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China Domain Name Registration Changes Could Reduce Malicious Sites, Researchers Say

December 16th, 2009 | No Comments

China has changed its domain name registration process as part of what its government says is a crackdown on Internet porn. Security researchers believe the changes could help limit the number of malicious sites using the .cn top-level domain.
– When McAfee published its list of the most dangerous Web domains,

Chinas .cn domain was among the lists familiar faces.

However, some security researchers say that may change as a side effect of China tightening its control over the Internet. Chinese authorities recently changed their…

TadiÄ‡ to “inspect construction sites”

December 11th, 2009 | No Comments

President Boris TadiÄ‡ revealed to the public on Thursday that “from now on”, he would be “inspecting” infrastructure works unannounced. He made the statement at the construction site of the bridge over the Danube near BeÅ¡ka, north of Belgrade.

Building Web Sites Using Web Templates and Easy Editing Software Posted By : Ko Fai Godfrey Ko

December 9th, 2009 | No Comments

Whether you are selling intangibles such as travel or tangibles such as books, your website can help you to reach out to potential customers and prospects. It is far quicker to develop a website from an existing template than it is to create one from scratch, and you can maximize these benefits by using a specific software tool that will allow you to create your site from the template.

Making Website for Free with Google

November 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Back in the early days of web design, there were a few companies that provided the possibility of creating a free personal website. The designs were pretty simple though, and as Blogs became popular, there is little reason for an average user to learn a programming language. Although Google is already in charge of Blogger, [...]

WhiteHat: Web Security Vulnerabilites Found on Most Sites

November 13th, 2009 | No Comments

In the latest report on Website vulnerabilities by WhiteHat Security, researchers found 64 percent of Websites have at least one serious vulnerability. The most common flaw – cross-site scripting.
– New research from WhiteHat
Security painted a bleak picture for Website security.
In its latest iteration of
its Website Security Statistics report, WhiteHat found 64 percent of the 1,364
sites the company analyzed have at least one serious
vulnerability. But the news isnt all bad according to…

OffiSync Adds Google Sites Support to Target Microsoft SharePoint

November 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Gunning for Microsoft SharePoint, OffiSync Nov. 10 launched a paid version of its Microsoft Office plug-in that let users access their Microsoft Office documents from the Google Sites wiki.OffiSync, which has hundreds of thousands of users, is brave for targeting SharePoint, the killer collaboration application that earns Microsoft $1 billion per year. Offisync will now come in a standard and premium edition. The standard edition will remain free, while the premium edition with Sites support will cost $12 per user, per year, or a one-time payment of $30.
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OffiSync Nov. 10 launched a paid version of its Microsoft
Office plug-in that let users access their Microsoft Office documents from the Google
Sites wiki as an alternative to Microsoft’s SharePoint collaboration
platform.
OffiSync
launched earlier this year with a plug-in for …

Workers feel heat to finish Commonwealth Games sites in India

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

In the early morning Delhi air, Brij Mohan troops off to work at the building site of the Nehru stadium in the heart of the city to face the discomfort and dangers of a day’s labouring. Mohan, 28, cuts a miserable figure as he describes the pressure and workload faced by thousands of people

Google Sites API Lets Developers Move Data to, from Wikis

September 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Google releases an API that lets programmers move data freely to and from Google Sites. The API gives developers full read/write access to all Sites content. Application developers can use the programming interface to write programs to migrate Web pages, documents and other content from intranets, content management applications and other wiki applications. The API embodies the tenets of Google’s Data Liberation Front, which aims to help users move personal data in and out of Google’s services with simple import and export functions.
– Drawing on programming work from its Data Liberation Front, Google Sept. 24
released an API intended to let programmers
move data freely to and from Google Sites.
Google Sites is the wiki component of the Google Apps suite of
cloud computing applications. Google Sites lets users upload file atta…

Exposing How Rogue Antivirus Sites Snag Victims

September 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Behind the reports of rogue antivirus scams is a multimillion dollar business lining the pockets of cyber-thieves. The threats arent new, but they have been growing in prevalence, according to malware researchers. Seven of the top 25 malware or unwanted software families from the second half of 2008 had a connection to rogue software, according to Microsoft experts. Two in particular Win32/FakeXPA and Win32/FakeSecSen were detected by Microsoft on more than 1.5 million computers.
The prevalence of the scams is driven by the profits. In a report in March, Finjan uncovered a rogueware affiliate network that hauled in an average of $10,800 a day. Such schemes are successful in part because attackers do a good job of mimicking the look of the Windows Security Center and other legitimate screens in Windows to give their phony scams an air of authenticity. Successfully fighting rogue antivirus schemes must involve teaching users about social engineering. With all this in mind, eWEEK is going behind the scenes of some of the successful rogue antivirus scams that have plagued the Internet.
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UNESCO and World Heritage Sites: The limits of soft cultural power

September 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Guarding precious and vulnerable places is one of the better things the UN’s cultural agency does—but it may topple over if it stretches too far

ANYONE who dreams of exercising authority (of a fairly benign sort) over the entire world—with a special remit for the planet’s most beautiful and fragile places—will enjoy perusing the 250 or so pages that contain the latest pronouncements from UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.

Swooping elegantly from the valleys of the Andes to the walled cities of Europe, from misty Chinese mountains (like Emei, pictured above) to lawless African game parks, the document doles out scoldings, warnings and praise to politicians, curators, animal conservationists and mayors. Some are congratulated for following the UN cultural agency’s advice; others are given dark hints of what will happen if sites do not receive proper care. …

Music Videos on Social Networking Sites Posted By : Adam Harrison

September 7th, 2009 | No Comments

So your favorite artist has a new video out but you cant seem to catch it on television. Just your luck, only the last 10 seconds plays when you click on the channel.

Americans Turn to Career Sites During Economic Downturn

August 8th, 2009 | 3 Comments

CareerBuilder Leads Category, Followed by Yahoo! HotJobs and Monster RESTON, VA, July 28, 2009 â€“ comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a June 2009 overview of the career services & development category based on data from comScore Media Metrix and comScore Marketer. The study revealed that more than [...]

How Google Was Impacted By The Twitter-Facebook Denial of Service Attacks

August 7th, 2009 | No Comments

A small group of users of Google’s Blogger blogging service and Google Sites wiki experienced an hour-long outage. However, Google’s core Web services, including its search engine, Gmail and Docs, were unaffected by the DoS attack that crippled Twitter and LiveJournal and tripped up Facebook.
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The denial of service (DoS) attack the ravaged Twitter and LiveJournal and made Facebook go wonky August 6 cast a net so wide
that it even dinged the Google Blogger blogging service and Google Sites wiki.
Citing Facebook Chief Security Officer Max Kelly, CNET reported that a Georgia…

Pirate sites return in legal form

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Peer-to-peer download sites Kazaa and The Pirate Bay are set to return with a new, legal subscription model.

Kazaa, shut down by a $150m (£91m) lawsuit in 2006, will be reincarnated as an unlimited download service with a fixed monthly subscription rate.

The Pirate Bay has outlined a "give and take" model which pays users for sharing their resources.

The Swedish software firm that owns The Pirate Bay said the service would be free for a majority of users.

Both services are following the example set by Napster, which was the subject of several lawsuits that eventually shut down and bankrupted the service.

It re-launched in 2008 as the largest online retailer that did not restrict use of its content with so-called digital rights management (DRM) software. DRM restricts what people can do with the songs they buy.

Now, the two heirs to the Napster-driven peer-to-peer downloading throne have entered into a legal trading arena to compete with two very different business models.

Pricing structures

Kazaa is expected to launch in the US this week as a monthly subscription service, costing $20 (£12) per month for unlimited downloads.

It will issue songs in the Windows Media format, with DRM that will restrict use of downloaded content to five computers or devices.

The Pirate Bay, once the largest illegal download site on the web, was acquired by Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X after the original owners were found guilty of abetting violation of copyright law.

Last week, it hired Wayne Rosso – a former president of P2P site Grokster and founder of P2P site Mashboxx – to help strike deals and refine the new business model.

The site’s new incarnation is expected to launch in August, and the firm is developing plans to charge a monthly fee to use the service.

That fee would be reduced if users shared their downloaded content or allowed the service to utilise the storage space on their computers.

"For the great majority it will be free of charge, for a minority it will actually make them money, and for a small portion it will cost them," Hans Pandeya, chief executive of Global Gaming Factory X, told the AP news agency.</p

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