Flame :The most complex cyber threat ever discovered

Like Duqu and Stuxnet, Flame is one of the massive cyber wepon ever discovered which was specially designed to perform cyber espionage as well as retrieve valuable and important information (read: steal) without you knowing it.
This malware was identified when  UN’s International Telecommunication Union came to experts at Kaspersky Lab for help in finding an unknown piece of malware which was deleting sensitive information across the Middle East.

This new malware is known as Worm.Win32.Flame, Flame for short.

Researchers says " It’s big and incredibly sophisticated. It pretty much redefines the notion of cyberwar and cyberespionage."

"Flame is a huge package of modules comprising almost 20 MB in size when fully deployed. Because of this, it is an extremely difficult piece of malware to analyze. The reason why Flame is so big is because it includes many different libraries, such as for compression (zlib, libbz2, ppmd) and database manipulation (sqlite3), together with a LUA virtual machine. "

Read More at The Flame: Questions and Answers

Facebook Camera for iPhone with Instagram features

After a $1b acquisition agreement with a free photo sharing company Instagram, Facebook has launched a photo sharing smartphone app called Camera(Presently only for some apple products).

The app allows users to take multiple pictures and share them at once rather than uploading them one at a time. And also ,users can -and share- videos much more easily than with the regular app.

This app includes many of the filters and tweaks similar to Instagram.
Download at itunes

"When you launch the app, you'll see a feed of just great photos from the people you care about," Facebook reps wrote in a press release. "You can swipe to see more of any album or tap to enlarge an individual photo." Facebook Camera is currently available on the iPhone; versions for Android and other mobile operating systems may follow.

Facebook's Growth And Reach At A Glance: Infographics

In just a few years, Facebook has grown from an idea hatched at Harvard to a worldwide social media phenomenon potentially valued at about $100 billion. Review key moments on Facebook's road to growth, see where it's most popular, and compare how much the shares held by Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives could be worth once the company goes public.

Google Project Glass Progress: More photos and a sample video released

Google Project glass an augmented reality head-mounted display got attention of the public in recent months because the project is being carried out by Google and also  slim design of the prototype.

Although many of the augmented reality experts aurged on the concept video of project glass saying that it is not possible on such a small device and may effect the eye.

Irrespective of this critisism the company has been testing the glasses in very public ways over the past couple of months. Google co-founder Sergey Brin showed off the glasses at a charity event in April and a group of employees at Google have published a series of photos from an event this week "Google Glass Walk".

Google also posted a sample video from its Project Glass Device on Goolge+.The video, just 15 seconds long and shot in 720P, shows what it's like to be on a trampoline while using Project Glass.

Google offering indians Free .in domain for one year

India Get Your Business Online

Google offering a first-of-its kind program to offer free websites, domain & hosting services to small medium businesses in India. Designed with local partners, the program provides Indian businesses the tools and resources to establish a website, find new customers, and grow their businesses.

People who want to get there free domain has to logon to www.indiagetonline.in and provide their PAN card no. (this is to identify you as citizen of india)

The features available to those who will register successful are

And Finally Google+ Pages are Here

The long waited feature of the new social network is available from today.

As everybody know about facebook pages, people are very much expected the same from Goolge+.Giving a break to this, Google yesterday introduced Google+ Business Pages or simply Pages.

This is how a G+ page looks like https://plus.google.com/b/115986030712259484018/

 Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President of Engineering Google+ said

Google+ has always been a place for real-life sharing, and Google+ Pages is no exception. After all: behind every page (or storefront, or four-door sedan) is a passionate group of individuals, and we think you should able to connect with them too.

DARPA Shredder challenge : $50000 prize offered

The United States Department of Defense agency DARPA which develops new technologies for US defence came up with a puzzle solving challenge in which they offered $50,000 for winners.

Challenge

This is simple We will be given shredded peices of a paper(document) which has to be reconstructed.Here the level of complexity is in the no. of peices the paper will be shredded. There will be given 5 puzzles with increasing complexity. The one who solves all or who gets highest points will win

The ability to reconstruct shredded documents will potentially yield information that may save lives or offer critical information about an adversary’s plans,” said Mr. Dan Kaufman, Director of DARPA’s Information Innovation Office. “Currently, this process is much too slow and too labor-intensive, particularly if the documents are handwritten. We are looking to the Shredder Challenge to generate some leap-ahead thinking in this area.

The Shredder Challenge is composed of five separate problems in which the number of documents, subject matter and the method of shredding is varied to present challenges of increasing difficulty. To complete each problem, participants are called upon to provide answers to puzzles embedded in the content of reconstructed documents. The overall prize awarded depends on the number and difficulty of problems solved

Register Here

Sean Parker on DataSharing and Spotify [Video] Web 2.0 summit

Sean Parker, Yesterday replaced by Mark Pincus

Sean Parker's interests in revolutionizing the music industry, so to speak, are well known from his early days as a co-founder of Napster. His current efforts on this horizon are focused on Spotify.

"These historical limitations that defined the dynamics of the record business no longer any sense," said Parker.

Parker described Spotify as an "attempt to finish" what he started with Napster, being that it is a "dream of frictionless-free, tiered service that enables music sharing."

"We're all trying to figure out what is that next music industry," Parker admitted. "There's a whole set of things we have to figure out when moving to digital distribution."

Read More Here