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09 January 2008
The attacker penetrated the sites by discovering applications where the site builder expected a user name, address or other innocuous information to be typed in by the site visitor.
Web sites that naively call for user input, then fail to put strict checks on what that input may be, are susceptible to SQL injection attacks. That vulnerability appears to be the cause of up to 70,000 Web pages getting hacked by malicious code between Dec. 28 and Jan. 5.
The intrusions represent a whole new level of threat to users on the Internet. Instead of...
09 January 2008
JAVA is killing the ability of students to program properly according to to boffins at the University of Chicago.
In a report with the catchy title Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow? boffins Dr. Robert B.K. Dewar and Dr. Edmond Schonberg claim that Java is the root of all evil.
Part of the reason is that it is so popular in the context of Web applications and because beginners can produce graphical programs with it.
However Schonberg and Dewar said that at New York University Java programming...
04 December 2007
Microsoft has big plans in store for its Windows Vista operating system. The company released a release candidate version of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista in mid-November. SP1 is supposed to address a number of performance-related issues with Vista and includes a number of security update and bug fixes that have been rolled out since the operating system launched over a year ago.
In addition to the previously mentioned SP1 features, Microsoft is looking to make pirating Vista a tougher endeavor. The Redmond, Washington-based...
The Internet Singularity, Delayed: Why Limits in Internet Capacity Will Stifle Innovation on the Web
20 November 2007
In this research study, Nemertes performed an independent in-depth analysis of Internet and IP infrastructure (which we call capacity) and current and projected traffic (which we call demand) with the goal of understanding how each has changed over time, and determining if there will ever be a point at which demand exceeds capacity.
To assess infrastructure capacity, we reviewed details of carrier expenditures and vendor revenues, and compared these against market research studies. To compute demand, we took a unique approach: Instead of...
16 November 2007
At a gathering of about 100 of some of South Africa’s top geeks on Tuesday night, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales revealed what he said were some of the “first screenshots” of his new project on search.
But a screenshot that Wales briefly showed us looked very much like a Facebook profile page, than a search page. In fact it looked pretty much identical to a Facebook profile page.
Could this mean Wales is developing a social networking, Facebook competitor too? Could it be some kind of search/social networking...
16 November 2007
RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) - The second UN forum on governance of the Internet has closed with participants agreeing on the need to protect children from sexual predators using the web to lure victims.
Participants at the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro also called for finding ways to expand web access to close the gap between the world's richest and poorest countries.
But the meeting, which was attended by more than 1,300 representatives of governments, the private sector and the Internet from 109 countries, centered on...
13 November 2007
By REGAN E. DOHERTY, Associated Press Writer
Google is not the address for stopping online hate, the Israel director of the engine whose brand name is so well known that it means searching the Internet, told a conference on Monday.
Organizers of the conference from the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that counters anti-Semitism, brought examples of anti-Jewish hate material freely available on the Internet, and participants called for more action to stop it.
But Google Israel Director Meir Brand explained his company's free-access...
09 November 2007
One of many Google’s acquisitions was a company called AdScape, which specialized in in-game advertising and was bought for $23 million in March of 2007. Later this month, rumors say, Google will put this asset to good use and launch their advertising system for games in two steps.
The first step will comprise of a beta test with a gaming startup called Bunchball Games. Google will embed 15-second video ads in some of Bunchball’s games, which are mostly casual affairs, and some are available as Facebook applications.
In...
30 October 2007
Apple has sold 2 million copies of Leopard, the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system, since its release on Friday.
The company said the Leopard sales rush outpaced that of its predecessor Tiger, until now the most successful Apple operating system. The 2 million sales figure includes copies of Leopard sold at Apple retail stores, Apple authorised resellers, the online Apple Store, under maintenance agreements and those copies bundled with newly shipping Macs.
Leopard, which is priced at USD129 in the US, is the sixth major...
29 October 2007
Recently, I spoke at the Forrester Consumer Forum here in Chicago, titled “Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies.” I’d like to share with you some of the findings from my presentation, which focused on consumer trends in social networking.
I personally find the worldwide expansion of social networking sites fascinating. For example, it’s commonly thought that with the success of sites like MySpace and Facebook, the U.S. is the hub of social networking activity. However, Asia is not only the...
