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New Release for Opera Web Browser
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Browser, News on August 26, 2009
Opera Software Company has released the Opera 10 web browser candidate version, the full version of this release will be ready by the 1st of September 2009.
Compared to the recent one the tenth version has a significant new interface design with 40% improvement in the navigation speed.
Among the changes a new visual tabs and sleek design created by a well-known designer Jon Hicks who have made the whole new look for Opera 10, Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections this feature is very interesting it can provides significant improvements in browsing speeds over limited-bandwidth connections like a crowded Wi-Fi in a cafe or browsing through your mobile phone while commuting, Speed Dial this can be find in all major browsers it helps in adding favorite Web sites for quick access every time you open a new tab, Resizable search field in which you can make by default your favorite search engine and of course 40% faster engine and cutting-edge Web standards support this helps much faster on resource-intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook.
Opera turbo technology is a good for faster navigation but it can reduce the graphical quality of the webpage this was first used in opera mini to compress traffic and Internet usage. however for the first time opera integrates the spellchecker this was found for a long time on Firefox.
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2009 ITU Regional Cybersecurity Forum for Africa and Arab States
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Cybersecurity event on May 6, 2009
A new international event will be held soon in Tunisia that is broadly related to computer security and information infrastructure protection it is the 2009 ITU Regional Cybersecurity Forum for Africa and Arab States.
This cybersecurity meeting offers the opportunity to discuss, network and share the latest technologies and best practices to respond to modern Cyber Security threats.
“Connecting the World Responsibly” is the name chosen for this forum and from this phrase we can understand that trust and cooperation are the best weapons for protecting cyberspace today and in the future.
You can find more details about this forum here.
This is a meeting not to be missed!
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RSA Conference 2009 Webcasts
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Webcasts on April 26, 2009
The RSA Conference team has made the Keynote Videos available from the RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco the Largest gathering for security professional in the world.
Very interesting innovation technologies has been discussed (cloud computing, cyber security, crypto systems…) also you can find the spectacular opening ceremony .
So to who was not able to attend you didn’t miss much.Share and Enjoy!
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Full disk encryption comes to SSDs for mobile devices, laptops
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News on April 21, 2009
Samsung Electronics Co. announced today it is shipping its first self-encrypting solid-state disk (SSD) drives. The drives will come in 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. sizes for handheld devices and laptops, respectively.
In tandem with Samsung’s announcement, Dell Inc. promptly introduced a suite of mobile data security technologies for its Latitude line of laptops, with native drive encryption expected to be available in the next few months.
“The drive, which is designed to deliver some of the fastest encrypted storage available, offers customers eight and a half times the shock tolerance versus standard notebook hard drives,” Dell said in a statement.
Full disk encryption (FDE) is already a standard feature on some desktop and laptop hard disk drives, including Seagate’s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 laptop drive. Samsung claims its SSD is the first to come with FDE.
[Source: Computer world]
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Sniffing Out Illicit BitTorrent Files
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in News on February 17, 2009
A new tool promises to detect illegal files without slowing network traffic.
A new technique has been developed for detecting and tracking illegal content transferred using the BitTorrent file-trading protocol. According to its creators, the approach can monitor networks without interrupting the flow of data and provides investigators with hard evidence of illicit file transfers.
Contraband files might include pirated movies, music, or software. When the tool detects such a file, it keeps a record of the network addresses involved for later analysis, says Major Karl Schrader, who led the work at the Air Force Institute of Technology, in Kettering, OH.
The use of peer-to-peer (P2P) software and of the BitTorrent protocol in particular have increased steadily over recent years. In fact, for many Internet service providers (ISPs), the vast majority of Internet traffic now consists of P2P transfers.
On the other hand, tracking user traffic can be seen as invasion of privacy. and In some countries are prohibited by law.
Another difficulty to the successful implementation of the project may be the need to create a large amount of hashes relevant to detect the illicit transfer in real time. But all this is meaningless if the Bit Torrent-traffic between the peers will be encrypted. Currently 25% of the total amount of data transmitted over the protocol Bit Torrent is encrypted.
[Source: technologyreview]
US researchers develop cloud computing virus protection
Posted by Mourad Ben Lakhoua in Cloud Computing Security on January 17, 2009
Most PC owners nowadays know that it is not a good idea to connect a Windows computer to the Internet before you have installed current anti-virus software. But not even the best anti-virus program can catch every virus, and complete scans of an entire system take a lot of processor power and can bring already-sluggish computers to a halt.
Now, researchers at the University of Michigan say they have found a better way of protecting computers from contaminants. They have moved protection software from your local PC into the “data cloud” of the Internet, where the power of numerous servers can be clustered. This approach allows far more viruses to be detected than with stand-alone protection programs. In addition, overall performance was improved. Called Cloud AV, on average, the distributed software developed by the researchers trapped a total of 98 per cent of all the contaminants sent through the test, whereas desktop software only caught 83 per cent.
“We were worried because the detection rates of most popular anti-virus software frankly cover too small a range”, explains Farnam Jahanian, computer science professor at the University of Michigan. His idea was simple: if you could use anti-virus programs from different providers at the same time on a single PC, you would have greater security. The problem was that few PCs are powerful enough to do that. “But if we put the anti-virus function into the network, we can have multiple programs running at the same time.”
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