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Submission + - lockheed martin hacked (msn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lockheed Martin Corp., the U.S. government's top information technology provider, said on Saturday that it detected and thwarted "a significant and tenacious attack" on its information systems network one week ago.
"As a result of the swift and deliberate actions taken to protect the network and increase IT security, our systems remain secure," Jennifer Whitlow, a Lockheed spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. "No customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised."

Submission + - Makerere to host Microsoft innovation centre (razor.ug)

Submitted by nadd11
nadd11 writes: The Razor writes
"Makerere University Kampala, Uganda could be heading to regain its glory as a continental institute for academic excellence and research as Microsoft is set to establish an innovation centre at Makerere University's College of Computing and Information Sciences come July 2011".
Chrome

Submission + - Google advertises Chrome on TV (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by doperative
doperative writes: Google continues an emotional TV advertising campaign that uses strong messages and increasingly star power to get more people using Chrome. The obvious target is Microsoft, but we do anticipate Mozilla's Firefox to be an 'acccepted' casualty in this campaign
Security

Submission + - Inside a Malicious PDF Attack (threatpost.com)

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: PDFs have become a favorite attack vector for the bad guys, especially in targeted attacks against large enterprises. And with the number of easily exploitable vulnerabilities in PDF Reader and other desktop apps, it's not difficult for the bad guys to get malicious code onto users' machines.
Threatpost has a detailed analysis of the inner workings of a malicious PDF attack, showing exactly how the various components of the attack work and how many moving parts there.
Transportation

Submission + - Partial Panel Panic

Submitted by countertrolling
countertrolling writes: A normal part of every pilot's training consists of 'flying under the hood', where a hood that looks like a way oversized ball cap is placed on your head so that all you can see is the instrument panel. And during this phase, the instructor will cover up some of the instruments to simulate their failure.. However, under actual conditions, all this training seems for naught in the resulting loss of situational awareness, one of the single biggest causes of incidences of every kind, not just in the cockpit. So here we have the preliminary findings of Air France 447.. If this is true, I would consider it a major failure of the training process itself. It's time to make these guys sweat a little bit more in the simulators to burn this into their heads in a more permanent fashion, until they can learn how to fly with only the magnetic compass and a pencil hanging from the ceiling... and keep it together when the stewardess reports that the coffee maker is broken
Apple

Submission + - You have malware on your Mac what next? (zdnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: So, what happens when your Mac gets a dose of malware and you phone up Apple tech support?

Contrary to some reports and leaked documents which suggest that Apple isn't helpful, ZDNet's Hardware 2.0 found Apple to very helpful.

"While on the face of it Apple’s internal guidelines might seem harsh, in reality the steps offered up are more than adequate and would get the problem solved. Also, Mac owners would be protected from future malware, whereas just helping them remove Mac Defender would leave them open to future problems."
Education

Submission + - The Spin of a Star Reveals Its Age (harvard.edu)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Some new soon-to-be-published research on gyrochronology has yielded a possible method for more accurately determining a star's age. While determining the age of stars in clusters has been done using the patterns of its color and brightness, singular stars are much more difficult. By comparing established age information from clusters and analyzing the spin of stars, the researchers have established a defined relationship between color (mass), spin and age giving them the beginning to a guide of "stellar clocks." This was accomplished after four painstaking years of collecting data from 71 single dwarf members of the open cluster NGC6811 and establishing a model using data from Kepler.

Submission + - Duke Nukem gone Gold! (neowin.net) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Duke Nukem has finally gone gold!

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