Showing posts with label Tech Buzz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tech Buzz. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Google Blocks Thousands Of WordPress Sites, But Why ?????



According to Sucuri reports Google blocked 11,000 sites over 100,000 wordpress sites cause of Malware attack. Research says RevSlider and SoakSoak are responsible for that.

Malware Attack: Hackers was able to manage your site and put their website material. Google can drop your organic ranking if your site is infected by malware attack.

60% of sites are powered by Wordpress and companies are preferring wordpress platform over other because of ease of use which put website on greater risk.. Wordpress design is very simple, flexible, editable and easy in implementation and you can build it in very small time using themes and plugins.

WordPress sites are insecure, is it true?

They are not venerable until you take professional help while developing a site on wordpress.

Let’s understand why your Wordpress site insecure wordpress sites are hacked by Google



Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Android 4.4.4 KitKat update for Moto E, Moto G, Moto X smartphones in India



Motorola, beginning this week, has started rolling out the Andorid 4.4.4 KitKat update for its Moto E, Moto G and Moto X smartphones in India.


According to Motorola, the latest version of Android offers an extra layer of security for browsing web content on your phone. There is no charge for this upgrade other than the usual data connection charges.

The phased-rollout will see users receive notifications to update their OS but, alternatively, the update can also be accessed through the Settings menu



Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Windows 9 preview may arrive this autumn





Last May we learned the Windows 9 preview could come by early Spring 2015. Now word on the internet street says the preview version of Microsoft's operating system could launch much earlier than anticipated.


Microsoft sources told ZDNet that the next version of Windows OS, codenamed "Threshold," will arrive with a preview build this fall. While the preview date has been moved up from a previously rumored February release, Windows 9 is still expected to drop Spring 2015.

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

September 30,2014 will be the last day for Orkut



(Orkut is an Internet social network service run by Google and named after its creator, Google employee Orkut Buyukkokten.)


The Orkut team on Monday said that the social network would shut down on September 30 this year. It also announced that from today, Orkut, which is owned by Google, would stop accepting new users.


The social media site, which was once a force to reckon with, gradually lost to websites like Facebook and Twitter. Once one of the most visited websites in countries like Brazil and India, Orkut by 2010 had become so irrelevant that Google was forced to launch Google+ to take on Facebook.

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

Patch Tuesday disaster breaks Office 2013 for thousands; here's how to fix it







Microsoft's latest batch of Patch Tuesday updates broke Office 2013 for some users, leaving the productivity suite unable to run whatsoever, the company admitted in a Friday blog post.
"Shortly after the release of the June Public Update, we received notification of a potential issue affecting a subset of Office 2013 Click-to-Run users," the Microsoft Office engineering team wrote. "In some cases, users running Office 2013 may not be able to launch Office products after the June Public updates are installed."

Windows 8.1 users won't receive any more patches unless spring update is installed







Microsoft is staying true to a promise it delivered all the way back in April: Windows 8.1 users who have yet to install the Windows 8.1 Update released this spring won’t be able to download today’s Patch Tuesday updates—or any future Patch Tuesday updates—until they get around to upgrading their operating system.

The threat only applies to Windows 8.1 users. If you’re still on Windows 8, 7, or Vista, you should continue receiving patches normally. You can see whether you’re running Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 by opening the Charms bar, heading to PC Settings > PC and devices > PC info, and looking under the “Windows” section.


Tuesday, 13 May 2014

People hated Firefox's New Tab ad idea, but Mozilla's pressing on -- cautiously

Mozilla last week said it would press forward on plans to put advertisements on Firefox’s new tab page, but reassured users that the browser would not become “a mess of logos.”
In a May 9 blog, Johnathan Nightingale, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, acknowledged that the February announcement that it would insert ads in its flagship browser had not been well received. But the company has no intention of dropping the idea.
“We will experiment,” Nightingale said. “In the coming weeks, we’ll be landing tests on our pre-release channels to see whether we can make things like the new tab page more useful, particularly for fresh installs of Firefox, where we don’t yet have any recommendations to make from your history. We’ll test a mix of our own sites and other useful sites on the Web. We’ll mess with the layout.”
Three months ago, Mozilla announced a project it called “Directory Tiles” that would put pre-selected tiles, some of them sponsored—advertisements, in other words—on the browser’s new tab page.

Moto E will go on sale at midnight today on Flipkart

Moto E will go on sale at midnight today on Flipkart, for Rs 6999!
Insane Price for these specification 



Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Avast survey shows 27 percent of its XP users don't plan to switch

Microsoft may have ended support for Windows XP, but free antivirus software vendor Avast projects that for millions of users, that won’t mean squat.

Avast had previously reported that 23.6 percent of its users were still running Windows XP. In the days before Microsoft ended support of Windows XP on April 8, Avast surveyed close to 165,000 of those users. The results, released in in a blog post on Monday, indicate that 27 percent of Avast’s Windows XP users don’t plan on doing anything, even though Windows XP systems are theoretically vulnerable to attack from hitherto unreported vulnerabilities.



XP users are 6 times more likely to get attacked

The words of warning about Windows XP's impending end-of-life are no joke. After April 8, Microsoft will stop supplying security patches for the 13-year-old operating system—and a recent blog post by Avast, provider of one of the more popular free antivirus solutions around, drives home just how dangerous using Windows XP beyond that is.

"The vulnerable OS will be an easy target for hackers and be seen as a gateway to infect other non-XP operating systems," Avast COO Ondrej Vlcek wrote on the company's blog. "Our telemetry data shows that XP users are 6 times more likely to get attacked than Windows 7 users and once Microsoft stops issuing patches, this can worsen."

You read that right: XP users are 6 times more likely to get attacked—and that's while the operating system is still supported. Making matters worse, nearly a quarter of Avast's 211 million users are still running Windows XP, and various estimates suggest a fifth to a third of all Net-connected PCs still rock the ancient OS.

Saturday, 12 April 2014

Microsoft ends support for Outlook.com for free custom email domain




The nearly 10-year free ride is over for a standout, yet little-known Microsoft service. With as little fanfare as the feature itself received, Microsoft is ending Outlook.com sign-ups for its custom domain service.

Custom domain support allowed you to use Outlook.com (and Hotmail before it) to manage a personal, non-Microsoft email domain—such as name@tippsandtricks.com or name@example.com—though the

Thursday, 10 April 2014

Facebook moving to bigger ads on PC website


 

Facebook Inc  said on Wednesday it is switching to fewer but bigger ads on the right-hand column of the desktop PC version of its website because users respond more frequently to them.
The new right-hand display ads will be the same proportions as the so-called News Feed ads, which inject paid marketing messages straight into a user's stream of news and content. That will make advertising on Facebook simpler for marketers, since they will no longer need to use different images for different types of ads, Facebook said in a post on its Facebook for Business blog.

Microsoft partners Lenovo, Tencent to offer XP tech support in China

Microsoft Corp has partnered Lenovo Group Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd to provide software security services for Windows XP users in China, after the U.S. tech firm stopped updating the operating system.

Microsoft wants users to move to later, more secure versions of Windows and so stopped servicing the 13-year-old XP this week, potentially leaving users vulnerable to viruses and hacking.

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

World's fastest 6TB hard drive launching by Seagate

Seagate has launched a 6TB model in its Enterprise Capacity 3.5 line, which the company claims is the fastest 6TB hard drive in the world. The product is targeted at data centers and corporate environments that demand massive capacity and low cost of ownership, such as those belonging to cloud service providers.

Flipkart introduces exchange scheme on Moto G




If you wish to exchange your existing phone for a Moto G, you might just be in luck.
Flipkart, the exclusive online partner of Motorola, has introduced new 'exchange your old phone' offer under which customers can get Rs. 2,000 discount on the purchase of the Moto G smartphone in exchange of select old phones. With the exchange offer, the Rs. 12,499 (8GB) and Rs. 13,999 (16GB) price tags on the Moto G get reduced to Rs. 10,499 and Rs. 11,999 respectively.