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100 million Facebook Profile pages leaked on torrent site

The personal details of 100 million users of social networking website Facebook are now available for download after they were leaked online. The 2.8GB torrent was compiled by hacker Ron Bowes of Skull Security, who created a web crawler program that harvested data on users contained in Facebook's open access directory, which lists all users who haven't bothered to change their privacy settings to make their pages unavailable to search engines. Bowes' directory contains 171 million...

Russian National Operating System Based On Linux

Russia plans to create its own national operating system (OS), said Ilya Massukh, Deputy Minister of Telecommunications and Mass Communications of Russia, as reported by newspaper Vedomosti.The government is hoping to launch the first version of a "national operating system" for its computers as early as next year.The operating system, for use on the computer systems of government agencies and state-run companies, will be 90 percent based on the open-source Linux operating...

Skype for iPhone supports multitasking

Skype can now be run in the background thanks to iOS 4 multitasking capabilities. The update means that not only can calls be made over 3G, but you can also receive Skype calls and instant messages while running any other application. The application will continue to work and deliver calls even when your device is locked. Skype also detailed that, when in a call, a user can switch out to any other application and the call will continue. Download...

TrueCrypt 7.0 released

TrueCrypt 7.0  has been released. Among the new features are hardware-accelerated AES, support for devices that use sector sizes other than 512 bytes, ability to configure a volume to be automatically mounted whenever its host device gets connected to the computer, favorites organizer, and more. Main Features: Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard...

Wine 1.2 Released

WINE 1.2 has been released, the new version including (finally!) 64bit application support. This release represents two years of development effort and over 23,000 changes. The main highlights are the support for 64-bit applications, and the new graphics based on the Tango standard. It also contains a lot of improvements across the board, and over 3,000 bug fixes. See the release notes below for a summary of the major changes. download...

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Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta – Meet the New Firefox

The latest beta version of Firefox is now available as a preview release. Take it for a test drive and let us know what you think!   download Features: New Tab Location New Add-Ons Manager WebM and HD Video Protecting Your Privacy HTML5 Support WebSockets JetPack SDK (Making Add-On Development Easier) Crash Protection Stylin’ Pages with CSS3 Web Console Indexed...

XSS Bug Found on YouTube

YouTube were exposed to a cross-site scripting vulnerability that put the cookies of those visiting affected video pages at risk. Those employing the scripting vulnerability targeted videos of popular teen singer Justin Bieber, as some visitors saw: “tasteless messages pop up about the teen star, and were also redirected to external sites with adult content,” according to blog NetworkWorld. Google released a statement saying: “Comments were temporarily hidden by default within an...