Apple released an update to its Safari web browser Wednesday. Safari 5.0.1 is available from Apple as a free download for Windows and for Mac OS X (Leopard or better). Mac users can also find it in Software Update. This is an incremental upgrade, but it comes with one big new feature: Safari now...
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If you run a website and you care about getting your site listed in relevant search results, then you may want to check out the brand new Bing Webmaster Tools. When Microsoft first launched Bing, they started inviting feedback from web site administrators and SEO specialists about what they thought of Bing’s initial Webmaster...
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Before last January’s Chinese cyberspying scandal, “Google hacking” meant something rather different. For years, hackers have used the search engine to probe for security vulnerabilities around the Web: Search for certain lines of buggy code, and Google’s results turn up hundreds of sites that are ripe for exploits. Now two researchers hope to revive...
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The number of Israelis whose personal information was stolen by Turkish Internet hackers has risen to at least 100,000, Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. Erez Wolf, an Israeli blogger who operates We-CMS website, reported Friday that tens of thousands of e-mail addresses, passwords and personal details of Israeli web surfers are in the hands of...
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I was exploring some cool, funny and interesting pictures on the web, when I stumbled on this “500 worst password” image on Flickr. After reading the list of passwords It made me think because although this is hilarious it is also a serious matter. Some internet users today usually use some of the passwords...
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THE Internet is a Soviet bread line. Remember those lines? Back when commissars commanded the Soviet Union’s economy like Knute commanding the tides, people would wait for hours in long queues for free bread. Although the bread was free, people paid for it with their time. To economists, the long lines were a real-life...
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KOREA – Internet usage through mobile devices rapidly rises between 7 p.m. in the evening and midnight, a study found on Friday. According to Daum Communications, the country’s leading Internet software provider, the use of the mobile Web rises during the lunch hours and surges in the evening from 7 p.m. when workers usually...
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Blogger Nguyen Hue Chi is locked in an electronic game of cat and mouse with a mystery cyberattacker—widely believed to be the government. Chi and his colleagues have set up a series of websites and blogs questioning government policy in the past year, only to see them attacked and blocked. Observers blame the communist...
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The web sites of more than a whopping 200 Australian organisations were hijacked and vandalised in a spate of hacks last week. In the largest single attack, a hacker gained administrative access to the Direct Admin server management system used by a hosting provider, who Computerworld Australia will not name, and suspended 159 accounts...
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Its new Open Graph protocol, an extension of its Facebook Connect, is a clear challenge to Google but may not prove useful for many Web searches When Facebook launched its Open Graph protocol in April, blanketing the Web with “like” and “recommend” buttons, it seemed obvious that one of the company’s goals was to...
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Millions of web users rely on PDF files every day to consume a wide variety of text and media content. To enable this, a number of plug-ins exist today which allow users to open PDF files inside their browsers. As we’ve previously mentioned, the traditional browser plug-in model, though powerful, presents challenges in compatibility,...
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Tor Project have released a public beta of a new Firefox extension that lets people encrypt their communications with Facebook, Twitter and other sites. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension was inspired by Google’s encrypted Web search option, the EFF said in announcing the tool last week. In addition...
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Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo is the player Google users are searching for the most as the World Cup gets underway in South Africa. “In search, the winning player is already clear: Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese team captain and talented forward,” the Internet giant said in a blog post on Friday. Besides Ronaldo, Google said analysis...
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