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Hmm they finally admitted. When would google stop under-estimating its market grip? Wake up google this is 2005.
In reference to my new clients in the post Probability of them being scammers is high?
that had the same transaction ip, but different profile. Well they do happen to be what I taught they were, infact a sophisticated one.
They were pro-spammers, I mean they could actually successfully cloack their headers to avoid the logging of the source. Even using grep to catch the logs of the yahoo account they were using was useless.
So i had to review the acccount properly and found out they were using a mail bomber named “RAH MAIL BOMBER VS 2.0“. Hmm really couldnt find much info on search engines but I would check underground networks to study more about the script , when I get the time too. For now. May the soul of their four accounts rest in pieces.
We got 4 orders on thursday and payment on friday for 4 web hosting accounts with different profiles but the same transaction ip.
What do you do as a hosting company? Do your cancel the order and classify it as fraudulent order or do you give them the benefit of the doubt, on the pretext that they might be ordering from the same cafe at the same time?
Well i choose the later, which means I am taking a risk, but they are under high surveillance . I would keep you posted.
Well i just arrived from a trip, and my rushing online to get updated was welcome with good news. Google makes analytics free. I just cant believe it.
I am currently integrating it to all my sites. Besides Google Analytics is an enterprise level of web traffic analyzer. It tells you all the information you wish to know about your visitors such as:
Where the visitors come from?
How long is the length of visit?
What are the top exit points?
What are the browsers used by visitors?
and more…
Flock, a new Web browser with a social bent has been released. Although still at its beta stage, I have been testing the “developer preview” version, and it does look promising. I really think they would beat firefox hands down. But who knows time would tell, especially with the current extensions and plugins firefox has.
You can download it here.
And from other sources it is stated that…..
Flock’s all about building Web services into a browser, but the Flock folks didn’t build a Favorites-synching service of their own. Instead, they built a friendly front-end for Del.icio.us, the popular, powerful, but somewhat geeky bookmark-sharing service. Among other things, that means you can get to the favorites you create in Flock even when you’re using another browser, as well as share your favorites with other Del.icio.us users. Right now, you’ve got to create a Del.icio.us account to use Flock’s synching feature, but the company says it’ll support other bookmark sites in the future.
The leverage-existing-services philosophy extends to blogging: Flock’s blog editor works with Blogger, WordPress, and Movable Type. And it talks to Flickr to let you blog about photos that you (or other people) have taken. A nifty drag-and-drop, clipboard-like tool called the Shelf lets you tuck away bits of Web content for later blogging.
Like I say, Flock is definitely still a work in progress: Its site notes that bookmark importing isn’t finished and that Movable Type support isn’t fully baked (which is why I’m not posting this from within Flock). The site also makes mention of Flock supporting some Firefox extensions, but the two indispensable ones I tried to install—Greasemonkey and the A9 Toolbar—wouldn’t work. (Although if I were to leave Firefox behind for Flock, I probably wouldn’t need A9 anymore, since Flock more or less replicates its functionality.)
As far as I can tell (and I could be confused here), Flock also doesn’t sync Collections you create between multiple copies of the browser, so the synching it offers isn’t truly comprehensive. (Wouldn’t it be swell if there was a browser someday that silently synched absolutely everything, from your bookmarks to your privacy settings, between all the computers that you used it on?)
It’s nice to see that the browser wars aren’t just continuing—they’re spawning new products tailored to the needs of particular types of people. Unlike Firefox, which does a sensational job of appealing to the needs of just about anyone who uses the Net, Flock is more focused. If you’re not a bookmark maniac and don’t have a blog, you may not find anything here to lure you away from your current browser.
Source: PCWORLD
well I was chatting with my partner and all of a sudden a message came which didnt look like it came from him.
(MASS) Checkout this site injoy http://www.geocities.com/tracity/?200529?20057
Stupidly, out of a rush, because the person happens to be my partner, I clicked on the link, and well it brought about a yahoo login screen, well I did think it was a yahoo member site, you know the group sorta thingy that requires you to enter your username and password before you login. well so it is, I entered my username and password, I fell for it. But something caught my attention, the page wasnt in english, besides a geocities site which it was, it looks a bit wierd. I knew something was wrong. Wooohoo, password stolen.
Well so i had to rush back to yahoo, change my yahoo password immediately. And here I am happily blogging, almost a victim of password theft. Well how can I be sooo stupid ???
Dont enter your password if you decide to check the link out. Dont say I didnt warn you 
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Internet search giant Google and network computing company Sun Microsystems have entered into a multi-year agreement to distribute Sun’s software technologies, a move some say is meant to offer users an alternative to Microsoft products
Well just an analogy but I mean lets face it, Google joins forces with Sun and then what? Dont ask me, but Sun, the developers of Java for goodness sake :o?? Do you smell something fishy? They even refused to disclose what the pact was all about, as stated in the news and I quote
Both Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Sun CEO Scott McNealy kept mum on the specifics of the partnership, apart from announcing a deal to distribute the popular Google toolbar, which allows users to search both the Web and their desktops through Sun’s Java Runtime Environment, a software package that needs to be installed on a machine in order to run Java technology-based applications. As part of the deal, users who download the JRE software package will have the option of downloading the Google Toolbar.
Well but the question still remains, is Microsoft in trouble? Well we cant really say much as at now but time would tell. For Futher reading, visit the source @ http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/04/technology/google_sun/index.htm?cnn=yes .
On a recent scan read on the articles in the Tech area of the washington post, I paused at an article titled “Technology Fueling Wave of Phishing Scams” By Brian Krebs to give it a thorough read. And It was indeed worth it. It came out very educative.
It started out with a very interesting replay on the virtual interactions that is very common in carding IRC Chatrooms. This article makes the scenarios and the issues humourous whilst still maintaining the gravity of the situation at stake. It began with……
It was just a name, one of dozens flowing by in a little-known Internet chat room for identity thieves. Sandwiched between requests to barter various kinds of ill-gotten data (“Trading one valid [credit card] for my 5mb proxy list or hosting” ... “[need] linux host to put my site on.. i have cvv2’s, msg me to deal”) and inane chatter (“wat u upto?”) came the simple, unadorned lines: “card type: Debit Card … Name: Dallas Thomas … city: Stillwater … state: ok.”
The article went on, relating the various scenarios, which Inadvertently brings about the question, whether there was anything like privacy, especially when it comes to Credit cards online. This question does arise, with the type of information that could be fetched from hacked online databases, just by keying in the credit card number of the victim. Well we can all see that the protocols of validation is bringing about security peril now. Peoples identity is at stake !!
Although many disturbing issues where raised, There was a particular area that cracked me up. Subtitled “Honour among Thives?“. Relaying the scenarios of the possibility of a scammer scamming another scammer.The interchange of scamming itself needs to be secured in the aspect of ensuring that the seller, gets paid for the fraudulent information rendered.An excerpt from that goes like this…..
The seller must find a trustworthy “casher”—someone who will convert stolen credit cards into cash without absconding with more than their agreed-upon portion of the money—while trying to stay one step ahead of law enforcement and corporate sleuths. For the buyer, the tough part is verifying that the data for sale is legitimate and usable.
Its really alarming on the degree this scamming has reached. I am really concerned. The article really brings out everything that goes on underground. The questions that is still left at large are . Would there be a future solution, to bring a halt to this fraudulent transactions ?. andWhat would the future of e-commerce be like, in relation to the security concerns which remains at large?The article anyway is a worth read.
You can read the article Here.
In what I would call, a step to reduce the burden of sending cheques to adsense customers that happen to come from all over the world, google has introduced another adsense income withdrawal option, “The Electronic Funds Transfer“. The Electronic Funds Transfer which is still under Beta stage, would allow adsense customers to be able to withdraw their money to their respective bank accounts in their home countries. Well is this a technique to just plugin the “google purse” unexpectedly? Well who knows, but honestly this is a good move towards satisfying customer needs especially those in third world countries like Africa who face a lot of troubles in getting their cheques cleared. Even I personally, would love to use that feauture rather than waiting for weeks for the cheque to come by and then more weeks before it gets cleared.
But what happened to google purse? Is it still under developement? How soon. Would it be feature packed? I cant wait. But then again I have to :). Lets wait and see.
How do I sign up for Electronic Funds Transfer?
To sign up for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT), you’ll first need your bank account information, including your account number and, depending on your payment address, your branch number, routing number, or other identifying information. The sign-up wizard will list the required information and includes brief instructions on finding each item.
To sign up for EFT:
1. Sign in to your account at www.google.com/adsense
2. Click My Account
3. Click the edit link adjacent to the Payment Details header
4. Select the Electronic Funds Transfer radio button
5. Click Continue
6. Enter the requested bank account information. Your account page will provide details on what information is required – if you’re unsure, please contact your bank to obtain this information. Click Save Changes
7. At this point, we’ll begin the process of depositing a small test amount into the bank account you specified. Check your bank statements after 4-10 days to find a deposit from ‘Google’ or from ‘BFS’
Once you have the test deposit amount:
1. Click the My Account tab
2. In the Payment Details section, click Verify this account
3. In the box provided, enter the test deposit amount that you received in your bank account
4. Click Next. Once you have entered your test deposit verification amount correctly, your
bank account will be approved and automatically selected as your form of payment
Well visiting the google adsense blog it says and I quote
Bye, bye, beta…
If you’ve logged into your account in the past couple days, you might’ve noticed that Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT for short) is officially out of beta. So what’s changed? Our process for verifying bank account information has improved.
After you submit your bank account information, we will place a small test deposit into your bank account for you to keep. Once you see this test deposit credited to your account, just input the amount of the deposit into your AdSense account to help us verify your bank account information.
Testing your bank account before we make your payments means a greater chance of an error-free deposit. From now on, if you choose to use EFT, you can rest assured that we’re taking the steps to make your payment successful.
We’re excited about this launch and want to thank all of you who took part in our beta testing phase. We appreciate your help.
What does this mean? that it is fully operational now? well Google you really need to remove the beta sign now 
What is happening to hackers this days? I really do not understand the motives behind some attack or should I call it vunurability analysis?. Why would someone, want to exploit the vunurability of the Spread Firefox site for goodness sake?
The Spread Firefox Team became aware this week that the server hosting
Spread Firefox, our community marketing site, has been accessed by
unknown remote attackers who attempted to exploit a security
vulnerability in TWiki software installed on the server. The TWiki
software was disabled as soon as we were aware of the attempts to access
SpreadFirefox.com. This exploit was limited to SpreadFirefox.com and
did not affect mozilla.org web sites or Mozilla software.
This is the second time, last time was in July if I aint mistaken.
Well the good news is no sensitive information was stolen. But well the site is currently down as a precautionary measure, and they are re-building it again from scratch. What a pity 