Microsoft this week used its Malicious Software Removal Tool to take out the fourth-biggest threat in automated program’s history, which dates back to at least 2005.
The malware, known as Win32/Renocide, is a crafty backdoor-enabled worm that spreads through removable drives, network shares and popular file-sharing applications. Continue reading
X-Shops: Fast and Reliable Ecommerce hostingBy Ben Jackson
What is a Backlink?
What’s all this hoopla over backlinks? Every SEO forum and blog you stop by is constantly touting the power and necessity of backlinks so they must be a pretty big deal! So what exactly is a backlink? Simply put, a backlink is a link on another website (external) that leads to a page on your website. For instance, a link on this page to a page on another website would be a backlink for THAT webpage. Continue reading
X-Shops: Fast and Reliable Ecommerce hostingThe US Department of Justice is investigating MPEG LA - the patent pool organization backed by Apple, Microsoft, and others – over the organization’s effort to undermine the royalty free V8 codec Google introduced last year, according to a report citing people familiar with the matter. Continue reading
By Karon Thackston
As I read her email I could literally feel my blood pressure rising. She’d heard me speak at a webinar I did for Wordtracker about ecommerce copywriting where I said keyword density hadn’t been a factor in SEO copywriting for years. The lump in my throat got bigger as Zoe (not her real name) explained why she thought the myth about keyword density simply wouldn’t die. Continue reading
Cyber attacks are already upon us but the rules of digital warfare have yet to be agreed upon. Is it time, as an influential think tank believes, for a digital Geneva Convention?
Is it even possible when the internet was designed without country borders and when defining what a “cyber-war” constitutes is near-impossible?
“We come in peace” reads the tagline of the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.
The event, which attracts “thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopians from all around the world”, is a timely reminder that not all hackers are obsessed with unearthing secrets or bringing down governments. Continue reading
Africa may not be the first place you think of when talking about the digital revolution but many Zambian villages are looking to change all that.
The village of Macha is a long way from anywhere, the nearest town is almost 50 miles away.
But for the past few years it has harboured a surprising dream – to pioneer the spread of the internet to the 80% of Zambians who don’t live in cities.
And this is good news for Zambians like Fred Mweetwa who has lived and worked on his family’s farm since he was born.
One of his cattle was ill and the vet was hundreds of miles away. While the village has had a mobile signal for a couple of years, there is now another way. Continue reading