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63% of website owners don't know how they were hacked. Businesses often don't know how to react when cybercriminals hack their websites. In fact, 63 percent of website owners don't even know how they were hacked. 20 percent say they had their sites compromised because hackers exploited out-of-date or insecure software, 12 percent were hacked because the computer used to update their website was infected with malware, 6 percent said their username/password (or their colleague's) was used to access their website, and 2 percent used a public computer or public Wi-Fi network. About half admitted they only discovered the hack when they attempted to visit their own site and received a browser or search engine warning.

In fact, over 90 percent didn't notice any strange activity, despite the fact that their sites were being abused to send spam, host phishing pages, or distribute malware. The results come from a study conducted by StopBadware and Commtouch, which surveyed over 600 website owners and administrators whose sites had been compromised. Facebook's 'dark side': study finds link to socially aggressive narcissism | Technology. Researchers have established a direct link between the number of friends you have on Facebook and the degree to which you are a "socially disruptive" narcissist, confirming the conclusions of many social media sceptics. People who score highly on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory questionnaire had more friends on Facebook, tagged themselves more often and updated their newsfeeds more regularly. The research comes amid increasing evidence that young people are becoming increasingly narcissistic, and obsessed with self-image and shallow friendships.

The latest study, published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, also found that narcissists responded more aggressively to derogatory comments made about them on the social networking site's public walls and changed their profile pictures more often. The EE aspect includes "a sense of deserving respect and a willingness to manipulate and take advantage of others".

Pew Survey: 68% View Targeted Ads Negatively; 59% Have Noticed Targeting. Ads that follow you around the web? Marketers have been putting them to good use. But a new survey finds, perhaps unsurprisingly, that nearly three-quarters of those asked dislike such targeting. And people do notice — nearly two-thirds report experiencing being targeted by ads. The findings are from a new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

Around 2,000 adults in the US were surveyed between January 20 and February 19 of this year and asked a variety of questions about targeted ads. Targeted Ads? Not OK People were asked how they felt about targeted ads: Rather than a simple yes/no choice, the responses gave some context. 68% said they were “not OK” with targeted ads since, as the response continued, “I don’t like having my online behavior tracked and analyzed”28% said they were “OK” because “I see ads and get information about things I’m really interested in” By Demographic The survey also broke down responses to the question on targeted ads by age and income level: Adding Texture To Touch Screens. ACTA: Czyli jak celebryci stracili kontakt z rzeczywistością.

Mniej kompleksów Pudelku. Z Pudelkiem na barykady. Paweł Wroński 11.02.2012 , aktualizacja: 10.02.2012 22:36 Stało się. Do buntu wezwał internetowy Pudelek. Manifest przeciwko ACTA jest dziełem wyjątkowym pod względem stylu i emocjonalnego napięcia. Powstał, bo - jak pisze autor - "komentarze w tzw. poważnych mediach są tak stronnicze, że postanowiliśmy napisać kilka słów".

Pudelka do tej misji wezwali sami internauci, którzy... Reszta artykułu dostępna dla naszych prenumeratorów Wszystkie artykuły w serwisach wyborcza.pl, wyborcza.biz, wysokieobcasy.pl i 22 serwisach lokalnych.Na różnych urządzeniach: na komputerze, tablecie i smartfonie oraz na czytnikach i w aplikacjach na iPhone'a i iPada. Wypróbuj już od 0,99 zł za pierwszy miesiąc Bez prenumeraty możesz przeczytać do 10 artykułów miesięcznie.Masz prenumeratę cyfrową Gazety Wyborczej lub abonament Piano? The Daily Hits 1st Birthday, Reaches 100,000 Paid Subscribers on iPad. What's Next? The Daily, the News Corp publication that launched exclusively on the iPad one year ago Thursday, is setting its sites beyond tablets in 2012. The publication has amassed more than 100,000 paid subscribers on the iPad, making it the third top-grossing iPad app in the iTunes Store last year. Of those 100,000, about half pay The Daily's $0.99 per week subscription fee, and the other half are annual ($39.99 per year) subscribers, according to publisher Greg Clayman.

Earlier this month, The Daily launched its first Android edition for Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets. Now the digital newspaper is gearing up to release versions for iPhone and Android smartphones "in the next month or two," says Clayman, thereby making its content available to the millions of consumers who own smartphones but not tablets. It will also allow existing subscribers to more easily access The Daily's updates throughout the day. We spoke to Clayman about The Daily's first year and what lies ahead for 2012. Sure. The 9 most surprising facts about the Facebook IPO | Today in Tech. Facebook's SEC filing reveals a treasure trove of information on the social media behemoth It's official: Facebook, the world's most famous internet company, is about to go public.

In a move expected to net the social networking giant a cool $5 billion, Facebook shares will be available for purchase this May under the ticker symbol FB. It's a little surprising that Facebook is "only" raising $5 billion — previous suggestions put the figure as high as $10 billion. Nevertheless, that will still make Facebook's IPO the largest in internet history; significantly bigger than Google's. But while those facts may be surprising, they're hardly the most surprising aspects of the Facebook IPO. Facebook is the largest social network by a huge margin 1. 2. 3. 4. Facebook users have a lot to say, and they don't hold back 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. [Image credit: Andrew Feinberg] This article was written by Fox Van Allen and originally appeared on Tecca More from Tecca: Microsoft wants to hear your droid rage story.

Say what you want about Microsoft, but it is standing behind Windows Phone and is calling out Android at every chance it can get. The company’s leading proponent of the platform, BenThePCGuy, is calling out Android once again and if you tell your story, you could win 1 of 20 Samsung Focus phones. This time around Ben is targeting those who have had malware on their Android device. This is, of course, another marketing stunt by the company but after the success of ‘smoked by Windows Phone’ campaign that was run during CES, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Microsoft is continuing its anti-Android tactics. The hashtag for the promotion is #droidrage and it is seeing quite a bit of activity.

Most users are complaining about applications that when installed either add unwanted widgets to their phone or cause the device to crash. Microsoft has been pushing Windows Phone at every turn as it attempts to come from behind. This Is The Number One Thing People Are Using Kindle Fires For. Too little, too late: Google launches Orkut for iPhone. Orkut, a Google-owned social network, has had little luck challenging MySpace, hi5, Tagged or Facebook —the undisputed social networking leader (some people even liken Orkut to a poor man’s Facebook). Nevertheless, Orkut is still popular in India and Brazil, where more than 80 percent of its 66 million active users come from, as of October 2011. Today, the search company released a native Orkut client for iPhone.

It is available free of charge on the App Store and comes with the usual assortment of features, ranging from updating your status and checking your scraps and messages to browsing your friends’ profiles and uploading photographs. It is interesting that Google chose to release the app just as Facebook has finally managed to beat Orkut in Brazil, per latest comScore metrics. Orkut for iOS Your favorite social network just arrived to your iPhone or iPod! The official Orkut app for iOS connects you to your friends and family. #BlackoutSOPA: A Look At The Social Media Movement That Helped Stall The SOPA Legislation.

Over the past month, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261,) has been the hottest, most controversial news topics. The proposed legislation required the take-down of infringed content from ISPs, search engines and webmasters. The good news is, SOPA has been shelved … for now. The outpouring of anti-SOPA support has been overwhelming, and may have influenced the White House’s decision to not support the legislation in it’s current form. An outpouring of support on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and from webmasters made the anti-SOPA stance a popular one. While the original SOPA legislation has been shelved indefinitely, a strong push is still underway to make sure that more SOPA-like legislation isn’t proposed again in the near future. The Reddit Blackout Many sites are kicking the support up a notch by “going black” in an effort to show their visitors what could happen if the SOPA bill was passed.

Social Media Support. Tanjore - The Web Is What You Make Of It - Another Amazing Chrome Ad!!!! (1) Robert Scoble - Google+ - Sorry that it took me until now to comment on the situation… Sorry that it took me until now to comment on the situation that Danny wrote about at . I’m in Central America this week and my ability to reach the internet hasn't been great. I’ll give the short summary, then I’ll describe the webspam team’s response. Google was trying to buy video ads about Chrome, and these sponsored posts were an inadvertent result of that. If you investigated the two dozen or so sponsored posts (as the webspam team immediately did), the posts typically showed a Google Chrome video but didn’t actually link to Google Chrome. However, we did find one sponsored post that linked to www.google.com/chrome in a way that flowed PageRank. In response, the webspam team has taken manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome for at least 60 days.

Mobile browsing reaches all-time high | Deep Tech. If you haven't whipped your Web site into shape for easy viewing on small-screen devices, you'd better get cracking. That's because the use of mobile devices reached an all-time high in December, accounting for 7.7 percent of browser usage according to Net Applications' measurements of daily visits to its network of 40,000 Web sites. That may still be a small fraction of total Web traffic, but it's a large and growing population in absolute numbers. Tablet browsing in many ways is similar to desktop browsing; screen resolution on the dominant iPad and iPad 2 aren't that far off a laptop. But touch interfaces are different from mouse interfaces, especially when it comes to tapping buttons with precision.

And smaller tablets are awkwardly in between the iPad and mobile-phone screens. It's for these reasons that there's a lot of work in retooling CSS and other Web technologies to make Web sites adjust to different screen sizes, but for now it's a tough challenge for Web programmers. Polskiej młodzieży grozi fonoholizm - telefonia komórkowa. Prowadzona od kilku miesięcy kampania "Uwaga! Fonoholizm", której inicjatorem jest firma InternetQ Poland, zwraca uwagę na problem nadmiernego korzystania z telefonów komórkowych przez młodzież. Eksperci kampanii "Uwaga! Fonoholizm" obalają mity i wyjaśniają fakty dotyczące nadmiernego używania telefonu komórkowego przez młodzież.

Telefon komórkowy ważnym elementem codziennego życia młodzieży w Polsce FAKT. Komórka towarzyszy młodym ludziom w Polsce niemal non stop - aż 36% badanych nie wyobraża sobie bez niego nawet jednego dnia . Komórka służy młodym ludziom tylko do kontaktowania się z bliskimi, inne funkcje nie mają aż takiego znaczenia MIT. Polskiej młodzieży grozi fonoholizm FAKT Aż 60% badanych nastolatków zdarzyło się korzystać z telefonu komórkowego podczas lekcji w szkole, a prawie co piąty (18%) robił to w czasie sprawdzianu czy klasówki. Telefon komórkowy nigdy nie zastąpi bezpośredniego kontaktu między ludźmi FAKT. Android 4.0 default ‘Holo’ theme required by Google for Market access. When Google unveiled Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, we quickly learned that a refined version of the “Holo” system theme would be used throughout the operating system.

Now, Google has announced in a blog post on the Android Developers website that it will require vendors to use the theme to gain access to the Android Market and Google apps and services. Android Framework engineer Adam Powell explained: In Android 4.0, Holo is different. We’ve made the inclusion of the unmodified Holo theme family a compatibility requirement for devices running Android 4.0 and forward. If the device has Android Market it will have the Holo themes as they were originally designed.

The benefit, according to Google, will be easier to implement future updates for vendors. Android apps running on 4.0 and forward can use the Holo themes and be assured that their look and feel will not change when running on a device with a custom skin.