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If you miss the copy and paste in your Windows Phone 7, stay tuned, it shouldn’t be long. The feature which appears to be ready is demoed here on developer device. As you can see, the implementation of copy and paste is slightly different here from what you seen on iOS or Android, with a tiny icon that appears on the screen to copy the highlighted word and then paste the copied item. Interesting huh?
via Engadget
Google finally lift the curtain for it’s first Chrome OS notebook, simply called Cr48. With black color and plain design without any fancy stripe or even Chrome logo, it looks like the notebooks from 90′s era. It is not as sleek as you’re expected, but this working prototype is meant only for pilot program, which currently open only to folk in the US. The end product most likely from notebook vendor, should looks better than this one.
Cr48 is equipped only with basic specs that’s include Wifi and 3G (which is a must as you’ll live on the cloud) as well as webcam. But it is underneath the notebook that will be most interesting, the Chrome OS that promise to boot in 10 seconds, resume from sleep instantly.
Other specs include 12 inch screen, battery which can last for 8 hours active usage and a week standby. As noted earlier, the only way now to test the notebook is via the pilot program which only open in the US, hit the source link for further detail and to register your interest. For the rest of the world, wait till Q1 2011 ya!
source Cr48
What started as rumors few weeks ago turned to reality yesterday. Are rumors becoming more accurate nowadays thanks to efficient journalism and tipster, or is that planned leaked?
So, this is the second Google branded Android smartphone, named Nexus S, maintain the Nexus brand which already synonym with Google’s own branding. Why not Nexus 2, and what letter ‘S’ means here? Unlike Nexus One which is co-developed with HTC, Nexus S is the workmanship of Samsung with Google, so you can guess where the S coming from here (hint Galaxy)?
What differentiate Nexus series phone with the rest of Android smartphone is, it run on plain Android OS, without any customization interface on top of the OS. It meant to provide truly Android experience without sometime annoying third party customization. And for Nexus 3, it has an honor as the first Android smartphone shipped with Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread. Now this is one worthy phonel!
The phone looks a lot like Samsung Galaxy S, no doubt about that. Only the second looks will tell them it is different phone. Galaxy S is proven smartphone platform and hugely successful with 3 millions units sold so far. It has great looks, very light phone and other feature you can’t found on other Android smartphone. On certain aspect, the spec are almost identical but Nexus S is obviously superior than it’s original platform.
At the heart of Nexus S is the 1 GHz Humminbird processor, the same processor found on Galaxy S. And of course it comes with 4 inch AMOLED multi touch capacitive touch screen with 480 X 800 resolution, second only to iPhone 4 and Sharp phone (can’t recall the model) which has greater resolution. Storage and RAM is pretty much standard, with 16GB (expandable) and 512MB RAM. 5 Megapixel camera with flash and front facing camera is now standard features including in this phone. Oh wait, it has 3-Axis Gyroscope as well! Hit the source for more spec ya!
Google won’t sell this phone directly or make it available online. It will be available though T-Mobile store in the US and Best Buy stores after 16 December and couple of more location after 20 December. Unless you live in the US, there is no easy and cheap way to get it. Just wait grey importer bring it here, and be prepared to pay premium price for this piece of gadget.
source Google Android Blog, Nexus S
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Though it is just an update to Android 2.1 aka eClair, this is something that Xperia users will be please to have it. Why not, they have been asking it for ages, and only now it becomes reality. The update finally begin last week in the Europe before gradually rolled out to other part of the world as well. All 3 Xperia series, X8, X10 and X10-mini are getting update. The list of so called ‘SI-Numbers’ (found on the back of the phone) for Xperia model that has received update has been posted on the source link below.
source Sony Ericsson
Fortinet November Threat Landscape Report highlights a 12 percent reduction in global spam after Dutch authorities dismantled a large Bredolab network by taking more than 140 servers offline.
Koobface, a botnet well known for spamming popular social media sites, was taken offline on November 14 when UK ISP provider Coreix took three MotherShip servers offline.
FortiGuard labs disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave, Adobe Flash, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, and Apple QuickTime.
More info available on the press release below
Press Release
Koobface Servers Taken Down on November 14 Reconfigured to New Control Servers Five Days Later
MALAYSIA, 6 December, 2010 - Fortinet – a leading network security provider and the worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions – today announced its November 2010 Threat Landscape report, which highlights a 12 percent reduction in global spam after Dutch authorities dismantled a large Bredolab network by taking more than 140 servers offline.
“Bredolab was often used to load spam engines, which are typically used to sell fraudulent pharmaceuticals,” said Derek Manky project manager, cyber security and threat research at Fortinet. “The scale of this Bredolab botnet had a huge impact on spam levels, dropping as much as 26 percent one week after it was dismantled.”
Koobface Takedown
Koobface, a botnet well known for spamming popular social media sites, was taken offline on November 14 when UK ISP provider Coreix took three MotherShip servers offline. Koobface used intermediary servers (proxies) to communicate with these MotherShip servers through HTTP port 80.
“We confirmed that on November 14, when the primary servers were taken offline, the intermediary servers failed to proxy content, which effectively crippled the botnet,” Manky continued. “Unfortunately, we saw communication restored five days later on November 19th. This is likely due to the fact that Koobface contains an FTP harvesting module.”
Operators may use stolen FTP credentials to hijack Web servers for intermediary/proxy use. By reconfiguring their intermediary servers to new MotherShip servers, the operators seemingly regained control of their botnet.
Adobe, Microsoft, Apple Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
In November, FortiGuard labs also disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe Shockwave (FGA-2010-54), Adobe Flash (FGA-2010-56), Microsoft Office PowerPoint (FGA-2010-58), and Apple QuickTime (FGA-2010-61). In addition to the four zero days, 146 additional new vulnerabilities were covered by FortiGuard IPS; 40 percent of which were actively exploited in the wild. As of this writing, a zero-day vulnerability is still being exploited in the wild for Microsoft Internet Explorer (FGA-2010-55). All five vulnerabilities were critical, and had the potential to allow attackers to execute arbitrary code from a remote location.
New and old vulnerabilities will continue to be exploited, so it’s important to keep all application patches up to date. Additionally, a valid intrusion prevention system (IPS) can help mitigate attacks against both known vulnerabilities and zero-days. With the use of communication through common protocols, application control is becoming more important to identify malicious activity on the application level.
FortiGuard Labs compiled threat statistics and trends for November based on data collected from FortiGate network security appliances and intelligence systems in production worldwide. Customers who use Fortinet’s FortiGuard Services should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place.
FortiGuard Services offer broad security solutions including antivirus, intrusion prevention, Web content filtering and anti-spam capabilities. These services help protect against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. For customers with a subscription to FortiGuard, these updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products.
The full November Threat Landscape report, which includes the top threat rankings in several categories, is available now. Ongoing research can be found in the FortiGuard Center or via FortiGuard Labs’ RSS feed. Additional discussion on security technologies and threat analysis can be found at the Fortinet Security Blog.
