Cligs an URL shortening service hit by Hackers
Cligs , an URL shortening service popular with micro-bloggers on Twitters was attacked recently by hackers possibly originating from Canada. The attack redirected 2.2 million miniature URL to a single URL.
On June 15, a statement was released on Clig’s website “Late last night/early this morning a security hole in Cligs editing functionality was exploited by [...]
Why did Cisco buy Jabber ?
Cisco closed acquisition of Jabber in October,2008 and its integration with Cisco was completed in late January,2009 . Jabber is based in Denver, Colorado. Jabber has now become a part of Cisco’s Collaboration Software Group.
Jabber is an enterprise instant messaging technology, which is based on the open-source XMPP standard.Jabber will help bolster Cisco’s unified communications [...]
Web 2.0 is English’s 1 millionth word
Web 2.0 was recently crowned as 1 millionth word in English.Cloud Computing was the runner up.
The Global Language Monitor on 10,June announced that Web 2.0 has bested Jai Ho, N00b and Slumdog as the 1,000,000th English word or phrase. added to the codex of fourteen hundred-year-old language. Web 2.0 is a technical term meaning the [...]
How to get a Facebook Vanity URL ?
From 12 June onwards you can create your own vanity URL on Facebook. Right now the facebook URL looks something like this
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=595955769
Instead of having a profile id like this, you can get a more meaningful url which your friends can easily remember, something like
http://www.facebook.com/naveenaswath
It is simple to get your own meaningful vanity URL. All you [...]
Nine Ball attack compromises thousand’s of site
Websense has been monitoring a massive online attack since June 03, which, to date, has compromised over 40,000 websites
. The attack redirects users to a site hosting Malware (ninetoraq.in), earning it the name Nine-Ball.
Websense said “This is a massive injection attack on 40,000 legitimate sites online. That alone is serious, but then you add [...]
