Thursday, May 5, 2011

Hati-hati Jebakan

Pengumuman  kematian pemimpin al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden telah mencuri jutaan warga dunia maya. Kata kunci "Osama bin Laden" hari ini menjadi kata yang paling dicari di internet.
Hati-hati Jebakan
Tingginya pencarian kata "Osama bin Laden" dimanfaatkan para penjahat cyber untuk menginfeksi komputer dengan menipu pengguna agar mengunjungi situs mereka untuk informasi lebih lanjut, pakar keamanan memperingatkan.

Cybercrooks dapat melakukan trik untuk menjadikan sebuah situs berada di peringkat atas  dalam mesin pencari populer dengan memberi mereka halaman palsu untuk membuat situs mereka tampak sah. "Ketika pengguna meng-klik halaman itu, mereka dengan leluasa menyalurkan virus malware," kata Paul Ducklin, kepala teknologi di  perusahaan IT security, Sophos.

Fabio Assolini, seorang ahli di perusahaan keamanan TI Kaspersky Lab, sudah punya contoh halaman malware sebagai respons terhadap pencarian gambar Google untuk "tubuh Osama bin Laden." Pengguna yang mengklik beberapa gambar hasilnya diarahkan ke salah satu dari dua domain berbahaya menawarkan salinan rogueware dikenal sebagai "Best Antivirus 2011", Assolini mengatakan dalam sebuah posting blog.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Google Video Service Has been shut down

Google‘s decided to shut down its Google Video service, and in an email sent Friday night (4/15/2011), reminded those who’ve uploaded videos to the site that they have until May 13 to download them before they are removed.

3 Biggest Gambling Online Has been Shutdown by U.S Goverment

Gambling online just got significantly less convenient Friday when the U.S. Government shut down the three largest Internet gambling sites operating in the United States. Now it’s time for a precedent-setting showdown, where courts will determine if this kind of gambling is legal or not.
Federal prosecutors accused the three founders of the gambling sites and eight others with illegal gambling, bank fraud and money laundering, according to the Financial Times [paywall].

Friday, April 15, 2011

Google's profit up 17% but misses Street's expectations


Investors hoping brand-new CEO Larry Page would pull a rabbit out of his hat were disappointed Thursday, when Google reported a quarterly profit that rose from year-ago results but missed Wall Street's forecasts.Shares of Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) dropped 5% after hours.

Google is still making gobs of money. The world's online search leader said its net income in the first quarter rose to $2.3 billion, or $7.04 per share, up 17% from a year earlier. Sales rose 27%, to $8.6 billion.

How Google is teaching computers to see

Computers used to be blind, and now they can see.
Thanks to increasingly sophisticated algorithms, computers today can recognize and identify the Eiffel Tower, the Mona Lisa or a can of Budweiser.
Still, despite huge technological strides in the last decade or so, visual search has plenty more hurdles to clear.

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