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It is certainly many teenage hacker daydream: to hack ATMs and makes them spit out cash. As impossible as it seems, security researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrates how he bypassed the security of two ATMs during the Black Hat conference. Barnaby Jack, director of security testing at Seattle-based IOActive, wouldn’t name any specific ATM manufacturers during [...]

Last month, Google introduced Site Diagnostics feature to AdSense. AdSense publishers will notice a new tab when they log into their accounts next – ‘Site Diagnostics’. The feature was not longlived, though. Within a few hours of my post on it the ’site diagnostics’ tab disappeared from AdSense publisher’s reports pages and it has not [...]

Now, it’s easier than ever to have websites up and running. You can just setup a blog at blogger.com for free. Or you can spend some $20 to buy a domain name, get a cheap web hosting and install free ready-made scripts like WordPress, phpbb, oscommerce, joomla, etc. Some web hosting sites even made the [...]

Words from Inside Adwords shows that Google does take the poor quality Adwords advertisers sites seriously. Google says it will penalize AdWords advertisers with “poor landing page quality” by setting higher minimum bid. As you may recall, we began incorporating advertiser landing page quality into the Quality Score back in December 2005. Following that change, [...]

Google payment service, touted as Paypal killer is launched. It is called Google Checkout. checkout.google.com When will we see it being incorporated into AdSense?

Yahoo has launched Site-Explorer, allowing webmasters to check listings of your sites (or your competitors’) on Yahoo index. Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or [...]

Google Blogoscoped has posted The Devil’s Guide to Google, the ultimate guide to become an evil with Google’s array of services in under a month. And apparently, the latest trend in paid-clickers industry is no longer Indian clickers. 4. Pay a 12-men army of Russian click-workers to click on your AdSense. Tell them how to [...]

A Romanian company has taken spamming Google to new heights. Monetize, a blog dedicated to tricking search engines, described how the company got Google to index over 5 billion webpages – copied from legitimate sites – within three weeks. Yahoo and MSN were fooled too, eventhough not nearly as bad. The story was featured by [...]