A DoS vulnerability of Apache HTTPD Web Server is found. It lies on the way the web server handles multiple overlapping ranges. It affects all version of 1.3 and 2 of Apache Web Server. If you have installed Apache server with the default settings then you are vulnerable. Apache Software Foundation is working on this issue and they will release a fix soon, but until then they offer some immediate actions you can do to be protected
Security penetration tester found that you can use Google Plus servers to DDoS attack any site. For those who never met the term DDoS is the initials for Distributed Denial-of-Service
The translate API is now at version 2 and Google anounced that will start charging for that service. Version 1 was officially deprecated on 26th of May and will be shut off completely on 1st of December
Few days ago I have posted that Anonymous will attack facebook on November 5th. It appears that this is not the case as @AnonymousIRC and @AnonymouSabu from Twitter say that as far as they know, Anonymous has no intention to attack Facebook
Google settled with U.S Government to pay $500 millions for showing advertisements of illegal online pharmacies. This settlement reduces Google profits by 22%. Department of Justice started to investigate Google’s advertising practices after the appearance of illegal pharmacies in Google ads
Hackers do what they do best, hack. Some of them hack police websites, some hack companies and some others hack other hackers (or at least their websites). CSL Security, an Anonymous hacker, announced that he found a vulnerability at Metropolitan UK Police website and he infiltrated using SQL Injection
Stop worrying about arctic ice melt. According to a new research by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists, the Arctic ice may stabilize or even grow over the next few decades. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the results were published by the American Geophysical Union. The study showed some unexpected results if we take into consideration the fast Arctic ice melt over the last decade and the current climate conditions
It looks like that anyone can hack BART. BART hacked again and this time by a french girl. That french girl, a newbie hacker, released personal data (such as names, addresses and email addresses) of 102 police officers. This was her first hack
A planet 750 light years away from earth is darker than coal. This strange exoplanet reflects less than one percent of the light falling on it. This planet has the name “TrES-2b” has the size of Jupiter. TrES-2b is mostly gas and
Anonymous has announced that they will attack facebook on November 5th. The new operation by Anonymous is called “Operation Facebook” or FacebookOp and their press release is on YouTube. You can see the video here. Their inspiration is the movie