Attack on Google's Palestine Site Shows Risks of Foreign Domains

As this week's hacking attacks against Google, Twitter and the New York Times demonstrate, the dispersed nature of the Internet — a core trait that makes the Web so powerful — also leaves it vulnerable to being hijacked.
All three incidents showed the fragility of the Domain Name System that computers rely on to find each other on the Internet, an issue security experts have grappled with for decades. Yet the attack that hit Google offers a particularly instructive lesson about how even large companies with big security budgets can lose control over their foreign sites.
Google, which was infiltrated in 2009 by hackers from China, now has 300 information-security professionals focused on protecting data, a figure approaching bank-like proportions. Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase, the largest U.S. bank by assets, said in April that his bank has more than 600 employees dedicated to security.
Still, Google's security force couldn't stop hackers from breaking into a third-party service that manages Palestine's .ps domain, changing the IP address of google.ps and temporarily redirecting traffic to an anti-Israel page.
Jay Nancarrow, a spokesman for Google, declined to comment on the company’s security. Google's Palestine site itself wasn’t hacked, and the company is talking with the domain manager to resolve the issue, he said.
Widely used domains such as .com and .net are operated by registrars such as VeriSign and NeuStar, which have security features that cost as little as $50 a year to prevent tampering with Web-address records. But many regional domains are managed by local companies that don't offer the same protections, said Paco Hope, a principal consultant with Cigital Inc., a cybersecurity consultancy.
In some places, only one company may be in charge of managing a country's domain, leaving customers such as Google vulnerable should employees at the local company get hacked, Hope said.
"The weakest link is always the human," he said.
The attacks on Twitter and The New York Times were made possible by a breach at Melbourne IT, an Australian Web-services provider where a reseller's account was compromised by a phishing email. It's not known how Google's Palestine partner was hacked.
While none of the attacks caused lasting damage, they are a reminder that the machine that makes the Internet work is vast and varied. And the weakest link threatening a global brand may be these obscure, far-flung companies responsible for keeping these foreign sites online.

Skype's Journey to Connect 70 Million People at Once

Skype hit two major milestones this week: It connected 70 million people through its Internet calling service at once and celebrated its 10th anniversary.
This chart, created by Statista, shows the maximum users concurrently connected on Skype during each of the platform's 10 years.

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In 2004, Skype's first year, only 1 million users used the platform at once. The most significant jumps occurred during the last two years. In 2011, 30 million people made Skype calls at the same time, which is less than half the number concurrently connected earlier this week.
Statist pulled the data in this chart from Skype's real-time user figures and the Skype Numerology blog.

Carbon-Based Cellphones on the Horizon

One of the biggest knocks against cellphones is they require small amounts of rare earth elements: gallium, indium and arsenic, for example, that are both scarce and expensive. But what if you could make a phone out of a more common element, like carbon?
Researchers are taking slow but sure steps toward building the innards of a cellphone out of carbon nanotubes, a structure that resembles a microscopic sheet of chicken wire rolled into a cylinder. These cylinders can be used to either conduct electricity or store energy.
At the Technical University of Denmark, Jakob Wagner and colleagues have found a better way to build carbon nanotubes that could lead to their use as a semiconductor, a key component of all electronic circuit parts found in both cellphones and laptops. Carbon nanotubes have properties of both a metal and a semiconductor, depending on how they are rolled.
“The breakthrough here is that we are able to control the production of nanotubes whether they are metallic or semiconducting,” Wagner said. “That’s important because if you want to use them in cellphones, we have to make sure they are either one or the other. The prospect is to use semiconducting carbon nanotubes as a substitute for gallium.”
Warner published his work earlier this month in the Nature publication Scientific Reports.
The next step is to be able to produce large amounts of semiconducting carbon nanotubes that could be made into an electronic device, Wagner said.
“It will not be tomorrow, let’s say 10 years,” he said.
But at IBM, researchers like James Hannon are working to speed up that lab-to-prototype timescale. Hannon says that Wagner’s finding is an important step, but it needs to be replicated on larger-diameter carbon nanotubes.
"This is a nice scientific demonstration, but not in the range that would be used in a logic application," said Hannon, manager of IBM’s carbon electronics group in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. "I’d like to see if this technique could work for larger diameter tubes as well."
Last year, Hannon and his IBM colleagues announced they had built memory and microprocessing chips using carbon nanotubes. He said the tough thing is getting them to lie down in straight lines, but they overcame this obstacle by creating special grooves etched into the silicon chip surface and a bonding agent.
Hannon says the two challenges with carbon nanotubes is figuring out how to place them and how to separate the semiconducting ones from the metallic ones, which are thrown away. A separate team at North Carolina State University recently reported they were able to integrate carbon nanotubes into a flexible scaffold for a silicon-based battery that would last longer than existing lithium ion batteries.

Smartphone Maker Micromax Emerging as the Xiaomi of India

India’s currency may be floundering, but its smartphone market is on fire. Sales have nearly tripled in the last year, led by the local upstart Micromax, which is nipping at the heels of Samsung for market share dominance. Micromax now commands a 22% market share, up from 18.8% in the first quarter. Samsung’s share has slipped to 26% from 32.7%.

The scenario that is playing out in India — initial dominance by foreign brands like Samsung and Sony, which is quickly eroded by homegrown manufacturers like Micromax and Karbonn — is eerily similar to the dynamic seen in China, where Samsung and Apple had an early advantage that is being steadily erased by Huawei and Lenovo.
Other companies that fit a similar mold include Coolpad in China, Smartfren in Indonesia, Ninetology in Malaysia, Cherry Mobile in the Philippines, i-Mobile in Thailand, and Q-Smart in Vietnam, as IDC noted earlier this month. There is plenty of money on the table: emerging-market sales are expected to surge from 400 million units in 2013 to 749 million in 2017.

In India’s case, the trend will be accelerated by the country’s currency woes, which are making foreign imports much more expensive — the rupee has declined by nearly a third in the last six months. But even without foreign exchange fluctuations it could spell bad news for companies like Samsung and Apple, which derive huge portions of their profits from smartphones, yet have largely saturated their existing markets and are facing increasingly intense domestic competition in new ones.
Micromax, now within shouting distance of becoming the top smartphone maker in the world’s largest market after the United States and China, at first glance bears some similarities to Xiaomi, the Chinese firm that drew attention this week by poaching a top executive from Google’s Android division, which makes the operating system used by some 80% of the world’s smartphones, including Samsung and Micromax.
Like Xiaomi, Micromax’s top-of-the-line phones are significantly cheaper than the premium-priced handsets from Apple and Samsung; its newly launched Canvas Doodle 2 phablet sells for 19,990 rupees ($300). (It also has a gimmicky “blow-to-unlock” feature.) The company has bet heavily on the super-size phones known as phablets, which now make up 30% of the Indian smartphone market. “[G]iven the growth we are seeing in the phablet category (Canvas series), we are aiming to be the top player by Diwali, which is Q3,” Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma told the PTI news agency.
Market research firm IDC said that India’s second-quarter smartphone sales nearly tripled to 9.3 million, from 3.5 million a year earlier, led by devices with super-sized screens of five inches and bigger. These so-called phablets now make up 30% of the Indian smartphone market.
If there’s anything standing in the way of Micromax’s march to dominance in India, it might be the lack of a charismatic executive at the helm, a la Xiaomi’s Lei Jun, often called “China’s Steve Jobs.” Rajesh Agarwal, co-founder and managing director of Micromax, was forced to resign at the beginning of August after he was arrested for attempting to bribe municipal engineers to obtain approval for the construction of a banquet hall. The incident could derail the company’s anticipated IPO; it is backed by private equity firms Sequoia Capital, Sandstone Capital and Madison India Capital.

TiVo Roamio Reinvents the Cable Box for the Digital Streaming Age

With the TiVo Roamio line, TiVo hopes to marry the cable TV with digital streaming services. But is it enough to keep the company relevant?
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for TiVo. Even before I bought my first TiVo box back in 2003, I was a fan of the service and its functionality. Cable DVRs were only starting to roll out — and the interface was a gigantic mess. Moreover, my TiVo had features such as home network support, box-to-box transfers and the ability to stream podcasts. TiVo was a product literally years ahead of its time.

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The problem was that the shift to HDTV worked against the company. A box that once worked well with SD channels on an HDTV didn't adapt to the HD world. Instead, using a TiVo required cumbersome adaptors and crucial trade-offs. At the same time, it just became easier to use the DVR built into the cable company's set-top box. Even worse, television viewing increasingly shifted to include web programming — something TiVo was late to address.
When I moved to New York City in 2011, I left my TiVo boxes behind. In spite of years of loyalty (I was a volunteer hardware and software beta tester for a number of years before becoming a tech journalist), TiVo simply hadn't adapted to meet my needs as a TV viewer.
I say all of this to preface why I'm very seriously considering dropping $400 on the TiVo Roamio Plus, and why that's a big deal.

Welcome to 2013, TiVo. We've missed you.

Welcome to 2013, TiVo. We've missed you.With the Roamio Plus, TiVo has managed to satisfy the rare TV viewer who is both willing to pay for digital cable and who subscribes and consumes a lot of digital content. Fortunately, this describes me perfectly. I'm one of the only people my age that won't even consider cutting the cord (give me HBO or give me death), but also pays for subscriptions to Netflix, Hulu Plus, Aereo, Redbox Instant and Amazon Prime.
In addition to my cable subscription, I also have plenty of other devices hooked up to my TV: Roku, Apple TV, Slingbox, Boxee, Xbox 360, connected Blu-ray player, Silicon Dust HDHomeRun, Mac mini and a Windows home theater PC.
Part of the appeal of the TiVo Roamio Plus is that it can ostensibly replace all — or most — of those extra boxes, while also offering access to digital cable while digital streaming content.

Setting Up

The TiVo Roamio Plus can record up to six shows at once using a CableCARD. Right off the bat, that means that if you use satellite or AT&T U-Verse, the TiVo Roamio Plus won't work for you.
If you're not familiar with a CableCARD, it's a PCMCIA-sized device that acts as a cable box. Cable companies are legally required to provide them upon request (in lieu of renting one of the company's cable boxes), but depending on your provider and location, actually getting a card may require someone to come and install it.
You'll also need to make sure to get a multi-stream CableCARD (often called an M-Card), as that's the only kind that works with the TiVo.
You can set up the TiVo Roamio Plus without using an M-Card, but you won't have access to any televised content. If you want a TiVo you can use with an HD antenna, you will need the $199.99 TiVo Roamio.
Once the M-Card is inserted, it's theoretically as simple as booting up the TiVo and going through the guided setup.
The TiVo Roamio Plus has built-in gigabit Ethernet as well as built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi. The built-in Wi-Fi is actually a big deal because all previous TiVo models required the use of a USB dongle.
Since the TiVo is powered by M-Card, you don't need to deal with infrared blasters anymore.

The famous peanut-shaped TiVo remote is more refined than in years past, but has a familiar look and feel.

The famous peanut-shaped TiVo remote is more refined than in years past, but has a familiar look and feel. As an added bonus, it works over RF now, which means that the response time is much faster. The TiVo Roamio Plus replaces the entire cable interface. As a result, if you want to access cable-box specific features — like video on demand — your options are limited.
The good news is that most major cable providers have moved a lot of the on-demand content to the web or iPad. My cable company, Cablevision, offers full live TV and on-demand access from the Optimum app for iOS, Android, Kindle Fire and on Mac or PC.
The TiVo setup process has not changed much over the last decade, and that's a decidedly good thing. Confirm your channel lineup, download the latest software updates and enjoy a better TV experience.
The TiVo Roamio Plus has a 1TB hard drive equipped for some 150 hours of HD recording. It also boasts an eSATA plug if you want to add an additional 1TB of storage space to the device.

Accessing Content

TiVo has had support for streaming services in the past, but with the Roamio Plus, the experience is much, much better.
Out of the box, TiVo Roamio Plus supports Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant (but not Amazon Prime — more on that later), Spotify, Pandora, MLB.TV and YouTube.
Comcast users in select markets can also access their on-demand content directly from the Roamio — something I really hope TiVo is able to extend to other cable companies in the future.
You can select the services individually or use the TiVo universal search. The universal search is excellent because it searches not only your local TV listing, but also the various streaming services. So if I search for "Bob's Burgers" (the best animated show on primetime), I receive results from AdultSwim, Fox, Hulu Plus and Netflix.
Speaking of apps, the Netflix app is fantastic. It's running on the latest version of the Netflix platform and looks very similar to the experience on the PS3 and on iOS and Android. It's very, very fast at finding and managing content. Cablevision, my cable provider, is a Netflix SuperHD partner, and the TiVo Roamio Plus handled the video better than any of our other Netflix devices.
The Hulu Plus app is based on HTML5 and looks and functions almost identically to the Hulu Plus app for Roku. The YouTube app is close to the standard YouTube TV experience.
The TiVo Roamio Plus supports Google Cast, which Google uses for the Chromecast. This means you can send videos from your phone or tablet to YouTube running on the TiVo. This also works with Netflix, which is neat.
The Spotify and Pandora apps are serviceable and similar to what you find on other services.
The only app I was disappointed with was the Amazon Instant app. The app is absolutely ancient, both interface and functionality. It supports Amazon Instant rentals and purchases but not Amazon Prime. For me, that's a total bummer — especially with Amazon's growing Amazon Prime content library.
Still, if TiVo could update the Amazon app and add support for HBO Go (the only streaming service I actively use that is not supported by TiVo), the Roamio Plus really fulfills its promise of being the ultimate TV box.

TV Discovery

TiVo has always excelled as a platform for content discovery. Returning to the Series 2 glory days, the TiVo Suggestion feature was a standout reason to go TiVo instead of to the cable DVR.
TiVo has updated its interface and layout to make it easy to browse shows currently on the air and suggestions based on your history. You can also see what shows are most popular on live TV or on the web.
The TiVo Roamio Plus also has a new TV guide interface that is such a big improvement over the traditional cable box, it's almost sad.

TiVo Stream

Last year, TiVo released a $130 standalone box called the TiVo stream that lets users stream or download TiVo content to their iPhone or iPad. You can stream up to four programs to different devices at once.
This works like a Slingbox, but with your TiVo stuff. Right now, TiVo Stream only works inside the house, but later this fall, TiVo Stream will work outside of the house as well. As long as you're connected over Wi-Fi, you can stream live or recorded content from the TiVo Roamio Plus to your iOS device.
I tested an early version of TiVo Stream support and found the experience to be quite solid. Overall, I still think the Slingbox 500 does a better job of providing video — but TiVo Stream is built-in and quite good.
If you want to extend the TiVo Roamio Plus experience to another TV, you can use the $99 TiVo Mini as a way to expand the experience to another room. When you consider that the TiVo Roamio Plus can record six shows at once and has 1TB or storage (so like 150 hours), it makes sense that you might want to spread the wealth.
Up to eight TiVo Mini boxes can be connected to the TiVo Roamio Plus, but since you need a spare tuner to use the TiVo Mini, you might not be able to use them all at the same time. The TiVo Mini also lets you access digital streaming services.

Awesome, but Expensive

If you're the rare-breed of TV lover that has an affinity for both digital cable and digital streaming, the TiVo Roamio Plus is the best, most full-featured set-top box to date. Unfortunately (and not unexpectedly), all this awesomeness comes at a hefty price: $399.99, plus $15 a month for TiVo service.
(As an aside, TiVo sells lifetime TiVo service for $500, but keep in mind: That's the lifetime of the unit, not your lifetime. In other words,

you'll need to use the TiVo for 34 months before it pays for itself.

you'll need to use the TiVo for 34 months before it pays for itself. Oh, and if the TiVo breaks out of warranty, your lifetime subscription is usually no longer valid. I've fallen into the lifetime subscription trap in the past and generally don't recommend it. Existing TiVo owners can buy a lifetime subscription for $399.99.) TiVo also offers a TiVo Roamio Pro for $599.99 with the exact same features as the TiVo Roamio Plus, but it has a 3TB hard drive instead of 1TB. That offers a whopping 450 hours of HD recording instead of 150. Still, for most aficionados, I think the TiVo Roamio Plus is probably the better value.
TiVo does sell a lower-end TiVo Roamio for $199.99. It can record four shows at once, but if you want to stream programming to an iOS device, you'll need to spend another $120 for a TiVo Stream box. It also has only 500GB of storage for 75 hours of HD recording.
Of course, in theory, TiVo is saving you some money. You can cancel the DVR fee from your cable company, and if you don't already have a Roku or Apple TV, you can skip getting one of those devices, too.
Still, make no mistake about it: The TiVo Roamio Plus (or Pro) is an expensive proposition.
That said, for the target audience of TV lovers, it's absolutely worth it.
I've spent the last two weeks using a TiVo for the first time in years and I genuinely do not want to go back to the cable box DVR. That's why when I pack up the TiVo Roamio Plus review unit, I'll almost certainly be placing an order for one from TiVo.
I don't know if the TiVo Roamio line is enough to save TiVo as a company, but it's a great product.

The Lowdown

The Good

• Ultimate cable TV experience
• Extremely intuitive to use, especially when compared to standard cable box
• Netflix app is best-of-breed
• Chromecast-like features for Netflix and YouTube are an added bonus

The Bad

• It's expensive; spending $400 or $600 for a box and $15 a month will only to appeal to certain users
• The Amazon app is outdated and ugly
• TiVo Stream only supports iOS for now

Amazon Adds Ability to Buy Goods From Within Mobile Apps

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said it’s introducing a feature that will let people shop for goods from within mobile applications.
Software developers will be able to create games, sports, weather and other apps that sell products from Amazon, either inside the app or by linking to Amazon’s web store, the Seattle-based company said in a statement Tuesday.
While consumers could buy digital goods such as game features and magazines via in-app purchasing, Amazon has only previously tested the sale of physical products through the same channel. The new initiative gives Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos more opportunities to sell merchandise while letting software developers earn a commission of up to 6% from the online retailer for any sales they generate.
“Imagine a developer of a nutrition and fitness app can now offer their customers the ability to purchase vitamins, supplements and fitness gear within the app, directly from Amazon,” Mike George, Amazon’s vice president in charge of games, app store and cloud drive, said in the statement.
Days of Wonder Inc., a games company, said it’s introducing a new version of its “Ticket to Ride” mobile app that will also let users buy the board game via Amazon. In some cases, users will be able to buy both the physical and digital versions of a game as a single package.
Amazon gave developers the ability to add in-app purchasing for digital content in April 2012, matching a feature already offered by Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google Inc. (GOOG) Walt Disney Co., Conde Nast Inc., Gameloft SE (GFT) and Dow Jones & Co. were some of the first participants in Amazon’s program.

Physical, Digital

Eric Hautemont, CEO of Los Altos, California-based Days of Wonder, said the physical and digital versions of games are complementary. When the company released the iPad version of “Ticket to Ride,” sales of the board game jumped 30%. When the iPhone version came out, they jumped another 30%, he said.
“Our expectation is going to be a significantly greater conversion rate from people that have never played 'Ticket to Ride' and discover the Kindle version, and end up buying the physical board game as a result,” Hautemont said.

5 Ways the Ouya Game Console Fails

The Walking Dead, one of 2012's most acclaimed games, is officially on tap for the Android Ouya game console. That's great news — except you don't need an Ouya to play it, or much else.
The Ouya had one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns in history, raising more than $8.5 million, but it seems that everything's been going downhill since then. Plagued by console shortages, half-baked firmware and a library that still lacks a killer app after five months, the Ouya has a long way to go before it finds its niche somewhere between traditional consoles and Android or iOS mobile devices — if it ever does. Here are the Ouya's five fatal flaws:

1. Few Original Games

Video game consoles live and die by their library of games, and by that logic, the Ouya is already dead. Make no mistake: There are good games for the Ouya but very few you can't already get on other consoles. You can play Angry Birds on everything short of a toaster, and the Final Fantasy III remake came out for the Nintendo DS in 2006. Even The Walking Dead, which was just announced for an Ouya release, has been on other platforms — including Android and iOS phones and tablets — for more than a year. There are a few Ouya-exclusive titles en route (including a soul-music-inspired dungeon crawler called Soul Fjord from Portal designer Kim Swift), but if you have any other kind of gaming device, you already have access to 99% of Ouya's library. To add insult to injury, although the Ouya is an Android-powered device, you can't play stock Android games on it unless you hack it first.

2. No Audience

In theory, the Ouya is an affordable console that bridges the gap between Android and iOS mobile devices and traditional consoles like the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. However, the audience that Ouya is courting doesn't appear to exist. The asking price is low at $100, but if a user already owns an Android (or iOS) device, it's $100 more than he or she really needs to spend. Consumers can buy a low-end Xbox 360 or PS3 for $200, complete with a huge selection of high-end games and streaming video apps. When placed between a powerful mobile device and a robust traditional console, a cheap jack-of-all-trades may not seem that attractive.

3. Poor Controller

The Ouya itself is a slick little cube that can weather a bit of a beating. Its controller, however, seems to be held together with spit and elbow grease. To be fair, the peripheral looks pretty enough — something like an elongated PS3 controller with Xbox 360-style buttons and analog sticks. The device falls apart — almost literally — in actual use, though. The analog sticks lack precision, and the buttons also get stuck. Replacing batteries is a pain, thanks to removable faceplates that aren't quite as removable as advertised. You can hook up a PS3 or Xbox 360 controller instead, but offering an alternative to a peripheral that works poorly right out of the box is not encouraging.

4. Limited Capabilities

The Ouya is a cheap device, but low cost comes at a high price. In order to save on production costs, the Ouya has relatively unimpressive parts under the hood. Benchmarking company Futuremark ranks the Ouya No. 141 on a list of 422 Android devices currently on the market, outstripped by phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and tablets like the Google Nexus 7. If you've bought your phone or tablet in the past year, it will probably run games with better graphical fidelity and processing speed than the Ouya. Furthermore, since most mobile games are designed with touch controls in mind, using a controller, instead of a screen, could prove unwieldy.

5. Redundancy

The Ouya is simple enough to plug in to a TV and set up, but it's not that much harder to do the same thing with your existing mobile device. Many high-end phones and tablets have a mini-HDMI or other A/V port that allows them to hook up a device to a TV. A $5 HDMI adapter and a $25 Android controller will allow you to play Android games on your TV at a $70 discount. (And for iOS devices, Apple will add support for third-party game controllers in iOS 7.) Even better, when you want to take your games on the go, just unhook your device and stick it in your pocket or backpack. Although it involves a tiny bit more effort to connect a smartphone or tablet to a TV, it's still quite easy and provides many more options than an Ouya — for example, streaming Netflix or loading up an e-book on a big screen.

Google hacked by HackTeach Group

Today http://www.google.ps/ is hijacked by  HackTeach Group

uncle google we say hi from palestine to remember you that the country in google map not called israel. its called Palestine

# Question : what would happens if we changed the country title of Isreal to Palestine in google maps !!!
it would be revolution .. (this is the message) Look like this group support anonymous .( Freedom fighters)

Zoneh

http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/20623377

Thnx for comming here.

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WikiLeaks posts 400 gigabytes of encrypted ‘insurance’ data online

WikiLeaks has released a trove of encrypted “insurance” data on Twitter and Facebook. The data can’t be read without an encryption key, but the movement’s supporters say that could be published later in case anything happens to leading WikiLeaks figures.
The whistleblowing organization published links for a massive 400 gigabytes worth of encrypted data it described as “insurance documents” on its Twitter and Facebook accounts. It is possible to download the files but advanced encoding prevents them from being opened. 
The group described encryption as a necessary measure in light of previous attempts to block its leaking of classified information.
The practice of encoding data and then later releasing the key is not uncommon for WikiLeaks, but the sheer size of the files has attracted considerable attention. WikiLeaks followers on Facebook and Twitter speculated on what the documents might contain, and also that the key would be released if anything should happen to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange or NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
“They're files that will not have the passwords released unless something happens to specific individuals associated with WikiLeaks. Like the insurance file for Assange, which is more from the cables and info Manning leaked out,” Facebook user Tom-Eric Halvorsen wrote on WikiLeaks’ profile page.
The organization aided Snowden in his negotiations on temporary asylum in Russia following the leaking of classified US government data that revealed the NSA’s global surveillance programs. WikiLeaks has indicated that the data disclosed so far is only the tip of the iceberg, and that more revelations will follow.
However, there could be problems ahead for Snowden if more leaks are released, as the Russian government says that as a part of the temporary asylum agreement, Snowden should refrain from releasing data that “damages” the US. The whistleblower applied for asylum in Russia after the US voided his passport, leaving him stranded in Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport for over a month.
Washington has branded the former NSA contractor a fugitive and issued an extradition order against him on charges of espionage.
In the wake of the revelations about the US government’s global spying programs, the Obama administration has sought to justify mass surveillance as a necessary evil to protect national security. Even so, President Barack Obama has announced a number of reforms to the NSA to increase its transparency and regulate the information collected by the government.

Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerberg’s wall

Image from khalil-sh.blogspot.ru

A Palestinian information system expert says he was forced to post a bug report on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page after the social network’s security team failed to recognize that a critical vulnerability he found allows anyone to post on someone's wall.
The vulnerability, which was reported by a man calling himself ‘Khalil,’ allows any Facebook user to post anything on the walls of other users - even when those users are not included in their list of friends. He reported the vulnerability through Facebook’s security feedback page, which offered a minimum reward of US$500 for each real security bug report.
However, the social network’s security team failed to acknowledge the bug, even though Khalil enclosed a link to a post he made on the timeline of a random girl who studied at the same college as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Sorry, this is not a bug,” Facebook’s security team said in response to Khalil’s second report, in which he offered to reproduce the discussed vulnerability on a test account of Facebook security expert.

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After receiving the reply, Khalil claims he had no choice but to showcase the problem on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
Screenshots on his blog show that Khalil shared details of the exploit, as well as his disappointing experience with the security team, on the Facebook founder’s wall.

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Just minutes after the post, Khalil says he received a response from a Facebook engineer requesting all the details about the vulnerability. His account was blocked while the security team rushed to close the loophole.
After receiving the third bug report, a Facebook security engineer finally admitted the vulnerability but said that Khalil won’t be paid for reporting it because his actions violated the website’s security terms of service.
Although Facebook’s White Hat security feedback program sets no reward cap for the most “severe” and “creative” bugs, it sets a number of rules that security analysts should follow in order to be eligible for a cash reward. Facebook did not specify which of the rules Khalil had broken.
Somewhere between the second and third vulnerability reports, Khalil also recorded a video of himself reproducing the bug. 

In its latest reply, Facebook reinstated Khalil’s account and expressed hope that he will continue to work with Facebook to find more vulnerabilities.

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How to get approved to google adsense (2013)

Hello im Arber Leka, i'm new publisher in blogger and  i just applied for google adsense, they approve me.
I know many of you want to make some good money with adsense right?
But it’s not easy to get into adsense program now a days. You have to do few things before applying for adsense.
Google Adsense is world’s larges Ads Network and works at Pay Per Click system. It’s paying rates are better than all of other networks which is the biggest reason it is so popular to all Bloggers and Webmasters. But since everybody is running behind them, they have made the approval system very strict. You make little mistakes and get disapproved every time. So you need a complete guidance and list of thing that you need to do before applying for Google Adsense and supposing that you are ready.

12 Things to Do Before Applying for Google Adsense

1. Privacy Policy :

One of the common mistakes that every Blogger makes and that I made many times before finally getting approved. Even though there are people out there who say that having a Privacy Policy for a Blog doesn’t makes sense but they are wrong.
A Privacy actually describes to your readers about what they will get on your Blog , what they should do and what they should not. So obviously there is nothing bad in having a Privacy Policy. While it can affect somehow on your Adsense Approval, you must give it a try. You can write it yourself or find Privacy Policy Generators online (You don’t need a lawyer anyway).

2. About Page

An About has major role and importance if you don’t want to apply for Adsense. But when it comes to Adsense, they are about Zero chances of getting approved if you are not showing this page.About page simply describes about you and your Blog . This will not only help you establish a relationship with readers but it will also make them trust upon you.

3. Contact Us Page

It’s quite obvious that everyone has his/her own opinion. What one of your readers likes may be bothering someone else. Than it is better to give them opportunity to speak up to you and tell how they feel about your Blog, what they want to be edited , what they liked or hated.
It will also show the Google Adsense Team that is viewing your site that you actually care about your readers and not only the money and Adsense.

4. Name/ Email Verification

Make sure to put you Name and Email address in some easily visible area like About Me and Contact Us pages. It will confirm to Google Adsense Team that it is the same person who applied for Adsense and not some spam, crappy bots.

5. Age Verification

I’m really laughing out typing this.
Why?
Because this is where I encountered a problem. Instead of 18, I accidentally published my age as 17 while on Adsense Application Form, it was accurately 18.
Hence there started a problem . Because Google Adsense is not for under 18 people. I realized this problem after being disproved a few times without any legitimate reason. So I advice you to be accurate while typing your age.

6. Minimum Number of Posts

There is no exact answer. Not even one. Because I have seen very established Blogs with 400+ posts and their owner telling me that Google Adsense is rejecting them while somewhere ,people with 40,50 posts are enjoying making money. Exactly what I said that there is no actual answer. However, we can always predict things. According to my experience , you should only apply after you have more than 70 posts. Posts length should must be 500+ words too.
Read : Difference Between Short Length Post Vs Length Posts – What’s Best?
i have add 50 post , copyright posts, i know you are to lazy to create copyright posts but thos are adsense rules :/ .. ;)

7. Design

Your Blog is the biggest thing after Content. This represents your expertise ,experience and Professionalism. So be careful because anything can kill your Chances.

8. Content Type

Be careful with what type of content you are publishing. Because it is something that truly matters. Google Adsense is not for Pornographic, Illegal Items, Drugs or other Blogs / Sites like that. Also Adsense team won’t be willing to allow you to step in if you own a Non English Blog. Having posts shorter than 300 words in length is also Red Signal.

9. Providing Value

Don’t complain about not making money and don’t clearly state that your are Blogging for Money only and have no other interest in it. Because this will show them that you will not be providing values to your readers any day. Hence another Red Light glows up.

10. Top Level Domain

Those are gone far away when Adsense used to approve “Blogspot” and “WordPress.com” Blogs. As for today, you must have your own unique domain that specifies your Blog. If you don’t have one yet, maybe you can approved with .blogspot ;)
Another important thing about domain is it’s age. Because for most of Asian Countries, Adsense has placed an age restriction. "They don’t accept any sites before they are 6 months old" <---- big lying ... my blogger is 2 weeks old and is approved.

11. Other Ad Networks

If you have any other Ads placed like Chitika, Clicksor or anything, it’s time to drop them off.
Even Google Adsense allows you to use other Ad Networks along with them, it’s better to remove the ads before Applying and don’t put them back until you get a reply from Adsense Team.

12. Paid Traffic 

Google hates the sites that are getting Paid traffic and mostly penalizes them so there is not a damn chance of getting Adsense Approval letter for a site that is getting paid traffic. You can bring traffic from Search Engines or any other way you want but if you want to earn via Google Adsense the right way, paid traffic is not a solution.

thnx for comming here , and good luck with adsense.
we will show many tutorial and trick so stay tuned.Comment if you need helm . we will help you.

FBI spooks use MALWARE to spy on suspects' Android mobes - report

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is using mobile malware to infect, and control, suspects' Android handsets, allowing it to record nearby sounds and copy data without physical access to the devices.

That's according to "former officers" interviewed by the Wall Street Journal ahead of privacy advocate Christopher Soghoian's presentation at hacker-conflab Black Hat later today.

The FBI's Remote Operations Unit has been listening in to desktop computers for years, explains the paper, but mobile phones are a relatively new target.
It would never work with tech-savvy suspects, though: suspects still need to infect themselves with the malware by clicking a dodgy link or opening the wrong attachment. This is why computer hackers are never targeted this way – they might notice and publicise the technique, said the "former officers", who noted that in other cases it had proved hugely valuable.
Such actions do require judicial oversight, but if one is recording activities rather than communications, the level of authorisation needed is much reduced. A US judge is apparently more likely to approve reaching out electronically into a suspect's hardware than a traditional wiretap, as the latter is considered a greater intrusion into their privacy.
Gaining control of that hardware still requires a hole to crawl through; ideally a zero-day exploit of which the platform manufacturer is unaware.
The WSJ cites UK-based lawful spook spyware supplier Gamma International as selling such exploits to the Feds. The company was recently in the news after allegations that it was also supplying dodgy governments with kit - allegedly including malware disguised as the Firefox browser.
Given the convergence of mobile and desktop, it's no surprise to see desktop techniques being applied to mobile phone platforms by both hackers and law enforcement agencies.
The usual techniques of not opening unknown attachments or unsigned downloads should protect you against the FBI, just as it would against any spear-phishing attempt. But then again, if you know that, they probably wouldn't try using it against you. ®