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Young Indonesians go online to defy bombers

August 29, 2009

Young Indonesians are sending a defiant message to extremists behind the deadly July 17 bombings of two Jakarta hotels: “We are not afraid.”
An internet campaign against terrorism in response to the attacks on the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels has come into vogue among young, technology-savvy Indonesians with its slogans “Indonesia unite!” and “We are not afraid”.

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Fake net postcards spread virus

August 28, 2009

Fake Internet postcards circulated through electronic mails worldwide carry links to a deadly virus known as Zeus Bot, according to a new study.

Gary Warner, computer forensics director at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), who led the study, said, Zeus Bot has been named America’s most pervasive computer virus, reportedly affecting some 3.6 million computers in the US.

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Microsoft warns IE users of threat

August 28, 2009

Microsoft has warned of a flawed software in the Internet Explorer that hackers can exploit to take over some computers.

The vulnerability was found in a program used in the popular web browser to play video on computers running with Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems, Microsoft said in a warning posted online.

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PC makers to offer China Internet filter

August 28, 2009

Several PC makers said on Friday they were voluntarily including China’s controversial Internet filter software in new shipments despite Beijing’s decision to postpone making it mandatory.
The government had been set to introduce the Chinese-made filtering programme — called the “Green Dam Youth Escort” — but announced the delay hours before its implementation on July 1.

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US building tech tools to foil online censors

August 15, 2009

The US agency behind Voice of America said on Friday it is working on ways to slip news past tough Internet blockades in countries such as China and Iran. The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) confirmed that it is crafting “feed over email” software capable of turning popular Web-based email services such as Gmail, Yahoo! [...]

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Flu: Short-term impact on IT operations likely

August 14, 2009

The swine flu epidemic can impact the IT industry in the near-term, crippling certain operations because of less travel, consulting firm Zinnov said. While the long-term impact on business could be minimal, the immediate quarter could see project delays and quality of service issues, director of Advisory Services at Zinnov Chandramouli warned. Curbing business travel [...]

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Time for neighbourhood networking, online

August 14, 2009

Very often, we end up finding that one special person we spent hours looking for, just a class, department or a street away. It was this realisation that led Kaviraj and a group of students from Sathyabama University in Chennai to create a neighbourhood networking site called areapal.com. The site, which was in a Beta [...]

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