Interpol said Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America.
The international police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.
Interior room design has become a style statement and also a requirement for modern homes for those who desire more. Interior designers render the model before we decide on building our dream homes. Creative and decorative ideas will keep your friends and yourself looking at the room for days, still they cant figure out what is making your living room so beautiful. Living room should be comfortable and spacey enough as its meant for relaxation as well as fun. Since it is the entry point of your home, creative living room designs will have a major impact on others about how they perceive you.
Advertising is the age-old medium which has been transformed via the Internet. Ads can be served on websites in different ways than TV or radio shows. Google AdSense is the most notable company, although there are plenty of alternatives to consider. Not to mention the growing popularity of in-video ads!
Print work can be very challenging and has a growing demand base. Designers are always on the edge following new trends to attract an audience. Poster designs are one such area where art and marketing can really shine through together.
In this inspirational gallery I’ve put together poster artwork featuring beautiful examples of typography. Lettering and fonts are some of the most important choices you can make in the world of print. I hope these examples will illustrate just how powerful typography can appear in product design. Additionally if you have suggestions or critiques feel free to share with us in the post discussion area.
Ever wondered what the difference between east coast designers and west coast designers?
How designers in New York or D.C. differ from their counterparts in LA or Seattle?
After all, we know all about the differences between east coast and west coast rap (and the rivalry that runs along with it).
But who knew there was the same kind of divide among designers?
At the moment, we would like to look at some creative ways you can create certain actions in your design work. We hope that this compilation will draw new ideas to inspire and improve the ordinary designs. Photoshop actions are meant to save loads of your valuable time that you can utilize in other tasks by simply applying multiple automated processes on several images just at one fell swoop. This way, you save loads of time as well as effort that will be required if you edit each and every image manually.
There’s no denying that many people, especially the younger generation, spend time on social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and more recently Pinterest. However, how much time on average do we spend on each site, and what does this reveal about the current status of social networking?
An infographic release based on research firm comScore Inc.’s study into the current social networking environment yielded some interesting results.
What does a common user experience when he comes across a 404 error page? Some people might think that they did something wrong, and the other could decide that your website is not working or even doesn’t exist anymore. Sometimes it may not be your fault that a visitor landed on error page and here 404 error page comes to resolve the misunderstandings. Usually, they are used to communicate with the users and help them understand what has happened and direct them back to the home page, but we cannot omit the creativeness of the web designers who try to make them look funny, interesting and enormously awesome. You are welcome to enjoy the collection of 404 Error Pages: 45 Funny Examples.
I'm excited.
Marvel just launched several of its most popular graphic novels in Apple's iBook store on iPad.
If you haven't experienced comics on the iPad or other tablet, you're definitely missing out.
Marvel and DC each have their own apps, but there are some great third-party comic book readers such as Comixology and Comic Zeal that you should try too.
The beautiful Windows 8 Consumer Preview is upon is, and although it's not the final version, it's getting close. This isn't just for developers—it's for you. So get downloading and start using Microsoft's amazing new beginning.
Are you already a Windows diehard? Or an Apple user, looking to see how the other half lives? Either way, we've got you covered like a thick flannel blanket. Made out of preview software.
Responsive web design become a very popular trend in 2011. It’s likely something we’ll see continuing well into 2012 as designers are beginning to support a myriad of mobile devices. Building layouts for the web can be tough, but inspiration is a huge factor.
I’d like to tell you about a powerful but elusive emotion that you can trigger to increase traffic, click-throughs, and conversions.
Used properly, it can entice your reader to give you their full attention and follow your call to action.
But there’s a catch.
Despite its intensity, this emotion is fickle. And it’s often mishandled in copywriting. Make a mistake and your reader’s interest can disappear with the smallest of distractions.
Any time you put together Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk and Scarlett Johansson as a female superhero in a movie, well you got my attention. The Avengers just released its latest trailer and it shows even more explosions and awesomeness.
Motorola created a bit of a stir yesterday when it released a video compared Android's Voice Actions on the Atrix 2 with iOS's Siri on an iPhone 4S. Fanboys screamed foul in the comments, so we decided to test it out for ourselves. And yes, there's a very clear winner.
Every wise company makes the move of conducting market research for their products and/or services so as to better position themselves to take advantage of the market.
The tips and tools that the company employs as a part of their marketing research, and how they administer these tools is what will determine the effectiveness of the marketing campaign. Conducting an effective research will give a better idea of the project’s feasibility.
PARIS — Interpol said Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America.
The international police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.
The suspects, aged between 17 and 40, are suspected of planning coordinated cyberattacks against institutions including Colombia's defense ministry and presidential websites, Chile's Endesa electricity company and national library, as well as other targets.
The arrests followed an ongoing investigation begun in mid-February which also led to the seizure of 250 items of IT equipment and mobile phones in searches of 40 premises in 15 cities, Interpol said.
In Chile's capital, Subprefect Jamie Jara said at a news conference that authorities arrested five Chileans and a Colombian. Two of the Chileans are 17-year-old minors.
The case was being handled by prosecutor Marcos Mercado, who specializes in computer crime. He said the suspects were charged with altering websites, including that of Chile's National Library, and engaging in denial-of-service attacks on websites of the electricity companies Endesa and Hidroaysen. The charges carry a penalty of 541 days to five years in prison, he said.
Jara said the arrests resulted from a recently begun investigation and officials do not yet know if those arrested are tied to any "illicit group."
"For now, we have not established that they have had any special communications among themselves," he said.
Jara said authorities were continuing to investigate other avenues, but gave no details.
Gen. Carlos Mena, commander of Colombia's Judicial Police, said no one was arrested in Colombia, but he noted that some Colombians had been arrested elsewhere, including Chile. He said he hadn't confirmed a report that one of those arrested in Argentina may have been from Colombia.
Mena did hint that there might be arrests in Colombia. He said other nations have been providing information and Colombian authorities are looking into it, but so far haven't arrested any hackers.
"You have to leave them alone, so when we have all the evidence, and the prosecutor makes the decision, we will be all over it and capturing them," he said.
No official statements have been released yet in Argentina. An Argentine media website based its story on the Interpol statement, which it quotes as saying that 10 people were arrested in Argentina.
Earlier Tuesday, police in Spain announced the arrest of four suspected Anonymous hackers in connection with attacks on Spanish political party websites. These four were among the 25 announced by Interpol.
A National Police statement said two servers used by the group in Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have been blocked.
It said the four included the alleged manager of Anonymous' computer operations in Spain and Latin America, who was identified only by his initials and the aliases "Thunder" and "Pacotron."
The four are suspected of defacing websites, carrying out denial-of-service attacks and publishing data on police assigned to the royal palace and the premier's office online.
Interpol is headquartered in Lyon, France. The organization has no powers of arrest or investigation but it helps police forces around the world work together, facilitating intelligence sharing.
Anonymous, whose genesis can be traced back to a popular U.S. image messaging board, has become increasingly politicized amid a global clampdown on music piracy and the international controversy over the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks, with which many of its supporters identify.
Authorities in Europe, North America and elsewhere have made dozens of arrests, and Anonymous has increasingly attacked law enforcement, military and intelligence-linked targets in retaliation.
One of Anonymous' most spectacular coups: Secretly recording a conference call between U.S. and British cyber investigators tasked with bringing the group to justice.
Anonymous has no real membership structure. Hackers, activists, and supporters can claim allegiance to its freewheeling principles at their convenience, so it's unclear what impact the arrests will have.
Some Internet chatter appeared to point to a revenge attack on Interpol's website, but the police organization's home page appeared to operating as normal late Tuesday.
One Twitter account purportedly associated with Anonymous' Brazilian wing said the sweep would fail.
"Interpol, you can't take Anonymous," the message read. "It's an idea."
Associated Press writer Raphael Satter in London contributed to this report.
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Interpol said Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America.
The international police agency said in a statement that the arrests in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain were carried out by national law enforcement officers working under the support of Interpol's Latin American Working Group of Experts on Information Technology Crime.
Considering the present day creativity and innovation in graphic design nowadays, you must be familiar of all uncommon selection of modern works of art. It’s uncommon mainly because the artists behind these creations are determined to enhance rarely used products or as we say trash into wonderful works of art. At first, it is almost impossible to believe that these artworks can be created out of junk, but if you check the selection underneath, you are going to see it’s really possible.
There are lots great resources to get HTML5 tutorial, free HTML5 lessons, HTML5 books, so instead of creating another one of those, I decided to collect some useful resource of HTML5 from any website with my favorites. It is most important html5 resource that you can learning more and know main elements of HTML5 that you’ll probably want to use right away. This tutorials is for those who want to get the basics figured out first, and worry about the finer details later on.
By far, one of the most talked about gadgets to come out of Mobile World Congress is the Nokia 808 PureView and its 41 MP camera.
The camera is also capable of shooting in standard resolutions of 3, 5 and 8 megapixels in low-light conditions.
Nokia has released unedited sample high resolution images at 38 megapixels, and the results are as impressive as you'd imagine.
Capturing the attention of your customers is never easy, but the internet has leveled the playing field for smaller businesses when it comes to competing against the big guys. If you own or operate a website for your business there are fundamental tactics you can employ to help increase your visibility on the web. Let’s take a look.
Pinterest. It's a free for all, the perfect place to find visually stimulating images and then perform fast, repinning actions. Populate your online bulletin board (a.k.a. pinboard) with the inner visions of your mind. Just don't forget that you're probably frictionlessly sharing with Pinterest some of the same information you're already posting to Facebook and Twitter.
I found an article on startupsmart that I couldn’t resist reading and sharing with you. The story is about the top home-based business myths and I know you freelancers out there will be able to connect with at least one of these.
Here's the latest look at Google Trends. It shows what search queries are hot right now.
Don't recognize a lot of the names? The searches are almost 100% Dancing With The Stars-related searches. The new lineup was just announced today.
So much for gas prices and the Michigan primary. People have their priorities!
Life gets the best of us. Giving up seems like the easy way out and we keep telling ourselves that we will never become who we want to be. We often aim for success, standing on our tippy toes to reach for it. Most don’t realize that hard work is behind every single successful person. We lust at their accomplishments and try to take shortcuts. Little do we know, taking shortcuts puts us further down in the race.
Today, no one can deny that Vintage has taken a special place in the hearts of many designers and also the users. Vintage is totally the new “In thing”. Advertisement industry has evolved tremendously in past 50 odd years. The ways employed by the advertisement sector for various products/services to attract and lure the onlookers has been totally amazing.
Today, poster design is the most common type of advertisement currently used by ad agencies. Poster is a great source to showcase one’s creativity. Combining the two, poster design and vintage, and we get something very retro-stylish, something that seems to be very simple, yet attractive. Vintage Poster Designs have taken their way into various industries like airlines, fashion and films. These posters are full of style and beauty.
Apple made headlines last week by rolling out a line of iTunes-exclusive ringtones featuring music by The Beatles—a move that excited some Beatles fans and enraged others. As with Apple's other ringtone offerings, the tones are sold separately from the full version of the song for $1.29 apiece and only include a small clip of the song chosen by Apple. If you already own the song or want the full version for your own music-listening pleasure, you'll have to pay twice.
Unless it was created by master builder Joerg Sprave, it's rare for a slingshot to be of any real interest. But even though we're pretty sick of hearing about Angry Birds, this slingshot controller for the game is kind of neat.
It's built around an mbed microcontroller which translates the angle of the slingshot and the force on the elastic to mouse movements. So pinching on the sling and pulling it back is like clicking on the slingshot in the game and dragging your mouse's cursor back.
Weekly web series to bring you a small dose of inspiration. Join us as we tap into the designer’s itch for all things artistic, trendy, and otherwise magical.
Google is offering up to $1 million in total bounties for hackers who can find security exploits in its Chrome browser. There's no better way for the Chrome team to shore up security problems than by inviting people to point them out. The contest will convene at Chrome's table at the CanSecWest security conference from March 7-9.
There are three tiers of rewards, all for bugs in the Windows environment. A full exploit of bugs in Chrome itself will net you $60,000, a partial exploit that combines a Chrome bug with other bugs gets $40,000, and the consolation prize is $20,000 an exploit of Chrome using bugs in Flash, Windows or something else. All winners also get a Chromebook.
The internet has done great things for helping businesses excel in the world of marketing. The right approach to developing your website could help you do much more effective marketing but without a whole lot of extra effort. This is good, of course, because we all need more time in the day and could all use a little more help with business marketing! Set your website up the right way and it’ll do a lot of the marketing for you. A brochure-type site will just sit and be there for people to read but a site that focuses on marketing can make a big difference.
Colors have great effect on our lives. One very interesting and strange fact about colors is, black and white are two individual colors, however when these two come together as “black & white” it represents something colorless or lack of colors. Web designers who have extra-ordinary creative sense apply these two colors in their projects of website designing in such a unique manner that the “black & white” effect takes the site’s beauty to another level of creativity. There are lots of companies who prefer to put colors aside while they are developing websites for their business. And take the help of only two colors, which are black and white obviously, to represent their thoughts and services to the customers.
The AK-47 has been one of the most widely-used weapons in the world since its inception in 1940. However, as the battlefield of the 21st century demands ever-greater degrees of accuracy, the Kalashnikov's 350m range is no longer effective. That's why Russia is giving the "world's most dangerous weapon" a deadly new makeover.
iPhone 4S with the phenomenal Siri software is an amazing phone with an 8 megapixel camera, dual-core A5 chip, increased graphics processor, iOS 5 and so much more. Running on Apple’s latest operating system, the iPhone 4S has voice responsive software installed. Siri can be your personal assistant responding to your questions and carrying out the tasks you assign to it. iPhone 4S uses iCloud for unlimited storage of songs, pictures, videos, etc. For unlimited broadband packages you can check out Broadband Expert.
The iPad 3 will be announced on March 7th. Apple has just sent out invitations for an Apple event in San Francisco at 10AM PST on Wednesday March 7th. The invitation not so subtly hints at the Retina Display becoming a reality in the iPad 3.
Qualcomm developed the technology behind this impressive augmented reality app that brings Sesame Street characters to life, reports The Next Web.
We could describe it in writing, but that'd take away from the video. Imagine being 5 years old today and having access to this!
We continue our weekly logo design series, where you will find creative logos we discovered to help you get inspired for your next design project or client. Our logo showcases concentrate on many different styles, objects and unique ideas, so you stay up-to-date with design trends and techniques.
A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors, fonts, and images usually are different from others in a similar market. Logos are also used to identify organizations and other non-commercial entities.
Not all YouTube videos are made equal. Some languish in obscurity, while a tiny percentage rack up millions of hits. If you've ever wondered why that is, this explanation by Kevin Allocca, YouTube's trends manager, is well worth watching.
Admit it, gaming apps on Facebook are addictive.
But these days, it's hard to find a game that'll let you play without needing your permission to auto-post high scores.
If you don't want to spam your friends' feeds with posts about how many times you tried to beat your highest score on Angry Birds, look no further.
Here's how to enjoy any game on Facebook without clustering your wall.
The first color wheel has been around for more than 300 years and was developed by Sir Isaac Newton, according to ColourLovers. Other color charts, though, existed before that time. The basic design has evolved over time but the concept remains the same – almost any color combination from the wheel will work together.
In a celebration of all things viral, Facebook announced the winners of its first-ever Studio Award, which rewards campaigns that "make full use of Facebook marketing products."
With 1,000 submissions from 40 different countries, some stinkers were bound to fail—like Poopbags.com "Be the Butt Campaign," which asked pet owners to submit a photo that would replace its "iconic rear end" logo with the butt of a contestant's dog.
Giving out free, informative pamphlets can be a pro-active way to engage new customers. Try to resist making them too sales-focused and get people onside by including genuinely useful content, such as recipes or top tips related to your product or service.
9to5mac says it has sources claiming a new Apple TV will arrive alongside the new iPad next week, and that it will feature a variant of the A5 processor capable of handling 1080p video. Can you say full HD AirPlay Mirroring?
Furthermore, those same sources claim that Apple will release three iPad models again, and that the low end model may not have the same color options this time around. And they offer up some model numbers to bolster their claim.
Minimalism renders a clean, simple and uncluttered website that focuses on what’s most important, the content. When a web page has too many elements, the user may begin to feel confused or annoyed when trying to find what they are looking for. It seems that everyone has a different opinion of what qualifies as a minimalistic design. Here is a beautiful showcase of minimal websites that make use of very little unnecessary design elements but still manage to pull off a beautiful appearance, just for your inspiration. I hope you do like my collection.
Color is definitely a very important element of web design, and if you are familiar with the Color Theory used in visual arts, you may know that even with a lot of studies, the reaction to colors is pretty subjective and people react differently. Some reactions are based on background, others are based on personal taste and even psychological feelings. The color theory is actually a science that helps us design our projects, and it’s certainly something to consider when creating a website.
It fires a 40-pound metal slug up to 5,600 miles per hour from New York to Philadelphia, slamming into its target with 32 times the force of a "1-ton car being thrust at 100 mph." Railguns aren't sci-fi anymore.
Want to make more money? Well, I’ve got the secret. And I’ll bet it’s not what you think.
It sure wasn’t what I expected when I interviewed hundreds of high earners for my books Secrets of Six-Figure Women and Overcoming Underearning.
Very few of these successful women were driven by money. Yet they still demanded to be well-compensated because—and here’s the Big Secret— they felt they were worth it!!
Working from home is great but poses problems when you decide to do some home remodeling. What I thought would be a two week inconvenience has turned into a two month ordeal as my office has been relocated to the kitchen table. Over the weeks working from a wooden chair has my back longing for the comfort of my couch. Also, plugging my laptop, hard drive, and other accessories into a power strip, and then draping the cords over chairs and across the floor to the nearest outlet, got me thinking that the portability I should have in a laptop didn’t stack up to TV commercial claims. There had to be a better way of doing this. That’s when the seed of a wireless network finally started to germinate in my brain.
A brochure is a type of booklet. Brochures are most generally start at places that tourists frequently visit, such as museums, major shops, and tourist information. Brochure racks or stands may suggest visits to amusement parks and other points of interest. Another type of brochure is interpersonal brochures, which are brochures based on other people. Then there are pamphlets that you can find in health clinics and hospitals that give help and advice to do with your health.
Mac OSX Lion seemed unpolished, and, worse, not innovative. When Mountain Lion dropped a couple weeks ago, we were pumped: It was a relatively rapid update, and we hoped it would address our concerns. Hrmph.
I've been using Mountain Lion for more than a week now, and I got the same feeling I got from Lion: Scott Forstall—Apple's own Doctor Moreau—is still pushing for an ungodly desktop/iPad hybrid. This is not the future; it's a patched up genetic experiment anchored in Apple's past and present successes.
The rivalry between HP and Cisco has to rank among the biggest and baddest in the IT world.
Cisco often slings dirt at HP, calling it names (the "good enough" network), running demonstrations of HP gear compared to Cisco's, and writing trash talking blog posts.
We asked Mike Banic, vice president of marketing for HP Networking, to tell us how HP plans to compete with Cisco in the coming months.
Android Devices are growing in the Market platform, wallpapers is one of the most basic customizations on any mobile device and Android Wallpapers are in high plea. Wallpaper is the one thing that most of us change the moment. Thus I’ve gathered a nice collection of wallpapers for your Android Devices, by using these wallpapers you’ll able to change your Android Device screen updated with most popular wallpapers.
