We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings.

The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:

A system-wide PulseAudio equalizer was developed by Ubuntu Forums memeber, psyke83. The equalizer is now available in his PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu. In this article we will tell you who you can install it from the PPA in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.

This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

Update: TCS.com is now up and running

The official website of  Tata Consultancy Services – www.tcs.com has been hacked by possibly a french hacker and a “domain for sale” notice has been put up! This attack does not seem to be a website hack as none of the webpages that were earlier indexed on search engines are opening. It could be a DNS Hijack as suggested by a look at the source code of the defaced web page where the nameservers of TCS.com might have been changed to something else.

Update: Probable details of the DNS hijacker.

Although Windows 7 is out and it’s been a long time since Windows distributed the Windows 7 RC for free, many people still have problem in doing a clean install of Windows 7 on their computers. In this article we will tell you how to do a fresh install of Windows 7 perfectly on your computer. You can also have a look at our other Windows 7 guides.

Are you a cricket fan and you love the Google Chrome Browser too? Won’t it be good if you could get all the live cricket scores and latest cricket news right in your Chrome Browser Dashboard? Yes, it is possible, Thanks to the Google Chrome – Cricinfo Extension using which you can get all like cricket scores and news right in your Google Chrome Dashboard. We have already told you about getting Live Cricket Scores for free on your Mobile Phone.

A UK based firm X2 Computing has announced that they will be releasing a tablet device. While releasing a tablet device is nothing newsworthy as almost everyone is releasing their own tablet devices nowadays, what is most noticeable is the name they choosed for the tablet – iTablet.

Going back a few days, iTablet was one of the most widely believed name for Apple’s tablet which was finally released released as iPad. Given the background over the name it is a really bold move by X2 Computing to go ahead and name their device iTablet.

We already informed you about former Vice President of Microsoft Dick Brass’s article in The New York Times where he accused Microsoft for not being innovative anymore. This article seems to have cause stomach-ache to Microsoft as it counters Dick Brass’s argument by saying that innovation is not only about ideas but also about its ability to make a broad impact in the world and Microsoft has succeeded in doing that.

In a blog post today, Mozilla said that two malicious Firefox Add-ons – Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. These Add-ons were however rated as “Expimental Add-ons” and fortunately did not make it to the main Add-ons section of Firefox. These add-ons have been removed now. We have told you previously how malware was found in Ubuntu Screensavers. 

According to the latest Ubuntu Netbook Remix Blueprint, the Ubuntu community are planning to drop OpenOffice from the default installation of Ubuntu Netbook Edition for the upcoming Lucid Lynx release, atleast for now. Now documents will be opened by default in Google Docs.

In SQL Server 2005 and 2008 versions, most objects have public permissions granted by default and you can’t get rid of the “public” role easily. And, it is quite possible that you may think these permissions are required for the SQL Server to work properly. But that is not the case, some of these permissions could cause security issues and can be removed.

Memcached is a distributed caching system that helps take the load off the database and is used by some of the very big websites. In this article we will tell you how to install Memcached in Windows Azure. After installing and setting up Memcached you will be able to cache any data that is retrieved, thereby reducing the pressure on the database.

Last week, Google announced that they will stop the supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps. Now according to a Ars Technica report, Google is also ending support of the Internet Explorer 6 in GMail and Google Calendar as well later in 2010. Google did not reveal this last bit of news in the emails they sent to Google Apps admins last week.

The Symbian Foundation announced today that the Symbian platform is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation has just finalized the open source release of the source code for the most popular mobile operating system in the world. It is hoped that this will will open the platform to innovations generally associated with open-source. The Symbian kernel was already released as an open-source in October last year.