[Monitor Outbound DNS Connections]Johannes Ullrich, who is the CTO of the SANS Internet Storm Center, said recently on what appears to be a new rash of malware that attempts to directly threaten network services. Once a host has been infected, this trojan sets up a rogue DHCP server on the host machine. Because DHCP works on a broadcast mechanism in which the response supplied by the first server will be used by a querying client, it is possible for workstations renewing their DHCP lease to b... Read Full Story

[Dice.com Shows Drop in Tech Jobs]The U.S. has lost 5 million jobs in the past 16 months, and the unemployment rate has hit a 25 year high, reaching 8.5%. Nearly 320,000 tech jobs lost since August. While jobs are being shed at an unprecedented rate, job listings are also being affected, both in tech and general employment sectors.Tech jobs site Dice.com is reporting a 45% year over year drop in available technology jobs for March, continuing the drought of tech jobs in the economic downturn.... Read Full Story

[Twitter Won't Be Sold Even for $ 1 Billion Dollars]New update regarding Twitter/Google talk: Some Twitter insiders want the deal, but our sources say CEO Evan Williams wouldn’t sell even for $1 billion. “He may blink, but he wouldn’t do it,” said one source.Google may also be concerned with antitrust issues around any major search-related acquisition.Clearly there’s a lot of posturing going on, and quite possibly some dissent in the ranks at Twitter. The company is officially stating .“O... Read Full Story

[Government Site Gets Hacked][Site Hacked]: Gov TripA travel reservations Web site used by several federal agencies was hacked last week, and shunted unsuspecting users to a malicious domain, according to information Computerworld has obtained.The site, Govtrip.com, is currently unavailable to federal employees through their offices' intranet; the version accessible via the public Internet is also offline.Sometime before Feb. 11, hackers breached the site, then modified it to redirect use... Read Full Story

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[Twitter might be Acquired by Google]Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.Historically they have turned down $ 500 million offer by Facebook little while ago. Google would be paying in cash and/or publicly valued stock, which is equivalent to cash. So w... Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "Buy.com Weekly Deals". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and ... Read Full Story

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[Web Crawlers' Traffic Signal - Robots.txt]Web Crawlers are software programs that downloads and process information on the Internet by collecting links, visiting them and downloading the HTML source. Site owners can block particular or certain web crawlers from crawling their websites using a protocol defined in robots.txt file.Polite Web crawlers always respect boundaries set in the robots.txt file. Technically, a web crawler can ignore instructions specified in robots.txt however it i... Read Full Story

[Windows 7 - What Tech Gurus Say]The curtain has been raised (slightly) on the next installment of Microsoft's Windows operating system - Windows 7.Microsoft hope it will bring the internet, mobile phone and PC closer together. But reviews have so far been mixed, although reviewers have been limited to trying the (pre-beta version).The full version is expected to be capable of working with a touchscreen screen, navigating documents and the Web similar to Apple's iPhone. It is official... Read Full Story