These are the kinds of things dreams are made of, a 14 year old hacker on Call of Duty was just recruited by Microsoft. You heard me right, Microsoft.
14 Year Old Hacker Hired by Microsoft After Doing Phishing via Call of Duty Server !
May 29th, 2011 
Sandy Google Boss: We’ll Fight Anti-Piracy Blocking Laws
May 20th, 2011 Sandy 
During a speech on Wednesday, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said that proposals from both the U.S. and British governments to block access to file-sharing websites would threaten freedom of speech. Google, he said, is opposed to such measures and will fight them, presumably in court, if necessary.
There can be little doubt that when it comes to hot tools for dealing with sites allegedly infringing the copyrights of the music and movie industries, site blocking and web filtering is absolutely in fashion this year.
The United States (with its PROTECT IP bill) and the United Kingdom (with its Digital Economy Act), are both preparing what they believe could be their best chance at a silver bullet approach to piracy – the complete blocking of ‘infringing’ domains.
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Google Penalizes Lots of High Traffic Websites
April 29th, 2011 Sandy 
So when Google introduced the “Farmer Update” which was about 3 months ago now their was a lot of reaction that while it helped with duplicate content sites that copied stuff with RSS feeds etc it didn’t really remove auto generated content that sites like FreshWap, MechoDDL and loads of other DDL sites and DLE sites use.
It was announced unofficially though staff working on the project that they were working on auto generated content but it wasn’t in that major update but was due soon. Well that update is now live and a lot of sites have being affected.
India Won the 2011 Cricket World Cup !!
April 3rd, 2011 Sandy 
Finally a great day arrived and it was neither April Fool nor any easy day when India beats Pakistan or Australia. It was a day when India won THE World Cup. 1.2 Billion people supporting India and giving Indian team a pressure no other team would have been able to handle on the planet. Indian team handled the pressure and half the battle was won already. Then awesome performances by whole team, YES WHOLE team, because every single person contributed to this world cup equally and man of the match or series doesn’t matter anymore. We have the world cup now, THE World Cup we were waiting for 28 years and Sachin finally got his dream completed.
Google is now Involved in BitTorrent Search Engine Lawsuit
February 22nd, 2011 Sandy 
Over the past several years many BitTorrent search engines have claimed in court that they’re “just like Google”, another search engine that allows users to find information scattered around the web. All this time Google itself remained silent on the issue, until now. The search giant has involved itself in the MPAA vs. isoHunt case recently, but not completely to the delight of isoHunt’s owner.
In May last year the U.S. District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt. The Court ordered the owner of isoHunt to start censoring the site’s search engine based on a list of thousands of keywords provided by the MPAA, or cease its operations entirely in the U.S. The injunction was the result of isoHunt’s protracted court battle with the MPAA that started half a decade ago, in 2006.
How to Secure Your Data When Your Cell Phone is Stolen or Lost
February 22nd, 2011 Sandy 
Our cellphones hold precious data, photos, videos and contact numbers of our friends and family members. And because of this confidential data our cellphone need special care but there are always some uncertain scenarios where we either lost the data by any damage to the phone or lost the phone completely if stolen.
The only way is to make the phone backups on regular basis. But most of us usually ignore this fact and rarely make phone data’s backup. But with McAfee Wavesecure we can make our lives a lot easier by eliminating the chances of losing the precious data of a cellphone in any case.
Top 5 Deadliest Computer Viruses of Last Five Years
February 21st, 2011 Sandy Viruses are well-abused by everyone who uses a computer. Viruses are nothing but a small piece of code or tiny programs that is designed to create panic in a system. Yes, the intention behind creating a virus is to effect the normal smooth running of a system. Some viruses takes CPU consumption and to put load on system. Some are designed to add themselves to files, directories and drives. Some just duplicate themselves for no reason.
But still viruses have created a huge buzz in computing world since day one, costing huge amount of money and data loss for enterprises that is still uncountable.
Keeping this in mind, I decided to share some knowledge of those top 5 viruses that seriously created huge mess over internet in last 5 years or so.
Hope you’ll find it informative and get to learn something out of it.
1. Alureon (Year 2010)
Check Ratings of Any Website Automatically While Visiting
February 21st, 2011 Sandy Would you like to know how safe is the website which you’re visiting?
Is it trustable, free of virus or not a scam?
To answer these questions, there are so many ways to check the rank of a website, but WOT (web of trust) is the best way to check the reputation and rank of any website automatically. WOT has been liked my millions of web users and currently is the most trusted source to know the ranks of any website on internet.
WOT is a community powered by millions of web users who share their experience with the website they visit. WOT team collects those user reviews and comments and ranks the sites. WOT actually offers tools to check websites ranks. One way it to check reputation manually by visiting WOT’s website and entering the site’s URL which you want to check. But the browser addon feature makes our lives a lot easier.
