Posted by SACHIN gupta on Wednesday, August 24, 2011,
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The Uniscan vulnerability scanner is aimed at information security, which aims at finding vulnerabilities in Web systems and is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE 3.0 (GPL 3). The Uniscan was developed using the Perl programming language to be easier to work with text, has an easy to use regular expressions and is also multi-threaded.
Uniscan Features
Identification of system pages through a Web Crawler.
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Wednesday, August 24, 2011,
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As our smartphones become more ubiquitous and more powerful, they need to be protected in much the same way that you would protect your computer. Further to this, a malicious piece of malware has been discovered for devices powered by Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread, giving the hacker the ability to take complete control of the smartphone remotely. According to Assistant Professor Xuxian Jiang from the NCSU Department of Computer Science, the new threat, which his t...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Monday, August 22, 2011,
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Background: We are the Official DEF-CON Chennai Group [DC602028] The Event is taking place on 11th September 2011 at a resort in ECR Road Chennai,India. We will be having a Private conference room for the meet.
Regarding Paper Submission We require uniqueness when it comes to Paper submission for DEF-CON Chennai DC602028.
Uniqueness as Follows: -> Papers can be on your own research with proof of concept. -> Paper should be of current subject and not more than 1 year old. -> ... Continue reading ...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Tuesday, August 16, 2011,
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The sickening click-crunch-whir of a dying hard drive. The ever-spinning-never-seeking DVD. The undetectable USB flash drive. The three telltale signs that a significant portion of your life is about to disappear into the digital ether. We’ve all been there. We’ve all wished that we’d made a second backup, or kept our optical discs out of the sun — but we haven’t, and the data is lost. So it goes.
But what if you had a backup medium that was nigh indestructible, almost immune to incl...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Tuesday, August 16, 2011,
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Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux kernel 3.1 rc2. There isn't too much to see and Linus notes that this is a fairly calm release for coming just one week after the close of the Linux 3.1 kernel merge window.
As LKML is down at the moment, below is the 3.1-rc2 release announcement from Linus: Hey, nice calm first week after the merge window. Good job. Or maybe people are just being lazy, and everybody is on vacation. Whatever. Don't tell me... Continue reading ...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Saturday, August 13, 2011,
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LimeWire is P2P file sharing programs. It is also giving software... but attention.
Here is a note given by LimeWire, so before you download it's content read this. If you have already it's software uninstall it.
ATTENTION
"LIMEWIRE IS UNDER A COURT ORDER DATED OCTOBER 26, 2010 TO STOP DISTRIBUTING THE LIMEWIRE SOFTWARE. A COPY OF THE INJUNCTION CAN BE FOUND HERE. LIMEWIRE LLC, ITS DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS, ARE TAKING ALL STEPS TO COMPLY WITH THE INJUNCTION. WE HAVE VERY RECENTLY BECOME AWARE OF... Continue reading ...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Friday, August 12, 2011,
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Company that started it all says times have moved on:
After Apple's Steve Jobs began referring to the iPad as a "post-PC" device, an IBM executive has added fuel to the fire with one of its chief technology officers, Mark Dean, claiming the company did the right thing in getting out of the PC business.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the IBM 5150 PC, which was widely considered to be the beginning of the PC era. IBM, for years, lead the way in ensuring a PC in every home, a campaign which i...
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Watson also tackles some of the greatest problems in understanding text:
?If you've been following the Jeopardy-IBM Watson faceoff this week, then you have witnessed a breakthrough in analytics and in new architectures for mining and analysing diverse types of information in a single application. Watson and its successors may usher in a new approach to computing, combining as it does, so many disparate techniques to create a "thinking" machine. IBM has combined deep NLP with machine learning, ...
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Friday, August 12, 2011,
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Cloud platform revamp on show at Professional Developer Conference:
Microsoft may be "all in" for the cloud, but will developers follow? At the Professional Developers Conference in Microsoft's Redmond headquarters this week, CEO Steve Ballmer and colleagues announced various new capabilities in Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service offering whose success or failure will be crucial toward Microsoft's long term prospects in cloud computing.
Posted by SACHIN gupta on Friday, August 12, 2011,
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Microsoft speeds up browser development cycle with Internet Explorer 10 platform push:;
Have you downloaded Internet Explorer 9 yet? Microsoft hasn't even begun to automatically push the latest version of the browser - released about a month ago - out to Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, and yet it unveiled the initial Platform Preview for Internet Explorer 10 at the MIX '11 conference in Las Vegas this week.
The images were sent to 9to5Mac from a “reliable source” and show a microphone icon next to the space key in the iOS keyboard. 9to5Mac reports that users can activate the new feature (when it’s available) by clicking on the microphone icon and talking. The software will then popu...
