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A lot of website security awareness has been raised over the last week since the release of a simple-to-use website user account hijacking tool called FireSheep.  The tool gives attackers temporary full access to your web accounts like Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft Hotmail.

Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network.

Iran's nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites throughout the country and is capable of taking over power plants, Iranian media reports said.

With Google search over SSL, you can have an end-to-end encrypted search solution between your computer and Google. This secured channel helps protect your search terms and your search results pages from being intercepted by a third party. This provides you with a more secure and private search experience.

An HTML5 app is a mobile web application built to run over multiple platforms, from one single core application. HTML5 apps can leverage the power and flexibility of modern web browsers to create mobile web applications that are fast, powerful and run on multiple devices.

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to create images, animations, and interactions. Initially developed to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing also has evolved into a tool for generating finished professional work. Today, there are tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists who use Processing for learning, prototyping, and production. » Free to download and open source » Interactive programs using 2D, 3D or PDF output » OpenGL integration for accelerated 3D » For GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows » Projects run online or as double-clickable applications » Over 100 libraries extend the software into sound, video, computer vision, and more... » Well documented, with many books available

The next time you visit a cafe to sip coffee and surf on some free Wi-Fi, try an experiment: Log in to some of your usual sites. Then, with a smile, hand the keyboard over to a stranger. Now walk away for 20 minutes. Remember to pick up your laptop before you leave.

In this article I want to help kick start your own development on the App Store, and I hope it's encouraging for you that I myself went from having zero apps to having 20 approved and on sale in the space of just over a year and a half. I haven't made enough money from them to retire, but they do provide a regular income - and it's an income that's only going to grow as Apple sells more hardware.

Since it never hurts to learn something new, especially a skill set like computer programming in different languages, we will go over some of the best channels that will introduce you to the world of programming. Let's look at which channels made the cut.

"This comprehensive primer on the internal operations of WebKit and Gecko is the result of much research done by Israeli developer Tali Garsiel. Over a few years, she reviewed all the published data about browser internals (see Resources) and spent a lot of time reading web browser source code."

Google Code-in, Google's contest to introduce pre-university students (age 13-18) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible, concluded on January 10, 2011. We had 361 students from 48 countries complete over 2,000 tasks during the 7 week contest.

You can easily transfer files between Macs through USB drive or a conventional file-sharing services via network connections. Also, these days' synchronization services like BitTorrent Sync, Dropbox, and Google Drive are highly used. Nowadays, you can use Mac Screen Sharing services to transfer files.

The release of Windows 8.1 is going to overpower Windows 8 very soon. The fundamental problem faced by every user with Windows 8 is that the modern interface of the Start screen works best on a Tablet instead on a PC. Also, there are other problems related to screen is available with Windows 8. Thus, the entry of Windows 8.1 overcomes the problems of Windows 8. Here in this tutorial, let's discuss about Windows 8.1.

Schmidt criticises division between science and arts and says UK 'should look back to glory days of Victorian era'