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According to the expert in security Dan Kaminsky, Internet is at this moment being overflowed by DNS attacks, programmed specifically for a hole of security published in July. Numerous administrators have not installed yet the security patch that corrects this vulnerability.

The problem was detected by Dan Kaminsky at the beginning of the year. The vulnerability implies that IP servers can be manipulated in a way to redirect users to a fake IP address.

Dan Kaminsky revealed the technical details at the beginning of August. The company IO Active already has registered the first assault of DNS attacks. Among others sites, the first attacks been have redirected to China Netcom.

Message Labs confirms that the suspicious traffic in DNS has increased in 52% between July and August. The data is processed as it demonstrates that the intruders look for new vulnerabilities in DNS servers.

Through a simple click on the browser the user may be invisible. Such is the reality of the next version of Internet Explorer. Indeed, Microsoft has sent 2 patent applications of their technologies “Cleartracks’ and ‘Inprivate’, which seek to enable the user to surf the Internet without leaving traces in the local computer.

The normal version of Internet Explorer records a wealth of information, such as Web sites visited by the user, as well as addresses and capsules of information (cookies). If you allow, Internet Explorer will also stored login names and access codes to services.

The role of “private mode” already exists in other browsers such as Apple Safari. As indicated, future versions of Firefox will also incorporate a similar function.

The frontal attack against Google, which tried to portray the creators of Cuil, has lost its strength due to a serious mistake.

Jonathan Grattage, an expert in quantum physics, was amazed to see the results of Cuil when searching his name. The result is accompanied by a photograph of an American soldier and two men having sex.

The British publication “The Register” requested a comment to Cuil, who replied that the photographs are intended to help users find material that interests them.

In an e-mail, Cuil explains that “offers to users the opportunity to consider the results looking at a picture, instead of having to read 200 words.” Such functionality poses a great challenge, nor Google has succeeded so far resolving this satisfactorily. “We have had progress, but much remains to go,” writes Vince Sollitto, in charge of public relations at Cuil.

Cuil explained that the image of homosexuals was included among the results due to “a massive search activity.”

Both photographs have been eliminated from the search engine, after the consultation made by The Register.

The search engine has also been ridiculed by name. According to the company itself, Cuil is an Irish name for “wisdom”. But according to The Register, Cuil also is a former Irish voice to “back”.

Kaspersky Labs has detected two new variants of a worm, Networm.Win32.Koobface.a. and Networm.Win32.Koobface.b, that attack users of MySpace and Facebook respectively. As a result, worms convert the computers of victims in zombie machines that comes part of a botnet network.

Although worms only attack users of MySpace and Facebook, Kaspersky Lab experts warn that are designed to download additional malicious code across the Internet. It is very likely that infected machines are used not only for sending links across social networks, but also be used for other purposes equally malicious.

NetWorm.Win32.Koobface.a spreads when a user accesses his account on MySpace and from that moment, the worm creates a series of comments and messages distributed to all your contacts. For its part, Net-Worm.Win32.Koobface.b attacks Facebook users and send spam messages to the list of friends of the person whose machine had been infected.

The messages and comments submitted through MySpace and Facebook are very striking and include a link to Youtube. [Skip]. Pl. If the recipient clicks on this link, is redirected to http / / youtube. [Skip]. Ru, a website which allegedly contains a video clip. But when trying to watch the video, a message in which it warns that there is a need to download the latest version of Flash Player and, when trying to do is download a network worm called codesetup.exe. As a result, users who have accessed the Web through Facebook have downloaded the worm attacking MySpace, and vice versa.

“Unfortunately, users rely too much on the messages they receive from their friends in social networks, thus the likelihood that click on a link is very high,” says Alexander Gostev, an analyst at Kaspersky Virus Labs. “Early 2008, which would target an increase in attacks on these networks, like MySpace and Facebook, and now this is evidence. I am convinced that this is only the first step and that the creators of viruses continue to exploit these networks with greater intensity. “

Not many years ago, Google itself was a small business and recently founded. Google then has created its own venture capital firm to help other entrepreneurs.

The project is named Google Venture and will be in charge of the current vice president of corporate development of Google, David Drummond.

Over the years, Google has bought a large quantity of small enterprises, in order to have access to their applications and technologies. By investing in the stage of development and establishment of a project, Google will have access from the beginning to innovative technologies.

Google joins and then drives to similar initiatives in Silicon Valley by giants like Intel, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola that have invested large sums in new businesses.

According to the Wall Street Journal venture capital investments have fallen by 12% over the past year. In the second quarter of 2008, just in the U.S. were invested $6.64 billion dollars in a total of 602 new companies.