Protecting Students with Google Apps for Education

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="byline-author" style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Posted by Bram Bout, Director, Google for Education</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> </span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Today more than 30 million students, teachers and administrators globally rely on </span><a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google Apps for Education</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. Earning and keeping their trust drives our business forward. We know that trust is earned through protecting their privacy and providing the best security measures.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">This is why, from day one, we turned off ads by default in Apps for Education </span><a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_features.html" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">services</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">. Last year, we removed ads from Google Search for signed-in K-12 users altogether. So, if you’re a student logging in to your Apps for Education account at school or at home, when you navigate to </span><a href="http://google.com/" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google.com</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">, you will not see ads.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Of course, good privacy requires strong security. We have more than 400 full-time engineers — the world’s foremost experts in security — working to protect your information. We </span><a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/staying-at-forefront-of-email-security.html" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">always use an encrypted HTTPS connection</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> when you check or send email in Gmail, which means no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between your laptop, phone or tablet and Gmail’s servers — even if you’re using public WiFi.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Today, we’re taking additional steps to enhance the educational experience for Apps for Education customers:</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br /><ul style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.25em;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px;">We’ve permanently removed the “enable/disable” toggle for ads in the Apps for Education Administrator console. This means ads in Apps for Education <a href="http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/user_features.html" style="color: #7759ae; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">services</a> are turned off and administrators <b>no longer have the option or ability to turn ads in these services on.</b></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0.25em 0px;">We’ve permanently removed all ads scanning in Gmail for Apps for Education, which means <b>Google cannot collect or use student data in Apps for Education services for advertising purposes.</b></li></ul><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Users who have chosen to show AdSense ads on their Google Sites will still have the ability to display those existing ads on their websites. However, it will </span><a href="https://support.google.com/sites/answer/3156640?hl=en" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">no longer be possible</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> to edit or add new AdSense ads to existing sites or to new pages.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">We’re also making similar changes for all our Google Apps customers, including Business, Government and for legacy users of the free version, and we’ll provide an update when the rollout is complete.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">On Thursday, May 1 at 9:00 am PT, we’ll be hosting a Hangout on Air on our </span><a href="https://plus.google.com/+GoogleforEducation/posts" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Google for Education G+ page</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> with myself; Jonathan Rochelle, Director of Product Management for Docs and Drive and Hank Thiele, Chief Technology Officer for District 207 in Park Ridge, IL who uses Google Apps. We'll be discussing these changes and answering your questions. We look forward to hearing from you.</span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><br style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">For more information about student privacy in Google Apps for Education, please visit our </span><a href="http://www.google.com/edu/privacy.html" style="color: #7759ae; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">website</a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">.</span></div>

Protecting Students with Google Apps for Education

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Privacy Badger: EFF Attacks 'Do Not Track' Deniers

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; background-image: url(http://www.blogblog.com/snapshot/bg-header1_left.gif); background-position: 100% 100%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #c4663b; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 2em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 2px;">Privacy Badger:<br />EFF Attacks 'Do Not Track' Deniers</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9114409654908485037" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #474b4e; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-jsb_prepared="azmoafh3qq" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF_uUgap00Y7uvhYuVVhwyauVp83koTDKe2BKSEjgGKRyalbJbk_eyEsdYJnDy-NqUgts2WgPlS8JHVE7P7wchFcXbMnv_bKKV9difO_ZH5JXT2mfYuoooSp-Yi4o-oQLA305Utx0D-y3/s1600/mean_badger.png" imageanchor="1" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJF_uUgap00Y7uvhYuVVhwyauVp83koTDKe2BKSEjgGKRyalbJbk_eyEsdYJnDy-NqUgts2WgPlS8JHVE7P7wchFcXbMnv_bKKV9difO_ZH5JXT2mfYuoooSp-Yi4o-oQLA305Utx0D-y3/s1600/mean_badger.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lately, I've been bashing away at all the applications and add-ons that seek and destroy <b><a data-jsb_prepared="skt2m2zecl" href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/09/evercookies.html" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; text-decoration: none;">Evercookies</a></b>, those evil code danglers our web browsers leave exposed to the world, allowing nefarious marketing morons (vs marketing mavens) and #MyStupidGovernment to TRACK us wherever we go and whatever we do on the Internet. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I for one <i>condemn</i> our surveilling overlords.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><a data-jsb_prepared="wquuqxkwri" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0knqddrpKHBF1zd_qYENemQNymSQg2SN7HYdKZYkMhxDP25bMbKp8p7ZwkxEsEuZxc3-RmvbXTVcK28swYabGBgO0rB63Mi7bRCTQKBgaICwZLciRRNENQeulcQcc6X4eyxhYuKF0ztOp/s1600/badger_alert.png" imageanchor="1" rel="noreferrer" style="clear: right; color: #d6a0b6; float: right; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0knqddrpKHBF1zd_qYENemQNymSQg2SN7HYdKZYkMhxDP25bMbKp8p7ZwkxEsEuZxc3-RmvbXTVcK28swYabGBgO0rB63Mi7bRCTQKBgaICwZLciRRNENQeulcQcc6X4eyxhYuKF0ztOp/s1600/badger_alert.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="131" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One fun browser add-on that just hit my radar is <b>Privacy Badger,</b> from my pals at <a data-jsb_prepared="uzd5mpmrct" href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">EFF</a>, the <b>Electronic Frontier Foundation</b>. It's currently in alpha testing, which means it's guaranteed to be broken and annoying. But I think it's going to be fun to test it out.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>There is one big fat problem at the moment:</b> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Privacy Badger is <b>Apple Safari illiterate</b>, and so apparently are it's developers. That's really bad IMHO. So let's nag EFF to figure out how to make the two compatible. Or as EFF put it: </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you have an idea for how to make Privacy Badger work for Safari…, please let us know!</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's the <b>Privacy Badger</b> page at EFF:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><a data-jsb_prepared="sd3m968805" href="https://www.eff.org/privacybadger" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">https://www.eff.org/privacybadger</span></b></a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Here's an article about <b>Privacy Badger</b> and it's hope for the future:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><b><a data-jsb_prepared="rs7ia5k61s" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02/eff_privacy_badger/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; text-decoration: none;">Watch out, Yahoo! EFF looses BADGER on sites that ignore Do Not Track</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a data-jsb_prepared="athpydl2ww" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/02/eff_privacy_badger/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Browser plugin nudges companies toward compliance</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><a data-jsb_prepared="ucno2nsdez" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQT50LC20psi8W_5KdnGlrCiSJ9APNa64DDZE3A8hxOi1YMZ7b0_L0f4bNr-N9-i5r8EZYKag9D7wduA693WDiyke8b_8OSlsOsub7RqNKGMRJAiWTxt5TamYG4wtcKIgnCDHUJYS5wOk/s1600/hb-honey-badger-snake.png" imageanchor="1" rel="noreferrer" style="clear: right; color: #d6a0b6; float: right; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDQT50LC20psi8W_5KdnGlrCiSJ9APNa64DDZE3A8hxOi1YMZ7b0_L0f4bNr-N9-i5r8EZYKag9D7wduA693WDiyke8b_8OSlsOsub7RqNKGMRJAiWTxt5TamYG4wtcKIgnCDHUJYS5wOk/s1600/hb-honey-badger-snake.png" style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Me:</b> I'll be trying out<b>Privacy Badger</b> on<b>Firefox</b>. Yes I know, Firefox for OS X can be an awful PITA to use, ruining web page rendering, requiring frequent cache dumps and page reloads. But it does have some lovely tools for wrestling the dark side of the Internet into total submission. I like that.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(I recently dumped Chromium as I am sick of it nagging me to log into Google every time I run the thing. I now consider Chromium to be 'nagware', which I never abide).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some day in the future I'll be comparing the two prominent cookie control applications as well as the safe and reliable browser add-ons that kill tracking cookies dead. I also have this great idea for a new add-on for all web browsers that sends a header to all tracking websites that says "HA HA! YOU CAN'T TRACK ME!" What a glorious day that would be.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>In case you didn't know:</b> Privacy is a natural human right. Here in the USA, we have the Fourth Amendment to the <a data-jsb_prepared="dsday27hhe" href="http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution.html" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">US Constitution</a> that spells it out quite elegantly and simply. But as we all now know, <b><a data-jsb_prepared="yjf4bovgaw" href="http://www.usa.gov/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; text-decoration: none;">#MyStupidGovernment</a></b> enjoys pretending the US Constitution doesn't even exist. That's a bad thing.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Total end-to-end encryption of everything on the Internet is now the goal. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">#MyStupidGovernment brought it on themselves.</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">--</span></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>For reference purposes:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a data-jsb_prepared="94664othkf" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution</a>:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some relevant quotes:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.<br />- <b>Benjamin Franklin</b>, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.<br />- <b>Theodore Roosevelt</b> - Kansas City Star, 7 May 1918</span></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a data-jsb_prepared="r2bt2b7jqa" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjclhErBoJAx7YfdXGmO0r0racqM6M1W0TWTnqpocZKnsgTFYv8xXWgnkgcPFB8KyCQ-cf_aDmVT-56Y8qBq0UnyL02UHlbsjrQFPz0V4nwGibHPeXGJa6wXpvCfDKtKC415D9ZIDsIkm83/s1600/US+CONSTITUTION+iStock_000007427085XSmall-300x214.jpg" imageanchor="1" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #d6a0b6; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjclhErBoJAx7YfdXGmO0r0racqM6M1W0TWTnqpocZKnsgTFYv8xXWgnkgcPFB8KyCQ-cf_aDmVT-56Y8qBq0UnyL02UHlbsjrQFPz0V4nwGibHPeXGJa6wXpvCfDKtKC415D9ZIDsIkm83/s1600/US+CONSTITUTION+iStock_000007427085XSmall-300x214.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(227, 228, 228); margin: 0px; padding: 2px;" /></a></div></div></div></div>

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5 Ways to Check if you are Hacked

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 21.46666717529297px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">1) The first method is very simple for all the people using an ADSL router. After all the internet downloads are closed, just check the status of Ethernet light. It should not blink at a very fast rate. It shows that packets are being transferred in and out of your computer.<br />But as there is no active download or internet activity so no packets should transfer. If so… you might be hacked</div><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 21.46666717529297px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 6px;">2) goto run and type cmd. The command prompt will open. In the command prompt type</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">netstat -a</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">This shows the list of active internet connections, check if any unnecessary internet connection is ESTABLISHED. If so, you might be hacked</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">if you type just netstat, you will get the list of all the netstat commands, you may try the other commands as well.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">3) You notice any abnormal activity in your computer, like your computer hangs for a couple of seconds every time you switch it on or in between your tasks (if it occurs often), there is a chance that you are hacked. Often keyloggers and trojans are configured to deliver all the log information to the destination ip address/ ftp address after reqular interval of time. And when this information is being sent, the browser hangs for some time.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">4) Use softwares like TCP view, it gives the list of all the connections made through TCP. This software is capable of detecting almost all the trojan/malicious connections.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">5) Keep the antivirus updated and install an external firewall like comodo. If your antivirus is not updated regularly, it is as good as nothing. If you don’t update your antivirus reqularly and often exchange data from other computers and download a lot of files. There is a great possibility that you are hacked.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">Beware!! Stay updated, stay Protected.</div></div></div>

5 Ways to Check if you are Hacked

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Facebook Adds Anonymous Login, In Move to Build Trust

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;"><strong>SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook moved Wednesday to bolster the trust of its more than one billion users by providing new controls on how much information is shared on the world's leading social network.</strong></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">In a major shift away from the notion long preached by Facebook co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg of having a single known identity online, people will be able to use applications anonymously at Facebook.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">The social network also provided a streamlined way for people to control which data applications can access and began letting people rein in what friends can do with shared posts at Facebook.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Zuckerberg announced the changes, along with moves to make Facebook a more stable platform for applications, at the social network's sold-out f8 developers conference.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"By giving people more power and control, they are going to trust all the apps we build more and over time use them more," Zuckerberg told an audience of about 1,700 conference attendees.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"That is positive for everyone."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">In a statement Facebook explained its new "Anonymous Login" as an easy way for people to try an app without sharing personal information from Facebook.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"People tell us they're sometimes worried about sharing information with apps and want more choice and control over what personal information apps receive," the company said. "Today's announcements put power and control squarely in people's hands."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">People are scared</span></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">In coming weeks, Facebook will also roll out a redesigned dashboard to give users a simple way to manage or remove third-party applications linked to their profiles at the social network.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"This is really big from a user standpoint," JibJab chief executive Gregg Spiridellis said of what he heard during the keynote presentation that opened the one-day Facebook conference.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"I think they are seeing people are scared. They realize that long-term, they need to be trusted."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">A JibJab application that can synch with Facebook lets people personalize digital greeting cards with images of themselves or friends.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">In a major move that promises to help application makers bring in more money and to further challenge Google for online marketing revenue, Facebook is expanding a test of putting its ad-targeting prowess to work for developers.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">A Facebook Audience Network will what people share publicly about themselves and their interests to pinpoint marketing messages in third-party apps linked to Facebook on desktop computers or mobile devices.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Better targeted ads promise to be more effective and, by extension, more attractive to marketers as well as app makers.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"These guys are so smart," Spiridellis said of the Facebook team. "Every publisher is going to switch to Audience."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Hacker Way</span></span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Facebook revived its popular developers conference after a two-year hiatus and promised that the event will take place annually for the foreseeable future.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">Zuckerberg said the overarching themes at f8 were ways to help developers "build, grow, and monetize" applications that synch with Facebook.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">While Zuckerberg still proudly endorses a "hacker way" of creatively bending software in innovative directions, he promised developers that the Facebook platform on which they rely will deliver "stability and consistency."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"My goal is building a culture of loving the people we serve that is as strong as hacking it," Zuckerberg said as he wound up his presentation on a personal note.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">He described being in a personally reflective period triggered by Facebook turning 10 years old in February and him marking his 30th birthday in just a few weeks.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">It has also been 10 years since he first met his wife, Priscilla Chan, he added.</span></span></div><br /><div class="ad_in_content" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; margin: 5px 0px;"><div class="advertisement group-tids-47" id="group-id-tids-47"></div></div><br /><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva;">"It's a time to reflect in life, family, philanthropy and what is important in the 10 years ahead," Zuckerberg said.</span></span></div></div>

Facebook Adds Anonymous Login, In Move to Build Trust

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Hackers search engine!!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">what is shodan? (Hackers search engine)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">“The Scariest Search Engine” OR you can say it ''World Most Dangerous Search engine''</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Shodan is a search engine that lets you find specific types of computers (routers, servers, etc.) in the internet using a variety of filters. Some have also described it as a search engine of service banners, which are meta-data the se</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">rver sends back to the client.[1] This can be information about the server software, what options the service supports, a welcome message or anything else that the client can find out before interacting with the server.<br /><br />Shodan collects data mostly on web servers at the moment (HTTP port 80), but there is also some data from FTP (21), SSH (22) Telnet (23), SNMP (161) and SIP (5060) services.[2]<br /><br />It was launched in 2009 by computer programmer John Matherly, who, in 2003,[3] conceived the idea of searching devices linked to the Internet.[4] The name Shodan is a reference to SHODAN, a character from the System Shock video game series.[3]<br /><br />"OTher Search Engine un'like Shodan" But we like it very much<br /><br />What Can Shodan Show Us?<br /><br />The Terrifying Search Engine That Finds Internet-Connected Cameras, Traffic Lights, Medical Devices, Baby Monitors And Power Plants<br />Since almost every new device now has a web interface (maybe even your refrigerator) to ease remote management, we can access innumerable web-enabled servers, network devices, home security systems, etc.<br /><br />Shodan can find us webcams, traffic signals, video projectors, routers, home heating systems, and SCADA systems that, for instance, control nuclear power plants and electrical grids. If it has a web interface, Shodan can find it!<br /><br />Although many of these systems communicate over port 80 using HTTP, many use telnet or other protocols over other ports. Keep that in mind when trying to connect to them.<br />users you can use google for every information of "shodan"<br /><br />link to shodan search engine<br /><br /><a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shodanhq.com%2F&h=BAQGXrHkF&enc=AZObDunq40leUYF1Z-lgiM0Y0-6n362q1SmkubAgGMHIpehW5vYbyM12Dhuk_YAHMWqj7JbplA-TBDwHENCHILfsaVuemAXfL-lnOcu1CbkUH0m9N1-o0SfwTXJZFCJIhmTbhJaOQI4SDA14AUNrrsjS&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.shodanhq.com/</a><br /><br />you can find every route password from here:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.phenoelit.org/dpl/dpl.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.phenoelit.org/dpl/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>dpl.html</a><br />it can help you to login in unprotected webcam or route settings Etc </span></div>

Informations Hackers search engine!!!

what is shodan? (Hackers search engine) “The Scariest Search Engine” OR you can say it ''World Most Dangerous Search engine'...

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22 Social Media Facts and Statistics You Should Know in 2014

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Social web demographics</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Social media is a blur of tweets, shares and content. No longer is it just used by the young and the restless. It is global and embedded in every corner of the web.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">So some questions. Which age groups are using social media, what countries are big Facebook users and what percentage are using mobile to access so</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">cial media?<br />This is the who and the where of social media users.<br />72% of all internet users are now active on social media<br />18-29 year olds have an 89% usage<br />The 30-49 bracket sits at 72%<br />60 percent of 50 to 60 year olds are active on social media<br />In the 65 plus bracket, 43% are using social media<br />Time spent on Facebook per hour spent online by country. Here are the top three. USA citizens get the top gong at 16% followed by the Aussies at 14 minutes and the Brits at 13 minutes.<br />71% of users access social media from a mobile device.<br />The paradigm of social media only being used by the younger generation should be put to rest now.<br /><br />Facebook"<br /><br />Facebook is still the biggest kid on the block, but there are some pundits predicting that by 2016 Google+ will surpass Facebook on “social sharing”.<br />Here are some of the latest figures to mull over.<br />There are now over 1.15 billion Facebook users<br />One million web pages are accessed using the “Login with Facebook” feature<br />23 percent of Facebook users login at least 5 times per day<br />47% of Americans say Facebook is their #1 influencer of purchases<br />70% of marketers used Facebook to gain new customers<br /><br />Google+<br /><br />Prying the numbers out of Google for Google+ has always been a challenge. A bit like getting a date with the prettiest girl in the class. Not impossible but it doesn’t happen very often.<br />So what are the latest numbers?<br />There are now over 1 billion with Google+ enabled accounts<br />It has reached 359 million monthly active users<br />Google+ is growing at 33% per annum.<br />The 45 to 54 year old bracket increased its usage on Google+ by 56% since 2012<br />When you consider that Google+ has only been around for less than three years, then it is a success on many levels. So Google must be happy with with its investment, which is north of $500 million that it initially invested in Google+<br /><br />Twitter<br /><br />Twitter has to be taken seriously. Last year it took off its short pants and become a public company. So what is happening in the Twittersphere?<br />There are now over 550 million registered users<br />34% of marketers use Twitter to successfully generate leads<br />Twitter was the fastest growing network with a 44% growth from 2012-2013<br />215 million monthly active users<br />Twitter has also made some changes in the last few months that has made it more visual and engaging. Business should no longer be ignoring the 140 character pip squeak.<br /><br />The others<br /><br />We haven’t mentioned some important social media channels. These include. Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Vine, Slideshare and many others.<br />This year expect the visual social media networks to hit more home runs.<br />Keep an eye on these two:<br />Pinterest with 20 million active monthly users<br />Instagram with 150 million active monthly users.</span></div>

Social media 22 Social Media Facts and Statistics You Should Know in 2014

Social web demographics Social media is a blur of tweets, shares and content. No longer is it just used by the young and the restless. It is...

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How to use keyboard as a Mouse!!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">1.Open Ease of Access Center by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and then clicking Ease of Access Center.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Click Make the mouse easier to use.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Under Control the mouse with the keyboard, select the Turn on Mouse Keys check box.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">Up and to the left</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;">7</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 18px;"><br />Up<br />8<br />Up and to the right<br />9<br />Left<br />4<br />Right<br />6<br />Down and to the left<br />1<br />Down<br />2<br />Down and to the right<br />3<br /><br />Select the left mouse button<br />The forward slash (/)<br />Select both buttons<br />The asterisk (*)<br />Select the right mouse button<br />The minus sign (-)<br /><br />Click an item<br />With the left button selected as your active button, point to the item, and then press 5<br />Right-click an item<br />With the right button selected as your active button, point to the item, and then press 5<br />Double-click an item<br />With the left button selected as your active button, point to the item, and press the plus sign (+)<br /><br />Drag an item<br />Point to the item, and then press zero (0)<br />Drop the item<br />Point to the location where you want to move the item, and then press the decimal point (.)</span></div>

Tricks How to use keyboard as a Mouse!!

1.Open Ease of Access Center by clicking the Start button Picture of the Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and ...

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