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Today google blog made an announcement that they launching Google Chrome Operating System ‘a natural extension of Google Chrome. According to the blog,Google Chrome OS an open source, lightweight operating system targeted at netbooks.The company trying to open-source its code later this year for netbooks.in the second half of 2010 OS will be available for consumers. They made a statement in thier blog that the key aspects of the google chrome is speed, simplicity and security.The told that they are completely redesigning underlying security architecture of the OS,so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.Google Chrome OS run on both x86 as well as ARM chips.They also mentioned that they are working with multiple OEMs so that they can bring a number of netbooks to market by next year. Google Chrome having a software architecture so simple,its runs with within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

Sir John Sawers was appointed as head on last month to take over Secret Intelligence Service in November.The wife of new head posted pictures of her family and friends on social networking site Facebook,this information can be viewed by all.The agency popularly known as M16,emerged in recent years,but its employees are following strict secrecy rules. n what the Mail on Sunday called an "extraordinary lapse", the new spy chief's wife, Lady Shelley Sawers, posted family pictures and details of where they live and take their holidays and who their friends and relatives are. The details could be viewed by any of the many millions of Facebook users around the world, but were swiftly removed once authorities were alerted by the newspaper's enquiries. Foreign Secretary David Miliband made light of the incident. He denied there had been any security breach and gave the incoming spy chief his full support. "It's not a state secret that he wears speedo swimming trunks....

Death of Micheal Jackson's shocked the entire world and his fans.It is the end of era.Hackers and spammers are using his name and death to spread malware . Sophos encountered a mass-mailing worm that sends spam messages with the below characteristics: Subject: Remembering Michael Jackson Attached file: Michael songs and pictures.zip this is email comes from sarah@michaeljackson.com ,saying that the attached file contain secret songs of Michael Jackson and his photos. When you open the attachment,it spreads malware to your computer,whenever your computer get infected.it will be spreading the worm to the other internet users.Besides spreading via email,this malware is also capable spreading as an Autorun component on USB memory sticks (an increasingly common trend for malware as use of these devices has become more and more popular). Sophos software detects this malware as Mal/ZipMal-B and Mal/VB-AD. In 2004 a Trojan horse was spammed out which contains photographic evidence of Ja...

Hackers hacked the indian government website which is operated by the Institute of Remote Sensing.It has been compromised for malware purposes says Finjan Inc,one of the big company which provides web gateway products,and a provider of unified web security solutions for the enterprise market. This Hacking is made on two fronts,first attack has happened when Indian government stepping up security on its hosting servers.secondly cybercriminals have added script into the site that adds an iFrame attack to the page,"said Yuval Ben- Itzhak, Finjan's chief technology officer. "The page then re-routes to a LuckySploit-infected server in Texas that fires off multiple attacks across the Internet.Reports says that site hack and re-route infected several thousand users around internet. Ben-Itzhak said the LuckySploit toolkit uses variety of methods that infect users and it uses a complex encryption system to hide what it is doing.bad news is that the infected pages can only detected...

Mozilla prepared to launch its new latest firefox browser today,that is on 30 th june.Codename for firefox 3.5 is Shiretoko.List of new features for firefox 3.5 includes a new privacy mode called as 'porn mode'.(This mode is already introduced by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Apple’s Safari, and Google’s Chrome.)location aware browsing, and video rendering without plugins.This version of 3.5 will be avialable for some time,with postive reports in terms of speeds and performance.

Google India, the Indian subsidiary of US-based software giant, on Monday contended in the Bombay High Court that it does not control the publication of content on blog-hosting website 'blogger', and is not liable for the same. Earlier, a single judge of High Court had restrained Google from hosting any blog containing defamatory material about Dr Ashwin Mehta, a city-based cardiologist. Though the offensive blog-posts were removed, the Google India has now filed appeal against this order before division bench, saying that blog-hosting company can not monitor what is posted on blogs all the time. Secondly, Google India, the Indian subsidiary, is not responsible for defamation through blogger, said its lawyer Iqbal Chhagla. "Blogger service is provided by Google Incorporation (based in US). We (Google India) are not a party to agreement between Google Inc and those who use blogger... We have no liability or responsibility for content of blogger," he argued. Chhagla fur...

Skyfire, the makers of the samename browser for mobile devices, has announced the launch of its 1.0 version now available for free download at get.skyfire.com. Skyfire allows uses to use their phones to watch web videos and live events, stay connected with friends, share web pages instantly, and use the full-featured PC versions of their favorite websites. It also supports popular web standards and plug-ins such as Flash 10, Silverlight 2, Ajax, Javascript and more. Skyfire users can customize the start page with RSS feeds from their favorite websites, integrate their Facebook and Twitter accounts to import status updates and tweets, and publish their status to these networks. Improvements specific to the Skyfire 1.0 release include enhanced navigation, zooming and interaction as well as faster launch, power optimization, and new search functionality. As the new version starts-up, users can type a search or URL in the Superbar even while Skyfire is connecting in the network. "We ...