Learn about extending IBM Mashup Center’s InfoSphere MashupHub feed sources in Enterprise Mashups, and gain first-hand knowledge of how to do so using code samples. This article will review key aspects of extending the IBM Mashup Center by looking at the HelloWorld (hellodemo) sample plug-in and proceeding to tweak it to implement a basic language translation service. In this article, you will also leverage the translation service offered by Google for lightweight translation of text up to 500 bytes in length.

Nancy Hand is back with another wonderful story about Notes admin and the users who make our jobs so fulfilling. This time, she’s rolling out a major Notes upgrade to 3,000 users. That’s when Dilbert walked in…

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Amidst confirmed reports that malicious hackers are starting to use fake Flash Player downloads as social engineering lures for malware, Adobe has issued a call-to-arms for users to validate installers before downloading software updates.

The company’s notice comes on the heels of malware attacks on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter that attempt to trick Windows users into installing a Flash Player update that turns out to be a malicious executable.

Nick Saber isn’t happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into anything that Google made where his account credentials once worked. When attempting to log in, Nick got a single line message: Sorry, your account has been disabled.

Suddenly, Nick can’t access his Gmail account, can’t open Google Talk, can’t open Picasa where his family pictures are, can’t use his Google Docs, and oh by the way, he paid for additional storage. So, what happens now? What does Nick do? He’s sent a bunch of emails. But now what?

A giant vulnerability in the Internet’s design is allowing criminals to silently redirect traffic to Web sites under their control. The problem is being fixed, but its extent remains unknown and many people are still at risk.

The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines that help computers find Web sites. If the trick is done properly, computer users are unlikely to detect whether they’ve landed at a legitimate site or an evil double maintained by someone bent on fraud.

Eleven people, including a U.S. Secret Service informant, have been charged in connection with the hacking of nine major retailers and the theft and sale of more than 41 million credit and debit card numbers, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

The data breach is believed to be the largest hacking and identity theft case ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice, which said the suspects were charged with conspiracy, computer intrusion, fraud and identity theft. Three of those charged are U.S. citizens while the others are from places such as Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus and China.

Sherpa Software announced the release of version 8.0 of Mail Attender for Notes that among other enhancements, provides internal mechanisms that certify that the proper steps have been taken prior to executing corporate compliance actions.

Mail Attender is a Domino-centric solution that assists companies in addressing email management, archiving, discovery, and compliance requirements as they may relate to regulations such as SOX, the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and others. Mail Attender is a non-invasive, platform independent, email archiving and content management product that does not require any additional hardware or software components.

A new study conducted by Marco Cova, Christopher Kruegel, and Giovanni Vigna, provides factual evidence of a well known practice by experienced phishers, namely, backdooring phishing pages that they would later on distribute for free across the IT underground, in order to build a covert network where other phishers would be unknowingly providing them with the accounting data that they would eventually obtain.

IBM is investing $360 million to build a new cloud computing center in North Carolina that promises to deliver cloud services and infrastructure to a new range of customers.

The Aug. 1 announcement comes on the same day that IBM plans to officially open a cloud computing facility in Tokyo that will offer cloud services to businesses, universities and government institutions in Japan. The proposed center in North Carolina, which will be built at IBM’s Research Triangle Park facility near Raleigh, will officially open in the fourth quarter of 2009.

IBM is enlisting the help of the top three Linux distributors to help its desktop Office and messaging software gain ground. It’s a small step forward but Big Blue must reach out to the masses to win this game.

At LinuxWorld, IBM announced that Canonical/Ubuntu, Novell and Red Hat have agreed to work with their PC partners to deliver a Linux desktop based on Lotus Notes and recently released Lotus Symphony by 2009. The company did something similar at its LotuSphere 2008 in January, by partnering with distros and adding an email client to the mix.