Technology

Anonymous hacks NATO, steals 1 GB of sensitive data Fri, 22/07/2011 - 16:40 by NeelamGoswami Following the arrests of 21 suspected members of two computer hacking groups, Anonymous and LulzSec, a coalition of hackers on Thursday claimed to have pirated servers of NATO, the world's largest military alliance, and stole enormous amounts of sensitive information. Comments Read more	'Google-Effect' on brain making us forgetful- study Fri, 15/07/2011 - 18:47 by NeelamGoswami The widespread use of Internet search engines and online databases to find information is making people lose their memory, a new study has discovered. Comments Read more	Facebook, Time Warner join hands to fight bullies Thu, 14/07/2011 - 21:53 by NeelamGoswami Bullying has become a worldwide issue. There are several organizations that are working hard to put an end to these incidents that destroy the lives of both the children being bullied and children who bully. Now, Facebook and Time Warner are joining hands to stop the phenomenon of bullying with a joint campaign that encourages people to speak out. Comments Read more
Facebook throttling tool to import friends into Google+ Tue, 05/07/2011 - 17:51 by NeelamGoswami Facebook is about to throttle Friend Exporter, a Google Chrome extension that lets users grab the list and contact info of their Facebook friends and import them for use in other services, according to multiple tabloid report. Comments Read more	Beware, Google+ invites can be fake Tue, 05/07/2011 - 12:26 by NeelamGoswami Google has just launched its own social network Google+ project but within days of its launch the service has become the instant target for spammers, mainly to send fake invitations. Comments Read more	Fox News' Twitter account hijacked; declares President Obama dead Mon, 04/07/2011 - 19:08 by NeelamGoswami High-profile cyber attacks continue, and FOX News becomes the latest victim in global wave of hacking attacks. Online hackers apparently have broke into the FoxNews.com's Twitter account and posted a series of posts claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. Comments Read more
Twitter users post 200 million tweets per day Sat, 02/07/2011 - 15:27 by Dipankar Roy Number of tweets sent by Twitter users per day has increased from 65 million in 2010 to 200 million in 2011, claims Twitter in its official blog post. Comments Read more	'Indestructible' botnet infects 4.5 million PCs globally Fri, 01/07/2011 - 15:00 by NeelamGoswami Security researchers have discovered a sophisticated botnet that has infected millions of computers around the world, according to multiple tabloid reports. Comments Read more	Pope tweets! Blesses Twitterverse with his first tweet Thu, 30/06/2011 - 14:53 by NeelamGoswami In a first of its kind tweet, Pope Benedict XVI sent a message Tuesday to the masses on Twitter, telling them about the launch of the Vatican's new website. Comments Read more
TwitPic boss runs down street naked;Tweets pic from cop car Thu, 30/06/2011 - 01:02 by NeelamGoswami Noah Everett, founder of the most popular Twitter photo sharing service TwitPic, has been arrested and tweeted about it from the backseat of a police car. And to prove it, he even posted a picture of himself getting arrested. Comments Read more	Social media war begins! Google launches Facebook rival Wed, 29/06/2011 - 01:30 by NeelamGoswami In yet another attempt to compete with wildly popular Facebook, Google on Tuesday introduced its own social networking service called the Google+ Project. The is being billed as the search giant’s most ambitious social-networking effort yet to take aim at Facebook's growing Internet empire. Comments Read more	LulzSec's hacking spree not over yet! Join forces with Anonymous Tue, 28/06/2011 - 18:54 by NeelamGoswami The notorious prankster hacking group LulzSec that recently called it quits after 50 days of terror has actually merged with Anonymous, a network of hacker-activists which has claimed responsibility for a wide variety of attacks. Comments Read more