Hacked websites: chronic webmasters report fights with their vulnerable sites

StopBadware and Commtouch have published an interesting report on compromised websites. The report talks about how website owners have been hacked and repair damage and presents interesting statistics on the subject.

The study found that, in most cases, legitimate websites are compromised without the website owner even noticing that their website has been compromised. Over 90% did not notice any strange activity, although their websites were misused to redirect visitors to other links, send spam, host phishing sites or distribute malware. Over 66% did not know how the piracy occurred. read more

Stress tests for CUDA and OpenCL compatible GPUs

One of my colleagues posted a thread in a forum on MemtestG80 and MemtestCL. MemtestG80 and MemtestCL are software testers for testing software errors in GPU memory or logic for NVIDIA CUDA or OpenCL GPUs (from any manufacturer). This is good news for new GPU card owners because they can check the stability of their card, i.e. it detects software errors in GPU memory or logic for GPUs that support CUDA or OpenCL, which can often lead to random crashes – even BSODs.

This is a command line program, as you can see in the screenshot above. You will see on the image that it sends the test results to its developers at Stanford; but if you want to avoid it, you must use an additional flag as described above. read more

Unlock and restore a blocked or locked Outlook or Microsoft account

Sometimes you will notice that your Outlook, Hotmail or Microsoft account has been blocked for some reason. This usually happens when the Hotmail team finds your email account compromised or abused by someone to send many unwanted emails. In such a case, you may be excluded from your own Live account and the following message will appear instead of your familiar inbox. Moreover, you can click on these images to see them in large format.

Outlook or Microsoft locked account

To unlock your account, click Next. Here you can check if you have this account in two ways. You can ask Hotmail to send you a confirmation code by mail to your other email number or by SMS to your mobile phone number. read more

Remotely access and recover any file on your Windows PC using OnrDrive

Many of us have had to use OneDrive to access and share files anywhere. With OneDrive, you can securely store and access your files from any device – PC, Mac, smartphone, iPad or iPod. Another feature of OneDrive that many of us have not used is that if you forgot to put your files in the OneDrive folder, you can access your Windows PC and remotely recover that file or any other file. As long as your PC is turned on with the file and OneDrive is running, you can access any file from anywhere. read more

Difference between HTTP and HTTPS

Many people get confused when they see two different URLs as HTTP and others as HTTPS. What’s the difference between these two? In this post, I will discuss HTTP development and the difference between HTTP and HTTPS in simple terms, so it makes sense.

What is HTTP

It is always necessary to know the basics before moving on to advanced topics. HTTP means HyperTText Transfer ransferrotocol. It is the system for sending and receiving information between the server and the client. The server is the machine where your website code resides, and the client is nothing more than your browser. HTTP manages the mutual understanding between the server and the client to successfully exchange information or data. The first HTTP had only one method called GET that requested a page from the server and the response was an HTML page. The latest version of HTTP defines nine request methods. read more

Windows Embedded Standard 8 Second Community Technology Preview now available

There seem to be a lot of developments at Microsoft regarding Windows 8. Fans could look forward to seeing the full version of Windows 8. However, it seems we are nearing final versions as Microsoft announces a CTP version of Window 8 and the second community technology preview for Windows Embedded Standard 8.

There are many improvements made in this release, and something to note is the new category of business solution called intelligent systems, in which specialized devices connect to back-end technologies such as servers and databases. This CTP 2 provides the power of Windows for specialized devices that run enterprise applications in intelligent systems. read more

World Browser Usage Map – Observe the evolution of the landscape!

The browser, browser usage and browser superiority has always been a hotly debated topic that has interested Windows users. Now StatCounter has released a new 2 minute video that will guide you from 2008 to 2012 and illustrate the evolution of browser usage around the world.

In 2008, Internet Explorer dominated the global market. Although IE is still a world leader in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, the landscape has changed. Chrome almost caught up with Internet Explorer, says StatCounter. read more

Microsoft Terms of Use – Effects of the new service contract

Block and delete any content that is proven to violate these laws. If Microsoft receives a complaint of copyright infringement from third parties or local law enforcement agencies, Microsoft may remove your content without notice to you.

Loss of access to services and data

The new Microsoft service agreement requires you to sign up for services at least once every 270 days if the service is free. This confirms that you continue to use the service. If you do not have access to the Services for 270 days, you may lose access to the Services. read more

How to use Free Stock Images from Google Drive

This year in August 2012, Google asked community members to expand the Google Drive image collection. The Internet giant asked members to submit their favourite 10 ThinkStock images. 900 photos were selected from the ideas submitted.

However, it was this week that the company announced that a huge collection of 5000 high quality free images was available for use with Google Docs & Google Drive. A new service called Stock Images has been added to Google Drive to allow users to add images to presentation slides, documents, files and spreadsheets. read more

Make Disk Cleanup Tool deletes ALL temporary files, including those created within the last 7 days

Many of us still prefer the integrated disk cleaning tool. However, if you use the tool to delete unnecessary and temporary files, some files may still exist in the temporary folder. This is because by default Windows does not delete temporary files (.tmp) in the folder %WinDir%Temp and other folders created or accessed in the last 7 days.

Files may refer to something you download or modify. They may even be linked to an application that is still open. Windows plays security and does not delete temporary files that are less than 7 days old. read more