eBay revealed its plan of developing an alternative backend for Skype in its 10-Q regulatory filing on July 30, 2009. Skype uses Joltid’s software to make its P2P connections on the backend. Recently, Joltid’s creators Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom turned against Skype and told that Skype can’t use, possess or modify certain source code as part of the license agreement.

Following this action, Skye filed a claim with the English High Court of Justice in March 2009 asking for declaratory relief. The trial won’t take place until June 2010. Hence, e-bay has decided to develop a new backend for Skype before spinning off the VoIP service next year.

“Although Skype is confident of its legal position, as with any litigation, there is the possibility of an adverse result if the matter is not resolved through negotiation,” the company wrote in its 10-Q. “If Skype was to lose the right to use the Joltid software as the result of the litigation, and if alternative software was not available, Skype would be severely and adversely affected and the continued operation of Skype’s business as currently conducted would likely not be possible.”

Web filtering software is must for all PCs in China

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has ordered that Web filtering software called ‘Green Dam Youth Escort’ must be installed on all Personal computers made in China or imported from abroad as of July 1. Also it asks PC makers to provide monthly sales figures, installation figures and comments to the Ministry for the remainder of the year. From 2010, reports can be submitted annually rather than monthly.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

The software was developed by Jinhui Computer System Engineering Co., with input from Beijing Dazheng Human Language Technology Academy Co.

Bryan Zhang, founder of Jinhui, said Green Dam operates similarly to software designed outside China to let parents block access to Web content inappropriate for children. Some computers sold in China already come with parental-control software, but it isn’t government-mandated.

Mr. Zhang said his company compiles and maintains the list of blocked sites, which he says is limited to pornography sites. He said the software would allow the blocking of other types of content, as well as the collection of private user data, but that Jinhui would have no reason to do so. He also said the software can be turned off or uninstalled.

At the end of the previous week, Mikeyy, a cross site scripting vulnerability, entered into twitter. It displays the message “Hey everyone, join StalkDaily.com. It’s a site like Twitter but with pictures, videos and so much more.” If you join there, your Twitter account will be locked as said by Sheamus Bennett at Twittercism. Don’t visit the site “StalkDaily”. Precautions to save your account from this worm, are don’t view any profile and don’t follow any link.

Mikeyy Mooney – owner of StalkDaily.com confessed that “I am the person who coded the XSS which then acted as a worm when it auto updated a users profile and status, which then infected other users who viewed their profile. I did this out of boredom, to be honest. I usually like to find vulnerabilities within websites and try not to cause too much damage, but start a worm or something to give the developers an insight on the problem and while doing so, promoting myself or my website.”
Bennet recommends few following steps to remove stock daily from your account if you think you’ve been infected.

In your browser, clear your cache and empty all your cookies. (This can be found in your settings.)
• Log out of TweetDeck or any external applications you are using.
• On Twitter.com, change your password.
• Log back in. It should be okay. If so, log back into TweetDeck et al.
• Go back and delete any tweets sent by you recommending StalkDaily. This is very important.

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The use of the computers is practical in almost each field and different computing methods and software have increased the chances of data loss simultaneously, and so do the importance of data recovery solutions. These solutions are developed with the ample amount of time, headache and hassle of the data recovery engineers.