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Friday, October 10, 2014

Hackers Gather for Cyberwar in an Intense 48-Hour Sim



Locked Shields is in only its third year, but quickly established itself as the prime multinational cyber war-games event. The quality of competitors is high including, Locatelli says, the team that uncovered the Heartbleed virus. Luca Locatelli
Locked Shields is among the world’s preeminent cyber attack simulations. For two days, international teams of hackers and system admins play both sides of a war game, simultaneously attacking and defending critical infrastructure. The details are realistic, and the exercises reflect real-world geopolitics. It is a training ground for front-line operators in a rapidly evolving form of warfare in which network administrators at banks, electrical plants and government offices are as crucial to a country’s defense as uniformed troops.

Corel Painter 2015 review



 Digital art studio improves on its best features

At a Glance
Price:$429.00
It's not a revolutionary update for the world's leading natural-media painting application, but key improvements keep Painter 2015 at the top of its class.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

NETFLIX COMES TO LINUX VIA UBUNTU INCLUDING TUTORIALS ON HOW TO USE IT

Finally LINUX users can breathe a sigh of relief as they no longer have to go through the stress of workarounds before enjoying the popular video on demand service NETFLIX  thanks to cooperations between Canonical(publishers of LINUX) and NETFLIX resulting in encrypted media extensions which is a necessity for streaming from NETFLIX. rather they can access it directly through GOOGLE CHROME to stream instead of having to edit the user agent string to con NETFLIX into believibg the browser is INTERNET EXPLORER and also using WINE (a popular WINDOWS simulator)

WINDOWS 10

Microsoft has recently released a new version of its operating system (OS)  which surprisingly was not the Windows 9 everyone was expecting including me as they skipped to Windows 10.This latest version would run on  devices such as smartphones,tablets,PC's(personal computers) and XBOX game consoles with applications for it sold from a single app store.The START menu which has been absent from the WINDOWS 8 interface also makes a return in apparent attempt by MICROSOFT  to bring users more familiar with WINDOWS 7,VISTA and XP on board to upgrade to WINDOWS 10. 

Sunday, October 5, 2014