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Satya Nadella - Microsofts New CEO

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Today was a pretty big day for Microsoft and Indians as the software giant announced their new CEO, Satya Nadella. It was great news to celebrate. Nadella,46, will succeed Steve Ballmer, who had announced his retirement last August, to become the third CEO of the company in its 39-year history. Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer welcomed Satya on Microsoft’s cam pus in Studio D at Microsoft and had hundreds of employees gathering the atrium to watch announcement. Gates, who was company’s first CEO, said in a statement announcing the appointment, “Satya is a proven leader with hard-core engineering skills, business vision and the ability to bring people together, His vision for how technology will be used and experienced around the world is exactly what Microsoft needs as the company enters its next chapter of expanded product innovation and growth” Here’s what Satya said : “I am honored, humbled and excited – three words that describe what I feel. You and Steve have built...
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How to Access Censored Websites

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began targeting “rogue” online services last year within the ‘Operation in Our Sites” campaign. As a result, a lot of domain names have been either closed or blocked. That anti-piracy policy has already spread its tentacles outside the American soil; for instance, in the United Kingdom, BT (the largest Internet service provider) had been forced by the court order to block access to Newzbin2, a well-known Usenet indexing service. Meanwhile, one more threat to the liberties of the ordinary user is the undergoing Stop Online Piracy Act (better known as SOPA) – a legislation that might grant absolute power to government authorities over the web itself. DNS blocking is recognized as the adopted solution against the “notorious” online services. It has been argued against by Public Knowledge: the outfit explained that this blocking method actually causes conflict between DNS server on the web, thus creating both security holes and opening doors for...
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World Is Always Being Watched

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Whistle-blowing site Wikileaks has recently released papers which reveal the shady world of the international surveillance industry through a new project named Spy Files. A lot of the companies involved appear to operate in plain sight. Wikileaks has highlighted a huge, billion dollar industry that has largely slipped under the radar, and this is expected to change everything. The firms specializing in surveillance equipment (mostly to repressive regimes) seem to have flourished because mass interceptions of whole populations have gone largely unchecked. However, the leak warns that it isn’t just the usual culprits you would expect – instead, the culture of Orwellian citizen espionage can be seen everywhere. According to the source, this industry already spans twenty-five countries, with developed countries in the west supplying monitoring instruments to others across the globe. Meanwhile, Wikileaks is trying to bring attention to the alarming fact that this industry is mostly condoned...
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Russian Hackers Vote

Part of the Russian news sites appeared to be inaccessible because of DDoS-attacks, high traffic and poor technical training. Those accessible feature faked information about the election results. Election Sunday in Russia turned out to be a disaster for online services. By the evening of the day websites of the largest newspapers, radio stations and news agencies were completely offline or experiencing outages. Most of the services were highlighting the situation on the elections, trying to track the efforts of multiple voting in different areas. According to the experts in information security, the most extensive DDoS attacks were launched at the radio station “Echo of Moscow” site and the service “Votes”. At the moment the experts point out at the intense attack on the sites telling about the preliminary election results. The attack is carried out by a large botnet dispersed around the world, with a lot of attacking computers located in the United States, China and other cou...
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Adobe Launched Marketing Campaign

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Adobe has recently purchased a company called Efficient Frontier that is engaged in adverts in the channel. The company believes that splashing out on Efficient Frontier could really improve its own Digital Marketing Suite, along with the abilities for flogging advertisements to different companies and in turn firms flogging advertisements to wherever else. Adobe Senior Vice President for digital marketing recently made an uncharacteristically thrilling statement, saying that its clients would want to know exactly how they are able to spend dosh in order to get the best return. The outfit known as Efficient Frontier is believed to provide Adobe’s Digital Marketing Suite with a little more shine to online advertisements. The software of this company, according to experts, will provide Adobe with a way to promote more advertisements in Facebook. This social network is considered essential to Efficient Frontier’s algorithms – substantially, predicting results and targeted advertisements. ...
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How to Make Mobile Communication Safe

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In our days people rely on mobile devices to access the web, look for different information and keep in touch with family and friends. That’s why it is so important to know how to behave online, how to manage your Internet reputations and how to put your personal safety on the first place when communicating on a mobile device. First of all, think twice before sharing a thought or a picture. Think about your colleagues, grandmother, or teacher receiving them. Are you sure that what you’re sharing is suitable for anyone to see? Then it is highly recommended to protect your personal data. So, when you send something like emails, messages, pictures or instant messages to someone who isn’t a trusted friend or a member of your family, never disclose any personal data that may be used either to figure out your physical location or to exploit you. It is also recommended to control negativity and think twice about who deserves to communicate with and who doesn’t. A number of Internet services a...
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Norton Overestimated Cyber Crime Figures

Norton, the consumer division of Symantec, was noticed to overestimate some online security figures. For example, for the last month the net saw the stories that claimed digital crimes costs society $388 billion per year. These figures are tagged onto to stories about cyber crimes. These figures can be found in a Norton survey report asking around 20,000 people in two dozen countries about their experience with digital crime. The survey asked the respondents to evaluate both direct and indirect losses they think were caused by cyber crime. Norton concluded that punters lost $114 billion per year, including consumer losses that were reimbursed – the most widespread case of such kind of crime is credit card fraud. However, the company seemed to fudge things a little: for example, it decided that online harassment was also a cyber crime, as well as being approached on the Internet by sexual predators. Moreover, the term “fraud” was defined so widely that it would have covered all credit c...
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