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Anonymous Declares War On Donald Trump — #OpTrump

After targeting the Islamic State (ISIS) group in the wake of Deadly terror attacks in Paris, hacktivist group Anonymous has now turned its attention to controversial US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The hacktivist group has declared war against Donald Trump following his recent radical speech stating he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Anonymous vs. Donald Trump On Wednesday, Anonymous slams Trump by posting a YouTube video in which a man in a Guy Fawkes mask says: "Donald Trump, it has come to our attention that you want to ban all Muslims to enter the United States. This policy is going to have a huge impact. This is what ISIS wants. The more Muslims feel sad, the more ISIS feels that they can recruit them. Donald Trump, think twice before you speak anything. You have been warned, Donald Trump." Anonymous Takes Down Donald Trump Website Moreover, the group started #OpTrump hacking campaign against Donald Trump on Wednesday night and took down t...

Why Server Speed is Important for Increasing Revenues

If your website loads slower and takes long to respond you are literally killing your sales and revenue with your own hands. Today, the key to more sales and conversion is the combination of effective content with faster loading speed of your website. The speed of your website is the time taken from a web page to become visible on the screen after it has been requested by the browser. The latest surveys showed that loading speed of websites has a great impact on the traffic trends. The speed of the website has a great importance, a slow website could easily frustrate your potential customers forever. A slow website reflects low revenue Often the slower websites have high bounce rates with poor sales. A number of studies have proven that the average visitors will leave your website if it does not become accessible in 3 to 6 seconds. Slower website is not only a reason to decrease your sales but the frustrated visitors are likely to develop a negative perception about your business. Does...

Which Web Hosting Option is Right For You?

There are lots of options for web hosting out there: free, shared, dedicated, etc. All these options do essentially the same thing: host your website so it can be viewed by people on the world wide web. The differences are in costs, benefits, and how each is set up. Here are further explanations for each option: Free Web Hosting As the name suggest, this web hosting option is free. This option is ideal for someone who is just getting started in creating and running websites or for someone who wants to create a website just for friends or family. But if you are at all serious about the success of your website, avoid free web hosting. As you can probably guess, free web hosting lacks many features and most of the time, you will not be able to use your own domain. If you can find a web hosting provider that allows you to have your own domain and provides you with important features, it's very likely that there is a catch (low bandwidth or low disk space). Shared Hosting Shared hosting...

Budget Web Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names.

There are 2 features you require in order to launch a web site. The first one is a domain name that will display your online portal when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is essentially the disk storage space on a hosting server where the web site files will be placed, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are two connected, yet separate services, and you demand them both to have a working site. What is a Domain? A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com , for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is made of 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above mentioned illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the SLD of the domain name to be anything that is free to register,...

Top Shared Hosting

There are different varieties of shared hosting plans appropriate for different web sites in regard to the resources or the shared hosting environment they require. To pick the most adequate shared hosting service for your site, you need to access what server-side software applications it demands, how many daily hits you anticipate at the beginning and in the long run, as well as any other specific demands that may need to be satisfied. Shared website hosting -Positive Points The most appropriate choice for small online portals with several hundred or several thousand viewers is a shared hosting solution. With this form of web site hosting, each customer pays only for their plan, which reduces the total price per person markedly. There are different web hosting accounts varying from one hosting corporation to another, providing different amounts of server storage space and bandwidth, different email address account quotas and so on. The positive point is that you can get a plan that wi...

Semi-dedicated Hosting Servers Defined

Being more pricey solutions to operate,the semi-dedicated servers we offer are located in the US data center exclusively. Being well-equipped, the dedicated server solutions distribute free of charge: (a) unlimited hosted domain name support availability and (b) a full-featured, point-and-click hosting Control Panel. This incredible combination is not delivered by any other rival vendor. The others just resell Control Panels (cPanel,Plesk,DirectAdmin, etc.), while the website hosting CP we deliver is not only state-of-the-art, but it's also in-house made. The best thing is that, by contrast with the others, you can test the demonstrational account: the multi-select, multi-action,point and click File and Domain Manager menus and the Applications Installer and Website Installer devices. GRAND Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited websites hosted $50.00 / month ORDER NOW TALL Unlimited storage Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited websites hosted $30.00 / month ...

Hepsia Advanced Features

The Advanced tab grants you quick access to an array of advanced tools, among them the Memcached memory object caching system and the Varnish Cache web application accelerator, which will help you optimize your websites and apps without the need to move away from the hosting Control Panel. Depending on the web hosting package, these features are either included by default or are offered in the form of easily gettable upgrades. InnoDB and NodeJS support is available as well ( http://www.josidelhosting.com/the-hepsia-cp/hepsia-advanced-features ). Varnish Varnish Cache is a web accelerator also called as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. You can install it in front of any web server that speaks the HTTP protocol and configure it to cache the contents. Varnish Cache is very, very fast and will make your web site load much faster. One of the main merits of Varnish Cache is the flexibility of its principal configuration mechanism, VCL, which permits you to choose how incoming requests should be...

Recent DDoS Attacks on Banks and Financial Institutions Earns Warning from OCC

Some of the recent DDoS attacks have targeted banks and financial institutions in an effort to cover up attempted security breaches and fraudulent transactions. The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the Copyright Office have all experienced disruptions in service by denial of service attacks in the past – meaning distributed denial of service attacks are a serious problem. Financial institutions and government agencies are paying a close eye to the development of recent DDoS attacks. Cyber criminals and "hacktivists" are increasing the strength of attacks and using them as distractions to further other crimes, like consumer fraud and fraudulent ACH transactions. Earlier this week, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a warning to banks and financial institutions to be on alert for upcoming attacks. There has been a lot of coverage in the news lately regarding Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, who have claimed responsibility for the recent attacks on...

Why Some Website are Vulnerable to Hackers

Convenience is the major benefit that the internet provides. It has cut down the time spent on doing research and other tasks that requires inquiry because you can easily type up a question and expect to find answers within a matter of seconds. Businesses from small, medium and large scaled companies are tapping into this valuable resource in order to attract more clients. Hence, more and more people are now dependent on the products and services provided by different websites. What an ordinary internet user can't see are the threats that comes along with internet surfing. Some companies spend a huge amount of money in order to ensure that their website is secured and free from any threats from online hackers. But there are also sites that appear to be more vulnerable to breach in online security and this could be due to a number of reasons. Everything that is out on the worldwide web is prone to the threats of hacking; prevention and security maintenance are needed in order to not...

Getting Familiar with Web Hosting Terminologies

Individuals looking for a web host provider are often unfamiliar on how the field of web hosting works. Once you've made a research on the various offers of web hosting companies you can easily find yourself lost in the terminologies being used. Anyone who is looking for a good web hosting plan should be familiar at least with the commonly used terms in web hosting, this way it will be easier to communicate and ask questions to providers before you sign up for an offer. Below are some of the commonly used terms in web hosting that you might encounter: Auto Responder This feature is often offered along with the customized email accounts in your web host plan. An auto responder allows your site to be readily available and interactive 24/7. How does it work? It automatically receives emails and sends acknowledgement response. Once a customer sends inquiry via the contact form or email address provided on the website, an auto responder will immediately send them an email to confirm the...

How the Right Web Host Provider can Improve Your Online Business

http://www.josidelhosting.com/opencart-hosting/ E-commerce continues to grow big not only in the United States but across the globe. Consumers have seen its benefits and the convenience in shopping that it provides. With its rising popularity comes the increase of new businesses that are venturing online; add to that established and reputable companies also have their official websites where readers can learn more about what they have to offer and even directly shop online. While it may be far from the traditional method of shopping, it has provided an alternative especially for individuals who are too busy with work and has no time to drive themselves to a grocery or department store. But not all aspiring online stores become success stories. It is not only about the invested capital that can lead a business to fail but the lack or the improper use of online resources as well. Remember that an important factor to consider if you are planning to launch an online business is creating a ...

Different types of Cloud hosting & deployment options

Cloud hosting is now well explained & demonstrated by most of the IT experts as an emerging technology wherein data, applications, disc space, memory etc are streamed to users as services delivered over the internet. Though there is dilemma about cloud hosting in most of IT organizations, in terms of what, when and how? People are still confused about when to migrate to cloud? How to migrate & additionally what type of cloud to choose? Typically there are 3 types of cloud hosting – private cloud which encompass internal services, external public services and a combination of both called as hybrid. • Private clouds: Private cloud is also known as internal cloud, which allows sharing IT resources & applications over the company intranet which can be accessed by users within that organization only. This becomes private cluster for different users sharing different data & applications, which is generally setup behind a firewall. In private cloud environment no resources are...

Understanding How Reseller Web Hosting Works

A great part of a website's success can be attributed to its type of web hosting. With the right hosting package, you'll be able to maximize the resources available in order to fully promote the website online. The increasing demand for web host companies has paved the way for others to find another way to make money and that is through reseller hosting. As the term implies, reseller web hosting is a type of hosting service where a user avails of a web host package and "resells" it to other consumers. The setup often involves large scale companies that sign up with hosting providers and they will lease these services to the smaller ones. People engage in the reselling business finds it as an effective way to earn money online and because of this a lot of people have become more interested in learning how reseller web hosting works and how they too can become resellers and start earning money. The first step is market research. Do not jump the gun easily; educate yours...

Choosing the Right Linux OS for Your VPS

CentOS, Debian & Red Hat Linux If you decide to use a Linux OS host on your virtual private server, you will be delighted to know that you have a variety of options to choose from. Of course, it is essential that you take a look at all of the different options that are available ad get to know the advantages and disadvantages of each individual distribution before making your choice. To make things easier for you, we will list the most popular options here to help get you started. CentOS VPS CentOS is a Linux distribution that is primarily free and community supported. This operating system is centered around Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A CentOS VPS offers enterprise quality software for free, enabling users to experience top quality VPS services at a low cost. Users will just have to pay for their hosting plans. The CentOS operating system has numerous advantages over other Linux VPS operating systems. For one, the CentOS operating system is one hundred percent free. Second, you can...

How A Group of Residents Created Their Own Internet Service Provider

After a long list of unresolved complaints regarding bad internet services, the residents of Orcas Island in Washington state decided to create their own internet service by forming an organization named DBIUA. Read this article to know how they achieved this and what were the obstacles faced by them. ust like the basic amenities of food and health, a good internet service has become everybody's requirement. If you live in some remote area, getting a reliable internet access is something to be thankful for. But, what to do if all those complaints about that unreliable internet access go unanswered? The residents of Orcas Island in Washington state were facing troubled internet with CenturyLink's service. Instead of choosing the option of doing nothing, they decided to build their own internet service. Covering this interesting story, Ars Technica writes that the residents just got fed up with CenturyLink and decided to rescue themselves. This initiative was materialized in the ...

Now You Can Buy New Encryption Cracking Tools From Hacking Team

According to Vice, Italian company, Hacking Team that sells hacking tools and softwares to governments and enterprises, now selling encryption cracking tools via mails. Here is a part of email from Hacking Team says: " "Most [law enforcement agencies] in the US and abroad will become 'blind,' they will 'go dark:' they will be simply be [sic] unable to fight vicious phenomena such as terrorism. Only the private companies can help here, we are one of them." "It is crystal clear that the present American administration does not have the stomach to oppose the American IT conglomerates and to approve unpopular, yet totally necessary regulations." This email went live on October 19th, 4 months after the company's servers are breached, over 400GB of data stole and dumped on internet. 400GB of data contained hacking tools, email list of customers and their purchases, spyware tools, zero-day exploits and source coe of the ...

Using DroidJack Android RAT Will Put You In Jail

DroidJack is an Android RAT (Remote Administration Trojon) tool used by hackers to steal or record data on injected Android smartphones. DroidJack can be used to remotely access Android device from a computer and remains hidden from the device owner. It is available on internet for $210/£137 and it is also one of the hottest Android RAT tool on the market, mainly used in Middle East region which affects Android users only. DroidJack has cool features such as: GPS tracking Send, delete, view SMS View contacts, call logs and make a phone call View history browsers and bookmarks Open an app Turn ON/OFF camera and microphone According to the spokesman said to BBC that," A 28-year-old male from Carlisle under suspicion of computer misuse act offences," this arrest was made in connection with the international DroidJack operation and he has been bailed next 6 months. Police have raided 13 houses in Germany and one man was arrested in the UK (Unite...

Yamaha Builds A Robot That Drives Motorcycles and Challenges World Champion Rossi

Yamaha pulled a big one in the Tokyo Motor Show as it showcased its superbike riding Robot rather than any showing any ceremonious unconventional motorbike. Named Motobot, this humanoid is improving every day to give the champion racers a run for their money. While others were busy showing what their automobile has got, Yamaha displayed a marvel of engineering and AI at the Tokyo Motor Show. It wasn't just any superbike or a green fuel motorcycle, but a humanoid that could effectively control and zoom on Yamaha's 1000cc R1M. As humans were already pissed off of the fact that machines would take their jobs becoming a doctor, lawyer and architect, Motobot and the flavour of the season, self-driving cars, have taken the drivers' seat as well. Motobot is the product of an intense R&D effort in robotics technology and Yamaha's aim to create a robot that could cruise any unmodified bike. And if you are a rider yourself, you would understand that th...

Moving to a New Web Hosting Service Provider, (Website Migration).

There could be multiple reasons for businesses to migrate to a new web hosting service provider. The reasons vary from low disk space to poor customer service or frequent breakdowns of the server. Switching to a new web hosting provider may look overwhelming. However, in reality it's not so. This article furnishes important points in this regard. Choosing a new web hosting provider You need to consider various aspects when choosing a new web hosting service provider. These include the operating system (OS), the bandwidth and disk space requirements, the uptime and customer service. The type of operating system (OS) While migrating from one web hosting service provider to another, it is better to stick to the same OS as the one you are using (Windows or Linux) because it'll make migration easier. Unless you have a very good reason, do not change the OS. If you are planning to opt for a new OS, you need to check for whether that OS is being offered by the new web hosting service ...

Award Recognizes Strength of BBM as a Mobile Advertising Platform

The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) just recognized BBM with a prestigious Industry 'Smartie' Award for 2015 Publisher/Media Company of the Year in Mobile, Indonesia. We're thrilled about this award because it validates the growing strength of BBM as a mobile advertising platform, and the predominant messaging application in Indonesia. Growing Beyond Chat During the last couple of years, BBM has been pushing the limits of what a messaging app can be. Since I came to BlackBerry in 2014, we've added a complete Shop experience beyond just stickers (including sponsored stickers), subscriptions services, Top Picks for apps, BBM Meetings, Android Wear support, and a number of Privacy and Security features including Private Chat. We've also launched several in-app payment solutions, including BBM Money, PayPal and over the last week Quickteller in Nigeria. We also recently celebrated BBM's 10th birthday, which reminded us how the app has quickly evolved from a text-...

How To Identify Best Website Hosting Package?

When it comes to promoting the prospects of your business, small or big, website hosting is as important to the prospects of your business as domain registration or web development. This is simply because the website of your business cannot be expected to perform well unless it is accessible to the world at large, without interruptions and hassles and this is exactly where reliable web hosting comes into the picture. However, choosing the right web hosting company is not an easy task by any standard. With countless companies in the market to choose from and a wide variety of web hosting packages in the offering, the task of identifying a good web hosting company is a difficult one. It is for this reason that you should always research about the best available options before making a commitment and make a complete list of all your hosting requirements and follow a futuristic approach to take care of the future hosting needs as well. One of the first things that you need to remember whil...

How To Identify Best Website Hosting Package?

When it comes to promoting the prospects of your business, small or big, website hosting is as important to the prospects of your business as domain registration or web development. This is simply because the website of your business cannot be expected to perform well unless it is accessible to the world at large, without interruptions and hassles and this is exactly where reliable web hosting comes into the picture. However, choosing the right web hosting company is not an easy task by any standard. With countless companies in the market to choose from and a wide variety of web hosting packages in the offering, the task of identifying a good web hosting company is a difficult one. It is for this reason that you should always research about the best available options before making a commitment and make a complete list of all your hosting requirements and follow a futuristic approach to take care of the future hosting needs as well. One of the first things that you need to remember whil...

Build Your Own Computer in 107 Seconds With Kano Kit

Kano Inc., a company founded by Alex, Yonatan and Saul, has come up with an amazing DIY computer kit. It's designed to furnish young kids, and even the adult ones, a better 'know how' of the computer hardware and assist them build their own computer, which is as simple as building a Lego game. It should be as simple as a Lego game, the main idea behind the development of a magnificent device which can transform you into a hardware engineer in just 107 seconds, all it takes to build your own computer from scratch to magic. It was November 2012, when three men Alex, Yonatan and Saul were trying to imagine, how they can change the world? How they can build something, capable enough to attract kids and teach them some good things at the same time. Finally, their messiah was Saul's six-year- old son Micah, who was interested in their thoughts and suggested to build their computer kit "as simple and fun as Legos", and so marked the beginning of new era of computing...

Mark Zuckerberg: “I Committed Every Possible Mistake During My Early Days of Facebook”

At the Townhall Q&A session at IIT-Delhi in India, Facebook addressed many questions asked by the students. Stressing on the importance of controversial Internet.org, he said that connecting India is very important and fulfilling the aim to connect the world isn't possible if we ignore India. One of the questions that intrigued Mark Zuckerberg was related to his early days, when he started Facebook. A girl from IIT-Delhi asked Mark to share his life incidents and decisions he took during the early days at Facebook that he regrets now. Instead of talking about one single incident or mistake, Mark said that when we build things and take new paths, we commit mistakes. Similarly, during his Facebook journey, he has committed lost of mistakes. "Mistakes are part of professional life. I have probably made every possible mistake possible. You learn with trial and error. You shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes," he said. He added, "More th...

Meet Pepper, World’s First Emotional Robot that Understands You

SoftBank has come up with the world's first humanoid robot with 'emotions'- Pepper. This 4 feet tall, 61 pound robot is equipped with cameras, lasers and infrared sensors to recognize your mood and acts accordingly. It tries to make you happy. Also, it can be used for all household activities like serving as a nurse, babysitting, gardening, or even making sandwiches. today's world when fellow humans may not understand your emotions, a robot might as well help you out! Yes, you heard it right. The telecom giant SoftBank has come up with the world's first humanoid robot with emotions. This four feet tall, 61 pounds of adorable humanoid robot recognizes tones of voice and facial expressions in order to interact with humans. And the best part? Well, Pepper tries to make you happy! Pepper features cameras, lasers and infrared sensors on its head so it can detect human faces. Also, it is equipped with artificial intelligence to interpret and even re...

Freevolt Creates ‘Free Perpetual Power’ Out of Thin Air

Getting everything for free. Well, now we might have something like that in reality as well. With this latest development, you can power your low energy electronic devices for free and for a very very long time. Freevolt is the technology that could absorb energy from the radio waves and convert it into useful and long lasting powering source. And since we are not going to run out of these electromagnetic radiations anytime soon, this technology might just be a brilliant piece of innovation. Now, this is not the first attempt at creating a technology of such sort but efforts had been going on since many years on this front. Interestingly, there is an app that helps you see all the wireless signals flying around you. The product of the Drayson Technologies, however, is the first commercially available technology of such kind that aims to cut out our energy dependence on the conventional sources. The Freevolt system has a multi-band antenna that extracts energy from the surrounding withi...

29 Toughest Questions Asked in Facebook Job Interviews

Zuckerberg created Facebook 11 years ago with an aim to connect the college students. Today, apart from connecting the college students and obviously many others, it's one the favorite places to work at in the tech industry. The interns working at Facebook make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. Also, the employees on Glassdoor voted Facebook as the #1 company to work for. But, getting a job there isn't an easy job. To accomplish that, you'll have to answer some tricky Facebook interview questions to prove your caliber. Most of the questions are inclined towards the technical side. We have collected some of the toughest questions asked from Glassdoor and many of these are extra-challenging. Let's take a look at these Facebook interview question for different jobs: Question #1 There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use 2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, incl...