Archive for the 'News' Category
August 10th, 2010 by Grace
Remember that Watchfire was acquired by IBM early this year? Well, they sure aren�t wasting time as they will now officially release IBM Rational AppScan 7.7. This new improved Web application security tool is based on Watchfire’s AppScan. This product basically identifies, validates and reports on gaps in Web applications. However, the latest version has new features (i.e. Scan Expert and State Inducer) designed to make the product more user-friendly for those who have not much background in application testing. It also includes recorded Web-based training (now that one is useful to me) to instruct users on application security and industry standard compliance.
Source: Eweek
May 10th, 2010 by sayuri
If you thought that reading off RSS through your mobile phone was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome, you’re not alone. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the introduction of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some improvements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.
The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.
Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.
April 10th, 2010 by Grace
Ooh� and who said the internet isn�t exciting? RBN (Russian Business Network), a notorious Russian online gang which has recently closed their St. Petersburg IP address (but has apparently established themselves elsewhere in cyberspace, yet continuously moving to avoid detection), is said to be linked to a November iFrame injection attack of Monster.com an online employment service company. The attack, caused by a NeoSplit or a malware tool, inserted code into pages that then caused systems to download a virus. Monster.com has reported that they�ve already cleaned all the affected Web pages and is now working with law enforcement on the matter.
Source: eweek.com
March 10th, 2010 by Grace
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
July 21st, 2009 by Yalung
When it comes to paying off your bills and monthly expenses, online banking has certainly made life easier. Most banks today have embraced the gifts of technology and we can see that with online access normally on their websites.
So when you want to make money transfers and bills payments in a hurry, you don’t have to go out and get to the nearest bank to do so. Simply register with your bank and do all your transactions online. It is surely lesser of a problem especially when you want to beat deadline of payments today.
June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
April 16th, 2009 by Grace
The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’
March 16th, 2009 by Grace
People and businesses are still not aware that the naming conventions that have been used for so long on the internet are to freed up, liberalized forever and taken out of the hands of any one body the world over. These naming conventions used to be developed and designated by the ICANN and other internet management groups yet moves to take this out of the control of any group or body has resulted in the planned de-regulation of naming conventions. Google can now have specific marketing websites such as “search.Google” or say “Images.Google”. This move would give businesses more room to expand on their use of the internet, say a University having a web site for students named “Students.University”. Continue reading ‘Web Domain Liberalization – Not Many Know’
October 7th, 2008 by Grace
Image Source: zdnet.co.uk
Microsoft has at last shown some Web 2.0 innovations with its Web based application suite. They have recently released the Microsoft Office Live Premium. And by far this is the best new economy Web 2.0 internet move, Microsoft has undergone for a very long, long time. But Microsoft’s first move in this undertaking, that is looking for another percentage of the world’s weakening economy, is to ask the users how much they are willing to shell out for the service or the app. Microsoft Office Live is the first real step that the company took on its own. As it turns out, Microsoft’s web services had no serious efforts in chasing Google with its different undertakings and releases these past few months. Microsoft runs the Hotmail service through the Web 2.0. And the Windows Live Mail, and its Virtual Earth, One Care and many others.
