U.S.A.: Sorry, We’re Not Signing the ITU Treaty

The United States laid down the law on December 13, 2012: No dice, ITU. An official statement by Terry Kramer sealed the deal, and the U.S. ambassador had this to say to those in attendance at the World Conference on International Telecommunications: “It is with a heavy heart and a sense of missed opportunities that the U.S. must communicate that it is not able to sign the agreement in the current form.” The proposed ITU treaty revisions included many deeply troubling limitations to the Internet. If passed, the self-contained global network we know and love would become, essentially, answerable to the United Nations. Hence, this...

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Iran Stages Cyber Warfare Drill Alongside Hormuz Naval Exercise

Iranian forces have conducted a cyber-warfare drill for the first time as their naval forces conducts major exercises in the Strait of Hormuz, testing a brand new air defense missile system. The Iranian navy has staged a cyber-attack against the computer network of its defene forces in order to simulate a hack or a virus infiltration of a foreign aggressor, the English language Iran Daily reported, quoting Rear Admiral Amir Rastegari. The Rear Admiral continued that the fake cyber-attack was successfully blocked by Iranian forces. Tehran has developed military and civil cyber units in the past few years to counter cyber-attacks on its...

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Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole

Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination. The demonstration is only the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the internet’s core protocols. Those protocols were largely developed in the 1970s...

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Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent Websites; Traced to Iran

In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo e-mail customers. The hacker, whose March 15 attack was traced to an IP address in Iran, compromised a partner account at the respected certificate authority Comodo Group, which he used to request eight SSL certificates for six domains: mail.google.com, www.google.com, login.yahoo.com, login.skype.com, addons.mozilla.org and login.live.com. The certificates would have...

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Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain

Santa wasn’t the only one sneaking around on Christmas Eve this year. Google says that someone was caught trying to use an unauthorized digital certificate issued in its name in an attempt to impersonate Google.com for a man-in-the-middle attack. Google revealed in a blog post Thursday that its Chrome web browser detected the certificate being used late on the evening of Dec. 24 and immediately blocked it. The unauthorized certificate was created after a Trusted Root certificate authority in Turkey, Turktrust, issued intermediate Certificate Authority certificates to two entities last year that should not have received them. Turktrust...

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Apple said to be eyeing new display tech for next iPhone

Apple's use of the so-called "in-cell" touch technology in the iPhone 5 could be short-lived, according to a new report that claims the company is already eyeing alternatives for its next iPhone model. Citing supply chain rumors, The China Times (translation) says Apple is currently evaluating technology called Touch On Display from Innolux, the company formerly named Chimei Innolux which Apple last year listed as one of its component suppliers. The reason for the change, the report claims, is due to interference with the current in-cell technology where both the display and touch are embedded in the same panel. By comparison, the Touch...

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Google protects Internet search recipe while agreeing to other changes to end antitrust probe

SAN FRANCISCO — Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs its Internet search engine, the world’s most influential gateway to digital information and commerce. Thursday’s agreement with the Federal Trade Commission covers only some of the issues raised in a wide-ranging antitrust investigation that could have culminated in a regulatory crackdown that re-shapes Internet search, advertising and mobile computing. But that didn’t happen, to the relief of Google and technology trade groups worried about overzealous regulation discouraging...

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How To Run Java On Windows 8

Temporary Solution For Running Java SE Runtime Environment On All Version Of Windows 8, Both x86 (32 bits) & x64 (64 bits) Systems From past experience it seems that Java SE Runtime Environment Does Not Properly Works On Windows 8 Operating System. Here I will provide a simple solution that works. First, Please Remote ALL Other Versions Of Java Installed On Your System Then Reboot Your System. Second, Download Java SE Windows x86 Offline (jre-6u38-windows-i586.exe) For 32 Bits (x86) Or Download Sequentially, Both  Windows x86 Offline (jre-6u38-windows-i586.exe)   &    Windows x64 (jre-6u38-windows-x64.exe)  For...

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