Monday, May 30, 2011

Intel Making Virus Killing Chip?

The news of Intel’s very expensive McAfee purchase raises one obvious question: why is security software worth over $7 billion to a chip maker? Intel has been short on specifics, but it’s becoming clear that virus-killing silicon is coming.

Computer security with hardware roots isn’t new for Intel, but it’s stuck in last-gen tech that can’t stop your system from getting smoked. Feature sets that can help filter out malicious network traffic or let CPUs screen for certain worms have been safeguarding computers you’ve already thrown away by now. But they’re limited. Right now, most of the anti-malware grunt work is being handled by software. Letting applications do the heavy lifting is a resource-heavy affair, which makes chipmakers like Intel nervous when they look forward and see the future of computing floating in the cloud.

The problem with security in the cloud is twofold. To begin with, netbooks and tablets usually just don’t have the muscle to balance intensive malware efforts. Do you think your anemic netbook can root out marauding trojans, scanning hundreds of thousands of files, as well as your desktop? But what about just putting the security software in the cloud too? This leads to a second objection: do we really want our sensitive stuff floating out of our devices? Will people feel comfortable having their secrets scanned remotely? Intel doesn’t think so—and says it has a solution.

Virus-Busting Chips! Why Intel Paid Billions for McAfee.

When we interviewed Intel’s head tech honcho, CTO Justin Rattner in June, he had much to say about the intersection of cloud computing and secure computing. And the future of beating viruses, according to Intel, lies in the chips that drive our devices, not some program running in the background. “As silicon developers,” Rattner explained, “we have a requirement to provide truly secure capability when it’s needed.” This means malware-fighting hardware is a new mandate. Rattner asserts that their hardware ambitions are to “protect those systems from the various forms of malware and then, in addition, giving them the ability to keep their secrets no matter what happens.” Which sounds a little abstract, right? But put it in context: Rattner’s plan sounds pretty real as of right now.

While discussing the news of their acquisition today, Intel minced no words about where their pricey new subsidiary will take them. McAfee technology will be put on Intel silicon. Virus scanning, trojan hunting, buffer overflow-blocking—all beat back before it has a chance to touch your software. McAfee’s line of applications will continue to sell as is, but Intel simply doesn’t believe that the future of computer security can be done with software alone. Malware keeps getting meaner. To block viruses, you need to hit them as soon as possible, which means as deep into the hardware as possible. Think of it as the difference between swatting flies in your kitchen and just keeping your windows closed in the first place.

Intel’s processors won’t change for now, but when we asked them about the deal’s implications for architecture changes down the line, they confirmed that the era of an antivirus-on-a-chip lies ahead—with a mysterious new hardware product slated for 2011. Thanks to Moore’s Law, Intel will have more real estate to fill with security mechanisms—courtesy of McAfee’s R&D labs. Whether secure silicon takes the form of hardware acceleration for virus-sniffing heuristics, or something else entirely, remains to be seen. But if Intel makes good on its promises (and on the nearly $8 billion it forked over), that folder of photos you regret will stay safe without having to climb to the cloud.


Sunday, May 29, 2011

Get Kaspersky Internet Security 3 Month Key

Hello everyone.
Kaspersky Russia is providing a free 3-Month license for Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 for 2 PCs.
Nice way of promoting ;)
I'll show you how to get it.

Things you require:
- Kaspersky Internet Security 2011 [Obviously]
- A Facebook account
- An email id where your key will be sent.

Steps:
- Log in to your facebook account.
- Go to the Kaspersky Lab Russia fan page.
- Click like on the fan page:




- Now choose "Free Trial" from the left menu (below photos) and click the Green button when its loads completely:




- Allow the application to access your basic information:




- After accepting, it will come back to same page and your promotional code will be there. Copy the code somewhere:


- Now goto the Kaspersky Promo Activation Page and enter your details (see pic for reference):




- After clicking the button (4) you will see this page if everything goes correctly:




- You've done it! Now goto your mail (which you wrote in above) and you should see your activation key for 3 months. :)




- Now enter you key is KIS and you have a fully activated KIS 2011 for 3 Months. Congrats! :)

Credits: flAmingw0rm

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

How To Find Local Weather Reports In Gtalk Using Google Talk Guru


Finding Local Weather Reports of your city, town etc is made simple and faster with the help ofGoogle Guru talk. Even a small kid can easily knows the gtalk so using the Gtalk technology to know the local weather reports. So Google comes with bots which gives the information immediately within seconds its a automatic process with best results. so lets see how to find the local weather reports using google talk guru.

Tutorial

  1. Logon to your gtalk account.
  2. Then give chat invitation to this id guru@googlelabs.com
  3. After Sending the chat invitation to the google talk guru i.e. guru@googlelabs.com. You can see a friend name “Guru” in your chat list .
  4. weather reports

  5. After Adding the id then click on “chat ” and type in your chat box “weather your city name “
  6. If you want to find the weather of chennai then type weather chennai. Then you can see theweather reports of chennai
  7. Its so simple you can find it in 2 seconds and you will get weather reports of following 3 days.
  8. local weather reports

    Conclusion : Many of them wasting time in finding the current weather reports of a particular city, place ,town . So this technique will surely help them. Just you need to enter the weather followed by place name , and you will get the weather reports in 2 seconds. Apart from the weather reports you can use them for finding the latest cricket scores, by typing ” crciket” then you will find the latest cricket scores too. :)

credits:Suresh Kumar

Friday, May 20, 2011

Kids Under 13 Should Use Facebook, Zuckerberg Says

Facebook’s current age minimum doesn’t appear to be working — 7.5 million kids under 13 are using the site anyway, and 5 million of them are 11 or younger.

So the company’s Chief Executive Officer thinks this rule needs to change at some point.

Mark Zuckerberg brought this up during a NewSchools Summit in Burlingame, Calif. earlier in the week.

He explained that Facebook’s age minimum to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. COPPA doesn’t allow websites that gather data about users to sign on members under the age of 13.

Facebook collects information about its users as part of the sign-up process. But with kids under 13 lying about their age when signing up, they’re supplying the social network with data about themselves anyway.

Fortune quoted Zuckerberg telling the summit audience that eventually he’d like to see Facebook lobby for changes in COPPA or otherwise figure out how to let kids under 13 use Facebook more honestly and in compliance with the law:

Education is clearly the biggest thing that will drive how the economy improves over the long term. We spend a lot of time talking about this… In the future, software and technology will enable people to learn a lot from their fellow students… That will be a fight we take on at some point. My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age…. Because of the restrictions we haven’t even begun this learning process… If they’re lifted then we’d start to learn what works. We’d take a lot of precautions to make sure that they [younger kids] are safe…

How might Facebook best go about enabling kids under 13 to use the social network in an honest and legal way?


Thursday, May 19, 2011

Android Users’ Private Data can be Hacked [ALERT]


Do you own and Android handset? If yes, you could be one among those 99% people whose private data can be accessed. This personal data leakage problem in android handsets has been found out by researchers at the University of Ulm, in Germany who found out that devices running on an Android version prior to 2.3.3 can be easily hacked because of the weak Client Login Authentication Protocol.

Whenever you login to a social network likeFacebook or Twitter your authentication data, that is your username/password and password are stored as an authentication token which is used in future for logging in. This data is stored for 14 days and can be easily accessed by the hackers.

How is it done?

The hacker can set up a wifi access point with a common SSID (evil twin) of an unencrypted wireless network, e.g., T-Mobile, attwifi, starbucks. When your Android device tries to automatically connect to the unencrypted Wi-Fi network, the Client Login Authentication token is accessed by the hacker and hence your privacy is no longer private.

How to Protect yourself?

  • Turn off automatic Wi-Fi connection
  • Use 3G or 4G networks rather than Wi-Fi
  • If you do not have a 3G or 4G enabled device then you can use an app called SSH Tunnelwhich creates a secure connection between your device and the network.
  • Use Secure connection (https:) to access the social networks.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Airtel Launches USSD based Facebook Access Service in India

Airtel announced the launch of Facebook by Fonetwish, a USSD-based Facebook access service in India. Customers can now access to Facebook and update their Facebook status for free and enjoy additional activities for only Re.1 per day. This services are offered without activating data services. Airtel claims this as an unique and affordable service and is offered exclusively to Airtel customers in India.

Now, Airtel Customers can update their Facebook status through this USSD service free of cost. With just Re.1 per day will open the gateway to access the full feature application which includes viewing news feeds, commenting the feeds, liking news feed stories, posting on friends’ walls, confirming friend requests, viewing notifications, and finding as well as adding friends. The whole eco-system is made available for the 150 million plus customers in India.

AIRTEL-Facebook

Commenting on the service, Mr. Shireesh Joshi, Director – Marketing, Mobile Services, Bharti Airtel said, “In the Indian market scenario, where the penetration of smart phones is relatively low and use of internet on mobile is primarily limited to key cities, many users are excluded from accessing their Facebook accounts via mobile phones. The need for a ubiquitous access mechanism is a growing necessity – and that’s exactly what Airtel’s USSD service for Facebook will help deliver. Facebook is seeing exponential growth in India and the popularity of this platform runs across demographics. We look forward to bringing millions of Facebook users in India closer to their love for social networking – by allowing them to access it anytime, anywhere on their Airtel powered mobile phones.”

“At Facebook, we are always exploring ways to enable people to easily connect and share with friends on Facebook wherever they are, whenever they want,” said Mr. Henri Moissinac, Head of Mobile Business, Facebook. “This innovative USSD-based Facebook access service that will be offered by Airtel is another affordable and easy way for people to stay connected with their friends and family through Facebook.”

USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) acts as a browser to pull the content to the phone. This requires no internet connection, browser, GPRS and etc. USSD is a menu based system which enables interfacing with the content based services. The Fonetwish developed by U2opia Mobile, a social and mobile application provider.

Airtel Customers can now simply dial *325# for non-qwerty mobiles (and *fbk# for qwerty mobile handsets) to access Facebook - without subscribing to data plans.

Password Protect Your Google Chrome Browser

Are you really conscious about your private data (username, Password, etc) which is saved by your browser Google Chrome? The extension ‘Simple Startup Password’ lets you password protect your browser from use by unauthorized persons.

The plug-in is simple to use. Just install and enter a password from the plug-in setting menu and save it. Each time you start the browser will need this password.

SPSetting-menu

If the password does not match the browser immediately closes. You can change your password in the plug-in settings.

Simple-startup-password

NOTE: Do not lose or forget your password. There is no option to recover your password. You’ll have toreinstall your browser. You can install Simple Startup Password at Chrome extension gallery here.

Enable Apple Keyboard Functionality in Windows 7

Apple Wireless Keyboard is a small tool (AutohotKey script) that enables Apple keyboard functionality to Windows 7. It supports wireless and wired keyboard and the main benefit of this tool is that Mac users can use the default Mac shortcuts under Windows 7. You can perform the following Mac keyboard functionality in Windows 7.Apple-keyboard

  1. F3: Print Screen
  2. F4: Task Manager
  3. F7-F9: iTunes control
  4. F10-F12: System volume Control
  5. Eject button toggles Fkeys/Functions.
  6. Fn + F key triggers function (useful when in F keys mode)
  7. Fn + Backspace = Delete

To install Apple Wireless Keyboard you windows 7 required .NET Framework 4 installed. DownloadApple Wireless Keyboard.

Samsung Android App to Turn Your Phone Into TV Remote Control

Samsung-remote-appRecently, Samsung has released a free app that turns your Android powered Samsung mobile phone (supports OS 2.1 and above) and Galexy Tab tablet into a digital TV remote control. The Samsung TV Remote app works with compatible Samsung TVs. The android app uses Wi-Fi to control your TV. Your phone’s keyboard, numbers, and navigation keys can be used to perform the remote control functions.

Samsung-TV-remote-app

The app supports following Samsung TVs: Samsung LCD C650 and above, LED C6500 and above and Samsung Plasma C6500 and above. The free app can be downloaded at Android Market.

Download Samsung TV Remote for Samsung phone

Monday, May 16, 2011

Android App to Make Auto Reply to Incoming Calls and SMS

While you are in a busy, for example, driving, attending a meeting, or doing something more important, it is tricky to reply to an incoming call or text messages. If you are looking a way to automatically respond to incoming text messages and missed callsfor your Android device, the Can’t text app might be a good choice.

Can’t text is a free app for Android phones that enable the user to automatically send pre-written custom message to SMS and incoming calls. You can add, edit, and delete these custom auto-text messages.

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The app is simple to use and has a very simple interface. The Three buttons at the bottom of the app window allow the user to activate auto-reply for text messages, missed calls, and both.

can't-text

However, enabling auto-reply for calls will lock the Ringer Volume at zero. You need to terminate the app to fix this issue.

Can’t text is available for free download at Android market here. (Paid version is also there for $ 0.99 without ads)