google algorithms the secret for SEO

Seo and google algorithms

On this post I will talk about SEO and the recent Google algorithms that are making the life harder for most webmasters.

A lot of persons are asking me to post more SEO articles and software download links etc, due to the very fast success this webpage is having with thousands of visitors despite being little more then 1 month old. So due to popular demand! I will reveal some secrets about the google algorithms.

It is completely essential to know this by heart so you can get your website or blog flying through the ranks of every search engine and not just google. (Most webpages will rank others according to Google position)

The google algorithms Iam going to talk about on this post are:

Panda Algorithm

 

Penguin Update

 

Penalty Algorithms

 

Domain Name MatchThis

 

Hummingbird Algorithm

 

PDF Algorithm

 

 

Penguin Update
This algorithm’s primary purpose is to look for over-optimization factors on
website pages and other factors such as linking. This algorithm is more of a shakeup
algorithm. It runs periodically to shake things up and other algorithms that run later
actually reverse most of the effects of this algorithm within two to four weeks.

Penalty Algorithms
These are algorithms that are run by Google that penalize websites based on certain
criteria. Such criteria as links from porn or hate websites, links from certain identified
paid link farms, unnatural link building, negative reviews, negative PR, duplicate content,
high bounce rates which can indicate that that visitors were not finding what they were
searching for on the website and the visitor left quickly, and many other factors.
Google has many of these and some run just once, some run once a year, and some run
all the time.
Domain Name MatchThis is an algorithm we began in the summer of 2012 when Google announced the
algorithm to scare people from getting or using keyword matching domains. What does
this mean? Say you have a roofing company in Miami and people search on Google for
“Miami roofing company”. To help you in Google’s results, you buy the domain name
Miami RoofingCompany.com to help you become relevant for that key term. Google uses
this algorithm to make that domain name drop in its results for the keyword.

This is really another algorithm that runs to shake things up. Google wants to be the
phone book for the Internet. The problem with this algorithm for Google is that when the
algorithm runs, many of the domains that are exact matches are well known brand names
and Google has really had to turn this algorithm down and it is not very effective.
Manual Intervention
This is something new. It is a process where Google’s technical team members can
give a manual penalty to a website for just about any reason or take a penalty away. Most
are websites that are given penalties are for bad press, bad PR, or using paid linking or
link farms.
Hummingbird Algorithm
This algorithm made headlines and so much misleading information was written about
this algorithm and what it does. In October of the year it came out, Matt Cutts form
Google admitted that it has nothing to do with SEO and works to help with full sentence
searches most often used with voice searches.
PDF Algorithm
Believe it or not there is an algorithm that gives PDFs with a keyword relevance
enough to make it on to the first page.

NOTE: Each algorithm takes a tremendous amount of processing power and must filter against billions
and billions of items in Google’s databases. Most only run periodically and some only run a few times a
year.

Yahoo steps against Hackers

Yahoo steps in to try and stop foreign Hackers

Yahoo steps in to warn its users against foreign hackers; Yahoo has become another big tech company which has decided to warn its users if their account is or has been a target of foreign hacker. Google started giving out such warnings in 2012 followed by Facebook and Twitter.
Yahoo said in its statement that it will send users notifications if, “We strongly suspect that you may have been a target of an attack, and want to encourage you to take steps to secure your online presence.”

Hackers from countries such as China and Russia can not crack corporate or government agency networks often go for employees’ or relatives’ personal accounts which they can use to send email with malware to the real target. Several studies have shown a very bright chance that same password is being used by most of the people across all social and work networks and log on to work network from home are easy targets for the hackers.
The incidents like Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Office of Personnel Management are part of such attacks by the hackers from North Korea and China.

 

[caption id="attachment_2645" align="alignleft" width="150"] Tom Kellermann[/caption]

Tom Kellermann, chief cyber security officer at the Tokyo-based security company Trend Micro said that the hackers are not looking for the Christmas photos from the accounts but are targeting people to fulfill specific objectives such as gaining access to Government or Corporate network.
Kellerman said,” If you are a Fortune 1,000 corporate official, C-level, or a senior executive in the U.S. government, or you are within one degree of separation from them — as in, you are a spouse of them, a child of them or a deputy of them — you will and have been targeted already.”
Al Pascual, director of fraud and security at Javelin Strategy & Research said that,” Consumers in general are not at risk.
You have to be in a specific role for something like this to be likely to occur to you.”
According to him, the industries which are vulnerable to such attacks include financial services, critical infrastructure, defense and politics.
If you get such notification from any social network or email service provider, the first thing to do is to notify your employer.

This denial of the risks, leaves everyone vulnerable to hackers attack, and yahoo will remain to be an amazing target for hackers all across the world, untill yahoo steps up their game and admits to some security flaws

 



 

 

If you wish to protect yourself, from keyloggers, spyware, virus and other malicious software that may steal your private information you can try to get this app:Protect Yourself with Norton Security

 

Another good choice (less expensive)would be this one: Detect Threats with PCKeeper AntiVirus

On this article I will give you some great Security Tips. This guide will focus on the Windows OS, but it can and should be used with any other OS you may use, just like Mac osX, Linux or even Android. No system is completely safe so we should take some precautions.

Free security Tips

First and foremost we should perform this common tasks.

 

1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates)

have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the System control panel and choose the appropriate options.

2. Install a personal firewall.

Both SyGate (_www.sygate.com) and ZoneAlarm (_www.zonelabs.com) offer free versions.

3. Install a free spyware blocker.

[caption id="attachment_2507" align="alignleft" width="300"] Get the complete Norton protection![/caption]

You can always Google for free spyware blocker 2016 this will give you lots of free software to download. But I strongly recommend you get McAfee antivirus from HERE Or the complete Norton Security Deluxe Package HERE

 

 

 

4. Block pop-up spam messages in Windows NT, 2000, or XP by disabling the Windows Messenger service (this is unrelated to the instant messaging program).

Open Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and you'll see Messenger. Right-click and go to Properties. Set Start-up Type to Disabled and press the Stop button. Bye-bye, spam pop-ups! Any good firewall will also stop them.

5. Use strong passwords and change them periodically.

Passwords should have at least seven characters; use letters and numbers and have at least one symbol. A decent example would be f8izKro@l. This will make it much harder for anyone to gain access to your accounts. You can check our post on Creating Strong Passwords

6. If you're using Outlook or Outlook Express, use the current version or one with the Outlook Security Update installed.

The update and current versions patch numerous vulnerabilities.

Stunning America video from old photos by Alexey Zakharov

America in the beginning of the century!

This is where Alexey Zakharov brings us on this amazing short video.
What we get is a video with the lenght of 3 minutes and 48 seconds, taking us on a wonderful time travel through America during the years of 1910-1920.

[caption id="attachment_2462" align="alignright" width="150"] Work made by Alexey Zakharov. The author of the Stunning America video I will show you below.[/caption]

The author of this masterpiece was Alexey Zakharov. I confess I don't know that much about Alexey Zakharov, all I know is that he is from Russia, and he his an amazing designer with serious 3d and video working skills.
You can take a look at some of his works here: (LINK https://www.artstation.com/artist/seccovan)

This is a travel back in time with some sort of steampunk time machine. Most of the animation was built witch camera projection based on photos from the beginning of 1900.
The video is black and white, it does simulate 3D animation and the music is quite pleasant.

Stunning America video watch it below!

https://vimeo.com/160024074

Openvpn configuration for Windows Tutorial

How to setup OpenVPN configuration on Windows

A. Download and Install OpenVPN GUI

1. Download the latest stable community version of OpenVPN client (Windows Installer) HERE
Note: If you have a 32-bit Operating System, download the 32-bit version of the installer. You
can check your System Type by going to Control Panel > System and Security > System.
2. Open the folder where installer is downloaded and double-click the 'openvpn-install-
<version>.exe' file to begin installation.
3. You may encounter a Security Warning screen: "Do you want to run this software?" If you see
the Security Warning screen, click Run to run the software.
4. The Setup Wizard prompt will appear. Click Next to continue.
5. The OpenVPN license agreement and terms appear. Click I Agree to continue.
6. The component selection dialog appears. Leave all components checked with their default
settings and click Next.
7. Select your destination folder and click Install. Note the Destination Folder location during
install (usually C:\Program Files\OpenVPN)
8. When the installation is complete, click Next.
9. The wizard will notify you of the completion of the installation and prompt you to click Finish.

This are the basic steps to install OpenVPN on any Windows system 

Brave browser Download and review

About Brave Browser

Brave browser is a "new browser" that as the special feature of blocking most ads in a webpage, making it better for the reader to view the content without having to see all the advertisement.

Brendan Eich is the brain behind Brave browser, you may know him from the Mozilla Firefox project, or as the creator of Javascript!

This new browser was first released on January 20 2016. But it is now on version 0.90

Brave browser claims to be faster then any other browser, because it will strip the webpages you visit from displaying advertisement, and from collecting data about yourself. By avoiding webpage cookies and tracking pixels.
Not only Brave browser is faster, it will also be safer, because this new browser not only blocks ads. But it also blocks "Malvertising" avoiding that all sorts of malware find a way into your computer.
Another nice safety feature from the Brave browser is that he as incorporated the plugin https everywhere that encrypts the communication between your browser and the webpage, preventing someone from spying on you.

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Best Internet Firewall

What is a Internet Firewall? 

An Internet firewall is a machine which is appended (generally) between your site and a wide area network. It gives you a controllable filtering of network activity, permitting selective access to certain internet port numbers (ie: benefits that your machine would somehow or another give to the network in general) and revokes the access to truly well everything else.

Different "kinds" of Firewalls are accessible for different types of networks.

Internet firewalls are a compelling "win big or bust" way to deal with managing external access security, and they have become extremely popular, with the rise of the Internet availability for everyone

Free Internet firewall Download

Here I will give you the download link for one of the best Firewalls for your computer:

Comodo Firewall

Comodo Firewall is a product from the Comodo Group. Comodo is a private American company dedicated to Computer Security. They offer a wide array of products ranging from Anti virus SSL certificates, Firewalls, Sandbox applications. Pretty much anything you may need to keep your Windows system safe.

The strong points of the Comodo firewall are:

• No complex configuration Issues — perfect for amateur users


• Quickly learns user behavior to deliver personalized protection


• User-friendly, attractive graphical interface


• Lots of configuration options let techies configure things just as they like


• DDP-based security keeps you informed and PCs safe

Free Download Here

Why to use a Firewall?

Vivaldi browser Download and Review

Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to the famous, but outclassed Opera web browser. And it was officially launched yesterday 06-04-2016

 

Some features:

- Vivaldi version 1.0 uses the Webkit/Blink layout engine also used by Google Chrome.

- Vivaldi browser is compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux.

- Distributed as freeware, but it is NOT Open source software.

[caption id="attachment_2271" align="aligncenter" width="300"] vivaldi browser start page[/caption]

This is the Wikipedia LINK

 

 

[caption id="attachment_2270" align="alignleft" width="300"] vivaldi browser settings page[/caption]

Because it is so new, I still did not test the browser to exhaustion. But so far from what I have seen everything works great, but it is just another “skin” on top of the Google chrome browser.

I used to like Opera browser very much, while they were using the Presto engine, but since they left it and switched to google, they become just another extension in my opinion.

Security wise, I did not finish my tests, but since they are not FOSS (Free Open Source Software) I would not trust them at all to keep anything private.
Opera browser was well known from selling your browsing activities ( mobile browser, Turbo, etc).

Vivaldi browser will work for you as good as chrome does, with the added advantage of still supporting older OS versions like Windows XP, Vista and older OS X versions. Wich will enable the user too keep getting security updates on their system.

Vivaldi Browser Main features

Adaptive Interface – The color scheme from Vivaldi will adapt to your taste as much as you like, you can change everything, from colors to content placement, bookmark bar placement, etc.

Spatial Navigation – Vivaldi browser allows you to navigate the webpage using your keyboard, not only scrolling UP and DOWN, but also LEFT and RIGHT

Powerful Bookmarks – The Bookmarks feature was enhanced, now you can add tags to your bookmarks and set “nicks” for faster access

Web Panels – With Webpanels, you can “Dock” a Panel to the sidebar of Vivaldi. What this allows you to do, is for example to keep Facebook or Twitter open on the sidepanel, so you can follow any discussion you are engaged in, and still browse other webpages with ease.

[caption id="attachment_2272" align="aligncenter" width="300"] vivaldi browser bookmark manager[/caption]

 

Now I leave you with the official Download Link

And Vivaldi Main page Link

 

Sources:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10228/vivaldi-web-browser-launches-with-version-10-built-for-power-users-of-the-web

https://vivaldi.com/

 

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Chess for linux – Jin review and Download

When you switch from Windows to Linux, you will miss some “commercial” software. To be completely honest most of them does not have a Linux version, but do not despair!

All software you run on Windows can eventually be run under Linux.

Unfortunately most of it as a big learning curve to be able to run correctly, and Chess for linux is no exception.
But despite that you can find good and free alternatives to get Chess for linux.



Today Iam going to guide you on how to obtain a chess client to play online on the FICS (Free Internet Chess Server)
There are a lot of different “clients” to play on FICS as you can see on their webpage LINK.



I choose Jin because it is really easy to set up, as a small learning curve, you just need to configure it once, create a link and that's it you can forget it is even there. This will be the easiest solution to get Chess for linux.

So lets start the tutorial to get Jin working with FICS

Jin Download and set-up tutorial

The first step is for you to create a FICS account.

You can do that by browsing to FICS webpage here LINK

Fill the form with First name, user name, email, etc (Be sure to use a real email because you need to click the activation link they are going to send)

Check your email, click the activation link.

Now you have a FICS account, but you still need the software to play chess online on your Linux distro.



 

Second step Download Jin.

To always get the latest version, you should proceed to the download through the official Jin website on this LINK

Click on Download Jin, it will start the download of a tar.gz file which works exactly as a ZIP file on Windows.

- After you download the file, open the folder that contains it. Right click and choose “extract here”

- Open the folder just created jin-2.14.1 or the version you got.

Double-click jin

Select the first option “Run in Terminal”

Choose the server (In this case the second one Free Internet Chess Server)

Login with your username and password.



 

And thats it Welcome to Jin and FICS :)

 

This are the most basic steps to get Jin up and running on your linux OS.

But there are some other important tweaks you should do to personalize your experience and make it easier to use:

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Create a Link to Jin on your Desktop

First of all, you do not want to navigate to Jin folder every-time you want to play it right?

Just like in other OS whe need to create a link to Jin application and drag it to your desktop.

To create a link using Linux the easiest way is just to grab the program with your mouse, drag it to where you wish while pressing Ctrl+Shift on your keyboard this will create a link to the file instead of creating a copy of the file.

 

Change the link Icon

When you create the link, the Icon it will show, will be the regular Shell command Icon. To change it to “Jin” Icon:

Right click the link on your desktop > select properties > click the icon on the properties page > browse to your Jin folder and click the Icon.

 

Personalize Jin behavior and feel

To change options like pre move and automatic promotion you need to open Jin.

Log in. Click on Preferences > Chess board… > Moves – And here you can select the Auto promotion option and the Moving in Advance select the (premove)

Feel free to mess around with the remaining menus and set everything to your own taste.



 

This is all there is to know to get Jin up and running on your Linux system

* When I first installed Jin I had a problem with sound delay. I would only listen to the piece move, a few seconds after it did. If this is happening to you. The probable cause is your JAVA version. The fix is simply to download Oracle Java, from your Linux Distro Repository, or from Oracle official Webpage Here: LINK



 

 

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Tails - Get your privacy back

Tails, because there is never too much security!

Almost all O.S. (Operating systems) like Windows, Mac, Ios, Ubuntu, Android, etc will track you and send your details to other persons.

This means that for you to become secure, first and foremost you will need to increase your privacy.

On this post I will guide you step by step on how to achieve this.
Following this steps, In the end you will get a fully working O.S. running on your computer from a pen drive!

The system that I will recommend you to use is named Tails, it is a Unix based system, specially design to keep your online activity anonymous.

You are going to need a Internet connection to download the ISO and a Pen drive (4gb is enough for what you will need)

Lets start with the instructions

Step by step guide to create a bootable Pen disk with Tails the anonymous system

end-to-end encryption

end-to-end encryption and its importance

Hello, this article will focus on end-to-end encryption. I will briefly explain what it is, why you should use it, and how to use end-to-end encryption to send your data.

Lets start with some basics:

End-to-end encryption means that data (including communications data) is encrypted at your end, and decrypted only at the intended recipient’s end. The important point is that no ‘middle man’ who can access your unencrypted data is involved. Because a middle man can always be regarded as suspect, end-to-end-encryption should be seen as an absolute must if you care about security.

A case in point is Microsoft, who while they encrypt all emails and files held in SkyDrive, also hold the encryption keys, and used these to unlock the emails and files of its 250 million worldwide users for inspection by the NSA. 

Basically, services that encrypt your data on their servers, rather than you encrypting your own data on your own machine, should be strongly avoided.

The terrifying scale of the NSA’s attack on public cryptography and its deliberate weakening of common international encryption standards has demonstrated that no proprietary software can be trusted; even software specifically designed with security in mind. It is now a proven fact that the NSA has co-opted or coerced hundreds of technology companies into building backdoors into their programs, or otherwise weakening security in order to allow the NSA access. US and UK companies are particularly suspect, although the reports make it clear that company’s across the world have acceded to NSA demands.

The problem with proprietary software is not just that as sole developers and owners, companies can be fairly easily approached and convinced to play ball with the NSA, but that their source code is kept secret, making it easy to add to or modify in dodgy ways without anyone noticing.

The best answer to this problem is to use free open source software (FOSS). Often jointly developed by disparate and otherwise unconnected individuals, the source code is available to everyone to examine and peer-review, thereby minimizing the chances that it has been tampered with. Ideally this code should also be compatible other implementations, in order to minimize the possibility of a back-door being built in.

It is of course possible that NSA agents have infiltrated open source development groups and introduced malicious code without anyone’s knowledge, and the sheer amount of code that many projects involve means that it is often almost impossible to fully peer-review all of it.

Still, despite these potential pitfalls, FOSS remains the most reliable and least likely to be tampered with software available, and if you truly care about privacy you should try to use it exclusively (up to and including using FOSS Operating Systems such as Linux).

On this Article I tell you how to obtain and use PGP to encrypt your files LINK

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Vikings discovered America NOT Columbo

Vikings discovered America NOT Columbo

Hello, this post is not 100% technology related, in it I will tell you about some very recent developments on Viking explorations (2 days old) and how Vikings discovered America much sooner then Columbo ever did.

The main accepted theory about who discovered America points to Christopher Columbos and his fleet of three ships. Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria, who set sail from Spain in 1492, with the idea to reach India. But due to good fortune they found America instead.

This was mainly accepted as the first real exploration in American soil by foreign persons. It was! because recently proofs were found that the Vikings discovered America at least 500 years in advance from Columbo.

So from now on hopefully History books will start to get rewritten and show the real story.

[caption id="attachment_2130" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak, pictured here with BBC presenter Dan Snow, says she may have unearthed a second Viking settlement in North America.[/caption]

The archaeologists team that made this recent discovery, based their work on the Viking Sagas, and used satellite technology. With this discovery a new professional term is getting used "Space Archaeologist" and Iam starting to think about changing my job, just to have a business card saying that Iam a Space Archaeologist!

 

[caption id="attachment_2129" align="aligncenter" width="300"] 2nd viking settlement america[/caption]

Some quotes from the article:

A team of archaeologists say they’ve made a potentially “seismic” discovery in Canada that could “rewrite the history of Vikings in the New World” — and they did it with the help of medieval sagas and the latest satellite technology.

According to these stories, many of them featuring “larger-than-life heroes,” the Vikings had made the first European voyage to North America — at least 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

In the 1960s, archaeologists determined that a site on the northernmost tip of Newfoundland in Canada — L’Anse aux Meadows — had been a Viking settlement, established about a millennium before. The discovery changed the history of European exploration in the New World and proved the sagas were not simply works of fiction.

Thanks largely to the work of Sarah Parcak, a leading space archaeologist, evidence has been unearthed of a possible second Viking site in North America — and it’s located about 300 miles further south than L’Anse aux Meadows.

Link to source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/viking-discovery-canada-satellite_us_56fe36bfe4b0daf53aef5a26

 

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Wireless-powered communication network Arriving

Sending power over a wireless network will be a reality really soon!

The lifelong dream from Nikola Tesla of Wireless electrical energy transmission (http://www.teslasociety.com/tesla_tower.htm) is closer to become a reality.



But, harvesting power from RF is a bad idea because of how much power is lost in transmission. instead, they should be harvesting existing power source like light. properly designed systems can be ultra-low power if designed correctly and run on millifarads a day. believe it or not, a solar cell harvesting indoor lighting is enough to power a microprocessor in real time though it would be better to have a MEMS sensor waking up the microprocessor to collect it's latest measurement. the real problem comes in reporting the data back to the hub because RF is a HUGE power hog. you can use it just fine but not very long, so you transmit your collected data and turn off the RF until the next scheduled broadcast.

Netflix Verizon and AT&T speed scandal

Today Iam going to tell you about the latest Netflix Verizon and AT&T scandal.

[caption id="attachment_1896" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Netflix Verizon and AT&T[/caption]

 

Netflix as been “capping” the download speed from American users who use Verizon and AT&T mobile service.
The users from those services, would only be able to use 600 kilobites of bandwith to watch their TV shows and movies. Netflix justified this measure as a way to prevent users to be charged extra from excessive Downloads.

Personally I believe it was a good call from the company, but anyway they should give the option to the customers if they wanted the cap or not.

But Netflix chose not to reveal this information, eventually it got out last Thursday during a story that came out in the Wall Street Journal. And now, they got a lot of angry customers to please!

Some quotes from the source article:

Usenet group Newsoo raided by the police France

Newsoo The French usenet group got raided and shut down by the police.

This may be just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to actions against “newsgroups”. The main attention nowadays are the peer to peer sharing webpages like thepiratebay or KickAssTorrents, but the old news groups stayed in silence on the background, surviving all the persecution that major sharing webpages have seen.

Unlike Peer to Peer (Torrents) pages, with Newsgroups, you get the files directly from the server, which means much faster transfer speeds and bigger anonymity/higher safety.

I just hope for the best. That this was a single isolated case; and not a change of strategy by the authorities.

To rap this up I will leave you with some parts of the news and the source url so you can visit it and read all the details:

surveillance law under pressure US

Surveillance law getting under pressure

 

Politicians are trying to put some pressure over the NSA surveillance law on the US.
With all the domestic spying going on; the NSA has lots of dirt on them. This is probably the reason why they got so concerned about the issue.

How many persons are really squeaky clean? Would a “clean politician” get any support from dirtier ones? How much money would they get from corporations and other sponsors?

The reason behind this is not vital, as long as it is effective and they could actually put a stop on the NSA domestic surveillance. Below I leave you the article with the link top the correct sources.

Erik Prince, Under Investigation by DoJ

Today I bring you another news, this time the new is about Mr. Erik Prince, the security contractor and founder from Blackwater USA, a company that as been “renamed” several times (former, Xe Services and Academi). Mr Erik Prince fell under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Erik Prince, founder of the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and current chairman of Frontier Services Group, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies for attempting to broker military services to foreign governments and possible money laundering, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the case.

What began as an investigation into Prince's attempts to sell defense services in Libya and other countries in Africa has widened to a probe of allegations that Prince received assistance from Chinese intelligence to set up an account for his Libya operations through the central bank of China. The Justice Department, which declined to comment for this article, is also seeking to uncover the precise nature of Prince's relationship with Chinese intelligence.

[...] For more than a year, U.S. intelligence has been monitoring Prince's communications and movements, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence officer and a second former intelligence official briefed on the investigation. Multiple sources, including two people with business ties to Prince, told The Intercept that current government and intelligence personnel informed them of this surveillance. Those with business ties were cautioned to sever their dealings with Prince.

[...] "He's a rogue chairman," said one of Prince's close associates, who has monitored his attempts to sell mercenary forces in Africa. That source, who has extensive knowledge of Prince's activities and travel schedule, said that Prince was operating a "secret skunkworks program" while parading around war and crisis zones as FSG's founder and chairman. "Erik wants to be a real, no-shit mercenary," said the source. "He's off the rails exposing many U.S. citizens to criminal liabilities. Erik hides in the shadows ... and uses [FSG] for legitimacy."

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Three Syrian Electronic Army Suspects Got Charged by the US

After the attack to independent.co.uk the US Justice managed to find the Hackers responsible for these attacks and charged them for multiple offences. The only small problem is that they live in Syria, so a little bit away from US justice so for the time being they are quite safe.



First seen in 2011, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claims to support the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. They've been linked to hacking the Websites of the US Marine Corps, Microsoft, Skype, eBay and PayPal. Arrest warrants have been issued for the suspects:

Stronghold Paste .onion Review

Hello, on this post I will give you another onion website review, this time Iam going to talk about Stronghold Paste

Stronghold Paste url http://nzxj65x32vh2fkhk.onion

Stronghold Paste works pretty much like pastebin.com, but as with all .onion webpages you can count on a huge level of anonymity and little to none propaganda.
The idea of the webpage is to freely leave text files on the "cloud". This pieces of text can be accessible by anyone or you may require a password.

Some features from Stronghold Paste

Facebook Zuckerberg Meets With China's Propaganda Chief

Zuckerberg Meets With China once again to expand is business, but this time he was mocked by social media that he loves so much.

Facebook's Zuckerberg Meets With China's Propaganda Chief, Social Media Mocks Facebook Block

Facebook was blocked in mainland China in 2009 following conflict between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on a "charm offensive" [qz.com] likely intended to convince the government to bring the site back through the firewall... in a heavily censored form. Meanwhile, Chinese social media users have been amused and confused by Zuckerberg's journey [bbc.com], which has been featured in state media rather than censored:

331 kg of plutonium ordered by the US from Japan

331 kg of plutonium arriving to the US

Source:http://news.yahoo.com/2-british-ships-arrive-japan-carry-plutonium-us-015323402.html

"Two British ships arrived in eastern Japan on Monday to transport a shipment of plutonium — enough to make dozens of atomic bombs — to the U.S. for storage under a bilateral agreement.
[...]
Japan has accumulated a massive stockpile of plutonium — 11 metric tons in Japan and another 36 tons that have been reprocessed in Britain and France and are waiting to be returned to Japan — enough to make nearly 6,000 atomic bombs.

Andy Grove A Former Intel CEO Has Died

Andy Grove has died. The  longtime Intel's CEO and President

He was 79 years old, and was Intel's first hire. Originally from Hungary, he was born during the pre-war, a survivor of both the  Nazi occupation and the Communist rule; he managed to immigrate to America at the young age age of 20.

iOS security - Improve your iOS system

You just got a new Iphone?

The system is the second operating system most used on smartphones, tablets, ipads, etc. It is a specially design system by Apple to run on their hardware.

This system is already quite secure out of the box, but yet you need to take some basic steps to improve your iOS security!

With this article I will give you 7 easy things you can do to tune up your iOS safety without performing a JAILBREAK.

 

 

So lets get down to business.

iOS security in 7 steps

detecting the operation system from any person

On this post I will give you a small tutorial, on how to detect what OS any person is using, and how to protect against such a detection.

This detection can be used by malicious hackers to use the correct applications, to hack into the targets.

Everyone should at least know the basics to be able to prevent the attack and keep their system a bit more secure.

There are not many prerequisites to be able to do this. But the basics are:

1º Having a *nix system

2º Connecting to the Internet

3º Downloading the Xprobe applications

First let me talk about the Xprobe application.

 

Xprobe is a simple tool to perform a fingerprint of a remote server.

The Xprobe application is used to identify the possible operating system (OS) of the target.

An attacker uses this information to launch appropriate attacks for the results obtained.

This is the download link : https://sourceforge.net/projects/xprobe/

onion website review - Parazite

Hello, on this post I will give you another onion website review, this time Iam going to talk about Parazite

Parazite is a repository for .onion websites and hidden services, but does more then just a normal “repository” function, mainly because it seems to be managed by a really crazy person, at least with a very weird sense of humor (just like me). And also because it looks really good, as great uptime and is well organized with lots of information.

This is the .onion link for Parazite main webpage: http://kpynyvym6xqi7wz2.onion

The “main” website list is sorted by this categories:

Windows 1.0 introduction and history Download

Hello, I stumbled upon an interesting Download today, Windows 1.0!

Not everyday we can get our hands on a piece of History :)

on this article I will show you some screen-shots from Windows 1. Tell you the history of Windows 1.0 and what it is, and finally I will get you a link to download it and try for yourself!

But be advised to run this Windows version you will need 2 floppy disks and it needs to run under DOS.

So without loosing more time I present to you the story behind Windows 1.0 and what it is all about:

Windows 1.0 introduction and history

Bitcoins explained (easy)

Bitcoins and what are they?

You just found out about Bitcoins and you are not really aware of what they are, or how to use them?

I have this post over HERE talking in detail about them.

But this post will be for the real beginner on Bitcoin who is still a bit confused about it.

Let me start:

Bitcoins are a form of “currency” just as Dollars or Euros.

Bitcoin can be purchased online from other persons using your local currency, a good place to start is in localbitcoins.com

You can also earn Bitcoins for free by using the GPT industry *1

Another way to get you some bitcoin is by selling products or services and get paid in bitcoins *2

And another way to get your bitcoin (And this is the real difference between normal currency and bitcoins) is that you can “mine” them on your computer, *3

Now you now how to earn some bitcoins, but you still don't know the value of the Bitcoins you have compared to you country currency?

Bitcoin price is really volatile, depending on the markets movement, at any given moment in the day it can rise up 300% but on the next hour it can also drop at the same rate :) you can check bitcoin prices in many online websites. Personally I use my wallet to check in blockchain https://markets.blockchain.info/ At this precise moment the Bitcoin USD price is 1-414.17 that means 1 bitcoin is the same as 414 usd. You can check this screenshot:

 

If you just search online for “bitcoin price” you will get hundreds of webpages giving you the current prices don't be so lazy :)

By now you should be aware that Bitcoin is a currency and not a payment processor like Paypal.

So what is the interest in having Bitcoins? Silly question! What is the interest in having any sort of currency?..

The main difference between Bitcoin and “regular” currency is that they are not “regulated” by a Government or by a Bank. They exist only digitally there is no “paper Bitcoin money” Bitcoin relies on anonymous peer to peer transactions which makes it very difficult to trace back to you and they are TAX free!

You got some bitcoins by now and you want to convert them into your own country currency?

Houston we have a problem :) The best way to achieve this is by selling them to other persons who want some bitcoin, to do this the best way will be to go on localbitcoins.com and sell them there. Another way is to buy physical products online and then sell them, some vendors who accept Bitcoin are:

Amazon – You can get all kinds of products with bitcoins, provided by the largest “online” store on the Internet

Victoria's Secret – You can get lingerie from the world's top brand paying with bitcoins

Namecheap – Buy you domain online and pay with Bitcoin

Reddit – You can pay for their subscription services and upgrades with Bitcoin

Bing – Bing also accepts Bitcoins, so you can advertise on one of the biggest search engines with some Bitcoin

ExpressVPN – Premium VPN service provided that accepts bitcoin

Microsoft – Microsoft needs no introduction, this software giant already jumped into the bitcoin bandwagon, so get your products from them with bitcoins.

The third way you can convert bitcoins to your local currency, is by exchanging bitcoins for some “online” processor like Paypal, and then get your money from the payment processor. But solid “online processors” will not accept Bitcoins. So what you need to do is to find a product that you can buy with bitcoins and then sell it to your “online payment processor”

It may sound all too complicated, but it is fairly easy!

Step 1 know what Bitcoin is, NOT a payment processor, but a new currency.

Step 2 Earn or purchase your first Bitcoins

Step 3 Use your Bitcoins

 

 

Hope this text could clarify some of your doubts, any other subject you want to know more about just drop me a comment.

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*1 , GPT industry and Bitcoins, for example bitbin.it is a website identical to pastebin, where you just leave some text, and you gain bitcoins according to the number of hits your paste receives. Faucets are another way to earn bitcoins very easy, a faucet is a webpage that just as some ads in it, and a box for you to leave your bitcoin wallet address. You leave the address there and they will send you free bitcoins every-time you do that

*2 Gaining bitcoins by selling services and products. For this purpose you have the dark web markets, but not only there you can actually accept to be paid in Bitcoins everywhere you want to, just like a normal online payment processor (Paypal style)

*3 Mine your own Bitcoins, achieving this is quite easy in “theory” you just download a mining program for your system, and you leave it making money for you.

Hidden answers onion website review

Here is another .onion website review!

If you are not familiar with Tor or .onion websites check this Article

Windows, how to prevent the worst from happening

 

Due to popular demand, on this post I will teach you how to protect your Windows system from getting swarm with errors and malfunctions. By giving you some good Tips and advice's on how to prevent bad things from happening, but not only that I also show you how to restore your system back to work when the worst does happen and your system gets compromised.

Our first line if defense will have to be the Windows system itself!

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When you install it, make sure you create a System Restore Point at a point where the computer actually works as you like it!

To create a System Restore Point on Windows follow these steps:

Step number one open your Control Panel. On Windows 10 right click the start button and choose Control Panel

 

 

Step two locate System and Security>System>System Protection

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Step Three Click on Create... Choose a name and that's it you created a restore point, in case your Windows system quits on you!

The System Restore Point is an easy way to get your system back after something fails. But you can prevent your system from failing by using a sandbox application.

 

 

What is a Sandbox Application?

A Sandbox Application is a program that allows you to run any program on your Windows System, but after you are finished with it ALL your definitions will go back to ORIGINAL like if you had never used that program. Sandbox applications are great to run old programs and games that may cause compatibility issues, You can use them to browse the Internet and avoid most kinds of Spyware and Virus. Now I will leave you the link to two different kind of “Sandbox” applications.

The first one is named Sandboxie, it is a FREE download for Home users and you can get it Here  

 

The second application I will recommend for you in this post is Time Freeze, you can get it from this LINK 

This second application after you install it and run it, will automatically “Undo” all the changes you make to your syystem after you Turn on the application, give it a try!

So what you get from this post?

In case the worst happens to your Windows System you should have a Restore Point already Set Up. To prevent the worst from happening you can use a Sandbox Tool, which is a tool that allows you to run programs, browse the Internet and fool around. With the smaller ammount of consequences possible.

Hope this helped! More tips will come in the future so keep visiting the website.

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