An ethical hacker from HackersBlog today claimed that he was able to carry out a SQL injection attack successfully and has got access to the complete database to a popular UK daily, The Daily Telegraph. The site has also released snapshots of databases, passwords in clear text and email addresses of those receiving the newsletter which are highly sensitive.
Everybody is curious and wants to know about how a website or blog is worth in money and one can find lot of sites which do this job wonderfully. Cubestat is one such site which is quite popular which is using unique algorithm to calculate and estimate the website worth. Stimator is one such wonderful site which exactly does the same job but will not reveal some information like daily pageviews and daily ads revenue like the former one.
There has been rumors for a long time about Google’s plan to buy Twitter, which is feared to pose a threat to the search engine giant with its wonderfully poised real time search capabilities. Today Google boss Eric Schmidt put an end to everything calling Twitter as a “poor man’s email”. Speaking to Morgan Stanley’s technology conference at SFO, he praised twitters success and also said the micro-blogging service was not particularly useful and one cannot compare the 140 character limit with twitter cannot be compared with the capabilities of an email service.
Microsoft is gearing up to launch Kumo, its new online search service soon and today it has confirmed the testing of its new Internet search engine. Kumo which means cloud or spider in Japanese is said to be the replacement of Microsoft’s Live search. Microsoft has registered the domain kumo.com and is currently being tested internally within Microsoft.
The ajax based iGoogle is one of the most widely used start-up page for rich personalized user experience in recent times. Sometimes i check Google mail through iGoogle as Gmail is not directly accessible in my company. Gmail is one of the Google Gadgets which is quite popular among the iGoogle users but still users are not able to get the real Gmail experience with Google chat missing out. So Google has now extended the chat feature to iGoogle officially today after testing it out with few iGoogle users internally.
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