Microsoft's Comes with "Cookiejacking" - Technology

A computer security researcher has found a flaw in Microsoft Corp's widely used Internet Explorer browser that he said could let hackers steal credentials to access Facebook, Twitter and other websites.He calls the technique "cookiejacking."

"Any website. Any cookie. Limit is just your imagination," said Rosario Valotta, an independent Internet security researcher based in Italy.Hackers can exploit the flaw to access a data file stored inside the browser known as a "cookie," which holds the login name and password to a Web account, Valotta said via email
Once a hacker has that cookie, he or she can use it to access the same site, said Valotta, who calls the technique "cookiejacking."

The vulnerability affects all versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 9, on every version of the Windows operating system(Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)

To exploit the flaw, the hacker must persuade the victim to drag and drop an object across the PC's screen before the cookie can be hijacked.

That sounds like a difficult task, but Valotta said he was able to do it fairly easily. He built a puzzle that he put up on Facebook in which users are challenged to "undress" a photo of an attractive woman.

"I published this game online on Facebook and in less than three days, more than 80 cookies were sent to my server," he said. "And I've only got 150 friends."
Microsoft said there is little risk a hacker could succeed in a real-world cookiejacking scam.

Top 5 android mobiles in India

1) Samsung Galaxy S II (I9100)

2) HTC Incredible S

3) Google Nexus S

4) LG Optimus 2x (P990)

5) Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Nokia a member of Dual-SIM mobile club

Nokia has forayed into the dual-SIM mobile phones market that is mostly flooded with handsets made locally and imported from China.

“Yes, we are a late in the dual-SIM mobile but we can achive the leadership quicky by providing the mobiles with affordable prices,” Mr Prakash Katama, Director, Chennai Factory, Nokia India, he told newspersons on the launch of its ‘Made in India'' dual SIM phones.

The need for dual SIM mobiles has been a long-felt demand of consumers as one can be used for data and service while the other for voice and SMS. Both the devices come with services such as Nokia Life Tools that provide consumers a wide range of information covering healthcare, agriculture, education and entertainment. Nokia X1-01 comes with Nokia Money to offer financial independence to entry consumers.

Quoting the research firm IDC, Mr Katama said dual SIM constitutes nearly 40 per cent of the mobile market – India has around 160 million mobile handsets.

“Bundling of SIM cards with mobile handsets at an entry price starting from Rs 500 and upwards, and the affordable lifetime connection plans caused a surge in new mobile connections,” said Mr Naveen Mishra, Lead India Telecoms Analyst at CyberMedia Research, recently.

More than a third of handsets sold in the country during the quarter ended December 31, 2010 were a dual- or triple-SIM slot phone as compared to less than one in hundred multi-SIM mobile phone sales in the quarter ended March 31, 2009, he said.

Google Acquires Post Rank

Last week social engagement data startup PostRank announced it had been acquired by Google. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PostRank was launched in 2007 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Staff`s of Postrank will be soon moving to San Fransisco to join with their workers of Google.

Last year, PostRank Analytics added Activity Streams, which the company called “a FriendFeed for content.”The analytics service itself launched the year before as a way to track data on a large number of social media platforms, including Twitter, Digg, Delicious and more.

PostRank CEO and founder Ilya Grigorik wrote today on their startup’s blog, “We are extremely excited to join Google. We believe there is simply no better company on the web today that both understands the value of the engagement data we have been focusing on, and has the platform and reach to bring its benefits to the untold millions of daily, active Internet users.”

He added that,more details on PostRank’s progress within Google will be coming up in a few months.

we have been hacked-Says Sony pictures

Sony Pictures Entertainment confirmed Friday evening that some of its websites were hacked and it was working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to identify the hackers.

Sony Pictures, a unit of Sony, said it had begun an investigation about the attackers.

On Thursday, a hacker group calling itself LulzSec said it broke into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites.

The breach is the latest of several security breaches undermining confidence in the company

Apple to use Infrared Sensors..!!

Apple iphone is currently working on it`s new technology,which include the iPhones, the iPod Touch and iPad 2 will include invisible infrared sensors integrated into mobile iOS devices which come with a built-in camera. The system would be principally functioning on the system of sensors, wherein the sensor on one mobile device will be used to look for another signal which would instruct the user if it O.K to click and image, or record a video of the concert, or any other private gathering. If found to be illegal to do so, the camera would be automatically disabled.

The success of this technology would end the woes of the recording industry, which stems from the fact that there hasn’t been any significant move towards curbing illegal photography, or video recording yet.