FaceBook has officially opened their first office in Hyderabad, also known as Cyberabad, India this week. As one of the largest social networks on the web, the office finds itself in the same city where other major technology companies also have their base of operations like Google, Alcatel Lucent, Amazon, HP, Dell, IBM, Motorola, Oracle and Deloitte.
The new offices come at a significant time in Facebook’s international growth. Seventy percent of people using Facebook are from outside the United States and are accessing the service from more than 70 different languages. In India alone, Facebook has seen a rapid growth over the last few months and now have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook regularly with their friends, family, and other people they know, both within India and around the world.
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It is a good initiative taken by Karnataka Government CID takes social networking to splash crime news and by this way they believe that the people can be helped.
The Karnataka Criminal Investigative Department (CID) has followed the Delhi traffic police into the world of internet by creating accounts on the popular social networking site, Facebook and the microblogging site, Twitter.
Noting the importance of the social media, the CID of Karnataka state police decided to log on to the two of the most popular websites to encourage public participation.
The sleuth have opened up accounts in both Facebook and Twitter under the username ‘DGP CID Karnataka’.
In a statement issued on Monday, Jun 7, CID said that law enforcement agencies can gain a lot by joining social media which can help them solve various types of crimes, that occur in the community.
“I had a lot of interaction with the IT and ITeS industry captains during the past few months, and they told me that working in isolation will not help premier investigating agencies like ours in getting maximum inputs on crimes and criminals,” said Dr DV Guruprasad, Director General of Police.
“While we can warn people about the crime trends, we are hopeful to get inputs from public on the same subject,” he added.
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There’s no doubt high-end mobile devices like the iPhone, Palm Pre or Android-powered phones will continue to increase in popularity in the years to come. With these smartphones boasting full HTML browsers, it’s only natural for Google to pitch its omnipresent AdSense product to mobile publishers in the same way they’ve been promoting AdSense for regular website monetization for years.
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A triple-payload e-mail attack that uses a fake shipping confirmation notice with a supposed attached label is making the rounds.A write-up from the company describes a social engineering ruse designed to nail someone who wasn’t paying close attention, with a .zip file attachment that contains an executable disguised with an Excel file icon. The text of the e-mail tells the recipient to open the attachment to print a shipping label (one big clue that this is a scam).
The Default Windows behavior to show file extensions can help thwart the common trick of using a fake document icon to disguise an executable file, assuming that the attached file made it through your anti-spam and antivirus programs. You’d have the chance to see that the supposed Excel file ended in .exe.
In XP, as Brandt describes, change that by opening Explorer, clicking Tools up top, and then unchecking “Hide extensions for known file types.” In Vista, start with Organize, then choose Folder and Search options. For either Vista or XP, be sure to click the “Apply to Folders” button to apply the change to all folder, not just the one you’re looking at.
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