Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Hacked

Posted by bugITs in Monday, August 30, 2010

The website of the Philippine Information Agency or PIA was hacked Sunday afternoon with Chinese Flag above center as the home page with the words “Hacked by 7z1" and “Black Matrix team 0x.oday@Gmail.com" could be seen in the government website as of 4:40 p.m. By 7:00 PM, the site was then fixed.



A screenshot of PIA site during the hacking period, source: www.gmanews.tv

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The hacking incident came a week after the Hostage taking of HK people which brought 8 killed people.

Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda said tighter Internet security measures are already in place to ensure the protection of websites of PIA and other government agencies from cyber attacks.

I just hope this is not related to the Hostage taking and I hope hackers are not filipinos, because if they are, then they are irresponsible.

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Google Realtime VS. Bing Social: Which is the best?

Posted by bugITs in Friday, August 27, 2010

After launching its Call Phones from Gmail feature, Google, the number one search engine site launched Thursday their so called Google Realtime.

Google Realtime (www.google.com/realtime)

In this feature, users can search on the most talked topic on social sites (Facebook, MySpace and Twitter), news articles and most of all in blog posts. This realtime saerch (from the name itself) lets you see up-to-the-second social updates in the new Realtime homepage. Moreover, user can refine realtime results by location, time, Month/Year or more.

A sample query for keywords "cebu bloggers"



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After this search, you can create a Google alerts (www.google.com/alerts) to keep track and be updated with your created query and deliver the result to your email.



A screenshot of a Google Alert of search "cebu bloggers"

For blogger's perspective, this Realtime search is definitely a counter offer to competitor, Bing with its Bing Social.



Bing Social (www.bing.com/social)

Unlike Google Realtime, which traditionally starts off with a blank page letting the user to type in their wanted searched keys, Bing Social displays the hot trends in the net. In addition, you can choose two sources of your results from Twitter and Facebook unlike Google which only has the UPDATES selected.




No result display of search keys "cebu bloggers" in Bing Social


As expected, Bing Social did not display search results from blogger's sites or tweets. This is already observed by a number of bloggers and concluded a reason why Bing did not surpass Google in search engine market.

For now, Yahoo, another search engine site, did not offer anything that is related to the two features above. Which is the best for you? Try it now!

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How To Call Phones from Gmail: A step by step instructions

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Last Wednesday, Google introduced a feature that enable a user to call their contacts through their Gmail. After the launch, statistics said the service earned a million calls from users, this is confirmed by Google last Friday.




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Calls to the U.S. and Canada will be free for at least the rest of the year and calls to other countries will be billed with the company's low cost as little as $0.02 per minute. You can check Complete List of Per-minute rates Here.




So how does this service work?

Calling a phone number

1. In your chat list, click the Call phone link
2. In the resulting Call window, dial the number you wish to call (you can use your mouse or your keyboard's number pad)
3. Click the Call button

Note: You must first install the voice and video chat plug-in to make above steps work

Receiving a phone call in Gmail

1. Make at least one outbound call (Calling a phone number) from Gmail.
2. In Google Voice, navigate to Voice settings under the Settings link.
3. In the Phones tab, click the check box next to Google Chat.

Note: You must have a Google Voice Account as prerequisite






Unfortunately, this service is not yet available outside the US and Canada. But Google assured that they are working with this and make it available broadly soon in the months to come.

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Top 10 YouTube Stars Who rake $100,000 Plus Per Year

Posted by bugITs in Sunday, August 22, 2010


1. Shane Dawson – $315,000
Shane Dawson is so popular that he is three different YouTube channels. His most popular channel consists of his comedy skits and music video parodies. Dawson created a second channel as a vlog and for a separate series called "Ask Shane," and his third channel only has videos taken from his iPhone.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 431,787,450

2. The Annoying Orange – $288,000
The Annoying Orange is a comedy web series that takes place in a kitchen and is about talking fruit. Dane Boedigheimer is the mastermind behind the series and is also the voice of Orange.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 349,753,047

3. Philip DeFranco – $181,000
Philip DeFranco uploads a new video onto YouTube every Monday to Thursday for his show – The Philip DeFranco Show. His video blogging topics range from politics to pop culture.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 248,735,032

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4. Ryan Higa – $151,000
Ryan Higa makes comedy skits and is a video blogger who turned into a viral star with his "How to be Gangster" and "How to be Ninja" videos. Even though he doesn't upload as many videos as his fellow YouTube celebrities, Higa is still the top dog at YouTube with over 2.6 million subscribers.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 206,979,909

5. Fred – $146,000
Lucas Cruikshank plays "a lonely six year old named Fred" who uses his mom's video camera and posts videos on a YouTube channel. As the second most subscribed to YouTube channel, Lucas Cruikshank's immensely popular Fred character even has a movie coming out backed by Nickelodeon.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 200,656,150

6. Shay Carl – $140,000
As a radio DJ, Shay Carl started making comedy skits and put them on YouTube for the world to see. He claims to have held 20 different jobs before settling down with his DJ and YouTube gigs.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 192,309,247

7. Mediocre Films – $116,000
Greg Benson created Mediocre Films initially for a sketchy comedy TV series called "Skip TV." The show lasted for one season, and now Benson makes low budget comedy videos for the web.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 159,030,703

8. Smosh – $113,000
Smosh is the comedy duo of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, and with over 1.7 million subscribers, they make up the 5th most popular channel on YouTube. They first shot to viral fame with their "Pokemon Theme Music Video" which became YouTube's most viewed video in Spring 2006. However, due to copyright reasons, the original video was removed from YouTube.J
uly 2009 - 2010 Views: 154,936,876

9. The Young Turks – $112,000
The Young Turks is a political talk show that also airs on Sirius Satellite Radio. Founded and hosted by Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks talk show and their vast viewership has proven that the Internet can be a viable broadcast platform.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 153,807,362

10. Natalie Tran– $101,000
Under the user name of communitychannel, Natalie Tran is the most subscribed to YouTube user in Australia. Like most others on this list, she is a video blogger and occasionally uploads comedy skits.
July 2009 - 2010 Views: 138,871,829

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Facebook, I like the DISLIKE button

Posted by bugITs in Friday, August 20, 2010

After all those dislike buttons scattered online, here comes the real deal of Dislike button brought to you by our very own Mozilla Firefox Developers.



The Dislike Button™ is an addon for Facebook, using the FaceMod™ platform.

Developed by FaceMod, the Official Facebook Dislike Button will be added alongside the Like button which give you freedom and more options than just liking every friend's status, pictures and other pings.

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Dislike buttons can only be seen by users who are also installing Dislike add ons to their Facebook or Firefox browsers.



Moreover, this add on or feature will soon be available in Google Chrome and Safari, so sad not available for buggable internet explorer.

To get Dislike button, click and download it here.



Like the Dislike and spread the news!

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Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd resigns due to sexual harassment?

Posted by bugITs in Saturday, August 7, 2010



Mark V. Hurd, the chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co. resigned last Friday with accusations of sexual harassment and falsifying expense reports. Eventhough, there is no complete details regarding this alleged accusations, the company has already made an internal investigations about the case.


Sexual Harrasment and Expense Reports

This issue buzzed the company as an unidentified contractor claimed she had been sexually harassed by Hurd. This contractor is allegedly having a personal relationship with Hurd and was reported to receive numerous inappropriate payments from the company.

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The company's general counsel, Michael Holston, said Hurd's behavior reflected a "profound lack of judgment" and violated HP's standards of business conduct. But so far, the company found no evidence of sexual harassment

Hurd will receive a severance package of $12.2 million, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak, 51, will take over as interim CEO.



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