Ever wanted to have control of you own PBX? Well soon you can. Google voice (formerly known as Grand Central) is not directly comparable to skype. It promises to allow you to manage all of your phones through one number in a web based app. You can fill out a voice request to get signed …
Monthly Archives: June 2009
Twitter is spreading Porn Spam Malware
Guy Kawasaki, a twitter user who happens to be a venture capitalist, spams a trojan to both Mac OSX and Windows. It disquises itself as a video codec. Embedded on the Mac side we have the OSX/Jahlav-C Trojan, and for the Windows users, we have troj_jahlav.b. The Trojans are known alter DNS tables to redirect …
Windows 7 offered for free
Set to release on Oct. 22 Windows 7 will range from $119.99 to $319.99. Hp and Lenovo are offering free upgrades to Windows 7 when it is released, but you might have to install it yourself. Microsoft unveiled list prices for Windows 7 on the 26th.
Adobe released a patch for its Shockwave Player to fix a critical vulnerability
Adobe has released version 11.5.0.600 of its Shockwave Player to fix a critical security vulnerability. The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error when processing Shockwave Player 10 content and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code. If it is done right, it can potentially allow a remote user to gain complete control over …
Jammie Thomas-Rasset found guilty again
Jammie Thomas-Rasset’s second court case went the same way as the first one. Convicted! They really hammered her this time with the jury awarding the record labels damages totalling $1.92 million or $80,000 per infringement. The damages award is a massive increase from the last jury, which ordered her to pay $9,250 per song. They …
An iPhone can run unauthorized apps without being jailbroken.
According to Charles Miller, a principal analyst at Independent Security Evaluators, and Vincenzo Iozzo, a student at the University of Milan in Italy, they have discovered that non apple apps can run on an un-jailbroken iPhone. Miller and Iozzo found several loopholes, in fact, to get around Apple’s security software. Essentially, without any physical access …
Spot the fed will be easy now that DT is working at the HSAC.
Dark Tangent, Jeff Moss, was among the 16 individuals named to the Homeland Security Advisory Council??? Moss, 39, said: I know there is a new found emphasis on cyber-security and they’re looking to diversify the members and to have alternative viewpoints. I think they needed a skeptical outsider’s view because that has been missing … …
Obama is a Tux fan? Who would have guessed?
President Obama has announced his intent to nominate David Kappos to head US Patent Office. Kappos is an engineer, VP and general counsel at IBM. We all know IBM is an open source friendly company, and Kappos is also known for being pro opensource. It would appear, should he be appointed, that he will offer …
StrongWebmail Hacked for 10k
Some of you may be familar with Beverly Hills based Telesign. They offer a service to websites that provides voice verification through a pre-registered mobile number. So, when you attempt to log in to check your email, it will call you with a 3 digit number which is used as final verification. The challenge to …
VPSBytes Gets a facelift
Some of you may be following VPSBytes‘ growth. Today it took on a new look. Keep your eyes on its news, I understand it is about ready to deploy new servers.
