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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To partners Google in China have reminded about censorship

The Chinese government has informed partners Google the prevention of necessity to carry out censorship, writes The New York Times referring to anonymous sources. Officials have asked to prepare these companies the spare plan for a case of refusal Google from censorship of search inquiries. What exactly means under the spare plan, the edition does not specify.

The Chinese impasse

According to The Financial Times, Google has practically definitively decided to close the search business in China. As has told to the newspaper the anonymous source close to Google, negotiations of the company with the Chinese government were at a deadlock. Thus Google would like to keep presence at the country and to continue business development in other directions. In particular, the company is interested in preservation of the research centre which settles down in Beijing, and the agency which are engaged in sale of advertising in the Chinese language on site Google.com.

The Chinese threat

Relations between Google and the Chinese government have become aggravated in January, 2010. Then Google has informed on planned refusal of censorship of Chinese version Google.cn in reply to hacker attack to the corporate network. According to representatives Google, attack was conducted from China, and personal data of the Chinese legal experts which use post service Google Mail were the purpose of malefactors.

According to analytical company Analysys, on share Google 36% of profit of all search business in China are necessary. For comparison, the share Chinese Baidu makes 58%. The Internet audience in the country exceeds 330 million persons.

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Burglars have cracked networks more than 100 companies

The purposes of the hackers who have cracked in December, 2009 computer systems Google, were over hundred companies, informs IDG News referring to an estimation of analysts of the company iSec Partners, specialising on IT safety.

The planned hacker attack

Researchers have found out 68 servers belonging to hackers, allowing to operate the infected computers. The analysis of all of one of them has found out penetration into networks of 34 companies.

Breaking Google which has been carried out through vulnerability "Aurora" in browser Internet Explorer, has taken place in the middle of December, 2009. Later it was found out, that to breaking also have undergone Intel, Adobe, Symantec and a number of other large companies.

The Chinese indirect participation

According to the analysts, the corresponding harmful program has been created in China. Having promulgated this information, Google at which hackers have stolen some objects of intellectual property, has threatened to refuse censorship of results of the Chinese search and to leave from the local market.

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Intel has suffered from attack of hackers

In January, 2010 corporate net Intel has undergone to scale hacker attack. The information on it is published in the annual report submitted Intel in SEC, writes CNet News.

The intellectual property has not suffered

Intel has not informed on attack publicly, however the representative of the company has confirmed the information containing in the report. Intel has not informed attack details, having noticed, that the company intellectual property in hands of hackers has not got.

In the report it is noticed, that Intel, as well as other leading computer companies, regularly is exposed to hacker attacks. The purpose of intrusions usually is industrial espionage or aspiration to destabilise work of a corporate network.

Attack, by recognition Intel, was thought over and there was approximately at the same time, as a breaking of corporate net Google. However Intel does not consider, that the given attacks are connected with each other.

Attack on Google

Representatives Google declared earlier, that have undergone to intrusion of hackers along with 20 other large companies. Attack on Google started with China, and hackers searched for the information on post accounts of the Chinese legal experts. Soon after promulgation of the information on breaking of network Google has informed, that will stop to carry out censorship of the Chinese segment of the Internet.

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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Mr. Bin has changed the Spanish prime minister

Because of vulnerability in system of safety of the site devoted to the Spanish presidency in the European Union, on Monday on the governmental site there was a photo of the comic character of Mr. Bin, informs Agence France-Presse.

Rowan Atkinson welcomes you!

Mr. Bin which role is executed 20 years by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, welcomed visitors of the main page the well-known smile and a word "greetings". After the message on breaking many users have decided to be convinced of substitution by own eyes in this connection in the evening on Monday the site eu2010.es practically was not accessible.

It was a script...

Meanwhile the representative of the Spanish government has underlined, that the site has not been cracked, as inform the Spanish mass-media. Unknown jokers have really changed the image of the main page for a physiognomy of the British comedian, but it was not reflected in safety of the information.

Jokes concerning similarity of the prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodrigesa Zapatero and Mr. Bin are not new, reports. This comparison is especially popular in opponents of the politician-socialist. Let's remind, Spain which already became at the head of the European Union four times, will preside in EU till July, 2010.