When should you leave the meta description of a page? Er, never? OK, I suppose if you are unable to create unique ones for every page, it doesn’t make sense to have the same one everywhere. But this whole idea of leaving it off when the page is targeted at long tail queries makes no [...]
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Actually this SEO contest is not really well organized because the set of rules which each participant must follow are not strict enough and this makes the competition a bit dull. The biggest problem with it is that you can use aged high pr domains not like other SEO competitions where you must use brand [...]
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The phantomatic Higgs boson still has no face, as the Cern’s LHC (Large Hadron Collider) didn’t produce yet the planned protons collisions. Meanwhile Cern’s website lost his own face, due to a Greek group of defacers called GST (Greek Security Team).
The defacers left a homepage message in Greek language. While when we learned about the [...]
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Yet another Microsoft defacement
Once again Microsoft got defaced by means of SQL Injection. Few days ago a defacer known as Agd_Scorp defaced 6 Microsoft websites.
Few years ago, Microsoft was the target of the attacks mostly because defacers liked Linux more. Now it is just “for fame”. Also in this case defacer didn’t [...]
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Computer systems at three major London hospitals are largely back online on Friday morning, three days after a major computer virus outbreak forced staff to disconnect the network.
IT systems at St Bartholomew’s (Barts), the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green were taken down on Tuesday following infection by [...]
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The US Army has reportedly suspended the use of USB and removable media devices after a worm began spreading across its network.
Use of USB drives, floppy discs, CDs, external drives, flash media cards and all other removable media devices has been placed on hold in order to contain the spread of Agent-BTZ, a variant of [...]
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Attacks on banks
This article provides an overview of the methods currently used by cyber criminals to attack financial institutions and banks in particular. It reviews general trends and takes how malicious programs targeting financial institutions are designed to evade detection by antivirus solutions. The article also covers phishing, money mules, the technical steps which cyber [...]
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Updated at 9:47 am, with the likelihood of any potential Yahoo overture to Microsoft.
If Yahoo wants to get Microsoft back to the negotiating table, it would do well to try the lure of a search-only deal–regardless of whether Jerry Yang is CEO.
That’s the assessment from one influential Microsoft source.
“If Jerry was still CEO and called [...]
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Google at 10: Searching its own soul
As Google recently turned 10 years old, some analysts and investors began to say the company was suffering from early signs of maturity. Google’s growth rate, while still brisk, has slowed significantly and is expected to slow more because of the economic slowdown. Eric E. Schmidt, chief executive, [...]
