YouTube has renewed work after five-hour failure

The largest videohosting YouTube has renewed work after debugging. On a site the main page and the majority of sections, however videoclips were not displayed were accessible on direct links.

Without explanations of the reasons

YouTube yet has not explained the reason of malfunctions. The representative of a video hosting has informed, that YouTube has understood an essence of the arisen problem, and engineers were engaged in restoration of working capacity of a site.

The Chinese trace

In the beginning of week of a malfunction also have concerned site Google. Users from the different countries told, that the information on company management was displayed in the Chinese language. Many bloggers have connected it with refusal Google of censorship in China and have put forward assumptions, that the site has undergone to hacker attack, writes The Guardian.

Subsequently Google in the microblog on Twitter has informed, that the malfunction has been caused by an error, instead of hacker attack, and that the error is already corrected. We will notice, that Google owns videohosting YouTube.

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Spam: to be or not to be?

Spam are anonymous mass dispatches of e-mail (i.e. the electronic equivalent of the paper advertising correspondence which is frequently banal litters for usual mailboxes).



The spam is used for professional advertising more often. Spamers dispatch a considerable quantity of advertising messages and make profit of those who answers them.



The biggest stream of a spam extends through e-mail. At present, the mass component of viruses and a spam in the general traffic of e-mail reaches by different estimations from 70 to 95%.

Spam strategy

Spamers collect e-mail addresses by means of the special robot, using web pages: blogs lists, electronic bulletin boards, guest web pages, chats, forums etc…



Such SPAM-robot can collect many thousand e-mails and create from them a database for the further dispatch on them of a spam. Some companies are engaged only in gathering of an e-mail, and then these bases sell to spamers. Some SPAM-companies sell to spamers an e-mail of the clients which ordered the goods or services through e-mail.



The most reliable way of struggle against a spam — not allow spamers to find out about your e-mail (if you own a private e-mail, you nevertheless should block completely the Domain Spam, it's preventive action).

It is a difficult problem, but some safety measures can be undertaken:

1. Register an your main e-mail not on free mail-service (any decent web-provider to the contract gives a mail box on the server; as a rule, such addresses to spamers do not get).



2. Never and not under any circumstances do not publish this address on www-pages. If you need to publish the address in reply to any letter in a forum — publish an e-mail through spaces, for example: trend @ web.com — in this variant, possibly, your e-mail will not get to spam base.



3. Never specify the main e-mail in registration forms on various doubtful web sites. Register a separate free e-mail — only for registration and use it.



As advertising e-mails, as a rule, strongly differ from the usual correspondence, their elimination from an entering stream of mail became a widespread method of struggle against them. For present time this method — the basic and the most used (the given algorithm is used by the majority of post services: gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc).



In some countries legislators intend to approve the bill directed on struggle against spamers. Attempts of legislative prohibition or restriction of activity of spamers encounter variety of complexities. For example, TechieMedia.net Complaints are not always lawful, because is legally problematic to prove the given kind of a crime at the state level.

Trip to Spam Museum

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The American government was going to close Wikileaks

The American government was ready to close site Wikileaks in 2008. Measures on struggle against a resource placing in an easy approach confidential materials, have been described in the report published on Wikileaks on March, 15th, writes TechRadar.

Potential threat of safety

The report under the name "Wikileaks — the online directory for a foreign secret service, insurgents or terrorist groups?" Has been prepared by experts of the centre of counterspionage of army of the USA. In the report it was noticed, that Wikileaks represents potential threat to country armed forces.

For struggle against a site military analyst Michael D. Horvath suggested to strengthen measures on prevention of hit of the classified information in hands of informants Wikileaks. So, it is planned to reveal and dismiss scouts who co-operate with a site, or to bring an action against them. On a plan of an analyst, it should promote destruction of an image Wikileaks as source which keeps anonymity of the informants.

Wikileaks by Sunshine Press

Resource Wikileaks is sponsored by noncommercial organisation Sunshine Press. In 2008 it already closed under the decision of the American court. Then a site have accused of disclosure of the confidential information of bank group Julius Baer Bank. Soon after that the court has cancelled the decision, and the site has continued work to the former address.

On February, 1st, 2010 the site has temporarily stopped work, having referred on insufficient financing. Founders Wikileaks have informed, that for that moment they have collected donations on $130,000. However for high-grade functioning of a site it is required to them of $600,000/year, and the minimum volume of financing makes $200,000. At the moment, according to Wikileaks, the volume of the collected donations makes $360,000.

Microsoft has found out vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Microsoft has found out vulnerability in Internet Explorer, allowing hackers to get remote access to the computer of a victim. On it it is informed on a company site. It have appeared vulnerability all existing versions of a browser, except IE 5.01 c Service Pack 4, installed on Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 are subject almost.

Internet Explorer 6 — in danger!

While, according to site Microsoft, dangers are subject to version IE 6 Service Pack 1 under Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, IE 6, IE 7 and IE 8, working on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Investigation has shown, that for today the limited number of attempts of use of the found out vulnerability is registered. In most cases users Internet Explorer 6 were exposed to attack. Engineers Microsoft work over elimination of vulnerability and promise to correct defect in the near future.

According to research Xpnet (Exo.performance.network), belonging Devil Mountain Software, browser Internet Explorer uses more than 80% of owners of office computers where this program is installed on-default. Experts have made such conclusions having analysed weekly arriving data from 21,000 computers with installed statistical utility Devil Mountain Software.

Firefox — the most dangerous browser!

As the most vulnerable browser till now continues to be considered Firefox. According to the report of American company Cenzic, in first half of 2009 on this browser it was necessary 44% of all found defects.

Also authors of the report noticed, that similar to vulnerability make only 8% from the general number of threats. Web appendices appear the most full of holes in respect of safety usually, that partly proves to be true recent network attack on Google in which course vulnerability Adobe Reader — programs for reading of files in format PDF has been used.

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Adobe has confirmed message Google on network attack

On January, 2nd network Adobe has undergone to attack. On it it is informed in a corporate blog of the company. At the moment incident is investigated by experts Adobe.

Gmail the Chinese legal experts

The message on an attack on network Adobe has followed in some hours after the message in official blog Google about the Chinese attack. According to corporation, to attack has undergone not only Google, but also at least other 20 large companies (on other sources — more than 30). As the Overall objective of these attacks Google considers access reception to accounting records Gmail of leading Chinese legal experts. Experts of corporation also underline, that malefactors have not reached the purpose.

According to experts of division on network safety iDefense companies VeriSign, for attack hackers used vulnerability in Adobe Reader. About hole existence in the popular program for reading of documents in format PDF Adobe warned still on December, 15th. During same time there was an attack on which corporation Google today has informed.

PDF vulnerability

The dangerous code thanks to which the malefactor could receive the control over the computer of a victim, extended by means of the electronic letter with a PDF-file. Vulnerability was present at all versions Adobe Reader and Acrobat up to 9.2.

Despite lacking direct charges to Beijing in message Google, scandal already left on the international level. Under last message AFP, US State Secretary Hillari Clinton has demanded from the Chinese authorities of explanations.

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