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Hackers have released an application designed to thwart a Microsoft-packaged forensic toolkit used by law enforcement agencies to examine a suspect hard drive during a raid. The hacker tool, dubbed DECAF, is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka COFEE. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. Microsoft [...]
Mininova was still the largest torrent site on the Internet, but this quickly changed after the site founders removed of millions of torrents to avoid having to pay millions of dollars in fines. In the days that followed, traffic to the site dropped 66%, while the number of daily downloads are less than 4% of what they used to be. [...]
Microsoft has been working hard to get their software tools in the hands of people who are starting out new ventures, and these efforts have been widely well-received. For instance, the DreamSpark program has provided design and development tools to students worldwide free of charge, while the BizSpark program has provided licenses for the same set of tools to software [...]
Google AdSense Optimization Tips 1. Dont Feel Shy – If you are seriously willing to monetize your website with AdSense, make sure that you place advertisements in prominent locations where visitors will notice the ads. 2. The best performing ad units for AdSense are 160×600, 336×280 and 300×250. For text only ads, you should go with the 336×380 format but [...]
WebMynd is an extremely useful Firefox add-on that embed search results from Flickr, Wikipedia, Backtype (for blog comments), Delicious, Digg, Amazon, LinkedIn and a dozen other custom locations into Google search pages. It like building a personal Google Universal Search page but you have complete control over sources that are displayed in the search results. And since WebMynd would search [...]
Adam Lasnik, along with members of the Search Quality team at Google, picked up a couple of audience websites and reviewed them live to provide feedback that will help these sites become more accessible and ultimately improve visibility in search engines. Following are the key areas of a website that were examined during the Site Clinic for potential issue and [...]
It not uncommon to hear stories of disgruntled AdSense publishers whose accounts have been permanently banned by Google either due to “non-compliance with AdSense policies” or for “posing a significant risk to AdWords advertisers.” The compliance issue is almost always related to content. For instance, if any particular website is centered around banned topics (like gambling or pornography), Google can [...]
Web Slices are perhaps one of the coolest features in Windows Internet Explorer 8. Some people might find them similar to the Live Bookmarks feature of Firefox but in reality, IE 8 Web Slices can do much more than track simple RSS feeds. Let me explain. Say you are tracking an item on eBay and like to get notified as [...]
If you were to measure the popularity of your website content on Twitter, the most effective way would be that you count the number of tweets (and re-tweets) that are linking to your web pages. For instance, I can go to backtweets.com and it will instantly show me a list of twitter messages (and their total count) that mention any [...]