DNS In Kenya Hijacked By Bangladeshi Hacker – International Business TimesSome users visiting google.co.ke (as well as LinkedIn, Microsoft, and other sites) were redirected to a different website with a large "Hacked" stamp thanks to a DNS (domain...
How one hacker re-themed websites and created a hacked site network. Here's a quick recap of search and social marketing news and tips from the past week. No Google Glass competitor is imminent from Baidu, though apparently all the tech news sites...
Digg hopes to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader's features, including its API, but also advance them to fit "the Internet of 2013", such as integrate it into social networks and communities like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit and...
Relaunched exactly a year ago, via a quick post on Hacker News, Walling's new HitTail has suffered no downtime and the improved database means current customers have seen their keyword suggestions increase ten fold.
Yesterday, the author submitted the post to Hacker News, prompting a response from Matt Cutts late last night. The left-hand column gives you ways to refine your search: you can limit the types of search results like news/images, slice/dice search...
Around 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were recently posted to a Russian hacker site, according to Norwegian website Dagens. The security firm claims that even though only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords have been posted online, it...
The hidden cost to users is a lack of privacy, and as Nik Cubrilovic, who describes himself as a serial entrepreneur, writer, and hacker, notes in this blog post, Facebook can track every page you visit, even if you’re logged out.
A man-in-the-middle attack happens when a hacker compromises a connection between a user and the service they are trying to access - in this case, Google. The hacker uses fraudulent, but verifiable credentials, to the user, making the user believe...
He thanked the person who put his story on Hacker News; though it generated an onslaught of negative buzz within that community, it became top news and he had several thousand hits to his site. We’ve seen people appeal publicly for employment with...
This is a good move for DuckDuckGo whose focus on simplicity, privacy and fervent stance against personalisation has proved popular in certain circles such as Hacker News. However, the partnership potentially extends Wolfram|Alpha's influence...
What We Learnt From a Pills Link Hacker - Explicitly Me Here's a roundup of today's other search news and headlines from around the web, sorted by category. Search Industry News Mercury News interview: Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's SVP of product...
The first acknowledgement/responsibility claim came over at the no2redzone site, from Security Through Hackscurity and read thusly: we hacked becuse zfire xue challenge hacker to hack.he so script child that it take second.site down.site back...
If Chinese hacker cyber attacks have caused Google to have concerns about China, should the Internet community be concerned about Facebook opening operations in China? While the trip was kept quiet, and Baidu representatives have yet to comment...
Positing on Hacker News, Cutts wrote: Google's Matt Cutts today announced the launch of a new algorithm that is intended to better detect and reduce spam in Google's search results and lower the rankings of scraper sites and sites with little...
Not only has Anonymous sworn to defend WikiLeaks and Assange (a former hacker himself) against all those that have harmed him, but they have also seeded WikiLeaks across at least 780 mirror sites at last count (those are sites that contain his...
Accusations of censoring of WikiLeaks out of Trending Topics this week has seen the threat of attacks on Twitter from Anonymous - the hacker group claiming responsibility for the DDOS attacks. Twitter has been dealing with the Anonymous hacker...
The Jester - seriously that is what he calls himself - the hacker supposedly responsible for the first removal of Wikileaks from the web - but then again an imposter jumped in to make that claim and falsely state his office was raided by the police.
First and most unexpected was Michael Arrington's reporting of Twitter's hack problems -- a hacker got access to more than 300 documents from inside Twitter, including some proprietary information that shouldn't have seen the light of day.
The hacker sent the documents to two blogs: Silicon Valley's TechCrunch and Korben, a tech news site in France. Twittergate: Hacked Docs Stir Up Questions of Ethics and Security Posted by Nathania Johnson Jul 17, 2009 Recently a hacker obtained...
The hacker sent the documents to two blogs: Silicon Valley's TechCrunch and Korben, a tech news site in France. Recently a hacker obtained confidential documents containing information about Twitter's business plans as well as user accounts and...
