Security matters; do you feel safe ?

Dear friends/bloggers/customers,
during the last week, several friends of mine were concerned about their website’s security. Some of them were hacked while others were under DoS (Denial Of Service) attacks and they were blaiming themselves for not developing/coding their website properly. The key, my friends, is not on having the “perfect” code or picking up the [...]

How DNS cache poisoning works

There has been a long history of attacks on the Domain Name System ranging from brute-force denial-of-service attacks to targeted attacks requiring specialized software. In July 2008 a new DNS cache-poisoning attack was unveiled that is considered especially dangerous because it does not require substantial bandwidth or processor resources nor does it require sophisticated techniques……..
Networkworld.com

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Linux ecosystem woth $24 billion

The Linux Foundation is set to release a report on Wednesday estimating that the Linux ecosystem is now worth $25 billion. The $25 billion figure is one that I’m surprised at because its lower than other forecasts I’ve seen over the years.
Or is it? I’m not sure how the Linux Foundation has compiled their numbers [...]

Adobe sites under attack

Just weeks after a BusinessWeek Web site was hit by an SQL injection (define) attack, comes news that Adobe has had to deal with two of its Web sites compromised the same way.
“I can confirm that the Adobe sites were affected,” Richard Wang, manager of the US offices of security vendor Sophos Laboratories. Sophos discovered [...]

Google Appeals Image Search Ban in Germany

Google and other search providers in Germany are appealing a recent court ruling that prevents them from displaying thumbnails of copyrighted images in search results without first getting permission. Google argues that its image search function benefits those whose sites are found through

Google has appealed two court decisions that could ban it and other search [...]

New Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has announced the publication of WCAG 2.0 as a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Candidate Recommendation on 30 April. WCAG 2.0 explains how to make Web sites, applications, and other content accessible to people with disabilities, and many elderly users.
This stage is for developers and designers to”test [...]

Free wireless Internet service plan

A Federal Communications Commission engineering report released late Friday essentially backs a plan to create a free wireless Internet service by dismissing concerns about interference for existing providers.
Editor’s Note: There is no such thing as interference. I ‘ll be posting a relative post regarding
`prohibition of wireless internet of aeroplane travellers` next week.

The FCC has been [...]

The difference between portal and web site

I have wanted to put my fingers on the keys about this subject for a long time. Now is the time!
Have you attempted Googling (or Yahooing ?) “difference between portal and web site” ? If not, then let me tell you that the most common answers you will find are:

A Web Portal is a type [...]

iPod Will Cease to Exist ?

Drawing comparisons to gadgets like transistor radios and Walkmans, Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple and the current biggest critic of their products, recently said the iPod has had its day at number one.
“The iPod has sort of lived a long life at number one. If you look back to transistor radios and [...]

SEO Marketing In An Uncertain Economy

This is an article published by WebProNews and i would like to share it with you.
With the economy in limbo what should search marketer’s focus on? WebProNews spoke to Milind Mody, CEO of eBrandz Inc, an SEO and SEM firm, about online marketing and advertising.
Mody said because of the economy “a search engine marketer [...]

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