AFP: Taiwan man dies after watching 'Avatar':
"TAIPEI — A 42-year-old Taiwanese man with a history of high blood pressure has died of a stroke likely triggered by over-excitement from watching the blockbuster 'Avatar' in 3D, a doctor said Tuesday.
The man, identified only by his surname Kuo, started to feel unwell during the screening earlier this month in the northern city of Hsinchu and was taken to hospital.
Kuo, who suffered from hypertension, was unconscious when he arrived at the Nan Men General Hospital and a scan showed that his brain was haemorrhaging, emergency room doctor Peng Chin-chih said.
'It's likely that the over-excitement from watching the movie triggered his symptoms,' he told AFP.
Kuo died 11 days later from the brain haemorrhage, and the China Times newspaper said it was the first death linked to watching James Cameron's science-fiction epic 'Avatar'.
Film blogging sites have reported complaints of headaches, dizziness, nausea and blurry eyesight from viewers of 'Avatar' and other movies rich in 3D imagery."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
McAfee Will Offer Free Six-Month Subscriptions to Facebook Users - McAfee becomes Facebook's main security service provider - Softpedia
McAfee Will Offer Free Six-Month Subscriptions to Facebook Users - McAfee becomes Facebook's main security service provider - Softpedia:
"Facebook and McAfee announced on January 13, 2009 a partnership through which over 350 million Facebook users will benefit at no cost of a free six-month subscription to McAfee's Internet Security Suite security software. After this six-month period, Facebook users will have the possibility to extend their license at a special discount price.
Besides the free software, Facebook users will benefit from a whole range of new tools built to enhance their and Facebook's security at the same time providing a safer and virus-free environment on the social networking platform.
Users who had their account infected or compromised now have the possibility to employ a new and innovative tool developed by Facebook and McAfee, which will help them re-secure their account. Custom McAfee technology will scan and clean the user's computer before allowing them to log on Facebook again. This tool incorporates McAfee technology and will be provided at no costs for the user.
Facebook has declined to financially capitalize on its users and will provide (alongside McAfee) a series of tutorials and educational materials to help them raise their security knowledge.
McAfee was chosen as the premiere software security provider after Facebook spent serious time on a review process of major security companies. Products like McAfee SiteAdvisor (website rating technology) and McAfee Active Protection (technology for almost instantly blocking known and unknown online threats) have been critical in the reviewing process.
It is unsure whether these products will be included in Facebook's new security measures aimed at detecting and blocking suspicious activities in real-time.
Regarding this topic, Jake Brill, Facebook representative and Project Manager in Facebook's Integrity Team, had this to say, “We invest in dedicated teams and advanced technical systems that detect and block suspicious behavior. When we find a message with a link to a fake login page or other malicious website, we prevent it from being sent and delete all instances of it from the site.” He added that “We also work with third parties to get malicious sites added to browser blacklists or removed completely.”
Users can learn more on this offer by visiting McAfee's Facebook page and clicking on the “Protect Your PC” tab.
Facebook has set up a Security Page for updates and tutorials on issues and topics concerning the site's security."
"Facebook and McAfee announced on January 13, 2009 a partnership through which over 350 million Facebook users will benefit at no cost of a free six-month subscription to McAfee's Internet Security Suite security software. After this six-month period, Facebook users will have the possibility to extend their license at a special discount price.
Besides the free software, Facebook users will benefit from a whole range of new tools built to enhance their and Facebook's security at the same time providing a safer and virus-free environment on the social networking platform.
Users who had their account infected or compromised now have the possibility to employ a new and innovative tool developed by Facebook and McAfee, which will help them re-secure their account. Custom McAfee technology will scan and clean the user's computer before allowing them to log on Facebook again. This tool incorporates McAfee technology and will be provided at no costs for the user.
Facebook has declined to financially capitalize on its users and will provide (alongside McAfee) a series of tutorials and educational materials to help them raise their security knowledge.
McAfee was chosen as the premiere software security provider after Facebook spent serious time on a review process of major security companies. Products like McAfee SiteAdvisor (website rating technology) and McAfee Active Protection (technology for almost instantly blocking known and unknown online threats) have been critical in the reviewing process.
It is unsure whether these products will be included in Facebook's new security measures aimed at detecting and blocking suspicious activities in real-time.
Regarding this topic, Jake Brill, Facebook representative and Project Manager in Facebook's Integrity Team, had this to say, “We invest in dedicated teams and advanced technical systems that detect and block suspicious behavior. When we find a message with a link to a fake login page or other malicious website, we prevent it from being sent and delete all instances of it from the site.” He added that “We also work with third parties to get malicious sites added to browser blacklists or removed completely.”
Users can learn more on this offer by visiting McAfee's Facebook page and clicking on the “Protect Your PC” tab.
Facebook has set up a Security Page for updates and tutorials on issues and topics concerning the site's security."
Friday, January 15, 2010
Aayirathil Oruvan - Review
Aayirathil oruvan (ஆயிரத்தில் ஒருவன்)
An another extra-ordinary movie by Selvaraghavan, The story starts with the Chola Dynasty… Last prince of Chola is taken away from the kingdom to save him from the Pandiya’s. Also with him they take the God Statue of the Pandiya’s.
The place where the Chola Prince is taken is a secret and also there are 7 major traps in the way. Andrea’s father Prathap pothan goes over and finds the Place but he gets disappeared. Then Reema Sen, Andrea, with military people and some porters, in which the Karthik is person who leads the porter’s gang, goes over to the place to find Prathap Pothan and the lost prince city. How they find the chola prince and Prathap pothan is the story & what happens to the Pandiyas Statue.
I was very much excited in watching the movie…. The first half goes on with lots of fun and excitement, the song ‘Oh Easa’ and ‘Un mela Asai’ are awesome and the picturing was excellent.
Second half totally changes the pace of the movie and there are lots of pure tamil conversations, which I very hard for us to understand. Performance of Parthiban, Reema Sen was excellent in the second half. Karthi rocks in the first half.
This movie is really a 1 in 1000 movie. No one can think like this… Must to watch... Also to be noted the movie contains all bad words in Tamil and English, also the movie can’t be enjoyed by all type of audience, mainly you can’t watch the movie with family for sure.
I liked the movie a lot… Except the last 20 mins which was little odd for the pace of the movie.
An another extra-ordinary movie by Selvaraghavan, The story starts with the Chola Dynasty… Last prince of Chola is taken away from the kingdom to save him from the Pandiya’s. Also with him they take the God Statue of the Pandiya’s.
The place where the Chola Prince is taken is a secret and also there are 7 major traps in the way. Andrea’s father Prathap pothan goes over and finds the Place but he gets disappeared. Then Reema Sen, Andrea, with military people and some porters, in which the Karthik is person who leads the porter’s gang, goes over to the place to find Prathap Pothan and the lost prince city. How they find the chola prince and Prathap pothan is the story & what happens to the Pandiyas Statue.
I was very much excited in watching the movie…. The first half goes on with lots of fun and excitement, the song ‘Oh Easa’ and ‘Un mela Asai’ are awesome and the picturing was excellent.
Second half totally changes the pace of the movie and there are lots of pure tamil conversations, which I very hard for us to understand. Performance of Parthiban, Reema Sen was excellent in the second half. Karthi rocks in the first half.
This movie is really a 1 in 1000 movie. No one can think like this… Must to watch... Also to be noted the movie contains all bad words in Tamil and English, also the movie can’t be enjoyed by all type of audience, mainly you can’t watch the movie with family for sure.
I liked the movie a lot… Except the last 20 mins which was little odd for the pace of the movie.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes Website Defaced
Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes Website Defaced - Hackers claim they downloaded the e-mail database too - Softpedia:
"The website of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes was defaced yesterday and hackers mocked the institution through a message on the first page. Furthermore, the attackers claim to have downloaded the database and emails stored on the server.
The National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is operated by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan's equivalent of the FBI. The NR3C is similar to the FBI's Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3) as it provides a single point of contact for organizations to report matters related to cyber-crime. It also offers information security training to government, as well as private sector organizations.
The attack was claimed by someone associated with a hacking group called 'PAKbugs.' According to Web defacement archive Zone-H, during 2009, this group was responsible for similar attacks against 1,720 websites, some of them belonging to the Pakistani government.
'Your whole database and e-mails are leaked .... i was really excited to read, see what the [expletive] is private in here lOl,' part of the message left on the NR3C reads. 'I Guess, Federal Investigation Dept of Pakistan is in Wrong, Untalented Hands !!' the hacker says.
In a post on the pakbugs.com forum, a user named ZombiE_KsA, who identifies himself as one of the founders of the PAKbugs-Crew, has posted some screenshots to substantiate his claims. One of the pictures shows him logged into the cPanel Webmail administration interface on nr3c.gov.pk. Zone-H attributes a total of 168 defacements to ZombiE_KsA, out of which 62 are on high-profile websites.
'It seems that from an amateur penetration test a hacker has access at least to the full email database and possibly the backups, of a National Response Center for Cyber Crimes in a highly politically sensitive country. […] To say this hack has national security implications would not be overstating the matter,' writes Rik Ferguson, solutions architect at antivirus vendor Trend Micro.
It is worth pointing out that pakbugs.com was hacked too, back in September 2009. At the time, an unknown hacker made public a list containing the usernames, e-mail addresses and hashed passwords of all forum members. The PAKbugs forum is a well known cyber-crime hub where people exchange illegal information and programs."
"The website of the Pakistani National Response Center for Cyber Crimes was defaced yesterday and hackers mocked the institution through a message on the first page. Furthermore, the attackers claim to have downloaded the database and emails stored on the server.
The National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C) is operated by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Pakistan's equivalent of the FBI. The NR3C is similar to the FBI's Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3) as it provides a single point of contact for organizations to report matters related to cyber-crime. It also offers information security training to government, as well as private sector organizations.
The attack was claimed by someone associated with a hacking group called 'PAKbugs.' According to Web defacement archive Zone-H, during 2009, this group was responsible for similar attacks against 1,720 websites, some of them belonging to the Pakistani government.
'Your whole database and e-mails are leaked .... i was really excited to read, see what the [expletive] is private in here lOl,' part of the message left on the NR3C reads. 'I Guess, Federal Investigation Dept of Pakistan is in Wrong, Untalented Hands !!' the hacker says.
In a post on the pakbugs.com forum, a user named ZombiE_KsA, who identifies himself as one of the founders of the PAKbugs-Crew, has posted some screenshots to substantiate his claims. One of the pictures shows him logged into the cPanel Webmail administration interface on nr3c.gov.pk. Zone-H attributes a total of 168 defacements to ZombiE_KsA, out of which 62 are on high-profile websites.
'It seems that from an amateur penetration test a hacker has access at least to the full email database and possibly the backups, of a National Response Center for Cyber Crimes in a highly politically sensitive country. […] To say this hack has national security implications would not be overstating the matter,' writes Rik Ferguson, solutions architect at antivirus vendor Trend Micro.
It is worth pointing out that pakbugs.com was hacked too, back in September 2009. At the time, an unknown hacker made public a list containing the usernames, e-mail addresses and hashed passwords of all forum members. The PAKbugs forum is a well known cyber-crime hub where people exchange illegal information and programs."
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