‘Intellectual Services’ Archives
Irate parents in Pa. say schools use 'peeping tom technology'
FBI investigates, federal prosecutors subpoena documents in MacBook spying case, say reports. The parents of a Pennsylvania high school student have asked a federal judge to bar school district personnel from switching on cameras in school-issued MacBook laptops, calling the security feature "peeping tom technology." In their motion Friday, [...]
ID Theft: Don't Take It Personally
A new study shows that banks, not consumer victims, are increasingly feeling the pain of digital fraud. Identity theft often feels less like a random act of fraud than a personal breach of a victim's secrets. But while consumers feel the sting from having their private data stolen, it's their banks that are increasingly picking up the [...]
A system to cut down computer's spam diet
London: A group of computer scientists have come up with a system that deciphers the templates a botnet uses to create spam, and these templates are then used to teach spam filters what to look for. This can be used to block the most common kind of spam. Most spam messages originate in networks of compromised computers, called botnets, and [...]
Student innovation not taken seriously in India
Student Innovation Fund | Image Source : mun.caTechnical institutes in India churn out around six lakh students every year but none of their innovative projects are considered worthy of patent. Projects like the 'black box' system installed in cars in U.S. and UK to detect a genuine accident is also done by a group of students from Latur-based [...]
Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks
Software giant issues patch to prevent attacks like the one that hit Google in China.Google China | Image Source : Media.macworld.co.ukMicrosoft Corp. on Thursday released a patch to protect Internet Explorer users from attacks like "Operation Aurora" which targeted Google Inc.'s China business and caused widespread Internet panic."This [...]
UiTM lecturer first Malaysian awarded Aussie PM’s scholarship
SHAH ALAM: A Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) medical faculty lecturer, Dr Jeegajeeva Rao, created history by becoming the first Malaysian to receive the Australian Prime Minister’s scholarship award. Dr Jeegajeeva, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, received the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards worth RM630,500 to pursue a [...]
Google Hack Raises Serious Concerns
A coordinated hacking campaign targeting Google, Adobe Systems and more than 30 other companies raises serious concerns, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. In a statement released late Tuesday night, Clinton said that the U.S. government is taking the attack -- which Google said came from China -- very seriously. "We have [...]
Body Scanners Not 'magic technology' Against Terror
The full-body scanning technology being adopted and discussed since the attempt to take down a passenger plane on Christmas Day isn't a "magic machine" that will solve aviation security issues, experts say. "Regardless of the sophistication of the piece of technology, if you can collect the information on how it works and what its technical [...]
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010 to ALL from KRISARU.com
KRISARU.com team wishes HAPPY NEW YEAR to ALL !!! Thank you for the support given throughout the year 2009 and incoming years !!! A wishful way to greet people as the New Year begins. Slowly and steadily Year 2009 is creating space for year 2010 to step in. This is the time to say good bye to 2009 and welcome 2010. All the world celebrate this [...]
Google Loses Domain Name Dispute Over Groovle.com
Internet giant Google.com has lost an arbitration case over the domain name Groovle.com. In a decision released today, The National Arbitration Forum, dismissed Google’s complaint which claimed that it was entitled to the domain name Groovle.com. Google claimed that the domain name is “confusingly similar” to its trademark for [...]
Handphone : The New Look Of Mobile Security
Our phones are becoming more like computers with every passing day. The good news is that we can take our data anywhere and work wherever we'd like. The bad news is that our phones are becoming more vulnerable to spyware, viruses and other attacks. A start-up called Lookout is trying to make phones safer and views itself as the "Symantec or [...]
Twitter Hacked: Iranian Cyber Army takes on
The millions of Twitter buffs are at dismay as Twitter gets hacked for the fourth time consecutively, this year. The last time it was hacked in August this year, Twitter said in its status blog that it was 'defending against a denial-of-service attack,' in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing [...]
Google's Chrome OS Aims to Speed Up Netbooks
Look for Google’s lightweight, browser-based operating system to debut on mobile systems sometime in 2010. Google unveiled what it's hoping will be the new standard in netbook operating systems: Chrome OS. Based on Linux, Chrome OS is a fast, low-overhead OS that boots directly into a Web browser to get you online with as little waiting as [...]
Apple to Nokia: 'Stop Stealing Our Technology!'
Apple and Nokia are getting into the holiday spirit this year by suing one another over a patent dispute. The fun started this past October when Nokia sued Apple for allegedly infringing on 10 of its patents that covered a wide range of mobile data technologies, including speed encoding and decoding, security and encryption. At the time, the [...]
Facebook Still a Hotbed of Identity Theft, Study Claims
IT security firm Sophos has announced its latest probe into how easy it is to steal identities via Facebook and found that user negligence is worst in 2009. It is assumed things would be better in 2009 but the situation is worse. This really is a wake-up call," said Paul Ducklin, head of technology, Sophos Asia-Pacific (Sydney). Ducklin, who [...]
Family Business – Who Should Run
A family business is a business in which one or more members of one or more families have a significant ownership interest and significant commitments toward the business’ overall well-being. In some countries, many of the largest publicly listed firms are family-owned. A firm is said to be family-owned if a person is the controlling [...]
Social Media Marketers Declare Success
The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has followed up on its 2007 and 2008 studies of social media usage by the Inc. 500. Adoption and awareness continue to trend upward, with 91% of firms using at least one social media tool in 2009 and three-quarters describing themselves as “very familiar” with [...]
Leaders Need To Be Collaborators
Source : Forbes.comWe all want to enable organizational velocity. We know that as we lead, we not only need to make right decisions ourselves, but we need to help our teams make good decisions as well. But how often do we step in, make the decision and then wonder why our team is not "engaged?" Many a leader sees himself in this scenario: [...]
The Pirate Bay's Heir Apparent
As the world's biggest file-sharing sites clean up or shut down, all eyes are on Isohunt. The world of peer-to-peer piracy is in turmoil. In April, copyright-flouting icon the Pirate Bay was ordered by a Swedish court to shut down its file-sharing service, and last week the second largest file-sharing destination, Mininova, announced that it [...]
New iPhone worm affecting banking site
The new worm is affecting iPhone users in the Netherlands. The worm is redirecting users from a legitimate banking website to a fake site. The worm has been identified by security experts at security solutions firm F-Secure, and appears to be predominantly affecting Dutch iPhone users attempting to log on to their ING Bank accounts on the [...]
