Archive for February, 2010
US authority gets close to Chinese Hackers
Hackers
U.S. authorities have reportedly they had tracked down the hacker who had written code for attacking the search engine giant Google and other renownced companies.It has been expected that the Chinese Governement also involved in this work. The hackers are Chinese “freelance security consultant in his 30s” who had written IEw exploit codes. Although this man did not launch any attacks himself, according to The Financial Times, Chinese officials have “special access” to his work and are believed to have picked up the code.
The spyware’s launch was recently traced to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, the first of which counts former government cyber security experts among its staff. Both institutions have denied involvement in the attacks, of course. The latest findings don’t give a definite answer as to who was behind the attacks, but it might put some extra pressure on China to cooperate with the ongoing investigations.
PayPal withdrawal back
In the baginning of Feb, all the withdrawal from Paypal to Indian Bank was suspended and outgoing Personal payments were stopped for Indian PayPal users.More info
Nearly after a month, this issue is going to be resolved. Farhad irani, Leader of Paypal business in Asia Pacific, annonunced on the ThePaypalBlog , the withdrawal from PayPal to Indian Banks will be available from March 3. The new thing is while you are request a withdrawal to your Bank, you need to fill “Export Code” . About it , Farhad irani says , “This information is required under the current laws of India in order to identify the nature of cross-border merchant transactions. On Monday, March 1st, we will be back in touch with specific instructions on how you can move your money into your bank account.”
However PayPal personal payments will be suspended till the Paypal gets the approval which is reqiured for RBI.
Source: https://www.thepaypalblog.com/2010/02/resuming-local-bank-withdrawals-to-india/
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Vote for IE
Last year(2009), there was a clash between Microsoft and European Authority regarding the Internet explorer pre-installed with the Windows OS. The judgement went towards the European Authorities and was asked to Microsoft to remove IE.
Now Microsoft has announced to decide the Result of having IE as core component or not, to the users of Europe by a traditional vote system. This voting will be held in March .
This changes will affect the Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 users.
According to the stat in January, Worldwide users use,
* Mozilla Firefox 46.3%
* Internet Explorer(incl. all versions) 36.2%
* Chrome 10.8%
* Safari 3.7%
* Opera 2.2%
Basically , i also use Mozilla Firefox for its security , Add ons , Themes.
IE 9 from March'10
Microsoft confirms the release of Internet Explorer 9 by March 2010. It was expected to be released by December 2009, although it was delayed. Now It is official published in the microsoft’s blog . This broswer is expected be a great hit than its previous version . There has been many feature improved in terms of security.
Check this Link for more about IE 9 : msdn.com
