News:Facebook to undergo privacy checks for 20 years

WASHINGTON: Social networking giant Facebook will be subjected to two decades of regular privacy checkups and other penalties, as part of a settlement finalised by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The FTC agreement implicated that Facebook must now obtain 'consent' before sharing a user's information with advertisers or others, which differs from its current privacy settings, and also bars the social site from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices again.

The settlement has the same outlines as the agreement, which FTC reached with Google in 2011 over that company's botched rollout of the Buzz social network, Politico reports.

The FTC faulted Facebook in 2011 for the way the company had handled users' private information, and allowed access of third-party apps.

Among other slip-ups, in December of 2009, Facebook changed its site in ways, which resulted in the private information of users being available to the public, the report said.

The FTC also charged Facebook with misrepresenting the sort of information that it shared with advertisers, and said that the social site wasn't clear with users about the fate of their photos and videos, upon deletion of their accounts, as some of the content didn't disappear, contrary to what the site states, it added.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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How To Change The Footer Link Of Blogger

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I have not checked the Blogger Terms and Conditions to find out whether you are allowed to remove the Attribution.   Even if they don’t mention it today, a requirement to keep the statement could be added tomorrow.   This advice does not mean that I, or Google/Blogger, are saying that you should/can/may/must remove the attribution statement.

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Hey Frnds here is the way of changing or removing blogger footer link.

1  Go to Design > Edit HTML.

2  Take a backup:

Download a copy of your template:  this is a backup – save it somewhere safe, in case things go wrong.

3  Click Expand Widgets, so you can see all the code

4  Find this section in the template:

<!– outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget –>
<b:section class=’foot’ id=’footer-3' showaddelement=’no’>
<b:widget id=’Attribution2' locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’>
<b:includable id=’main’>
<div class=’widget-content’ style=’text-align: center;’>
<b:if cond=’data:attribution != &quot;&quot;’>
<data:attribution/>
</b:if>
</div>
<b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>

4  Comment-out the code that displays the Attribution gadget, by putting it inside these characters  <!–   –>    so it ends up looking like this

<!– outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget –>
<!– <b:section class=’foot’ id=’footer-3' showaddelement=’no’>
<b:widget id=’Attribution2' locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’>
<b:includable id=’main’>
<div class=’widget-content’ style=’text-align: center;’>
<b:if cond=’data:attribution != &quot;&quot;’>
<data:attribution/>
</b:if>
</div>
<b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
–>

5  Preview the template change, to check that everything is ok.  If not, fix the problem.

6  Click Save Template

7  As the template tries to save, you will get a warning message:

Warning: Your new template does not include the following widgets:
Attribution3
Would you like to keep these widgets on your blog or delete them?
Deleting widgets cannot be undone.

Click Keep Widgets:  This will leave an attribution Gadget in the set of Widgets that your blog has data about, even though it’s not actually showing it on the screen.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Kaspersky :Virus found in Middle East that can spy on finance transactions.

BOSTON: A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab.

      A new cyber  surveillance virus has been found in 

      the Middle East that can spy on financial

      transactions, email and  social networking 

      activity, according to a leading computer 

      security firm, Kaspersky Lab.

Dubbed Gauss, the virus may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was built in the same laboratories as Stuxnet, the computer worm widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program, Kaspersky Lab said on Thursday.

The Moscow-based firm said it found Gauss had infected personal computers in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. It declined to speculate on who was behind the virus but said it was related to Stuxnet and two other cyber espionage tools, Flame and Duqu.

"After looking at Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same 'factory' or 'factories,'" Kaspersky Lab said in a posting on its website. "All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations." 

Kaspersky Lab's findings are likely to fuel a growing international debate over the development and use of cyber weapons. Those discussions were stirred up by the discovery of Flame in May by Kaspersky and others. Washington has declined comment on whether it was behind Stuxnet.

According to Kaspersky Lab, Gauss can steal Internet browser passwords and other data, send information about system configurations, steal credentials for accessing banking systems in the Middle East, and hijack login information for social networking sites, email and instant messaging accounts.

Modules in the Gauss virus have internal names that Kaspersky Lab researchers believe were chosen to pay homage to famous mathematicians and philosophers, including Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kurt Godel and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

Kaspersky Lab said it called the virus Gauss because that is the name of the most important module, which implements its data-stealing capabilities.

One of the firm's top researchers said Gauss also contains a module known as "Godel" that may include a Stuxnet-like weapon for attacking industrial control systems.

Stuxnet, discovered in 2010, spread via USB drives and was designed to attack computers that controlled the centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Feeds for Google Alerts

Feeds for Google Alerts: Welcome to this Google Alerts feed! Here you will receive new alerts for your News query "mdu". Depending on your query, it might take some time before any items pop up. Go to the Alerts Management console to change the alert query or delete it. Thanks for using Google Alerts.

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Result of B.Tech. 8th Semester, MDU

Result of B.Tech. 8th Semester, MDU Maharshi Dayanand University Rohtak declared the Result B.Tech. 8th Sem. May / June 2012 and the same is available on the official website of the Maharshi Dayanand University www.mdurohtak.ac.in For View / Print Your Result Click the Link Given Below Click Me

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Check Daily Website Traffic

We create websites to make business, to become popular and to educate people about the knowledge we have about a particular niche. There are lots of free as well as paid tools available that will give us exact idea about the incoming traffic to a website that you own. But what you will do to check traffic to a website that you don’t own or have any control. Luckily there are some websites that can help you check traffic to your competitor or any website you like. There may be certain variation in the traffic numbers that you get through these websites. But you can use these website traffic numbers to have an idea about the kind of traffic a website must be having. I have noticed some websites giving traffic estimates very close to the original traffic numbers of a website. I came to this conclusion when I checked website traffic for some of websites and blogs whom I own or have access to their Google Analytics Statistics.


Lots of website owners and bloggers use these traffic checking websites to guess about the kind of traffic their competitors are able to generate on daily, month or yearly basis. Some of popular traffic estimating websites are Google Ad Planner, Alexa, Compete, Qunatcast and BuySellAds. You can use these traffic estimating tools to compare how your website is doing in traffic terms when compared with your competitors websites.

5 Ways to Check Website Traffic

Here is the ultimate list of tools that you can use to check website traffic of your competitors or any website of your choice:

1. Google Ad Planner

I would strongly recommend using Google Ad Planner when you are interested in checking website traffic for other’s website. Google Ad Planner will give you very accurate and detailed traffic details about a website in a specific country and worldwide. This traffic estimating tool from Google will give you important traffic metrics like average number of visits per visitors, average time on site, unique visitors, total page views, total unique visitors to a website in month time and broad category for the entered website.


To start using Google Ad Planner to check traffic to a website, click here and enter the website URL in the search box available just after site:. After clicking the arrow mark shown after the search box, you will get detailed traffic details including top keywords, it’s demographic details etc. I have analyzed data available from Google Ad Planner with the traffic details of some websites I own and I find data available from Google Ad Planner very close to my website original traffic numbers. Traffic details available from Google Ad Planner kind of traffic estimating tools can be very handy when we are analyzing the real worth of a website or blog.

Here is a screenshot taken from Google Ad Planner showing traffic details for Problogger.net:

2. Alexa.com

You need to go to Alexa.com website and enter a website address in the Search Box Available. After entering website address, you will get important metrics like Alexa Traffic rank (Global), Traffic Rank in Specific demographics like for India specific website, Alexa Traffic Rank in India. Apart from Alexa rank, you will see other website traffic numbers like pageviews, pageviews per user, bounce rate, time on site and search percentage. You will also get list of top search queries for a website. So these search queries can be considered as best performing keywords for that website. Apart from this, you can use Alexa.com website to compare your website traffic graph with 4 websites of your choice. Alexa.com will not give any traffic estimates for new or websites with few daily visits. The data available from Alexa.com is not accurate but you can you’re your own prediction about the traffic numbers about a website after using this tool. Alexa take into consideration only those users who have installed Alexa Toolbar in their browsers. So Alexa will no give you traffic details anyway close to a website actual traffic numbers. But still lots of advertisers and industry experts us it as a tool to check traffic on a website.

Here is a screenshot showing traffic numbers for Bloggers Passion blog:

3. Compete.com

Go to compete.com website and enter a website URL in the search box available under ‘See The Traffic For’. This website gather data from US users and the traffic details shared by this website will be close to the actual traffic generated by US websites only. They have active database of 200000 US users that they use to make prediction about a website traffic and engagement metrics. So you will not be able to predict much about website’s traffic through Compete.com having international traffic. You will get unique visitors numbers and some competitor’s websites list with their monthly unique visitor’s numbers.

Here is a Screenshow showing traffic details for Problogger.net blog:

4. QuantCast.com

QuantCast is another popular website traffic estimating tool among internet users. They share traffic details about a website based on the data sources they have. Again, this tool does not give accurate traffic numbers about a website.

Here is a screenshot checking website traffic for Problogger.net from QuantCast website:

5. BuySellAds.com

Basically BuySellAds (BSA) is an ad network for selling banner advertisements on our websites and blogs. We will get traffic estimates very close to the actual traffic numbers on a page, the only condition is that that website or blog should have buysellads script installed. So we can believe on the data available from BSA. The only downside is that we can get estimated page impressions for a website selling advertisement through BSA. To know traffic details about a website, you need to click on the Your Ads here banner pointing to BuySellAds.com website. Here is a screenshot showing the kind of metrics you will get through BSA.

So, BuySellAds website is giving monthly impressions, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Delicious Saves, Twitter Followers, Facebook Likes, Current Page Rank and SeoMoz rank for a website.

Here is a Screenshot checking website trafic numbers for Search Engine Journal using BuySellAds.com website:

This is how I used to check website traffic through the 5 traffic estimating tools, would you be interested in sharing how you used to check a website traffic, please share in the comments section below.

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