OS In Name Anonymous Circulating Area

Anonymous denied, however, calling the operating system bundled trojan.

VIVAnews - Not just good at hacking group Anonymous hacktivist was rumored to show his skills to make the operating system. More than 26 thousand people have downloaded the operating system that is claimed to be Anonymous.
The Linux-based software and has a lot of equipment that is able to 'sniff' webiste and security systems.
But the group Anonymous are "official", says no responsibility for the operating system.In his tweet widespread, AnonOps claiming that the operating system has been infected by virus.
The operating system was first available via the site Source Forge. This site is known as a 'warehouse' project with a customized code.
Operating system downloads a 1.5 GB is based on Ubuntu, one of the most popular versions of Linux operating system. Software creators said they put together for the "purpose of education to check the security of the web page".
Creator of the software asks people not to use it to destroy the Web page.
Immediately after the operating system is available, the account on Twitter AnonOps tried posting a message saying it was false and "wrapped Trojan".
The creators of the OS operating system denied an additional virus that infected the open source software.TrapAfter downloading and running the software, Rik Ferguson, Director of Security Research Effort Trend Micro Europe, said it was "functional operating system with many pre-installed tools that can be used for things like search [database], or solving a password vulnerability" .
It also includes tools such as Tor to close one's online activity. In many ways, he says, it is an imitation version of Linux known as Back Track (or back road) which is also equipped with many security tools already installed.
Ferguson said he began to work to know whether there is a virus or traps in the code.
Graham Cluley, senior researcher at the high level of security firm, Sophos, wondering who would be tempted to use it.
"Who wants to put their trust in an unknown software, written by an unknown person, on the web page that they do not know is safe or not?" he asked.
He warned people to be very careful, that some hacktivists which may be a supporter of Anonymous, have been fooled into installing the trap. "People would be wise to be very careful," he said. | BBC

source : teknologi.vivanews.com

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Hacktivist More Dangers Of Cyber ​​Criminals?

Hacktivis attacks more difficult to predict and overcome because it uses a special technique.

VIVAnews - A study of significant security incidents show, activists, hackers or hacktivist stealing more data from large corporations rather than cyber criminals during the year 2011.
As reported by BBC, March 22, 2012, an annual analysis of data breaches by Verizon revealed, politically motivated attacks by hacktivist experienced a large increase.Verizon found that 58 percent of the total data theft in 2011 made olehhacktivist. Attacks from so-called hacktivist more difficult to manage because of their attack strategy is also much more difficult to predict.Verizon reported that there were 855 incidents around the world in which as many as 174 data has been stolen. "Hacktivist activity has been around since some time ago.But in 2011 they mostly steal data from the company, "said Director of Research and Intelligence at Verizon, John Baker.
Hacktivist attack spearheaded by the hacker group Anonymous. These activists scored a major success by breaking into websites and stealing large amounts of data from various private companies and government agencies.
"Theft of data into a mechanism for political protest," said Baker. He added that it is difficult to develop specific defenses against attacks hacktivist because they use tactics and techniques designed specifically for each attack.
Baker said the attack by hacktivist not too common. But once they penetrate the defenses of a site, then they would capture large amounts of data.
Hacktivist Besides, there is another group of cyber thieves who steal data for different purposes. They are a group of organized criminals who steal data to be reused or sold to other crimes. About 35 percent of corporate data is stolen by the group's collapse.
Baker said that cyber criminals will continue to be a serious threat to large companies.Defense internet from companies that are constantly attacked for his weakness sought.The attacks of this kind tend to be opportunistic, so eventually cyber criminals exploit any loopholes and weaknesses that they find.
Baker reminded Therefore, all large companies have homework to make sure they are safe from Internet network attacks maupunhacktivist cyber criminals."The ability to detect violations of cyber at various levels are still very sad. Though the data theft can cause permanent damage to the number of companies, "said Baker.

source : teknologi.vivanews.

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Buy 750 IBM patents Facebook

San Francisco - Facebook buy 750 patents from IBM technology companies. Purchase of this patent in order to strengthen up against a lawsuit that quite often hit the social media giant. Finally, Facebook sued by Yahoo.

IBM's patent covers a wide range of software and networking technologies. No mention is how much money is spent up to get IBM patents. Possibly in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Facebook's new patent portfolios have a relatively small amount. Quoted from PCMag,Saturday (24/03/2012), Facebook has about 502 patents registered in the UnitedStates.

Currently, Facebook was busy with a lawsuit from Yahoo. Yahoo accused Facebookviolating 10 patents. As an Internet company that has stood in a long time, Yahoo hasabout 3,300 patents.

Facebook is considered necessary to strengthen itself in the matter of patents,especially since it will soon become a public company that sells its shares. And as the increasingly high popularity, Facebook sued himself admits more vulnerable.

"We expect the patent and intellectual property claims against us will grow," saidFacebook recently.

source : inet.detik.com

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Facebook Realize High Resolution Pictures & Full Screen

Palo Alto, California - Enjoy the high resolution photos and the look of the field? This is what can now be enjoyed by hundreds of millions of users of the site mahsyurnicknamed Facebook.

Competition in the virtual domain of social sites is getting tougher by the presence ofnew players like Google + and Pinterest.

Well, it seemed to confirm the presence of services that Facebook did not want to lose to other players who had already been presenting high resolution photo display andfull-screen viewer.

Penggunapun benefit from an uploaded photo will look sharper. This was possiblebecause the site was made ​​by Mark Zuckerberg has improved the quality of the photosat maximum resolution possible.

Then uploaded images can also be enjoyed in full screen. Users just click the arrow atthe top right corner of the photo so that the feature works.

Facebook said, not all browsers support this feature, because it will only work on thelatest version of Firefox or Chrome. Reported by PCWorld, Friday (03/23/2012), for the highest resolution adopted at the photos, up to a maximum limit of 2048 x 2048 pixels.

source : inet.detik.com

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