Posted by: rpawar
on Feb 19, 2010
NetWitness, the world leader in advanced persistent threat detection and real-time network forensics, announced on February 18, 2010 in HERNDON , VA, USA that its analysts have discovered a dangerous new ZeuS botnet affecting 75,000 systems in 2,500 organizations around the world.
The newly-discovered infestation, dubbed the "Kneber botnet" after the username linking the infected systems worldwide, gathers login credentials to online financial systems, Facebook, Yahoo, Hotmail and other social network credentials and email systems from infested computers and reports the information to miscreants who can use it to break into accounts, steal corporate and government information, and replicate personal, online and financial identities.
Posted by: tdouglas
on Feb 15, 2010
Google has apologized to users for features widely seen as endangering privacy while announcing product changes to address those concerns.
Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that Google had decided to alter one of the most-criticized features in Buzz: the ready-made circle of friends the service provided to new users based on their most frequent e-mail and chat contacts in Gmail. Instead of automatically connecting people, Buzz will in the future merely suggest to new users a group of people they may want to follow or be followed by, he said.
Posted by: tdouglas
on Feb 09, 2010
If you are Google gmail user then you may have noticed, Google's new service Buzz in your mailbox. Google announced this new service today in Mountain View, California.
You can read more about Google Buzz here.
Posted by: 360logica
on Jan 28, 2010
Today’s complex software systems access heterogeneous data from a variety of backend databases. The intricate mix of client-server and Web-enabled database applications are extremely difficult to test productively. Testing at the data access layer is the point at which your application communicates with the database. Tests at this level are vital to improve not only your overall test strategy, but also your product’s quality. In this presentation you’ll find out what you need to know to test the SQL database engine, stored procedures, and data views. Find out how to design effective automated tests that exercise the complete database layer of your applications. You’ll learn about the most common and vexing defects related to SQL databases and the best tools available to support your testing efforts.
How to design effective automated tests that exercise the complete database layer of your applications?
Posted by: rpawar
on Jan 28, 2010
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) announced on January 27, 2010 that it had completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Inc. $7.4 billion deal was finally approved by European Union last week. Deal was already approved by U.S. Department of Justice in August, 2009.
This deal give Oracle ownership of popular Java Programming Language, which run on more than a billion devices, Solaris Operating System, Open Source MySQL Database and SPARC processors.