It is available for any vendors or companies that want to migrate and improve their proprietary telecommunication network or central office application server to open standard one. Introducing, Kontron Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC, or PICMG AdvancedMC) Modules and Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture Boards (ATCA).

AMC (AdvancedMC) is the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group’s specification (PICMG AMC.0, AMC.1, AMC.2, AMC.3 and AMC.4 respectively) for hot-swappable FRUs (field replaceable units) and field-replaceable mezzanine cards, enabling them to be replaced individually in the field. It is more attractive by enhancing its scalability, flexibility, and upgradeability. By combining a general-purpose AdvancedTCA board with application-specific AdvancedMC modules, designers can create versatile telecom blades whose functionality and capacity can be upgraded without replacing the entire blade. more…

According to MessageLabs, virus writers are likely to increase the tension of the malware in the next year in order to accelerate business botnet from the year 2008. MessageLabs predicted that hackers will release a new malware attack, such as virtualization layer that runs directly on the hardware and will not be found by the operating system.

“System operation will not know where the malware is located. The main problem is how to delete them, because malware is in the low-level, and can damage the system. Cyber Criminal will concentrate on computer infection with malware that hides in the task that is done by user. For example, when the malware knows that deliver spam that has been blocked the author of the malware will send DoS Denial-of-Service) in it. more…

The manufacturer of electronic products from Japan, Sony Electronics, has won a patent from the European Commission to buy ownership rights from music recording company, Sony BMG. Sony has agreed to buy the shares Bertelsmann, a unit of Sony BMG, around 50 percent in a joint venture worth 900 million USD. Sony said that Bertelsmann will also get cash $300 million from financial Sony BMG, with total deal about USD 1.2 billion.
Sony, which has joined with Sony BMG, estimated the company will become the second largest new music after Vivendi, Unit Universal, with the name of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SMEI), all rights of ownership will be held by Sony Corporation of America. more…

Joomla application is often used as a content management system at various sites, which are known to have enough critical vaunerability. Government sites especially, need to be cautious of this vulnerability.

The bug that allows irresponsible parties access the site administrator based Joomla. Not only access, the administrator password that is used can be changed.
And so, information on how to exploit this weakness has been spread on the internet. Thus, many irresponsible parties can easily use exploit it with the provision information search engine such as Google or yahoo. Some references said the weakness lies in the Joomla version 1.5. Specifically, the files used to reset (reset) password. more…

When surfing to websites that are secure, different domain has different security. McAfee Inc. antivirus, anti-virus software vendor, says that companies have the address listed on the website seems to have undergone security crisis when a company as owner of an address registered in a particular domain. McAfee found that there are some domains that are considered dangerous to navigation users, such as, “.hk” (Hong Kong), “.cn” (China), and “.info” (information). more…