After banning Chinese telecom equipment, the Government has now put Blackberry devices, Skype services and Gmail under the security scanner. The Department of Telecom (DoT) has offered a time period of 15 days to take appropriate steps for the same. If this does not happen, these services might be banned in India, Report says. Concerns have also been raised about the data services being offered ... Full story

Hackers bought down Google's Most famous video site, Youtube on Sunday by using a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. Google has thwarted the attempts to hack You Tube videos with off-color pop-ups and adult-sites redirects into it. The company has said the hole that hackers were using to corrupt the video site has been plugged. Full story

Have you ever heard about an Indian name Divya Narendra?, Or about Sanjay Mavinkurve? Or about the wealthy Olympic-rower twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss ?, Or about a small Social network ConnectU? These names are behind the Born of our Loving Social network Facebook? But What about Mark Zuckerberg the knwon Founder of Facebook? Full story

This is the story of how, Facebook Founder Zuckerberg hacked into ConnectU, whose founders had accused him of stealing their idea to build Facebook. The details of this story were developed from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook. The investigation included interviews with more than a dozen sources over two years, as well as what we believe to be relevant IMs ... Full story

It’s Google tradition to introduce official hoax each year during the All Fools’ Day. For 2010, the Gmail login home page appears with weird words, all the vowels are missing. But we dont know exactly about that it is an April 1st joke or an error. Full story

Google has shut down it’s Chinese search site at Google.cn and is now redirecting visitors to Google.com.hk, uncensored results - a move certain to anger the Chinese government and jeopardize Google's future in the world's most populous country. This is in response to the widely reported cyber attack on Google in December, Google confirms. Full story

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that users who complained about privacy invasions by Google Buzz were subject to "confusion".Google has been on the back foot since last Tuesday, reacting to a storm of criticism about the way Buzz - which brings elements of social networking into its Gmail service - works. It made a series of tweaks to the ... Full story

As the Iranian authorities attempt to stifle tomorrow’s protests surrounding the anniversary of the Iranian revolution, they are going one step further: Iran is permanently suspending access to Google’s Gmail. Full story

China has closed down what is believed to be the country's biggest training website for hackers, state media has reported.They say the site, Black Hawk Safety Net, gave lessons in hacking and sold downloads of malicious software.The reports say three people suspected of running the site were arrested.Hacking is a sensitive topic for China, especially since the internet giant Google recently threatened to pull out ... Full story