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White Lightning Films, a team of film professionals that believes in shaking things up, is all set to come up with the first Elvis Presley themed film that will be financed primarily with funds from Elvis fans around the world. Through their upcoming film, The King of New Mexico, the producers are aiming to bring millions of Elvis fans around the world together. They are also looking to set a record for film funding on Indiegogo by raising $5 million, out of which $150,000 will be donated to charity.

The Hinkes Group, a top New Mexico Realtor, has announced the expansion of its Albuquerque operations and the launch of its new real estate website. This site makes it easy for people to both buy and sell homes and property. Buyers can see listings on the site or get update emails with the latest additions to the listing chart. Sellers will find information about how to value their homes, which properties have recently been sold, and tips on how to make their homes more marketable.

Don Chalmers Ford is offering Albuquerque customers a SYNC Q&A session on Saturday, October 22nd from 10am to 4pm in their showroom.

Local Ford Dealer, Don Chalmers Ford, is helping to support Fords new partnership with General Mills on the Box Tops for Education Program.

Don Chalmers Ford is pleased to announce the 2012 Ford Explorer is now in stock at its local Albuquerque dealership.

Don Chalmers Ford is honor to receive their eleventh President’s Award for superior Customer Satisfaction.

Don Chalmers Ford in Albuquerque is pleased to offer customers the impressive Ford pickup line that features class leading fuel economy.

Albuquerque consumers looking for both fuel efficiency and value can take advantage of the best in class fuel economy vehicles at Don Chalmers Ford.

Don Chalmers Ford is excited to announce that the 2012 Ford Fiesta has arrived at its local Albuquerque dealership. The 2012 Fiesta is praised for being fun to drive and is one of the best economy cars available today.

Don Chalmers Ford is sponsoring the Raptor Roundup on July 16th at Sandia Speedway. An event designed for Ford Raptor owners and enthusiasts.

Don Chalmers Ford, a leading Albuquerque, NM Ford dealer, is excited to show customers how the Focus Electric will stay cool during the hot summer months.

Don Chalmers Ford in Albuquerque is excited to confirm that Ford is adding the smallest engine yet to the already successful EcoBoost engine lineup.

According to Global Phishing Report by APWG, there were around 67,677 phishing attacks worldwide during the second half of last year.

Popular websites and networks are favorite targets of cybercriminals. Attackers not only gain instant publicity, but also extract privileged customer and business information. The extracted information could Sony is still investigating the attack, which forced the company to take Sony PlayStation Network (PSN) and Qriocity services offline last week. The services are used by over 75 million people worldwide. While PlayStation provides online gaming, Qriocity offers audio and video services for Sony devices. Security professionals of the company are investigating the attack. The company had initially referred to the attacks as an external intrusion attempt.

Recently, counter crime agencies in China arrested 23 persons alleged to be involved in a massive voice phishing or vishing scam. Vishing is a type of attack wherein fraudsters try to seek sensitive information over phone call. The fraudsters allegedly targeted South Korean citizens. The arrest follows an agreement between South Korean and Chinese Authorities to combat against vishing scams. Fraudsters impersonating as representatives of a bank contact legitimate customers over phone and seek sensitive information or urge customers to deposit money in a particular account. They also allegedly impersonate as counter crime officials and seek details over phone. In some cases, fraudsters demand ransom from customers by claiming that they have detained one of their relatives. Over the last three years, South Korea has reportedly suffered loss of over $185 million due to phone fraud. The attackers are reportedly based in China and used to make independent random calls to avoid detection by counter crime agencies. Chinese authorities are expected to further crack down on culprits.

In yet another data breach incident, an attacker successfully intruded into some of the FTP servers of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Oracle is all set for the upcoming critical patch update. The pre-release announcement by the company indicates that in all 73 vulnerabilities associated with numerous products will be mitigated during the next critical patch update. The update will mitigate security vulnerabilities associated with Oracle database server, fusion middleware, enterprise manager, e-business suite, supply chain products, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards suite, Siebel CRM, industry applications, Sun products and Open office suite.

Recently, a top executive of FBI highlighted cybersecurity challenges faced by the country at a hearing by Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism.

Security researcher Jeremiah Talamantes will release a new penetration testing tool called "PlugBot" at this year’s TakeDownCon Dallas, a new IT security conference designed by the EC-Council.

Recently, WordPress.com suffered yet another security breach. The site had suffered a massive distributed denial-of-service attack earlier in the year. In the latest case, attackers were able to intrude into several of the company servers. The attack puts at risk all the information contained on those servers. Information security professionals of Automattic, the company, which owns the popular WordPress.com blogging platform, are currently investigating the security incident. In a blog post on the site, Matt Mullenweg, the company's founder said that attackers were successful in extracting the source code. Mullenweg said that while much of the source code is Open source, some portion of the code is sensitive. The company is investigating the extent of information leaked, and identifying and mitigating the threat vectors, which allowed attackers to gain unauthorized access.

Recently, a popular and independent Malaysian online news portal suffered cyber-attacks. Attackers launched sustained attacks on Malaysiakini.com, virtually shutting down main servers hosted at two different data centers of the company in Kuala Lumpur. Information security professionals of the organization have identified the attacks as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack and are trying to restore the website. The cyber-attack on the news portal follows a similar attack on another website sarawakreport.org. The attacks come just days before scheduled elections in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. Sarawakreport.org was openly critical of the Chief Minister of the state for allegedly amassing disproportionate wealth.

French intelligence agencies are investigating a possible case of cyber espionage, which lead to leakage of confidential business information related to an aerospace and defense firm.

Recently, Hyundai Capital reported a data breach incident, which resulted in disclosure of sensitive customer information.

TakeDownCon, the technical IT security conference series designed by the EC-Council, is making its debut in the information security conference arena next month.

Microsoft will release 17 security bulletins in the upcoming Patch Tuesday. Out of the security 17 bulletins, nine are rated critical by the company, while the rest are rated as important.

Recently, Symantec released findings of the company's latest Internet Security Threat Report.