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NEC and Udemy Found Vulnerable by Researcher (Exclusive)

Independent security researcher Shadab Siddiqui provided us with information regarding a couple of important websites that contain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. More specifically, he found this type of flaws in the official sites of NEC (nec.com) and Udemy (udemy.com). The site owned by NEC, the compan...

28 February 2012
05:45 GMT

Hackers Say Google Is Vulnerable to Cookie Phishing Attacks

Hackers from team BlitzSec discovered vulnerabilities in the search engines Ask and Google, but also in Ask’s toolbar webpage. The danger levels for all three security holes are estimated as being high by the grey hats. More specifically, the cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw found in us.ask.com can be utilized...

27 February 2012
05:49 GMT

AOL.com and Ask.com Vulnerable to XSS Attacks

TeamHav0k, the group of grey hats that proved to be highly skilled in finding cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in high-profile sites, have discovered that the websites AOL.com and Ask.com contain security holes that can be taken advantage of by ill-intended attackers. More specifically, the flaws are locat...

25 February 2012
03:21 GMT

Ask.com Gives Up Search Efforts, Will Focus on Q&A

Ask.com, the perennial underdog in the search game is giving up its search efforts and will be focusing exclusively on Q&A from now on. Most of the company's search team will be let go. The search engine will not be shut down, as it still commands a piece of the search market, but Ask will outsource crawling, in...

10 November 2010
05:50 GMT

Google, Bing Lose Search Market Share in March

The search market numbers for March are starting to come in and Experian Hitwise is the first to deliver. The overall picture is hardly surprising, but there are quite a few interesting trends, to say the least. According to the report, Google lost market share, Bing's slow growth stopped, this while Ask and Yah...

8 April 2010
08:01 GMT

Ask Launches 'Deals' for Coupon Searches

With the economy still in a dire state people are looking to save and they're doing it online. Coupon searches have shot up tremendously recently but no one has jumped at the opportunity to offer a service to simplify the process. Until now that is, as Ask.com, somewhat of a rounding error in the search market, ...

6 October 2009
05:57 GMT

Google Most Visited US Website. Obviously

Google is once again the most visited US website with no less than 141,000,000 unique visitors, according to a research conducted by comScore. The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo came the second with approximately 140,610,000 visitors while the Microsoft sites accounted the third position with 121,213,000 visitors. It&...

19 May 2008
07:02 GMT

People Commit Suicide Because of Google

Nowadays, Google is more than a search engine, it's a source of information because people looking for details on a certain topic do nothing more than entering Google's address and typing a certain keyword. Because of that, even persons who want to commit suicide turn to Google, although it sounds pretty cy...

11 April 2008
09:27 GMT

Ask.com, the Search Engine for Married Women

Rumors that IAC will cut down some 100 jobs at Ask.com were not totally false, but completely exaggerated the number. Only 40 people were let go, making up for 8 percent of the search engine's work force. The shovel in the forehead that nobody saw coming, though, was the announcement that Ask.com will change its...

5 March 2008
04:26 GMT

It's NBA Basketball… It's YouTube…

It's whatever you want to call it, but most important it's an opportunity to get to know better what it feels like guarding LeBron James, or how it feels like catching a no look pass from Steve Nash, trying to block Shaquille O'Neal or hitting the winning buzzer beater in a playoffs game. The Phoenix S...

14 December 2007
04:15 GMT

Search the Internet WITHOUT Google

Although the title might sound a little bit impossible, it's not. Google is the search giant on the Internet and all of you agree. Google really means Internet search because its technologies allows users to find almost any type of information, no matter it presents websites, jobs, blog posts, news or products t...

24 April 2007
16:06 GMT


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