A semiconductor material can be altered and used to produce hydrogen from water using sunlight. The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the results are published in the Physical Review Journal. The antimony-gallium nitride alloy uses solar light energy to extract hydrogen and oxygen by slitting water molecules
Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) bank is the leading bank in India. zSecure team found a vulnerability in the bank’s web portal on July 15 and they reported it on July 17. They even sent a reminder on July 24 and bank responded on August 08 (22 days later) with
Vulnerability Master is a new tool for security experts and hackers. It scans websites and tries to find if they are vulnerable to SQL injection. It also helps you to generate the query for the SQL injection attack. The creator of this new tool is MaxPain (M@xPain). The tool is for educational purposes only
This beautiful lightning shot was taken by Bertrand Kulik on July 28th 2008 during a storm in Paris. In this photo we can see a lightning striking Eiffel Tower
Twitter started showing ads about from followed companies. Now they will start showing ads from other companies too, not just the ones you follow. The algorithm will be based on the algorithm that shows you who to follow. If you are similar with someone who follows a company that you don’t, you will get ads from that company too
Two founders of Pirate Bay have launched a new file-sharing site called Bayfiles. Bayfiles will respect copyrights. It is very similar to Rapidshare, Megaupload and YouSendit. The site allows users to upload their files and share the link where their file was stored for others to download it. There is not search functionality and therefore the user will have to publish his link so the others can find the file and download it. If you upload copyrighted material, the site will delete the files
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