Google was breached by chinese hacker and they stole some sensitive data
Quoting current and former government officials
Apparently, the thousands of orders included classified ones from a
US federal court that approves surveillance on foreign targets such as
spies, diplomats and suspected terrorists. The report quotes one
official as saying that the attackers could have used this information
to warn Chinese agents who had attracted the US authorities' attention,
enabling them to take steps to destroy information and get people out of
the country. According to the official, the Chinese could also have
sought to deceive US intelligence officials by conveying false or
misleading information.
When Google disclosed the discovered attacks in early 2010, the company said that the attack mainly targeted the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. There was no information about a breach of a database that contained court orders. The Washington Post says that, even now, it remains unclear how much information the hackers actually obtained. Reportedly, a high-ranking Microsoft executive said only weeks ago that attackers had, at around the same time, also searched the company's servers for information on accounts that had a surveillance order on them.
Both Google and the FBI reportedly declined to comment on the newspaper article. In 2010, China denied any involvement in the hacker attacks. Instead, the country said that China itself had been the victim of the most extensive hacker attacks.
Source :- www.majorgeeks.com, www.washingtonpost.com, www.h-online.com
That the aim of the extensive hacker attacks on Google in late 2009 was to spy on US counterintelligence information. According to the newspaper, the hackers gained access to a database which contained information about Google Gmail accounts that had surveillance orders on them.
Apparently, the thousands of orders included classified ones from a
US federal court that approves surveillance on foreign targets such as
spies, diplomats and suspected terrorists. The report quotes one
official as saying that the attackers could have used this information
to warn Chinese agents who had attracted the US authorities' attention,
enabling them to take steps to destroy information and get people out of
the country. According to the official, the Chinese could also have
sought to deceive US intelligence officials by conveying false or
misleading information.When Google disclosed the discovered attacks in early 2010, the company said that the attack mainly targeted the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. There was no information about a breach of a database that contained court orders. The Washington Post says that, even now, it remains unclear how much information the hackers actually obtained. Reportedly, a high-ranking Microsoft executive said only weeks ago that attackers had, at around the same time, also searched the company's servers for information on accounts that had a surveillance order on them.
Both Google and the FBI reportedly declined to comment on the newspaper article. In 2010, China denied any involvement in the hacker attacks. Instead, the country said that China itself had been the victim of the most extensive hacker attacks.
Source :- www.majorgeeks.com, www.washingtonpost.com, www.h-online.com
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security,
Call of Duty: Ghosts Reveal
Call of Duty: Ghosts Reveal
Here's a new call of duty game Call Of Duty : Ghosts
Ghosts is set to release on November 5 for Windows, PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360 as well as with the eighth generation of consoles, the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Call of Duty is making another setting change for its leap into the next generation. The series has evolved from a World War II shooter into a modern warfare shooter before Black Ops II finally closed out the console generation and a near-future sci-fi shooter.
Times have changed and Call of Duty is jumping into the post-apocalypse in Call of Duty: Ghosts. Returning to the game is the same intense action driven storytelling you’ve come to know and maybe love from the series, only this time, the stakes are much bigger. America has collapsed and a very small resistance force is fighting to keep her lofty goals afloat in this forsaken alternate future.
Infinity Ward has tapped Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter Stephen Gaghan to pen this new chapter in the series.
The reveal trailer shown yesterday at the Xbox One reveal conference also displayed the game’s newest feature: K9 companions! Each customizable character will be granted a dog to help uncover traps, attack enemy units and hopefully have a loving buddy to snuggle up with when the emotional pressure of this future gone awry is just too much to handle alone.
Call of Duty: Ghosts will be available on the PC, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on November 5th before jumping into the next-generation on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 whenever those consoles drop.
RUMOR - Apple’s ‘iRadio’ hits another roadblock, WWDC launch might be delayed to next month
It has been widely reported that Apple will debut a new streaming radio service at its Worldwide Developers Conference next month. The company was said to be close to striking a deal with Warner Music and Sony Music to launch its iRadio service, however recent reports suggest negotiations may have hit a roadblock that could prevent Apple from debuting the service at next month’s event.
The Verge reports that BMG Rights Management, the fourth largest music publisher, is not satisfied with the company’s deal and is holding out, therefore leaving Apple with only one major label onboard at this point.
Apple’s streaming music service is said to be a hybrid Web and radio service with features similar to both Pandora and Spotify, but labels reportedly want Apple to pay higher licensing fees than rivals because Apple plans to introduce new functionality that extends beyond similar offerings.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled to take place from June 10th to June 14th in San Francisco.
The Verge reports that BMG Rights Management, the fourth largest music publisher, is not satisfied with the company’s deal and is holding out, therefore leaving Apple with only one major label onboard at this point.
Apple’s streaming music service is said to be a hybrid Web and radio service with features similar to both Pandora and Spotify, but labels reportedly want Apple to pay higher licensing fees than rivals because Apple plans to introduce new functionality that extends beyond similar offerings.
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is scheduled to take place from June 10th to June 14th in San Francisco.
Source :- www.bgr.com; www.theverge.com
Xbox One Halo Live Action Series
Xbox One Halo Live Action Series
The Halo franchise will receive a new live
action television series that will be created by the team at 343
Industries and Microsoft alongside well known creator Steve Spielberg.
Bonnie Ross, the leader of 343 Industries, says that the entire experience is designed to take advantage of the new media possibilities of the Xbox One and will introduce a number of new elements that fans will love.
The director made a short appearance during the Xbox One reveal event but he did not offer any clear information on the live action Halo series.
It's unclear whether Master Chief will be the main character of the television series or whether the team at 343 Industries plans to introduce a new cast and new enemies.
Microsoft suggests that the Halo live action series will be offered exclusively on Xbox One.
Source:- www.news.softpedia.com
Xbox One Introduces Used Game Fees
Microsoft confirms that the new Xbox One home console will not have an always online requirement on launch but it seems that users will have to pay an unique fee as long as they plan to buy and then play used games. Don Mattrick, the president of the Interactive Entertainment division at Microsoft, states during the reveal event that gamers will be able to use the new Xbox One without connecting to the Internet.
All individual game purchases will be linked to the individual Xbox Live accounts and that means that publishers can easily detect whether a game has been re-sold or simply borrowed by another player.
it also seems that all video games for the Xbox One will be installed to the hard drive of the device in order to increase overall performance.
It's unclear what fee players who want used games will need to pay in order to run them on the new Microsoft platform.
Source:-www.softpedia.com
Bringing it all together : Google unifies Gmail, Drive and Google+ storage, users now get 15GB & Apps customers get 30GB
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| If you don’t see the point of keeping data you have stored across assorted Google services separate then you’re in luck: The company agrees with you. So now your storage will be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+. |
Google on Monday announced a change to how it offers free cloud storage to its users: 15GB will now be shared across Google Drive, Gmail, and Google+. This change will start rolling out over the next couple of weeks.
Previously, Google offered 10GB for Gmail plus another 5GB for Drive and Google+ Photos. Now the company has decided that it makes more sense to unify the free storage across its three services.
As part of the change, Google is tweaking its Drive storage page to show a pie chart that breaks down your storage use across the trio. Here’s how it looks:
What is most interesting for Gmail users here is that the 25GB upgrade is no longer the limit. Any additional storage you purchase will also apply to Google’s email service.
Google Apps
The Google Apps story is only slightly different: Google is offering its business customers 30GB of unified storage across Drive and Gmail. Storage will also be shared with photos customers upload to Google+ larger than 2048px, and just as before, files created in Docs, Sheets and Slides don’t count against this storage quota.Here’s the updated Google Drive storage page for enterprise customers:
This unification will help Google market how much storage it offers by default, as well as push its storage plans to existing users. It’s not so much a smart move, as a necessary and obvious one.
Source :- www.googledrive.blogspot.com, www.bgr.com & www.thenextweb.com.
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Internet,
New Release,
Leak - Nokia Lumia ‘code name - EOS’ will feature 4.5-inch 720p display, 41-megapixel camera
Nokia is rumored to be preparing a 41-megapixel Lumia smartphone, codenamed EOS, that will be released later this year. According to WMPowerUser, the handset will look similar to Nokia’s
Lumia 920 smartphone and will feature a polycarbonate case with a
4.5-inch 720p display. The device will reportedly come with a new
application called “Nokia Pro Camera” to compliment the 41-megapixel
PureView camera, which is also said to include a protective lens cover
that automatically opens when the camera application is launched. Unlike
the handful of Lumias that came before it, however, the EOS will
reportedly not come in different colors and will not natively support
wireless charging. Earlier reports suggested that Nokia would launch its EOS smartphone in the United States this summer.
Source :- www.bgr.com
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Mobiles,
New Release,
YouTube reveals users now upload more than 100 hours of video per minute as YouTube turns 8
These days there are few things bigger than Facebook on the Internet,
but Google-owned YouTube is one of them, and today the world’s top
online video service marked its eight year anniversary by revealing that
it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute.
That’s right, every minute. That’s quite astonishing. It works out as more than four days of video uploaded each minute.
YouTube, like Facebook, is used by more than 1 billion people per
month, and it has gone from strength to strength in recent times. Back
in 2011, YouTube users were adding 48 hours of video per minute, while
that figure jumped to 72 hours per week last year.
YouTube paid tribute to its users and incredible milestones in a blog post (via @hunterwalk) that includes the following comment:
Over the years, you’ve continued to surprise and delight us. And the past year was no exception. Who would have guessed that a tux-rocking K-pop star would shatter records left and right or that Sesame Street would go global with 1 billion views? That’s one of our favorite things about our global audience: you’re as unpredictable as you are creative and irreverent.
This year, Google is taking the service into new territory with the recent launch of paid-for channels that are aimed at rivalling streaming services like Hulu and Netflix.
This isn’t YouTube’s first foray into original content. It kicked off its Channels program
in 2011, which provides selected content partners with an undisclosed
sum of funding to create content for YouTube channels. The money is not a
freebie but instead an up-front payment of future advertising earnings
over the next year. That encourages them to invest in equipment and
talent to produce compelling shows — that’s the aim, at least.
Channels began in the US, but has since been expanded to a range of new markets, including, the UK, France, Germany and Japan, with more expansions planned.
There was controversy this year as a number of partners were reported to have not been offered fresh terms.
But, with YouTube’s subscription plans now public, Channels appears to
have refocused on upcoming content makers, which might go towards
explaining this.
Note: Thanks to those who picked up on the error in the initial
headline. The amount is 100 hours of video per minute, not 100
million…just yet.
Cue Doctor Evil…via YouTube, of course.
Source :- www.thenextweb.com, www.youtube-global.blogspot.com
Tag :
Internet,
HTC says One production will double to meet ‘Huge demand’
Of all the problems to have when launching a new flagship smartphone,
trouble keeping up with demand is hardly the worst. Of course, things
change a bit when a company has to pump units into channels as quickly
as possible before the top-selling smartphone vendor in the world
launches the Galaxy S4. HTC undoubtedly lost some sales thanks to its production woes with the One, but a new report suggests its manufacturing issues are behind it. According to Focus Taiwan, HTC
North Asia president Jack Tong said that production capacity for the
HTC One will double in May and increase further in June. ”Our capacity
is expected to rise significantly starting from mid-May,” Tong
reportedly said Friday at a press conference. “We are optimistic about
our high-end sales during April and June.”
Source :- www.bgr.com
Tag :
Mobiles,
Free Chromebook Pixel to all I/O attendees
Google has announced at I/O, its annual developer conference held in
California, that everyone attending the first keynote this morning will
receive a free Chromebook Pixel.
Sundar Pichai, Google SVP of Chrome and Android, revealed the news on
stage: “Our goal behind the Pixel was to literally to build the best
laptop possible out there,” he said. “Do you have any idea why there’s
one up on the screen and why I’m holding one in my hand?”
At this point, the crowd goes into overdrive; it’s fair to say they knew what was coming next.
“We are going to give each and every one of you a brand new Pixel –
I’ve been told to say that it’s not ready until 2pm so please do’t leave
int he middle of the keynote! But we’re very excited,” Pichai added.
The Chromebook Pixel comes with a 12.85-inch high resolution IPS
display (2560×1700), equal to 239 PPI, at a rather unorthodox 3:2 aspect
ratio.Under the hood is an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor with Panter Point PCH, along with 4GB of DDR3 RAM. There’s only 32GB of storage via an SSD, but that’s bolstered by 1TB of additional cloud storage through Google Drive.
Jealous yet? We are.
Source :- www.thenextweb.comTag :
Internet,
Google+ seemingly still a ghost town; brands and people continue to prefer Facebook, Twitter
Google announced last fall that its social networking site was home to 400 million members with more than 100 million active monthly users. Despite these numbers, many people are apparently continuing to ignore Google+, a service that has been labeled a ghost town. Perhaps even more concerning is Google’s inability to win over brands and businesses that have instead turned to connect with customers on competing websites.
“The main reason we are more active on Facebook than Google+ is
because that is where our customers and our target demographic are
spending their time,” said Dave Gilboa, the co-founder of online eyewear
company Warby Parker, said to Reuters.
Data from Nielsen Media Research revealed that in March the average
U.S. Google+ user spent a mere 6 minutes and 47 seconds on the site,
compared to more than 6 hours spent on Facebook. A Reuters
survey found that of the 100 most valuable global brands in 2012, only
72 were on Google+ compared to 87 on Facebook. Roughly 40% of the brands
that were on Google’s social network were not active, however.
“In my personal network, I have very few people who are actively
using Google+,” said Dan Nguyen-Tan, vice president of sales and
marketing for Public Bikes. “That could be a reason why I haven’t
thought about it as an effective tool.”
Google claims that more than 100 brands have amassed over 1 million followers on Google+.
Source :- www.bgr.com
Tag :
Internet,
Anonymous threatens and warns to take the U.S. ‘off the cyber map’
Anonymous was praised for its recent cyberattacks on North Korea,
however the hacking collective has shown that it is a friend to no one.
The group late last month declared its latest target and this time it
isn’t a communist regime or oppressive government, but rather the United
States. The group stated that on May 7th, Anonymous will start phase 1 of Operation USA,
which is a response to acts of “multiple war crimes in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan” and “in your own country.” The group is
protesting the Obama Administration’s uses of targeted drone attacks
that have resulted in the deaths of “hundreds of innocent children and
families.”
“Anonymous is speaking it’s mind, don’t try to blind the worlds eyes,” the group wrote in a message on PasteBin.
“We have a voice that we will use, you tried to take from us with the
power you abused. You will lose that power by the time Anonymous is done
with your nation. Your intentions are ill in aim. The Internet hate
machine has came [sic] from our shadows shining light on corruption and
having Lulz, and now United States of America, you are in the cross
hairs of Anonymous.”
Operation USA, or OpUSA, threatens to take America “off the cyber
map” with several “doxes, DNS attacks, defaces, redirects, DDOS attacks,
database leaks and admin take overs.” The group hints that its first
targets will be major banks, suggesting people switch “from a big bank
to a local union.” Individuals associated with Anonymous even claim to
have accessed Michelle Obama’s social security number, although no proof
of the incident was provided.
The Department of Homeland Security acknowledged that a group of
mostly Middle Eastern and North African-based criminal hackers were
preparing to attack several high-profile U.S. websites, although such
attacks may be no more than a public nuisance.
Anonymous has threatened various government agencies including the
FBI, NSA and NATO, along with banking websites belonging to Bank of
America, Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and Capital One.
- Via: www.cnbc.com, www.bgr.com
- Source: Anonymous [1], Anonymous [2]