Tuesday, January 26, 2010

China the next scientific research leader

According to analysis of papers published in 10,500 academic journals around the globe china is on 2nd position, US are on first position. If the trend continues China will take first place by 2020. Researches and scientists of china are going far faster than their rivals nations.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Vimeo launched it's HTML5 Video Player

Vimeo a video sharing company has launched it's own HTML5 beta video player version just like youtube a video sharing website by google. Vimeo's HTML5 video player uses H.264 and need Safari, Chrome or Chrome Frame. This new player have over come the rebuffering problems of the Flash version when clicking around in video's timeline and it loads relatively faster.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Worst Practiced Password & Top ten common passowrd

Imperva has released an analysis of worst practiced passwords. Study was done 32 million passwords, were exposed on Rockyou.com website.
Here are top ten commonly used password:

1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123

Key findings:
» About 30% of users chose passwords whose length is equal or below six characters.
» Moreover, almost 60% of users chose their passwords from a limited set of alpha-numeric
characters.
» Nearly 50% of users used names, slang words, dictionary words or trivial passwords (consecutive
digits, adjacent keyboard keys, and

Software giant Microsoft to launch an emergency IE patch

Software giant Microsoft said it will release am emergency path for it's web browser IE (Internet Explorer). Company is admitting that it's possible to hide attacks inside rigged office document. 'We are planning to release the update as close to 10:00 a.m. PST as possible,' said Jerry Bryant, program manager at IE group. Company has also updated it's security advisory which was originally published last week, it acknowledged a zero-day IE vulnerability had been used by hackers to break into the corporate networks of Google and other major Western companies. Google has alleged that the attacks were launched by Chinese attackers. Subsequently, security experts have offered evidence that links the attacks to China."

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Google to postpone mobile launch in China

Google has postponed the launch of it's two cell phones in china, company's business has started takings because of the issue of hacking and dispute over copy right issues.
Cellphone was suppose to launch is China on wednessday. Sources say that google want's customers to have "good experience" but thinks it will now be defficut considering the circumstances.