10Mar 2015 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Google Blocks Thousands Of WordPress Sites Following Malware Attack

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Security firm Sucuri reports that Google has blacklisted over 11,000 malware-infected WordPress domains, and over 100,000 sites in total have been affected by a new malware campaign from SoakSoak.ru. By using a vulnerability found in the WordPress plugin RevSlider, SoakSoak modifies a file in a site’s WordPress installation and loads Javascript malware. RevSlider is often used in WordPress themes, so many site owners may not even know they’re using the plugin, let alone that they need to update it to prevent a malware attack. Moreover, it’s not a plugin that’s easily updated, as Sucuri’s Daniel Cid points out: “The biggest issue is that the RevSlider plugin is a premium plugin, it’s not something everyone can easily upgrade and that in itself becomes a disaster for website owner. Some website owners…
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10Mar 2015 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

The 7 Step Process For Writing a Blog Post That People Will Actually Read

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Step #1: Choose a Topic Your Audience Cares About In the past, blogs were mostly used by teenagers to share their inner musings and bad poetry. Since then, blogging has evolved into a valuable tool that businesses use to connect with their audiences and share important information with potential customers. Unfortunately, this transition hasn’t been entirely smooth. Although business blogging has been widely adopted as a marketing practice, the people don’t always know how to select the blog topics that will best serve their business goals. The solution is to write about topics other people care about. Don’t think about what you’d like to read – think about the problems your audience is having and how your blog content can help position your business as the solution. If you don’t know…
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17Sep 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments
Google reveals the first low-cost Android One phones

Google reveals the first low-cost Android One phones

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Android One is a reference platform — it’s a set of rules that device makers can follow to make low-cost phones. It makes it easier for manufacturers to develop and produce devices, because Google is doing all of the hard work figuring out materials costs. For Google, it ensures that even low-end devices can run its software and run it well, providing everyone with a uniformly decent experience. Where KitKat was Google’s effort to address the software issues on low-end devices, Android One is now doing the same for hardware. The company calls it a "a comprehensive solution to address the mobile computing needs of those in emerging markets." As predicted, Google has just revealed the first Android One phones at an event in India today. Micromax, Karbonn and Spice…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Dropbox Buys Bubbli, Will Integrate The 3D Photo Tech Into Its Photo Service

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It looks like Dropbox has made another acquisition today in the photo space: it has acquired Bubbli, a startup that has built some innovative ways of incorporating 3D technology into 2D views, and packaging it in a mobile app for ordinary consumers to use. We’re reaching out to get more details from both companies. For now, Bubbli has been sending out a notice to its users today announcing the deal. The note points out that Bubbli is not popping, so to speak. The tech is getting integrated into Dropbox, and in the meantime the existing Bubbli app will stay alive. Bubbli was founded by two Stanford alums, Ben Newhouse and Terrence McArdle, who have respectively broken ground in imaging technology. McArdle “invented the first seamless digital spherical photo in 1991, three years…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

New Tunepics Social Network Is Like Instagram With A Soundtrack

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If you mashed up Instagram with music tracks, what would you get? A timeline of pictures from friends with evocative soundtracks that stimulate the ears as well as the eyes? Perhaps even tug at the emotions? That, at least, is the hope of Tunepics, a new social network that does just that. With this new iOS app, users can feature a song with every image they share. The tracks are pulled from the Apple store (35 million songs) and are in fact song previews rather than the whole tracks. If users decide they like the song enough to buy it form Apple, Tunepics will get affiliate revenues from those sales. The app is the brainchild of Justin Cooke, founder of innovation agency innovate7 in London, and has been built by…
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Flipkart Acquires Myntra, to Invest $100 Million in Fashion Business

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Flipkart, India's largest e-tailer, acquired online fashion portal Myntra on Thursday and said it would invest $100 million (roughly Rs. 584 crores) in the fashion business. "It's a 100 percent acquisition and going forward we have big plans in this segment," said Sachin Bansal, co-founder of Bangalore-based Flipkart. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed but a source in the company said the transaction was valued at close to $300 million (roughly Rs. 1,752.4 crores).
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22May 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Zero-day flaw haunts IE 8 for 7 months and counting

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An Internet Explorer 8 vulnerability goes unfixed by Microsoft for more than half a year, reports the Zero Day Initiative. A critical security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 has gone unfixed since October 2013, according to a new report from the Zero-Day Initiative. The report, which was issued because of ZDI's policy to reveal zero-day flaws that go unfixed for more than 180 days, says that the vulnerability allows an attacker to run malicious code in IE 8 when you visit a website designed to infect your computer. Microsoft learned of the zero-day -- the term given to a previously unknown, unpatched flaw -- in October but has been unable to fix it. Whether that's because IE 8 is the last version of the browser to support Windows XP,…
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30Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

“Heartbleed” bug uncovering cyber-criminals

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The Heartbleed bug has turned cyber criminals from attackers into victims as researchers use it to grab material from chatrooms where they trade data. Discovered in early April, Heartbleed lets attackers steal data from computers using vulnerable versions of some widely used security programs.   Now it has given anti-malware researchers access to forums that would otherwise be very hard to penetrate. The news comes as others warn that the bug will be a threat for many years. French anti-malware researcher Steven K told the BBC: "The potential of this vulnerability affecting black-hat services (where hackers use their skills for criminal ends) is just enormous." Heartbleed had put many such forums in a "critical" position, he said, leaving them vulnerable to attack using tools that exploit the bug. Source: BBcNews
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17Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

IIT-Delhi open`s its doors for Public on “Saturday”

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Ever wondered what the insides of a laboratory at the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi looks like? How about wanting to see a robotics show or perhaps witness a mini quadcopter take to the skies? You’re in luck, for IIT-Delhi’s traditional “Open House”, where it throws open its doors to the good citizens of the city, is happening this Saturday. “Almost all our laboratories, departments and research will be open to the public on this day. Along with over 500 projects that showcase innovations in engineering and technology, science and humanities, design and management,” said Prof. Joby Joseph, who is the “Open House” chairperson this year. “This time, we have given special attention to design, and socially relevant and commercially viable projects,” he added. “A lot of students have already confirmed…
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10Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Heartbleed bug security alert

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There's nothing users can do until the web services have made their sites secure. The best advice for web users to wait for few days and then change the passwords on the web services you use. For websites, the fix-it involves installing software patches on computers in their data-centres, then swapping out the confidential software key used to secure messages and transactions. Users will largely need to depend on individual sites to notify them about whether the flaw has been addressed. Many major web services, like Yahoo, have already released such notices. It's a good time to review your passwords in general and any kind of formula that can help you to be protected from these types of bugs. The Heartbleed scare, even if it doesn't turn out to hurt…
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