Software-Programming

Whenever I see another "cyberchallenge" getting play in the press, I think our priorities are screwed up.

In November I wrote a post explaining how just one line of code could destroy your SEO.  It underscored the fact that sometimes hidden dangers can kill your SEO efforts.  In addition, it also explained how a thorough audit can reveal those issues and get your site back on track SEO-wise.  Well, I’m back with a new post about audits and SEO gremlins.  And as part of this post, I’m going to include information about one of my favorite tools (one that I’ve used for a long time – Xenu Link Sleuth).

Do you have mad Android hacking skills? Put them to good use and you might just earn $5,000--or more.

N2A Cards LLC, best known for transforming Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-readers into full-blown Android tablets, has thrown down the gauntlet to the development community: first person to create a bootable Android microSD card for the Nook Tablet (the Color's successor) gets $2,500.

And if you do it before midnight on January 22, you get a $2,500 bonus.

Six months ago, Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler — one of the original members of the team that built the Firefox browser — made it quite clear that the open source outfit wasn’t interested in helping businesses. Their only aim, he said, was serve individual web surfers. “Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours,” Dotzler said.

Major portals and online game sites here recently stopped supporting Internet Explorer (IE) 6. As they won’t include it when they test their services, users of the old browser may encounter errors.

It is a desperate countermeasure to induce people to install updated versions of IE or other Web browsers such as Firefox or Chrome. Korea is often dubbed an IT powerhouse, thanks to its ultra-high speed Internet service and people’s eagerness to use the latest devices, on top of being home to top global manufacturers like Samsung Electronics.

Microsoft today shipped seven security updates that patched eight vulnerabilities in Windows and a code library used to protect Web applications from cross-site scripting attacks.

As experts expected, today Microsoft issued the patch it pulled at the last minute in December 2011.

Adobe is plugging critical security holes in its Adobe Reader X and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, and Adobe Acrobat X and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, as part of its quarterly patch update.

The update includes fixes for two zero-day flaws – CVE-2011-2462 and CVE-2011-4369 – in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows patched on Dec. 16. Symantec had noted that CVE-2011-2462 was being actively exploited in email-based attacks against critical infrastructure industries designed to infect computers with the Backdoor.Skyipot virus.

A new project aims to make it easy to distribute Python applications for Android. The newly launched Python for Android project is a tool which takes a Python application and, after ensuring the Android SDK/NDK is installed, creates a Python distribution containing the runtime and the set of modules needed to run the application, packaged as an Android APK file.

Google has released a beta version of its Chrome 17 browser that scans for malicious downloads, which may help tackle scareware threats.

The browser will issue a warning to discard a file when a user attempts to download a known bad file or if the file comes from a site known to host malware.

Now here's something you don't see every day: a leaked road map for Windows Phone's evolution through the end of 2012.

That purported road map comes courtesy of WMPoweruser, which included a screen cap of it in a Dec. 27 posting. The blog also declined to mention its source for the information, which (at least in broad strokes) jibes with past data from other places.