Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Sunday, February 14, 2010

What password is easy to hack?


If you have trouble remembering passwords, you are not alone. Of the thousands of email accounts to leak reveals how easy it is evil to break the password security.

Researchers based computer security firm in London Acunetix, Bogdan Alin who studied about 10,000 Hotmail accounts that leaked and posted on the Internet found that many people who rely on simple passwords and easy in hack.

The simplest password is only one character ")". While is the most common password is "123456", while the predictable passwords include "123,456,789", "12,345,678" and "1.234567".

Other popular passwords include the phrase "I love you", both in English and Spanish, "111,111" and "000000".

Tens of thousands of Hotmail email account, Google and Yahoo this week was leaked on the internet due to phishing attacks so that the User provides their account details.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Hacking Facebook account is easy as 123456

Internet users were opened wide the door to hacking victim. Hackers even just take a second to break the password.

In his latest report, safety data provider that analyzes password Imperva says laziness causes the user to use the same password for different accounts simple. Though simple password is easily penetrated are with brute-force techniques.

The report, titled Consumer Worst Practices password that analyzes 32 million passwords are leaked by Rockyou.com in December.

Conclusion similar to Unix-year study of 1990, which indicates that the choice of a password that is used today consumers have a similar pattern.

The Company estimates that a minimal effort in selecting a password to a hacker to access your account in just one second or 1000 accounts every 17 minutes.

Brian Contos, chief security strategy at the Imperva says scary part is that most people use the same password to access various accounts including Facebook, email and bank accounts.

"Ideally you should have a different password for everything, but it can be difficult to remember," said Contos.

Users must have a minimum of two sets of passwords, especially when accessing sensitive data such as banking, advising Contos said.

Password is short and simple means many users are vulnerable to the basic forms of cyber attacks known as brute-force attacks.

For companies, the insecurity of passwords has serious consequences. Employees use the same password on Facebook and the workplace can bring the possibility of hijacked systems, especially if such password predictable '123456 '.

This report gives us a good understanding of how people choose a password, and that many organizations that do not use encryption to secure passwords.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

iPhone remove Afghanistan from the world map


Afghanistan no longer found in the iPhone application. Map of Afghanistan is estimated to be abolished from the service because of a conspiracy.

IPhone owners who want to find information in Afghanistan will be difficult to find their traces, after the device the iPhone does not allow the existence of these states in the contacts application.

Contact a residence in a country can be found by pressing down the list on the iPhone and the iPod, but if we stay in Afghanistan, then we do not have forced the state.

Application contains 200 countries, extends from 195 countries initially available. Countries such as the Falkland Islands and the Vatican who are not members of the United Nations (UN) can even be found on the iPhone.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Teenagers continue exodus from Facebook

Facebook sensations college age users are encouraged to see the site as the exclusive place to deal with his partner. But his condition changed. Facebook is getting a wider audience and older. As a result teenagers over 20 years of pushing its popularity dwindle, according to research firm comScore. According to research by WPP's Mindshare, the teen group is also re-evaluating its value.

"When you begin to meet with colleagues’ grandmother, I think when it started to not cool anymore," said Huw Griffiths, an executive at Interpublic Group Universal McCann. The numbers have triggered off a debate among advertising agencies about the implications for marketers. For some people, the figure shows a warning flag. But if the trend continues, then the client needs to improve the social marketing network strategy. According to comScore, the average number of minutes spent online at this site by 18-24 people down for the third consecutive month in September, compared with the same period last year. In July, the use of Facebook fell 3 percent, in August of 13 percent and September 16 per cent.

Mark Potts, managing director of Mindshare North America said that the signs of change began to appear a year ago. Members of Scout Network which is the trend of consumer groups across the country began reporting a shift in the way of his friends in using Facebook. But others disagree. "That's for a small percentage of age group ... I want to see more evidence to suggest that users run away from Facebook," said James Kiernan, VP Senior U.S. MediaVest group.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Gooogle prefer Yahoo without Bing

Co-founder Sergey Brin said Google amazed at the resistance to the company's efforts to digitize books of the world. She also criticized the deal with Microsoft in online searches on Yahoo!.

Brin's comments came in a surprise appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

"Honey," she said while chatting with John Battelle Summit. "I think Yahoo! Has a number of innovations in there and I hope they will continue to innovate in the search."

She declined to say whether she opposes the pending agreements related to the Microsoft search engine to handle questions Bing on the website Yahoo!. He said he had a chance to try it.

"I use all the search out there," she said. "I think Bing has reminded us that the search is a very competitive market. There may be several dozen new companies that do interesting things".

He added that Google's mission is optimistic to create a digital archive of the world written work will be successful.

She also defended giant Google on charges of traditional news industry which states that Internet companies made money illegally, with the display of news in the search index.

"The world is evolving and changing business models," Brin said. "They said Google in a single case has been stolen. I do not agree with that conclusion, but I agree there is a loss."

He added that the newspaper is very important to survive.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Half of computer in the word use firefox

Statistics from exo.performance.network showed more than half (50.6%) computer users are now using the Firefox browser. Even so, Internet Explorer is still the most with 84% users use it regularly. The figures also indicate that many people use more than one browser on your computer. It was not surprising, especially with the new browser out like Google Chrome and Windows Safari, and Opera's latest upgrade. Meanwhile, Google Chrome continues to make breakthroughs and has reached 16% of users using that browser. As for Firefox, continue to occur despite the growth of the Internet Explorer still dominates. As many are 12% of users use Microsoft's browser and Google in the system. While is among the top three browsers, only 15% who use both Firefox and Chrome exclusively.

Half of computer in the word use firefox


Statistics from exo.performance.network showed more than half (50.6%) computer users are now using the Firefox browser. Even so, Internet Explorer is still the most with 84% users use it regularly. The figures also indicate that many people use more than one browser on your computer. It was not surprising, especially with the new browser out like Google Chrome and Windows Safari, and Opera's latest upgrade. Meanwhile, Google Chrome continues to make breakthroughs and has reached 16% of users using that browser. As for Firefox, continue to occur despite the growth of the Internet Explorer still dominates. As many are 12% of users use Microsoft's browser and Google in the system. While is among the top three browsers, only 15% who use both Firefox and Chrome exclusively.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Firefox 4.0 Beat Google Chrome


Mozilla recently released a detailed product roadmap that is expected to be launched until the end of 2010, including information Firefox 4.0.
The report called Firefox 4.0 will arrive in the market between October or November 2010. Firefox 4.0 will show the new features, such as a new user interface and support services with multi-touch gestures. This report is classified as a "draft" and could change at any time.
For Firefox users there is a change expected release date of 4.0 at the end of 2010, which will be preceded by the release of 3.6 and 3.7. This new release will offer advances and features that handle JavaScript and improve new tool, page load synchronize bookmarks and more interesting.
Mozilla also said that Firefox 4.0 will beat the look of Google Chrome, where each tab will function and work with a separate process. And reduce the loss of the previous browser session.

Firefox 4.0 Beat Google Chrome


Mozilla recently released a detailed product roadmap that is expected to be launched until the end of 2010, including information Firefox 4.0.
The report called Firefox 4.0 will arrive in the market between October or November 2010. Firefox 4.0 will show the new features, such as a new user interface and support services with multi-touch gestures. This report is classified as a "draft" and could change at any time.
For Firefox users there is a change expected release date of 4.0 at the end of 2010, which will be preceded by the release of 3.6 and 3.7. This new release will offer advances and features that handle JavaScript and improve new tool, page load synchronize bookmarks and more interesting.
Mozilla also said that Firefox 4.0 will beat the look of Google Chrome, where each tab will function and work with a separate process. And reduce the loss of the previous browser session.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Pornography Make Upgrade Firefox Slow

Although Mozilla Firefox 3.0 solved the Guinness World Record for the year 2008 as the most downloaded within 24 hours but still many people who do not want to upgrade from previous versions.

To the staff in Mozilla Firefox questioner sent to the user to find out why they refuse to upgrade.

The result shows that people still want to use version 2.0 for one main reason to protect their web activity to remain private and hidden.

Upgrade version 3.0 contains text matching feature that automatically displays a site similar to the one stored in the user's bookmarks to writer letters into the address bar.

The problem is, people want to always to operating ones to maintain confidentiality. Someone does not want to when you access a particular site in front of the boss or friends of workers and type c in the address will appear then from Craigslist erotic pages that have been in the bookmark will automatically appear.

This automatic matching feature can be avoided or at the same time upgrade to version 3.5 which allows for private browsing. Or, of course, stop by exploring all these sexy sites.

Pornography Make Upgrade Firefox Slow

Although Firefox 3.0 solved the Guinness World Record for the year 2008 as the most downloaded within 24 hours but still many people who do not want to upgrade from previous versions.

To the staff in Firefox questioner sent to the user to find out why they refuse to upgrade.

The result shows that people still want to use version 2.0 for one main reason to protect their web activity to remain private and hidden.

Upgrade version 3.0 contains text matching feature that automatically displays a site similar to the one stored in the user's bookmarks to writer letters into the address bar.

The problem is, people want to always to operating ones to maintain confidentiality. Someone does not want to when you access a particular site in front of the boss or friends of workers and type c in the address will appear then from Craigslist erotic pages that have been in the bookmark will automatically appear.

This automatic matching feature can be avoided or at the same time upgrade to version 3.5 which allows for private browsing. Or, of course, stop by exploring all these sexy sites.