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Russian Hacker Made $3,000,000 with Botnet

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According to the latest media reports, it has been recently uncovered how far one of the online criminal’s reach went. An individual in his 20s, somewhere in the Russian Federation, used a bunch of criminal toolkits to help him earn money, which resulted in attacking more than 90 countries and stealing $3.2 million in only six months. The security experts believe that Soldier employed a network of money mules, as well as had an accomplice presumably residing in the states. Overall, since this past January, the hacker has been pocketing $17,000 per day. This is what threat researcher Loucif Kharouni pointed out in his research, describing the antics of some Russian hacker known online as Soldier. The hacker was using SpyEye and ZeuS binaries and blackhat SEO in his illegal activity across the Internet. He allegedly traded in traffic with a number of other hackers online, employing various malware to extract money from multiple accounts (most of them located in the United States) and ste...

Twitter Will Allow Advertising in Timeline

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The worldwide-known micro-blogging service Twitter will now let brands to advertise in users’ timelines, even if the users don’t follow the advertiser. Back in July this year, Twitter introduced promoted tweets as its unique form of advertising in users’ timelines. The users of the service could see some sponsored messages in their timelines, but all those messages were from brands and outfits they already followed. Earlier, promoted tweets could only be seen in search results or on the top of the Twitter trends lists. However, according to the new announced system, the users of the service are now able to be served advertisements from brands in their personal timelines, regardless of whether they even follow them or not. Apparently, this will be the first time that Twitter users are exposed to advertisements in their timelines from the companies they don’t even follow. The company’s representative claimed that it would make such feature available to a single-digit percentage of its gl...

Facebook Patented Tracking Method

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Although the social networking service Facebook has previously denied that it was interested in what its members do on other online locations, the news is that some evidence has been found that Facebook had developed its own technology to do just that. One of the Australian bloggers has found a patent that was dated October 2011. According to the information the patent contained, Facebook has described there a method to monitor information about the activities of the social network’s members while on another domain. The blogger explained that tracking cookies are able to monitor Facebook users whenever they surf any online services having an integrated Facebook “like” button. One of the Illinois residents has already filed a lawsuit over such tracking on behalf of Facebook users in the United States, so he is currently seeking class action status. As for the most popular social network in the world, it previously claimed that cookies were tracking users by mistake. However, the latest ...

Google Adds Offline Access to Gmail in Chrome

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Chrome browser users will be able to access Gmail when they're not connected to the Internet starting Wednesday and will gain similar offline capabilities for Docs and Calendar in the coming week, the company announced on Wednesday. Users will need to install individual offline-access applications from the Chrome Web Store to add these capabilities to their browser. The Gmail application is called Gmail Offline and is based on the Gmail application for tablets, which works both with and without Internet access. Docs and Calendar will each have its own offline-access application on the Chrome Web Store. The offline capabilities will become available both for individuals who use Gmail, Docs and Calendar, as well as for organizations who use them as part of the Google Apps collaboration and communication suite in workplaces and educational institutions. Once installed, these offline applications will create an icon in the Chrome browser interface for launching them when users aren...

United States of Android

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Where You Are From - Android or iOS or Blackberry State? From a July report, mobile phone advertising and marketing firm Jumptap unveiled a colorcoded map, titled United States of Android os, displaying the geographic mobile make-up of the United states of america. Yellow-colored states tend to be covered with Google android lovers and blue-colored states by iOS enthusiasts. Blackberry mobile phones is established in the small amount of gray-shaded sates. As you can observe, Google android patriots are accumulated in Southern and South west states, whilst iOS loyalists are put collectively in Northeastern as well as Middle west states. Particularly, Ca, Tx and Fl over-index with Google android use and states within New England and also the Middle west over-index with regard to iOS usage, based on the survey. With Ca skewing towards Google android use, the organization made a decision to additional breakout mobile predilections within the state city-by-city. We must notice, as Jumptap d...

How To Earn Money Online Without Investments

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Most ofthe time we all continue to keep talking about the online part-time income generating methods using your websites or blogging site. It’s factual that, for greater internet business as well as long-term online revenue planning, we should have got web site along with targeted traffic on there. However, there are lots of people today on the internet who would like to make several part-time earnings from online without having web-site, for the reason that the issue of expense regarding domain brand as well as website hosting, or even due to deficiency of adequate techie knowledge on web hosting along with handling their own personal websites. Therefore, in this post I am about to discuss a few methods for those people who are actually want to make money on the internet without having google adsense or websites. Affiliate marketing Google Adsense Content writing Freelance job Affiliate marketing without having websites: Probably the most important things in affiliate marketing online...

Best Encription For Cloud Storage - Boxcryptor

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Dropbox, a cloud data storage service provider, is considered the most popular of all. Dropbox supplies a fast and simple method to save as well as synchronize your data files, pictures, {documents inside the cloud and share them effortlessly between your friends and relations . However, whenever your documents are uploaded, Dropbox encrypts the data files at the sever end through which your own data files could be accessed by Dropbox and authorities so it grants easy access. Lately, as a result of safety fault, it had been reported that there seemed to be a four-hour protection bug from Dropbox where by any accidental person could possibly sign into any of the company accounts at Dropbox using almost any username and password. Even though your data files have been encoded with Dropbox’s effective shield of encryption tool, yet still it could be accessed by any person coming from anywhere. This brought about a top safety warn. The best method to safeguard Dropbox data is to...