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Major Disruption to Traffic in Middle East/North Africa
downfallA major loss of connectivity, reducing overall bandwidth to a crawl with very high latency, is currently affecting most of the Middle East and parts of North Africa and the Indian sub-continent.
The disruption started at around 07:30 GMT and has continued ever since. This is affecting all traffic [...]

Microsoft recently announced the release of a patch for a critical IE security flaw which was found in all of the browsers current and earlier versions, which put users security under good stance back again. The flaw is believed to have affected many users using the browser over the last 1 week.
Microsoft as well as [...]

Looks like microsoft finds the iPhone to be a more interesting platform for developing applications than its own legendary Windows Mobile platform.
Microsoft recently released a new app for the Apple iPhone, called the Seadragon Mobile which is available on Apple’s App Store since Saturday. It is an image browsing application and can be used to [...]

A new Firefox extension called Pirates of the Amazon lets users download movies, games, TV shows, and MP3s free of charge by cross referencing Amazon’s product pages with torrent files from the Pirate Bay.

If the content can be found on the Pirate Bay’s search index it shows up as a “Download 4 Free” link on the top of the Amazon product page. This links directly to the hosted .torrent tracker file, letting the user avoid having to make a purchase from Amazon in place of acquiring it illegally via BitTorrent.

An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicized two days ago, Microsoft says.
Microsoft is investigating reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in IE but said in an update to a security advisory issued [...]

Someone is using Orkut to spread Trojan links in a message disguised as an official e-mail from the Google-owned social network, according to an alert from security firm Websense released Tuesday.

The message, written in Portuguese to appeal to Orkut’s many Brazilian members, looks like it is sent from an Orkut member who is looking for [...]

Only a few days after the launch of its new task manager, Gmail has introduced a new feature allowing users to send free SMS messages through its integrated Chat. To activate the feature, visit the Gmail Labs page and scroll down until you see the appropriate listing (you may also want to activate a few [...]

PC users of Facebook and other social networking sites are being warned about the spreading Koobface worm.
The Koobface worm first appeared in June, but now it’s back in greater strength, targeting social networking users with PCs – those with Macs or running Linux are not affected. The Guardian reports that security company F-Secure says Koobface [...]

The impossible has been done again and pirates all over the world are busy trying to obtain the more updated build of Windows 7- build 6956. Just a day after WinHEC China began, an attendee from the conference managed to slip a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image of Windows 7 Build 6956 onto a portable [...]

Microsoft launches open-source blogging platform!!
On Monday, Microsoft launched Oxite, an open-source blogging platform.
However, the software maker was quick to underline that the product is aimed at developers and not intended to directly compete with popular blogging software such as WordPress or Movable Type.
Microsoft posted the Oxite code on its CodePlex Web site on Friday and [...]