Isha Suri

Isha Suri is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering social news and security trends. If you have a story idea or news tip, send it to @SiliconAngle on Twitter.

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Collegefeed Beta Launches to Help Students Kick Start Careers

San Jose-based Collegefeed is announcing its beta launch today. The new social platform for college students, new graduates and job-hunters is the brainchild of Google’s longtime Head of Products, Sanjeev Agrawal. Created as an early career marketplace, Collegefeed has been designed to solve two problems: 50 percent of college grads can’t get hired  Yet every ...

Telerik Announces New Tools for PHP and JSP Developers, Kendo UI Support for Windows Phone 8

Telerik has just announced the availability of new tools for PHP and JSP developers, along with latest release of Kendo UI, a comprehensive framework for building JavaScript and HTML5 websites and mobile apps. With this latest release, Kendo UI adds server wrappers for PHP and JSP, Windows Phone 8 support, and support for modern web ...

Hijacking Vulnerability Discovered in EA’s Origin Gaming Service

A vulnerability has been discovered in Electronic Art’s Origin game distribution service that allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code on players’ computers. Demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Amsterdam, the hijacking vulnerability of the game takes just a few seconds to execute and takes the gamer’s PC under control. It works by manipulating the uniform ...

Atlassian Offers SourceTree Git Client for Microsoft Windows

Atlassian, a leading Australian provider of the popular products like issue tracking application, JIRA, and its team collaboration product, Confluence, is making a major move with SourceTree, a free desktop client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems (DVCS). With this announcement, SourceTree will be offering all developers a solution that is not currently ...

Raising the Bar for Playground Antics, North Korea Blames US For Cyber Attack

A reclusive and secretive state–North Korea, where virtually no one is being allowed on the interwebs, is blaming the United States for a massive cyber attack has taken the country offline over the past two days. For this so-called cyber attack, North Korea is warning that the US and its allies “should be held wholly ...

When the US National Vulnerability Database Got Hacked

Just how weird, rather hilarious it sounds when an antivirus software became a victim of virus vulnerability. Of course, on the other hand…in a similar incident, we heard that the US National vulnerability database got hacked due to some software vulnerability. How ironic! On March 13, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database’s ...

Petition Against CISPA Crosses 100,000 Signatures, Reaches White House

One more petition against CISPA has reached the White House with over 100,000 signatures terms saying that the terms of CISPA are too broad, and the possibility of abuse is simply too high. So far, White House has been showing a cool attitude towards CISPA, but looks like this is not going to last for ...

China Shows Willingness to Cooperate with US Against Hacking

China is finally keen on cooperating with the United States to fight hacking. As we know the Dragon country has notorious reputation, it received a warning from a top US official that the international community was losing patience with Beijing. Following this warning, Chinese Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying reinforced that the country is itself ...

AWS Expands Beanstalk with Node.js Inclusion

Amazon Web Services continues to focus on simplifying the deployment and management on its cloud, and that’s why has included Node.js on the Elastic Beanstalk. With this expansion of Elastic Beanstalk to include Node.js, AWS allows Node.js developers to focus on writing their applications and lets Elastic Beanstalk run and scale it automatically. As of ...

Russian Love Grabs New Guinness World Record for World of Tanks

Russians love World of Tanks. Sure, they do. And this is quite evident from the fact that multiplayer vehicular battling game World of Tanks set a new Guinness World Record for the most players simultaneously connected to one server in Russia. Reportedly on January 21, a whopping number of 190,541 players logged on to a single ...