KeyLemon adds an extra layer of security to your computer login process by making your webcam do all the heavy lifting. Instead of typing your password, KeyLemon 2.2 associates your face with profile, and then regularly checks to make sure that the person sitting in front of the computer matches the image attached to that profile. If it doesn't think they match, the computer takes a photo via the webcam and then automatically goes to hibernate.
Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tuesday, melding pieces of Facebook and Twitter into a new feature, Google Buzz.
Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network -- as well as pull in their activity on other sites like Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.
An Adobe product manager has apologized for allowing a potentially serious bug in Flash Player to remain unfixed for more than 16 months.
The admission, by Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash, came a week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs lambasted Adobe engineers as "lazy" and said when Macs crash, "more often than not it’s because of Flash." Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch struck back, insisting that at Adobe, "we don't ship Flash with any known crash bugs."
Facebook's re-written PHP to transform the dynamic language for fast performance on web-scale server farms without adding additional hardware.
The site's engineers have announced HipHop, which turns the popular and dynamic PHP code into highly optimized but static C++ and then compiles it using the GNU C++ compiler, g++. The change has been released to the community under the PHP license, and you can read more here.
Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch.
After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said last week that it had identified the problem and would soon deliver a fix. On Tuesday, it posted a message on its Nexus One news and updates page announcing that it had started delivering the software update.
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, explained that users of the social networking site are reacting to a mystery application that may or may not be spying on them.
Facebook users are passing around a message, warning each other about the application, called the 'Unnamed app', and unwittingly creating an opportunity for hackers.
There’s more than data flowing through your network: Your infrastructure is also likely kicking out a mass of data about that data.
Some network managers have a tough time corralling it all. That’s where NetFlow and sFlow analyzing software comes in.
Little-known Plixer International Inc., which this week released version 7.5 of its Scrutinizer analyzer, believes it has a better way to show what’s going on. It has added a circular graphical view of the top hosts to show which nodes are communicating with each other.
The administrators of the Tor anonymiser network are urging users to upgrade their software in the wake of a security breach. A total of three servers belonging to the network were compromised in an attack by unidentified hackers who proceeded to use the machines as a base to launch other attacks. The affected servers have since been "refurnished," according to the team.
Google has announced version 4.0 of its browser Chrome. Available for Windows only, it fixes 13 bugs and improves synchronization of extensions.
Google today added support for extensions and bookmark synchronization to the production version of Chrome for Windows. The new release also patched 13 security vulnerabilities in the browser, six of which Google ranked as "high" in its threat scoring system.
