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<title><![CDATA[LulzSec hackers--just having a laugh]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 07:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[LulzSec defaced the Web site of a consulting firm that offers a reward for hacking the site and posted this image. (Credit:LulzSec)At first glance it appeared that the Web site of the LulzSec hacker group had been seized by the feds. But it turned out to be just another prank, the latest in a series of &quot;lulz&quot; that hackers do when they are not taunting Sony, FBI partners, and others. Despite the official looking Justice and Homeland Security department symbols and notice saying &quot;this domain name has been seized by ICE (Immigrations and Customs Enforcement) - Homeland Security Investigations,&quot; the page was a hoax. A search of Whois showed that the domain &quot;www.lulzsecurity.org&quot; was registered early today. In addition, the site the hacking group has been using to promote its activities--www.lulzsecurity.com--remained up.  &quot;ICE has not taken any enforcement action against this site,&quot; a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said in an e-mail to CNET. &quot;The site owner/administration redirected www.lulzsecurity.org to our name server, where the seizure banner is hosted.&quot; It's unclear who was behind the hoax--LulzSec members themselves or supporters trying to fool people, or others wanting to make the group look bad. Either way, the prank represents the spirit of lulz, which is a derivation of the acronym for Laugh Out Loud (LOL). The group's actions are seen by some security experts as a revival of old-school hacking that was motivated out of a sense of fun rather than profit. LulzSec's mascot is a cartoon of a monacled man in top hat and tie with a handlebar mustache holding a glass of wine, evoking a character of leisure and decadence. The group has an ASCII cartoon graphic on its site of a boat and the site plays an audio clip of the theme from &quot;The Love Boat&quot; TV show from the 1970s and 1980s. A link to &quot;mute&quot; the song actually turns the volume up instead.  &quot;We're LulzSec, a small team of lulzy individuals who feel the drabness of the cybercommunity is a burden on what matters: fun,&quot; the introduction on their site says. &quot;Considering fun is now restricted to Friday, where we look forward to the weekend, weekend, we have now taken it upon ourselves to spread fun, fun, fun, throughout the entire calendar year.&quot; And fun it seems to be having, at others' expense. Earlier this week it reportedly hacked into the Web site of the Conservative Party in Canada and posted a fake story with the headline: &quot;Prime Minister Rushed to Hospital After Breakfast Incident.&quot; The news was then distributed by several Conservative MPs whose Twitter accounts automatically retweet headlines from the party's Web site, according to TorontoLife.com.  LulzSec gets a kick out of posting fake &quot;news.&quot; Last week, LulzSec hacked PBS.org, leaked passwords, and pasted a spoof news article on the site claiming that deceased rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls were alive and residing in New Zealand. LulzSec said they were punishing PBS for a Frontline program on WikiLeaks that the group claimed was biased against the whistleblower site.  And earlier today, LulzSec released an e-mail it said it had sent to the National Health Services in the UK warning them about a security hole in their network, but did not post the information publicly.  &quot;We're a somewhat known band of pirate-ninjas,&quot; the e-mail said. &quot;Some time ago, we were traversing the Internets for signs of enemy fleets. While you aren't considered an enemy--your work is of course brilliant--we did stumble upon several of your admin passwords, which are as follows:...&quot; The data that followed was blacked out and the e-mail said: &quot;We mean you no harm and only want to help you fix your tech issues.&quot;  A Department of Health spokesperson told the BBC that no patient data was compromised and the issue affected only a &quot;small number&quot; of Web site administrators. Heroes to some The NHS action elicited praise from many LulzSec followers on Twitter, who already admire the group for its attacks that highlight poor security on sites of big companies, like Sony, Nintendo, and FBI affiliate Infragard Atlanta. &quot;I'm officially in love with @LulzSec,&quot; wrote one person. Others are calling them heroes.  The group has 120,000 followers on Twitter, more than double the amount of Sony Music Global. And it claims to have received more than $7,000 in donations, most of it from one generous supporter, via the BitCoins virtual currency that is designed to be untraceable (and has attracted the attention of Congress.)  LulzSec first cropped up in early May, with a hack on Fox's X Factor site that exposed contestants' personal information and other internal Fox data. Then, LulzSec joined other hackers in targeting Sony with a vengeance. The group says it was responsible for attacks on Sony Music Japan, Sony Pictures, Sony BMG Belgium and Netherlands, Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network (allegedly stole source code) and Sony BMG, according to a timeline on Attrition.org.  The current attacks on Sony started after the company took aPlayStation 3 hacker to court and was punished with a denial-of-service attack by the Anonymous group. Shortly thereafter there was a breach on Sony's PlayStation Network and Sony Entertainment Online sites that exposed millions of records containing e-mail addresses and other information of customers. No one has claimed credit for those breaches. So far, there have been about 20 attacks on Sony sites in recent months.  LulzSec claims to be motivated by the sheer fun of causing trouble. But the data it exposes could be used to target the people whose information has been revealed with phishing, identity fraud, and other types of attacks.  The group also seems to delight in embarrassing security firms. The group defaced the home page of Black &amp; Berg Cybersecurity Consulting, which offers $10,000 to whoever can modify the site's home page. (LulzSec obviously declined the reward.) Another hacking victim from the attack on FBI partner Infragard, the CEO of Unveillance, claims the hackers tried to extort money and data from him in exchange for not going public with his personal information.  &quot;They are causing some harm, of course, but they probably have the ability to create more harm,&quot; said Kevin Mitnick, who spent time in jail for hacking and now runs his own security consulting business.  &quot;They're a bit out of control because they're hitting FBI partners,&quot; he said. &quot;That takes a lot of balls. The group must feel pretty invincible.&quot; <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google begins tablet version of Chrome OS]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 07:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>svetalawo</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[A Google mock-up from last year of a Chrome OS tablet is coming to fruition.(Credit:Google)Details in Google's source code reveal that company programmers have begun building atablet version of Chrome OS, its browser-based operating system.The work isn't a surprise, given that Google created mock-ups of a Chrome OS tablet more than a year ago. But it does indicate that a tablet incarnation of Google's Web-app operating system is a near-term priority, not just an idea.Google acknowledged the tablet version of Chrome OS but wouldn't discuss details such as when the project's first version will be done. &quot;We are engaging in early open-source work for the tablet form factor, but we have nothing new to announce at this time,&quot; the company said in a statement.Chrome OS tablets, though, are not first on the list, the company said: &quot;Chrome OS was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of form factors. We expect to see different partners build different kinds of devices based on Chrome OS, but for this initial release we are targeting the notebook form factor.&quot;Chrome OS has been evolving since Google announced it in 2009. Initially it was aimed at Netbooks, the small, low-end laptops. But the first incarnation of Chrome OS--a pilot release intended for developers and testers rather than ordinary customers--arrived in a more polished laptop package called the Cr-48.A tablet version of Chrome OS, though, raises a big question about Google's strategy, because the company's tablet version of the Android operating system, Honeycomb, is just now arriving on the market with Motorola's Xoom and other products designed to compete with the leader of the tablet market,Apple's iPad.For use in a tablet version of Chrome OS, Google&amp;39's browser is getting virtual keys, including this design for a return key, for a screen keyboard.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)Signs of Chrome OS for tabletsA number of changes in Chrome and Chrome OS source code that arrived in March and April reveal the tablet work. Among them:&amp;149' The &quot;user-agent string&quot; text that browsers supply so Web servers can deliver the appropriate version of a Web site--for touch user interfaces. The string includes the term &quot;CrOS Touch,&quot; not just CrOS as before.&quot;This lets Web sites that are already customizing for tablet experiences easily adapt to support tablet ChromeOS devices,&quot; the programming change log notes.&amp;149' A &quot;virtual keyboard&quot; with a number of keys--tab, delete, microphone, return, and shift, for example--drawn in SVG so they can be shown by a browser. Screen keyboards are, of course, a necessity with tablets.&amp;149' A variety of moves to make the browser more touch-friendly, for example by increasing the space around items to make it easier to select them with a touch interface.&amp;149' A revamped new-tab page (which people see when they open a new, blank tab) that's &quot;optimized for touch.&quot; The current page shows an array of Web applications downloaded from the Chrome Web Store, but the modified version adds multiple screens of icons in the style of iOS devices.The orientation of the new-tab page, but not its size, will change when the device is rotated, according to the new-tab page's coding annotations. &quot;Note that this means apps will be reflowed when rotated (like iPad),&quot; the annotation said.The CSS code for the new-tab page also indicates that programmers would like to be able to move icons around the page, preferably with animation.Chrome&amp;39's new-tab page, shown here in Chrome&amp;39's Canary version with the experimental version enabled through about:flags, is being redone to make it more like an iPad in both presentation and suitability to the touch-screen user interface coming to Chrome OS. The three rectangles at the bottom select between multiple screens of apps that slide by, though at this stage the second and third pages are blank and the text at the bottom of the page is only a placeholder.(Credit:screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)Pick a tablet, any tabletSo with Android and Chrome OS tablet software under development, what's Google's top tablet priorityClearly, the answer today is Android. It's at the forefront of Google's mobile strategy and is a commercial success, at least in phones. Tens of thousands of Android applications are available today, and even Google rivals such as Yahoo and Microsoft are offering software.Chrome OS, by comparison, is immature and conceptually a greater leap from prevailing software development patterns. That's because Chrome OS solely runs apps on the browser, not on its underlying Linux operating system embedded under the covers.Related links&amp;149' Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas&amp;149' Rumor: Chrome OS tablet coming in November&amp;149' Google plans Chrome-based Web operating system&amp;149' Google Cr-48 Chrome hardware pilot program: 'Not for the faint of heart'There are abundant Web sites and Web apps that Chrome OS users can use today, of course, and some, like Google's Gmail site optimized for Apple's iPad, are designed with a touch user interface already. But the tools for building advanced, interactive, high-performance Web apps today just don't match what's possible with apps that run natively on a mobile device or computer, and most people today aren't ready to live solely in the cloud.Timing also isn't on Chrome OS's side. The project had been set to launch in 2010, but has been delayed to midway through this year, though the Chrome Web Store used to bookmark and purchase Web apps is live.Google can let both tablet projects duke it out internally and in the market. Or, if Google co-founder Sergey Brin is to believed, Android and Chrome OS might merge into a single project.It's not a simple matter of some internal Darwinian process within Google to let the be best product survive, though. That's because there are external parties involved: hardware partners, developers, retailers, and customers.Each of these groups must be won over, persuaded that the new ecosystem is worth their investment of time and money.Google's modus operandi--release early and iterate often--is a lot harder to pull off when others are involved. Web applications and native Android applications are by no means mutually exclusive, but developers with finite resources can't be blamed for trying to figure out where to place their bets.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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