Archive for February, 2009

It looks like cybercriminals leave no week without inventing yet another way to distribute malware around the web using the weaknesses incident to human nature. Today’s news is from Russia-based provider of anti-virus software, Kaspersky Lab. The thing is that the company has discovered a new trick that cybercriminals now use to lure people into [...]

Do you remember those dial-up times? If you do, chances are you still believe that the worst part about dial-up was its speed. Yet today a Russian hacker has discovered that there are things that can be much worse in using dial-up – like going to prison for 2.5 years for stealing other people’s dial-up [...]

Earlier this week I have already talked here about quite an interesting move from Facebook: offering scheduling gifts to be sent as many as 7 days in advance under wraps. And while this sounded romantic as the receiver was supposed to have two surprises instead of just one it was quite obvious that Facebook had [...]

Some of the loyal Profy readers may remember the story of Google trying to acquire Begun, Russian contextual advertising network. The acquisition price amounted to quite nice $140 million and the technology blogosphere admitted at the time that this was a nice investment for Google with Begun reporting amazing growth rates: only during the first [...]

There’s quite an interesting Twitter hack discussed today – that of “Don’t click” links that suddenly arrived to multiple Twitter accounts from the people they follow. Basically the hack involved updating a user’s status with a link that, when clicked, brought a user to a site using the so-called clickjacking technique. The technique is a [...]

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is [...]

Virtual gifts are definitely becoming a huge trend for many social networks these days – and a huge trend that can actually generate amazing revenues for the networks. Facebook is one of the pioneers of the trend and one of the networks that enjoys huge success with virtual gifts. In February, 2007 the social network [...]

I have already complained once that Google seems to be totally determined to do everything the internet giant can for us not to have to think about our emails a lot: Gmail reminds us we should attach the file we have forgotten to attach and it can even encourage you not to send that email [...]

Of course we all realize that the new technologies are changing everything in this world, especially the way people communicate, so it is no wonder they are getting everywhere, including in how people send their love to each other on Valentine’s Day. Before the 14th of February AT&T commissioned a survey that proves that text [...]