China Acts on Training website for hackers : Shuts them down
The website closed down by China was beleived to be the among the biggest training website for hackers, this was reported by state media.
Accoring to them the website named Black Hawk Safety Net was giving lessons and selling downloads of malicious software. There people were arrested who were suspected of running the website. It was also said by Wuhan evening news that this traning program without any doubt recruited thousands of online members and trained them with cyber attack lessons and provided them with Trojan software.
This is not the first time someone has reported a Hacking problem in China, Internet Giant Google has perviously threatened to pull out of the country, Google said China based hackers attacked its operation but any involvement was denied by the Chinese government.
It is also being reported that till date the Black Hawk Safety Net had recruited more than 180 thousand free online members and almost 12000 paying subscribers. It is also been told that they have collected more than seven million yuan in membership fees. The website was providing its members with Deadly Trojans which can allow outside access to a computer when implanted.
It was not told when and how the Black Safety Net site was taken down, but it was not available on 08-feb monday.
Including some facts about china & cyber attacks :
China has some 350 million internet users – more than any other country – and provides a lucrative search-engine market worth an estimated One billion dollars lat year
In January Google threatened to pull out of China unless the government relented on censorship.
It said it had uncovered a computer attack that tried to plunder its software coding and the e-mail accounts of human rights activists protesting against Chinese policies.
Government officials have defended China’s online censorship and said the country is the biggest victim of web attacks.
By Shantanu Kaushik
news source : BBC
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Windows 7 Manager Discusses Energy-Efficiency Boost
Stephen Berard, recipient of Microsoft’s quarterly Environmental Action Award, helped develop features in Windows 7 to make computer servers more energy efficient.
REDMOND, Wash. – Feb. 8, 2010 – When it comes to energy efficiency, Stephen Berard says computers are like lightbulbs.
“You can leave a lightbulb on all the time, but if you leave the room when the light is on, it’s wasted energy,” Berard said. “What we do in the operating system version of that is to turn the light off when you’re not in the room.”
Berard, a senior program manager for the Windows Kernel Team, is the recipient of Microsoft’s quarterly Environmental Action Award for his work making the Windows 7 platform, including Windows 7 running as workstations as part of systems running on Windows Server 2008 R2, more energy efficient.
“I was completely floored when I found out I was selected,” Berard said. “It’s a huge honor. We did a lot of really amazing things in Windows 7, and when I say ‘we,’ I truly mean ‘we.’ There was a big group of folks across Microsoft that were involved.”
Increasing energy efficiency has always been a focus for the Windows team, Berard said. In the past, that has included mobile devices, laptops, and desktop systems. With Windows 7, the energy efficiency focus included computer servers.
Servers consume a lot of energy, and the vast majority of that energy is turned into heat, which then requires air conditioning to cool the machines and to keep them from overheating, he said. This is especially important in datacenters with large numbers of servers.
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Armacrypt Webmail Encryption 1.2.0.29010
Encrypt, secure and protect your Email when you use any Webmail service.
Source: Softpedia
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Armacrypt Webmail Encryption can help you send and receive encrypted emails while using any major webmail service. Armacrypt can protect your email privacy using any Webmail service with seamless integration in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
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AMD aims for GPUs in mainstream servers starting 2012
Source : Computerworld
IDG News Service – Advanced Micro Devices will put more focus on tightly integrating graphics processor cores into mainstream servers starting 2012 as it tries to increase system performance, a company executive said.
Mainstream servers in the future could have a combination of graphics processors and CPUs in servers as applications take advantage of thousands of GPU cores, said Gina Longoria, director of the product management and workstation division at AMD. The company may provide CPUs and GPUs together in a server to run highly parallel applications, she said.
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MVP Open Day 2010 – MSIDC hyderabad
MVP open day was held in hyderabad from 20th January 2010 to 23rd Jan 2010. Continuing its league from the last open day held at GOA in 2009, this event turned out to be a big success, thanks to our MVP lead Abhishek Kant . Every event has its own theme and this event had the perfect coordination of fun and technology. This event was a platform for all MVP’s to share & learn, I met many other MVP’s and had the time of my life.
Due to extensive flight delays day one for me began at 9PM on 20th when i reached Hotel Ista the official hosting venue set for the event, dinner was going on at Istana when i walked in, Seeing the other MVP’s whom i met in GOA made it a refreshing start even after the tiring long day. Just after the dinner the graveyard session started and we all had a great session talking about google vs BING. During that session i met my faces that i knew from years through online communities like Manan & Pavan Kumar .
Day two @ the Open day was a early starter, breakfest again gave me a chance to meet Geetesh Bajaj , Allen & many other MVPs . Right after that we attended the Windows 7 roundtable & then off to MSIDC for the main event. Excellent keynote was presented by Srini Koppolu (CVP & MD, MSIDC) , After attending the keynote we all had a group photo & tea.
Sessions were divided into three categories as Consumer track, developer track & IT pro track. The first session i attended was Win7 and the way forward for Windows by Suryanarayana Shastri, Senior PM, WWLG . Lunch was served right after this session & we were all refreshed for the upcoming ones. After two more sessions we all moved out & were taken for Hyderabad outing where we were taken to the Golconda fort and a amazing light & sound show was presented there.
22nd jan was the earliest day for me, Had breakfest with fellow MVP’s & then a roundtable, Right after that we all went to MSIDC for the rest of the day. Technical session and a great open session on Windows client & bing , which gave us a chance to ask and provide with feedback to the product teams.
In this event i met and communicated with many fellow MVP and this made us all closer by another step. I spent some remarkable moments there & met Anand khanse whom i know from a very long time right from the Digit forums. Also met Raj Pallai & Suprotim Agarwal who were among the ones i already knew from last Open day. Some Event Photographs are attached :
- Pawan kumar, Vasu Jain, ME and Saurav Basu
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