Internet, 'Oil Field' The Hacker.

Millions of Internet pages are hijacked and harming millions of dollars in recent years has made it as an 'oil fields' for hackers, according to an internet security firm.

As quoted by USA Today, Friday (08/12/2011), the action hack into approximately 8 million internet pages of late, has been designed so that users can control the affected computer attacks.

According to internet security firm, Armorize, attacks by such methods that are now thriving.

"Abuse of the current small number of sites have made the Internet a more dangerous place," said Alena Varkocka, lab analysts from the firm of Avast antivirus.

"Even small websites that are not too important to do major damage if misused," he added.

Wayne Huang, Chief Technical Officer at Armorize, said that a small group of criminals using the server in the Ukraine to carry out attacks on several sites with mechanisms 'driveby download'.

"In the driveby downloads, malicious software is inserted into the user's web browser, which has access to a site that has been infected," explained Huang.

Added by Huang, that by being able to control the user's browser, the hacker was able to easily install all the malicious software that can retrieve all user data, whether it's identity, payment, social networking accounts, and others.

Google and Microsoft's own party said they regularly continue to scan sites were detected suspicious activities, and announce the infected pages through a browser Chrome and Internet Explorer. In addition they also provide free guidance and tools for sites to diagnose and clean it.

"But a lot of sites that get infected are not cleaned in time, as the hacker using a variety of ways so that they are not detected malicious software," says Jon Clay, Product Manager at antivirus firm Trend Micro.


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Facebook Challenge Google + with New Features Game.

Just hours after Google announced the presence of gaming + social services,Facebook also released several new features in its gaming service.

Newer features of Facebook was first presented Ticker game that serves as anews feed about the activities of your friends. The column will feature any gamebeing played by your friends, complete with achievement scores and record the highest value.

As reported by Mashable, Friday (08/12/2011), Ticker Game featuresdesigned to allow Facebook users to play games with their friends. Just like the Facebook News Feed, users can also set the update anywhere you want displayed.

 Player social games on Facebook can also enjoy a bookmarkingfeature that allows them to access their favorite games or applications easily and directly from the News Feed.

The addition of these new features is an answer to Google + Facebook recently released 16 games for social gaming platforms, including the Angry Birds and Zynga Poker.

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The number of Facebook visitors in Britain Declining.

Although the social network Facebook is still popular in Britain, but the numberof visits fell sharply in July, compared with June.

According to the company Experian Hitwise, Facebook users visit losing market share declined to reach 50.14 percent, the lowest since October 2009.Similarly, the line quoted by CBR, Friday (08/12/2011).

Experian Hitwise says that Facebook has lost market share of visits by usersranging from 53.72 percent to 50.14 percent of all social networks to British territory.

"The dominance of Facebook in the social networking market is not so lowsince October 2009 due to social networking is now only account for 50.46percent of all visits to social networking sites," said Experian Hitwise .

In addition to Experian Hitwise also said YouTube is now a social network that has the fastest growth for five straight months. "YouTube is also the third search engine this month. In addition, of course, eBay and Facebook," he said.

"One of every 35 visits to a site of 'run' of UK Internet users on YouTube. Thevideo site is now estimated at 22.54 percent of all visits to social networking,"he said.

The company said that Google remains the leader in Internet search with a figure of 91.04 percent market share of visitors. While the Microsoft site, Bing,was second with a rate of 3.84 percent for the month of July 2011.

While Yahoo's sites, said by Experian Hitwise has also increased market share of visitors with an estimated 3 percent of all online searches in the UK.

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New Moon Found Circling Pluto.

WASHINGTON - Astronomers have discovered the fourth month of the ice dwarf planet, Pluto, said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

As quoted in The Hindu on Monday (7/25/2011), a new small satellite, which was referred to temporarily as P4, which is found in a study using the Hubble Space Telescope, while in search of rings around Pluto .

P4 was first seen in a photograph taken with the Wide Field Camera of the Hubble telescope. He also announced that the Hubble took these pictures on 3 and 18 July.

Moon called P4 called rocket scientists as minor objects found around Pluto. Considers that the P4 has a diameter of 13 to 34 kilometers. By comparison, Charon, the largest satellite of Pluto property has a diameter of 1043 km. While two moons of Pluto, Nix and Hydra, have a diameter of 32 to 113 kilometers.

"It's very valuable because Hubble telescope's camera is able to show us an object that is up to five million kilometers," said Mark Showalter of the SETI Institute in California, who led the research program.

P4 is located between the orbits of the moon Nix and Hydra, which were also found by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005.

While Pluto's largest moon, Charon, was first discovered in 1978 in the United States Naval Observatory (USA) and was first observed using the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990 as a separate piece of Pluto.

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