China, Heaven For The Hacker

China apparently is a ‘paradise’ for hackers. The reason is that the state has many virtual stores open marketplace or a particular traded aka malicious software malware (malicious software).As quoted from PCWorld site, according to one security expert who spoke at the Black Hat hacker conference Defcon in Texas U.S., the required tools to do the hack with a cheap price and can be customized, can be obtained easily in China.

“The hackers  in China to develop malware is almost like a commercial software product,” said Val Smith, founder of computer security firm Attack Research, quoted from PCWorld.Like commercial software, malware products they offer are equipped with serial numbers, product ads, the license agreement, up to 24-hour support service. According to Smith, the hacker community is very big in the marketplace, and a lot of malware that is also already very sophisticated.

Unlike in the U.S. where hackers traded hacking tools tacitly, in China most of the malware can be obtained easily in an open, even through a search engine Baidu.com, Consumers can have this tools at a price less than U.S. $ 20 or subscribe to become members to get updates and the supply of new tools on a regular basis. They also can choose the tools hackers what they want, ranging from data theft tool, screen capture, keystroke loggers, or other type of hacking.

The buyers can also be tested malware programs before buying. Even this malware programs can also be equipped with statistical tools capable of detecting the extent of the spread of infection caused by the program.China apparently is a ‘paradise’ for hackers. The reason is that the state has many virtual stores open marketplace or a particular traded aka malicious software malware (malicious software).

As quoted from PCWorld site, according to one security expert who spoke at the Black Hat hacker conference Defcon in Texas U.S., the required tools to do the hack with a cheap price and can be customized, can be obtained easily in China. “The hackers  in China to develop malware is almost like a commercial software product,” said Val Smith, founder of computer security firm Attack Research, quoted from PCWorld.

Like commercial software, malware products they offer are equipped with serial numbers, product ads, the license agreement, up to 24-hour support service. According to Smith, the hacker community is very big in the marketplace, and a lot of malware that is also already very sophisticated.

Unlike in the U.S. where hackers traded hacking tools tacitly, in China most of the malware can be obtained easily in an open, even through a search engine Baidu.com Consumers can have this tools at a price less than U.S. $ 20 or subscribe to become members to get updates and the supply of new tools on a regular basis. They also can choose the tools hackers what they want, ranging from data theft tool, screen capture, keystroke loggers, or other type of hacking. The buyers can also be tested malware programs before buying. Even this malware programs can also be equipped with statistical tools capable of detecting the extent of the spread of infection caused by the program.

Twitter Change the front Display

Pages micro blogging Twitter alter pageview Advances they for provide better services on Tuesday, March 30th 2010. One change namely launching sexy ‘See who’s here’ which shows celebrities or specific brands existing within Twitter unto them Newly registered on Twitter.

Addition, front page This also now contain ‘Downloadable Tweets’ that contains Tweet-Tweet attract most new. Pages Mashable reported that front yard was last updated on summer last year.

Moment, p. added is search engine located at upper homepage Twitter. Machinery searchlight’s indeed give good service however unable introduce Twitter perfectly.

“Changes this design conducted to explains that Twitter is network place information exchange happened with time quickly,” said creative director Twitter, Doug Bowman like quoted pages PCWorld.

Although popularity Twitter continue rocketed during recent years largely users yet can understand how Twitter working. Survey conducted BarracudaLabs indicates that only 21st percent Twitter users truly active.

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will be delivering several updates to its Bing search engine in an attempt to cut into Google's dominant position in the space

Microsoft said on Tuesday that it will be delivering several updates to its Bing search engine in an attempt to cut into Google’s dominant position in the space.According to Microsoft, its research has shown that 42% of all Bing queries require some refinements for users to find exactly what they’re looking for. Currently, Bing offers a “Quick Tabs” pane to the left of results to help users get to content that might in some way relate to their query. And although Microsoft claims the feature has been popular, it thinks it can do better.Microsoft plans to test new Bing designs “over the next few months” that will move the Quick Tabs pane to the top of the search page. The company thinks that the modification will help users “make faster, more informed decisions.”

One of Bing’s core focuses is on real-time data. Currently, the search engine lets users see the latest tweets and Facebook status updates on a particular subject. In order to make real-time data a more present part of its search, Microsoft said that it will begin testing better availability of real-time results. Bing will also start offering real-time content, such as the “most popular shared links,” from other sites around the Web.

To improve Bing Maps, Microsoft partnered with location-based service Foursquare to create an app for its mapping tool. Bing Maps users will be able to see Foursquare data, such as mayorships, badges and check-ins, around a particular area.

As exciting as the updates might be for some Bing users, the effect they will have on search market share will probably be minimal. According to market-research firm comScore, Google enjoys more than 65% search market share, while Bing has captured just over 11% of the market. A few updates to design or functionality probably won’t be enough for the company to gain significant ground. Historically, catching up to a dominant search provider takes a long time.In other words, Microsoft is facing an uphill battle in search that probably won’t be ending anytime soon.

Facebook beat Google's search engine giant for the first time

social networking site Facebook has become the most popular in the United States (U.S.), last week. This also marks the success of Facebook beat Google’s search engine giant for the first time.Experian network analyst firm Hitwise said that the number of visitors for Facebook much more than Google visitors until 13 March.”This shows that the content sharing service more attractive and encourage people to surf the Internet,” said Hitwise spokesman Matt Tatham was quoted as saying on CNN television stations pages.Tatham said that the primacy of Facebook also shows that more people trust the opinions of their friends than the results offered by search engines. “Ease of sharing information and content offered by Facebook is the key to their success,” said Tatham to Computerworld.

A total of 7.07 percent of U.S. Internet users visit Facebook last week, while Google’s 7.03 percent accessible. Then in succession Yahoo! Mail to 3.80 percent, the main site Yahoo 3.67 percent, 2.14 percent and YouTube.Although the difference in visits to Facebook and Google is very thin, but the growth of Facebook far beyond Google. Compared with the same period last year, the number of visits to Facebook increased by 185 percent while traffic to Google is only increased 9 percent.”This victory is certainly of great significance for Facebook, although the difference is very small,” said Tatham.

China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday

China warned Google, the world’s largest search engine, against flouting the country’s laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.The chief executive of Google, Eric Schmidt, said this week he hoped to announce soon a result to talks with Chinese authorities on offering an uncensored search engine in China.

“Google has made its case, both publicly and privately,” China’s Minister of Industry and Information Technology, Li Yizhong, said, but did not confirm directly that his ministry was in talks with Google.Google in January threatened to pull out of China if it could not offer an unfiltered Chinese search engine, after cyber attacks originating from China on it and about 30 other firms.”If you don’t respect Chinese laws, you are unfriendly and irresponsible, and the consequences will be on you,” Li told reporters, in answer to a question on what China would do if Google.cn simply stopped filtering search results.Li complimented Google on having reached about 30 percent market share in the Chinese market since it launched google.cn about three years ago, and said it was welcome to expand market share further if it abided by Chinese law.

It was up to Google whether to stay in China’s market or not, he added.Ministry officials have wavered between confirming and denying that talks are happening at all, in response to repeated media questions during China’s annual legislative session.

“This is really a hot topic, it’s easy and yet not easy to respond. A lot of these matters don’t fall under my ministry, ” Li said.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shares oversight of the Chinese Internet with a number of other bodies, while still more bureaucracies are involved in matters of foreign investment, complicating the Chinese government’s response to Google’s challenge.(Reuters)

SHANGHAI Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google

SHANGHAI Two prominent schools in China dispute allegations that hacking attacks on Google and other firms originated from them, a report said Saturday.The New York Times reported late Thursday that security investigators traced the hacking to computers at Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School in China.The official Xinhua News Agency cited an unnamed university spokesperson Saturday as saying the allegation against it is baseless, and an official at the vocational school said its investigation found no evidence the attacks originated there.

Li Zixiang, a Communist party official in the Lanxiang school in the eastern Shandong province, said students there are currently on their winter break. He also disputed the Times report that some evidence linked attacks to one computer science class taught by a Ukrainian. “We have never employed any foreign staff,” Xinhua quoted Li as saying.Another official at the vocational school disputed the Times’ report that Lanxiang had close ties to the military.Zhou Hui, director of the school’s general office, told Xinhua that some students had joined the military after school, but it was natural for citizens to do so.

Google revealed Jan. 12 that digital thieves had stolen some of its computer code and tried to break into the accounts of human rights activists opposed to China’s policies. The sophisticated theft also targeted the computers of more than 30 other companies, according to security experts.The digital assault was serious enough to prompt Google to confront China’s government about censorship rules that weed out politically and culturally sensitive topics from search results in the country. Google says it’s prepared to shut down its China-based search engine and the company and the government are still discussing a possible compromise.China has denied involvement in Internet attacks and said in January its anti-hacking policy is transparent and consistent. (AP)

antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.'s

Google

SAN FRANCISCO  U.S. antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at Google Inc.’s proposed $750 million purchase of mobile phone marketer AdMob, the latest sign of greater government vigilance as Google tries to expand its advertising empire.The Federal Trade Commission sought more information about the deal this week, according to a Wednesday post on Google’s blog.This so-called “second request” doesn’t mean regulators intend to block Google’s AdMob deal. Most other acquisitions that go through this stage end up getting approved.But the FTC’s action shows regulators are watching Google more carefully as the company tries to build upon its dominance of the Internet’s lucrative search advertising market. Google is expected to pull in more than $22 billion in revenue this year, mostly from ads shown alongside search results and other Web content.

“We know that closer scrutiny has been one consequence of Google’s success,” Paul Feng, a Google product manager, wrote in Wednesday’s blog posting. Echoing previous management comments, Feng said the company remains confident its AdMob purchase, announced last month, will be approved.Google’s huge lead in Internet search triggered a 2008 government investigation that scuttled its plans to enter into an advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., which runs the second most-popular search engine. Yahoo plans to work with Microsoft Corp. instead, beginning next year if those two companies can gain regulatory approval.

Since its inception nearly four years ago, AdMob has built a thriving network that sells and delivers ads on applications and Web sites designed for the iPhone and other mobile devices. It’s still relatively small with estimated annual revenue of $45 million to $60 million, but regulators apparently want to understand whether its technology and advertising contacts would give Google an unfair advantage in its quest to sell more mobile phone ads.

Google management has indicated that it believes mobile marketing eventually may become bigger than advertising on Internet-connected computers. That tipping point still appears to be many years away, with U.S. mobile advertising expected to total $416 million this year, about 2 percent of overall Internet ad spending in the country.

The FTC’s decision to take more time digging into the AdMob deal means Google probably won’t be able to take over the company for several more months, Stifel Nicolaus analyst Rebecca Arbogast wrote in a Wednesday research note. It took a year for the FTC to approve Google’s $3.2 billion acquisition of Internet ad service DoubleClick Inc., which was completed in March 2008.

Google’s first big deal, a $1.76 billion acquisition of the video site YouTube, was cleared by regulators in a month in 2006.
Separately, Google ran into another potential roadblock Wednesday after another takeover target, On2 Technologies Inc., said that it still hadn’t collected enough shareholder support to close its deal. On2, based in Clifton, N.J., adjourned a shareholder meeting to approve its $106 million sale to Google until Feb. 17 in hopes of getting the necessary support.Google, which is based in Mountain View, agreed to buy On2 in August to help improve YouTube’s video technology.

Microsoft says willing to pay for the exclusive access to the news company.

Microsoft says willing to pay one of the largest media companies in the world of News Corporation to gain exclusive access to the news company.Some reports from the London and New York mentioned the return of Microsoft’s willingness to pay the media company owned by Rupert Murdoch is the news content of News Corporation taken from the Google search engine.Charge of this news will only be accessed through a new search engine Microsoft’s Bing.If this trend continues the search engines will compete with each other for the cost to get access to news.this step could end the era of free news on the internet.

During the Internet users can easily get the news free of charge for the media company’s eliminate such access.In the past few days there were efforts by media companies to collect fees from the news that put on the internet.This step is taken after a newspaper circulation worldwide has decreased.On the other hand search engines such as Google to provide the news media owned by various companies for free.