core maintains a feeling of goodwill while taking away the aesthetic value of these freedoms. With this move, Oracle shows that it has the right to distribute MySQL components as commercial products.

The attacks on Mitsubishi Heavy were spotted for the first time on August 11 and the intrusion seems to have come from a spear-phishing attack. This form of phishing involves sending spoofed emails to the recipient, making it look like it comes from a known email address.

We see a period from June 2009 to December 2009 when both Apache and IIS registered a dip and there was a remarkable rise in unconventional web-servers.

With over 2900 names as nodes and over 1200 relations as edges, the result would have been an enormous graph. The handling of this huge dataset was done using an open-source language called Processing.

On July 10 2011, ComodoHacker attacked the Certificate Authority DigiNotar. This attack led to the creation of fake Gmail certificates that was used for man in the middle attacks. This time, the same hacker ComodoHacker claims to have hacked another Certificate Authority- GlobalSign.

From JDK version 7, Oracle has planned to support OpenJDK and withdraw the Operating System Distributor License for Java. This has resulted in a withdrawal of OracleJDK from the repositories of Linux distributions.

Clearly, this application holds extreme value inside the organization as it forms a critical part of their business. Severe security vulnerability like this should be fixed immediately. Any plans to extend this application across more states, without fixing this vulnerability might put BSNL in jeopardy.

The YouTube account holding the video was created on July 16, as was the Twitter account for OP_Facebook. Moreover, the attack date of 5 November 2011 is nearly three months from now. Anonymous would never give a three-month notice.

CyFi has discovered a zero-day exploit in Android and iOS games. The matter will come to light at a new addition to the DefCon conference, the DefCon Kids. DefCon Kids aims to foster the hacker culture among young and budding enthusiasts.

Sony is already a hot favorite with hackers and they have constantly ridiculed it to their heart’s content, but is Sony even listening to these voices? Does it make a difference even if they win the Pwnie Epic Fail?

Although his participation in the recent hacks was not remarkable, he held an important position being the face of the group in various interviews with journalists and in the face-off with the Westboro Baptist Church.

Google+ has a nice thing going on. People love the concept of circles. They appreciate huddles and are intrigued by how simple, yet how elegant the entire Google+ system is. Fresh out of the incubator and that too half-baked, Google plus needs some more polishing before it can go mainstream.