Anonymous and TeaMp0isoN joined together and thanks to an independent rapper they now have a theme song. There is also a professional looking video clip on YouTube made for the theme and hacktivists hope that the song will storm the music charts. If you see the video you will see scenes from the recent London riots. While TeaMp0isoN was focusing on the music chart storm, Anonymous was focusing on the Wall Street protests. The artist is Lyricist Jinn and the theme song is for #OpCensorThis.
Microsoft earns big from Android
Analyst of Goldman Sachs estimate that Microsoft will have a revenue of $444 millions during fiscal year 2012 (July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012) from Android patent deals. Microsoft settled with companies like HTC and Samsung and according to Goldman it receives around $3-$6 from every android device that is sold. Microsoft has its own smart phones and generating this income from its competitors shows that patents are a very strong weapon.
Francis Bacon’s Cipher
Francis Bacon’s Cipher or Baconian Cipher is strictly speaking a steganographic code and not a true cipher. To encode your message with Baconian cipher you replace each letter of your original text with a group of five ‘A’s and ‘B’s. There are two versions of the Baconian alphabet, in the first version the letters ‘I’ and ‘J’ have the same code and the same applies to ‘U’ and ‘V’. In the second version each letter has its own code.
Google+ is growing very fast
Google+ is growing very fast since it opened for public and you don’t need an invitation. The user base of Google+ is now over 50 million in just 88 days after its launch. The growth is now about 4% per day and in numbers this means about 2 millions new members per day. Since the launch of Google+ we saw Facebook changing and trying to look more like Google+. They added some functionality about post visibility and some other things like lists, subscribe feature, longer posts etc, which is what Google+ already had. It is good to see the competition forcing companies to change and users benefit from that.
TiGER-M@TE hacked 700.000 sites with one shot
TiGER-M@TE hacked 700.000 websites hosted on InMotion hosting network in one shot. Some attacks target single websites, some attacks target hosting server and this one a whole data center. TiGER-M@TE hacks since 2007 and this one is his largest attack. The attack didn’t make any serious damage, especially if the targets had backups. The method is simple, the hacker was adding a custom “index.php” file in several directories and if the same file was already there, it was replaced by the custom one. The index.php file is the file that it is shown by the web server when someone visits the website/folder.
Steps to Secure your WordPress Blog
WordPress is in my opinion the best choice for your blog. It is powerful and highly extensible. I have created a list of things that anyone can do to add layers of protection to his blog. Blogging means spending time to write and no one wants to see this time and effort wasted due to some hacker. In addition, it is not a good practice to be worrying all the time about hackers and system errors. This list will help you relax and forget about security and focus on writing.
HTTPS is Vulnerable to Crypto Attack
Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is used by millions of websites to secure the communications with their visitors. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption protocol is used to provide encrypted communication and secure identification. HTTPS is the combination of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) with the SSL/TLS protocol. Security researchers found that HTTPS is vulnerable for decryption by attackers…
How to remove WordPress version
Hackers plan their attack based on the information they have. A large portion of attacks is based on outdated versions of web server, Wordpress, themes, plugins and anything else they can exploit vulnerabilities found on old versions. Wordpress version is visible in any page and post. It is included in the header and anyone who visits your site/blog can see this information. It is wise to remove this information so hackers can’t find the version and plan their attack based on the vulnerabilities found on that version, especially if you don’t update Wordpress because you have made many changes to the code. There are many ways to remove Wordpress version if you search but not all of them remove the version successfully…
How to refresh the favicon manually
I have found that browsers refuse to refresh the favicon. With simple refresh (F5) I could understand the unwillingness because browsers tend to use cache for faster page loading. After forcing cache refresh (Ctrl+F5), I had the new content but not the favicon, that “very large” file. I didn’t want to clear my browser’s cache since I had “stuff” that I wanted. In order to change it manually, you have to refresh the file yourself. Insert the url address of the favicon you want to refresh into your browser, in most cases is http://domain/favicon and it will show you the icon, most probably the old one. Here we are, now…
Hero Rabbit is Dead
Having a rabbit as a pet can save your life. After realizing that there was a fire, the pet rabbit went to homeowner’s bedroom and wake her up by scratching on her chest. The homeowner smelt the smoke and realized that there was fire. She woke up her daughter and left the house. Luckily, both mother and daughter are with no injuries. The sad thing is that our hero didn’t make it, it inhaled too much smoke