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Thursday, February 11, 2010

In YouTube there was a safe mode

Video hosting YouTube

The largest video hosting YouTube has presented on February, 10th the new option, allowing to be protected from a doubtful content. New function "Safety Mode" will protect users from viewing of offensive video and comments, is informed in official blog YouTube.

Safety Mode for YouTube

To include adjustment Safety Mode, it is necessary for visitor to press a corresponding badge which settles down in the bottom of any page of a site. Adjustment Safety Mode can be kept, for what the registered user YouTube should enter into service under the login, make a choice and finish a session.

Tool Safety Mode on a plan of developers will filter vedeo by the search inquiries containing unseemly words, for example "naked" or "violence". Also all comments in Safety Mode will be hidden by default. The user can read them, having pressed a corresponding arrow, but "doubtful" words will be in that case replaced by "asterisks".

Community Guidelines for YouTube

Options Safety Mode will extend also on rollers in headings Related videos, Featured videos, Most viewed and Videos being watched now. Users also cannot look videos sent by friends if such video are filtered Safety Mode. If users YouTube want to look these video, they can switch off option Safety Mode.

The new filter of a content will add already existing community guidelines, forbidding placing of rollers with elements of the pornography, showing violence over people or animals, the use of drugs, and also piracy video.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Adobe has confirmed message Google on network attack

Adobe

On January, 2nd network Adobe has undergone to attack. On it it is informed in a corporate blog of the company. At the moment incident is investigated by experts Adobe.

Gmail the Chinese legal experts

The message on an attack on network Adobe has followed in some hours after the message in official blog Google about the Chinese attack. According to corporation, to attack has undergone not only Google, but also at least other 20 large companies (on other sources — more than 30). As the Overall objective of these attacks Google considers access reception to accounting records Gmail of leading Chinese legal experts. Experts of corporation also underline, that malefactors have not reached the purpose.

According to experts of division on network safety iDefense companies VeriSign, for attack hackers used vulnerability in Adobe Reader. About hole existence in the popular program for reading of documents in format PDF Adobe warned still on December, 15th. During same time there was an attack on which corporation Google today has informed.

PDF vulnerability

The dangerous code thanks to which the malefactor could receive the control over the computer of a victim, extended by means of the electronic letter with a PDF-file. Vulnerability was present at all versions Adobe Reader and Acrobat up to 9.2.

Despite lacking direct charges to Beijing in message Google, scandal already left on the international level. Under last message AFP, US State Secretary Hillari Clinton has demanded from the Chinese authorities of explanations.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

The mass protest of consumers

AdMob

Two groups on protection of the rights of consumers have directed to the Federal Trading Commission of the USA (FTC) the letter with the request to block acquisition by corporation Google of the operator of mobile advertising AdMob. About it writes InformationWeek.

The market of mobile advertising

According to representatives of organisations Consumer Watchdog and Center for Digital Democracy, search the giant thus tries to redeem to itself road on the market of mobile advertising. For consumers it can turn back a rise in prices for advertising and reduction of assortment of offers. Also the organisations are anxious by threat of decrease in level of the user safety in case of association Google and AdMob.

Several days before FTC has decided to find out more in detail about conditions and consequences of purchase of the operator of mobile advertising AdMob corporation Google for 750 million dollars.

Any difficulties — all OK!

In most Google any difficulties with registration of absorption have not seen. According to representatives of corporation, in the market of mobile advertising more ten players works, and the competition in branch is great enough. Also they have assumed, that special attention to the transaction has been connected with successes Google — in particular, in the market of contextual advertising.

Google has informed on purchase AdMob on November, 9th, 2009. It was provided, that the corporation should pay purchase by the securities. After the announcement of absorption of analytics noticed, that Google has paid for AdMob some annual turnovers of last.

The total amount of the means involved on the market of mobile advertising, this year should reach 416 million dollars. By data eMarketer, it will make 0,4% from all advertising market. According to experts, writes the edition, in case of successful absorption Google of operator AdMob, competitors of corporation, such as Microsoft and Yahoo, can reflect on expediency of the conclusion of similar transactions with remained advertising operators.

Mr. Bin has changed the Spanish prime minister

Mr. Bin

Because of vulnerability in system of safety of the site devoted to the Spanish presidency in the European Union, on Monday on the governmental site there was a photo of the comic character of Mr. Bin, informs Agence France-Presse.

Rowan Atkinson welcomes you!

Mr. Bin which role is executed 20 years by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, welcomed visitors of the main page the well-known smile and a word "greetings". After the message on breaking many users have decided to be convinced of substitution by own eyes in this connection in the evening on Monday the site eu2010.es practically was not accessible.

It was a script...

Meanwhile the representative of the Spanish government has underlined, that the site has not been cracked, as inform the Spanish mass-media. Unknown jokers have really changed the image of the main page for a physiognomy of the British comedian, but it was not reflected in safety of the information.

Jokes concerning similarity of the prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodrigesa Zapatero and Mr. Bin are not new, reports. This comparison is especially popular in opponents of the politician-socialist. Let's remind, Spain which already became at the head of the European Union four times, will preside in EU till July, 2010.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Postmarked E-mail cares of authenticity of letters

Good mail

The post service of the USA at last has understood, that time has come to get over in a digital reality and to try to earn money for e-mail delivery, is informed in blog The Wall Street Journal. Considering, that e-mail quite not bad goes and without the aid of this department, the Post service by and large has only one direction of activity — trust to e-mail to mail.

Authenticity check

As is known to any Internet user facing a spam, the address of the sender in email can be easily forged. Besides, the real address of the sender to the addressee can be and is not so known so to define authenticity of letters, say, from bank begins even more difficult.

"According to recent research, about 50% of consumers have declared, that delete electronic messages from banks at all not reading, — the head of company Epostmarks speaks Jason Curtis. — As I cannot trust the message, I simply delete the message".

Epostmarks together with other company, Goodmail Systems, has developed technology Postmarked Email, met with approval of Post service. The technology allows to supply e-mail the electronic "marks" including date and time, and also a known logo of Post service with the image of a head of an eagle. Besides, users of post services AOL and Yahoo! Will see on these letters a special mark in the form of an envelope with a blue tape.

This service is aimed at corporate clients who wish that their letters have not been ignored by addressees. Obviously, this dodge will work, if addressees have a boundless trust to Post service of the USA.

E-mail identification

However, if this service gets accustomed, it is easy to expect fast occurrence of spams-letters with the image of an eagle enclosed to them. There is a suspicion, that presence of one only quite will suffice this picture to mislead the majority of usual users.

Facebook has declassified the users

Social network Facebook has fulfilled the promise given in the summer to improve options of parametres of confidentiality. On the one hand, options are simplified, and with another — to users as though have given more control over the personal information. Many, however, believe, that changes only have worsened a situation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation VS Facebook

As have noticed many, including legal experts from Electronic Frontier Foundation, new options are actually more open to all world, than earlier. In Facebook do not open a principle on which the new system of options has been imposed on former installations of existing users. But edition ReadWriteWeb, having familiarised with responses of users, assumes, that those who did not change confidentiality adjustment earlier have suffered, and used old installations by default.

Facebook it was transformed beyond recognition

Now such users, that not wishing, have started to share with all Internet the statuses-messages and records on "wall". The only thing that can justify somehow Facebook in the given situation so it that start of new options has been accompanied by the press release and record in a blog where all 350 million users was offered to come into options of parametres of confidentiality and to expose them according to the preferences.

However, the part of problems cannot be solved even in such a way — some existing before adjustment now for some reason are absent, and some were transformed beyond recognition.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

In locks Defend Lock apply safe mechanisms

Company Defend Group, the leading manufacturer and the distributor of the equipment of mark Defend for complex and full protection of cars reacts to a spam sent on e-mail and assures the clients and partners, that all equipment Defend, including mechanical locks of the lever of check point Defend Lock, answer the highest safety requirements. The proof to that: which company Defend Group has certificates on the products.

SG & Bump Key Set

Recently by e-mail the information on unreliability and simplicity of opening of locks of the majority of known manufacturers of door-locks and locks of the lever of speeds on method Bump Key Sets. Representatives of company Defend Group feel necessity to react to this purposeful harmful information.

The information which has appeared on the Internet, from the point of view of company Defend Group doubtful and causes a damage to mark Defend. A subject of the extended information, in case of mark Defend, test of the key loose leaf made in 2001 then method Bump Key was not widely known. Experts have started to be engaged in protection Bump Key since 2002. As a push — opening of locks without a key which is based on a method of SG-effect, the method wide circulation has served in general similar to method Bump Keys.

Company Defend Group has reacted to this situation release of the new loose leaf which is completed on products since 2003. Safety confirms the conformity certificate at number TT-466/2003, given out by certified chamber TREZOR TEST from 26.11.2003. The new loose leaf corresponds now to requirements shown to products of a class 4 including to requirements against use of methods SG or Kwikset Bump Key.

The problematics of safety and safety of the property is very great and research and safety system engineering is long-term procedure. Company Defend Group which is engaged in safety and protection of cars, constantly works over improvement available and working out of new devices and safety systems. Result is the offer of complex protection of the car which includes not only the mechanical device, but also other electronic and electromechanical devices.

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