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Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack

Expected10/10. Not sure why we treat Russia as civilized, except they have nukes.Because they also have oil, ...gas, caviar, titanium, etc, etc. If it wasn't for oil we wouldn't give a hoot about Iraq or Iran. Look at how we ignore Somalia!RE: Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian...

Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Botnets, Georgian, Georgian cyberattack, cyberattack

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaught

Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtwhat a bsis it really journalism when just copy and paste somebody else's BS?RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia onslaughtRussia is doing an amasing job in protecting the people in he break away regions.RE: Georgia turns to Google's Blogger amid Russia...

Tags: Government, Recruitment & Selection, Blogger, Georgian, extremist, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-11

Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers

Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackersOh, its about the *another* Georgia.Is about the ex-commie Georgia and not the Ted Turner Birthplace.Anyways, a ddos attack can be done even for a single person, so there are not a real point to escalate this conflict in a full...

Tags: Web site development, distributed denial of service, Russian Hackers, Web site, Web

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Data on 2.9 million Georgians goes missing

Data on 2.9 million Georgians goes missingAnd the march of the dumb f[patch] continues...They haven't learned data security by now, they never will.Wow. First you heard of Desktopswith data on them going missing, then Laptops, then hard drives, now a CD.next it'll be on a thumb drive and that'll go...

Tags: CD, Georgian

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Additional Resources

News to know: MySpace-iLike; Gmail; Twitter; Sony Ericsson; Secure smartphones

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: MySpace to acquire social music service iLike for $20 million Matthew Miller: Push Gmail comes to the...

Tags: Google Gmail, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, Dana Blankenhorn, Smart Phone, Andrew Nusca, Matthew Miller, Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-mail Providers, E-mail, Research & Development, Cloud Computing, Smart Phones, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Internet, Online Communications, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2009-08-18

Russia cooperated with hackers in Georgian cyberattack

A report from the nonprofit US Cyber Consequences Unit confirms what only made sense about last year's cyber attack on Georgia. It was carried about by independent groups with a special relationship to the Russian government. As InfoWeek relates, the report concludes: "Many of the cyber attacks...

Tags: Cyberattack, Hacker, Attack, Hacking, Government, Viruses And Worms, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

News to know: SOA, Google Voice app; Twitter bots; Google Wave; Clunkers

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Joe McKendrick: More SOA tools emerge in the cloud Jason Hiner: Forget the iPhone app, Google Voice coming as...

Tags: Google Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, Jason Perlow, SOA, Microsoft Corp., Bot, Twitter, Attack, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), XML, Security, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-10

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

Russian Hackers - Russian Submarines clearly a msg is being sentMore concerned about Russian Cyber thieves at the present time than Russian Submarines recent events. Seems there are both Russian government and non-government actors.--- They are compromising computers around the world (India, South America, Africa,...) that have weak security and...

Tags: Blogging, SECURITY, pro-Georgian, pro-Georgian blogger, attack, Twitter, blogger

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

Did Russians attack Twitter over pro-Georgian blogger?

It was one year ago today that Russia invaded Georgia over the South Ossetia region. Yesterday someone unleashed a massive botnet DDOS attack on Twitter, Facebook and Google. The crash of Twitter under this onslaught was the big story yesterday. Now it seems the whole thing was an attack on...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, Attack, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-07

College Replaces Conferencing Service With Unified Communications Solution

Canada-based Georgian College offers degrees in fields such as business, engineering, and design. Previously, workers on its 11 campuses communicated mainly by e-mail or phone, hampering long-distance collaboration and isolating workers based on outlying campuses. Employees used a third-party conferencing service, but it required IT department assistance and administration. With...

Tags: Unified Communications, Microsoft Corp., Worker, Collaboration

Case studies 2009-08-01

Dr.Web CureIt 5.0 (Windows)

FREE antivirus and anti spyware scanner based on the Dr.Web best-of-breed engine with the most up-to-date add-ons to the Dr.Web virus bases. As hundreds new viruses appear and spread in hours around the world daily, CureIt! with the newest definitions to the virus bases is re-built several times every day....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Virus, Doctor Web, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-07-07

Growing Campus Communication

Georgian College is one of Canada's fastest-growing community colleges, and supporting that growth keeps the college's IT team busy. Communications services weren't keeping up with the growth of the college, but upgrading them seemed impossible with the IT staff already fully engaged in other projects. Georgian College used Dell Global...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., College, Georgian College, Strategy, Collaboration, Management

Case studies 2009-05-01

Georgian Byki Express Language Learning 4.0 (Mac)

Available in over 70 languages, Byki is a powerful and personalized language-learning system that locks Georgian words and phrases into your memory so that you can recall them perfectly and remember them forever. Perfect your accent with native speaker sound, chart your progress, and test yourself. Byki Express 4.0 comes...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Transparent Language Inc., Flash Memory

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Byki Express (Georgian) 4.0 (Windows)

Available in over 70 languages, Byki is a powerful and personalized language-learning system that locks Georgian words and phrases into your memory so that you can recall them perfectly and remember them forever. Perfect your accent with native speaker sound, chart your progress, and test yourself. Byki Express 4.0 comes...

Tags: Transparent Language Inc., Microsoft Windows, Flash Memory, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Virtual Keyboard 3.0 (Windows)

Virtual Keyboard is a small but powerful multilingual program for the text input with computer mouse or hardware keyboard. That is practical if you work e.g. with another character set than that your hardware keyboard offer. Still another area of the program is safe input of the private data (e.g....

Tags: Virtual Keyboard, Microsoft Windows, Andrej Koch, Hardware Keyboard, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2009-01-29

Anti fraud site hit by a DDoS attack

The popular British anti-fraud site Bobbear.co.uk is currently under a DDoS attack distributed denial of service attack , originally launched last Wednesday, and is continuing to hit the site with 3/4 million hits daily from hundreds of thousands of malware infected hosts mostly based in Asia and Eastern Europe, according...

Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Botnet, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-17

DDoS + Web 2.0 == Buckets o' traffic

Denial of Service attacks are based upon a simple idea: generate the maximum amount of traffic using the minimum amount of work. At one time this was as simple as sending a spoofed ICMP echo packet to a broadcast address or similar shenanigans. Modern DDoS attacks rely upon...

Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Network, Distributed Denial Of Service, Social Networking, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2008-09-05

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...

Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Novell as Microsoft's client state

Novell as Microsoft's client stateEntreeIt's MS who want entree into the Linux world and for Novell, well, it's 'business as usual'.Novell move forward with or without MS and only provide bridging vis a vis Mono and ZENworks and VM Xen API interfaces; all else is not IP infringed unless MS...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Novell Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfare

Georgia conflict may mean the birth of modern cyber-warfareTaiwanI think an impetus for Red Flag Linux wqas the inability of Beijing to secure Windows against Taiwan, but my memory might be faulty.Cyberwar? You must be kiddind...I thought that word "war" is applicable for some serious events that have catastrophic consequences...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY, Hacking, Saakashvili

Discussion threads 2008-08-12