Google settled with U.S Government to pay $500 millions for showing advertisements of illegal online pharmacies. This settlement reduces Google profits by 22%. Department of Justice started to investigate Google’s advertising practices after the appearance of illegal pharmacies in Google ads
Hackers do what they do best, hack. Some of them hack police websites, some hack companies and some others hack other hackers (or at least their websites). CSL Security, an Anonymous hacker, announced that he found a vulnerability at Metropolitan UK Police website and he infiltrated using SQL Injection
Most of us have a network with the Wi-Fi enabled and this is happening for several reasons. Most of us hate the wires, we have too many and we don’t want more. Some others have a device, such as smart phone, where we can’t put an ethernet cable in it so there is no choice there. Having a Wi-Fi enabled network is very convenient but is it safe?
Stop worrying about arctic ice melt. According to a new research by National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) scientists, the Arctic ice may stabilize or even grow over the next few decades. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the results were published by the American Geophysical Union. The study showed some unexpected results if we take into consideration the fast Arctic ice melt over the last decade and the current climate conditions
Do not think that you can say whatever you want online with no effect in your real life. There are several cases that prove that wrong. Recently a woman kicked out of a restaurant because she called the bartender a “twerp” on twitter. Another woman tried to hire a hitman over facebook to kill the father of her child
It looks like that anyone can hack BART. BART hacked again and this time by a french girl. That french girl, a newbie hacker, released personal data (such as names, addresses and email addresses) of 102 police officers. This was her first hack
There are many people who think that Alexa widget improves their websites to get higher Alexa rank. I am in the opposite group who believe that Alexa widgets make no difference. Some have tested it by having the widget for several days and then remove it for the same amount of days and they saw the same results for their websites
All the electronic devices we own, especially our mobile phones and computers, have a huge amount of personal information about us and our family. Such data could be contact details, phone numbers and email accounts of friends and family, emails from the doctor, family photographs, Internet browsing history, employment agreement and many many more. We should protect that sensitive data from prying eyes. In those prying eyes we include the governments and we should protect ourselves from illegal police searches. We will analyze what is legal and what is not and what we should do if police wants to search our digital devices
A planet 750 light years away from earth is darker than coal. This strange exoplanet reflects less than one percent of the light falling on it. This planet has the name “TrES-2b” has the size of Jupiter. TrES-2b is mostly gas and
Anonymous has announced that they will attack facebook on November 5th. The new operation by Anonymous is called “Operation Facebook” or FacebookOp and their press release is on YouTube. You can see the video here. Their inspiration is the movie