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How evil is Facebook?

Image via Wikipedia How evil is Facebook? So evil! Invader of privacy , maker of billions, social network that turns us all into casual stalkers . . . In all of the articles, blogs and, er, Facebook status updates ever written about Facebook, there does seem to be universal agreement that it is, somehow, suspect – a point on which the two recent films made about Facebook, Catfish and The Social Network , predictably concur. In fact there is now an actual figure on just how evil Facebook is: $100m worth of evil, plus Oprah. The former is how much the network's founder, Mark Zuckerberg (boooooo!), announced he is donating in his company's stock to help the public school system in Newark, New Jersey on – oh crazy coincidence! – the very day that The Social Network premiered in the US. And Oprah, of course, refers to the show on which Zuckerberg announced his upcoming donation, thereby multiplying its value by about a kajillion, and also to whom the heretofore very private Zuck...

6 mysteries about Stuxnet

Image via Wikipedia By now, you've probably heard of Stuxnet, the mysterious computer worm that infects Windows computers running software designed by Siemens, the German industrial giant. The software, Simatic WinCC, is what's known as a SCADA system -- "supervisory control and data acquisition" -- and it's used to help run everything from traffic systems and pipelines to nuclear plants. Siemens has known about Stuxnet for some time, and has been tracing the worm's spread on its website. In July 2010, the company knew of only one industrial facility affected. By September 7, it was reporting that 15 systems had been hit worldwide. (The worm was first discovered in June by VirusBlokAda, a little-known Belarussian security firm.) For months, the discussion about the virus stayed within the cybersecurity community, but once speculation began to mount that it was aimed at Iran's nuclear facilities, the news went, er, viral. Amid the uproar last week, Ira...

Stuxnet menjadi senjata super pertama dari perang Cyber

Image via Wikipedia Melihat kembali pada bulan Juni lalu, perusahaan keamanan menemukan worm Stuxnet di beberapa computer dari Iran. Stuxnet dipercaya telah menginfeksi sekitar 100 ribu computer di seluruh dunia, dan ingin menganggu program nuklir Iran. Setidaknya 60% computer yang berhubungan dengan program nuklir tersebut sudah terinfeksi Stuxnet. Laporan dari Wired, worm Stuxnet  dirancang untuk menyerang sistem PLC atau otomatis kontrol pabrik buatan Siemen. Alat Simatic WinCC Scada menjadi target virus ini, dimana alat tersebut berfungsi mengatur semua perlatan pabrik bekerja secara otomatis. Seorang analisis teknologi dari GSMK mengatakan kepada Bloomber. Membuat worm Stuxnet setidaknya butuh dana 3 juta dollar dan membutuhkan 10 programer dalam waktu 6 bulan.

Top Ten: Anak Muda Terkaya di Internet Dibawah 30 tahun

Siapa yang menjadi kaya raya sebelum berumur 30 tahun. Era teknologi membuat banyak pemuda pintar mendadak populer dan sangat kaya. Boleh dibilang menjadi kaya karena internet, atau anak muda yang kaya karena adanya teknologi internet. Siapa saja yang berhasil mendapatkan posisi tertinggi. Data dari Complex mengumpulkan 10 anak muda mampu berhasil sebelum berumur 30 tahun. Aodhan Cullen, 27 tahun, Statcounter, perkiraan 18 juta dollar. Dia banyak amal dengan membuat website statisik untuk mencatat pengunjung. Memiliki 1.5 juta member. Matt Mullenweg, 26 tahun, Wordpress, 40 juta dollar Matt keluar dari Gig di Cnet, membuat situs untuk blogger dan paling ramai sedunia. Sean Belnick, 23 tahun, Bizchair, 42 juta dollar. Apa yang dikerjakan ketika berumur 14 tahun. Dia adalah anak muda yang memiliki toko furniture di internet. Tidak itu saja, dia bekerja di kamar untuk mengatur 100 karyawannya.

Facebok Zuckerberg Donates $100 million for Newark School

Image via CrunchBase Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg gives huge donation of $100 million to Newark Public schools to improve the public education on the eve of the release of the new movie " The Social Network ". The donation will be announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Friday with appearances by Zuckerberg, Newark Mayor Cory Booker , and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie . He denied the allegation that he made this donation to distract the public attention of a movie that portrays him as arrogant, socially out of place, and very bright. Zuckerberg's Startup, Education foundation will get the donation, which will disburse the cash. He also wanted to get involved with many charity efforts in the forthcoming years. Newark's 40,000-plus student public school system is among the worst in New Jersey. Only 40 percent of students are able to read and write after the third grade. Although, the state took control of the schools in the mid 1990s but there was not much...

Bom Sabado Worm infected in Orkut

Image via Wikipedia According to the latest reports, Orkut has been attacked by Bom Sabado Worm. The worm is reported to be posting scraps to with the text Bom Sabado which means Good Saturday in Portuguese . Portuguese is official language of Brazil which is the last bastion of the Google owned Social networking Website . India is next to Brazil in terms of members using their services. The Bom Sabado infected profiles are automatically posting scraps on the scrapbooks of their friends. The worm is supposed to be hitting your cookies and automatically sending messages to your friends list. Orkut has been the target of such XSS attacks in the past. The Bom Sabado Worm has affected many orkut profiles. Merely watching the scrap in your scrapbook or your friend's scrapbook may be enough to get your account hacked. The cookies of the viewers of the scrap are stolen and an automatic scrap is posted to their friends list creating a scrap bomb kind of thing.

How should Apple redesign the MacBook Air?

With fresh rumors circulating about a new MacBook Air , and a makeover long overdue, what would constitute a great redesign? What kind of a feature set should a next-generation MacBook Air have? (Credit: Apple )   The story line seems to be that Apple wants to insert the new portable in between the current 13-inch MacBook Pro and the 9.7-inch iPad , thus the rumors about an 11.6-inch device . Assuming Apple actually has something like this in the works, I can't help speculating on the design goals for a new Air. Should it be a hybrid tablet-laptop ? Should it be just a smaller, more powerful, more battery-efficient version of the current Air and pack features like a killer display?