Google waves goodbye to Docs offline function
Last Updated on Tuesday, 4 May 2010 02:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 4 May 2010 02:40
Google yanked its Docs offline function offline for good yesterday, much to the chagrin of some users. The Mountain View Chocolate Factory announced (http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92249) last month that its online document and
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Google Checkout checks out
Last Updated on Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 7 April 2010 05:20
The UK version of Google’s payments service Google Checkout has been foundering for two days, and is currently completely offline, with no explanation from the company. Frustrated merchants complain on Google’s own forums
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Facebook Crawler Speaks Back
Last Updated on Tuesday, 6 April 2010 04:40 Written by External Post Tuesday, 6 April 2010 04:40
Last week we ran a story about Facebook suing to get a crawled dataset offline. This week we have a bit of a response written by Pete Warden, the guy who actually did the crawling. He followed robots.txt, and then
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Twitter hack was DNS redirect
Last Updated on Monday, 21 December 2009 06:45 Written by External Post Monday, 21 December 2009 06:45
Twitter has said an attack on Thursday which took the site offline for many users was the result of a DNS redirect. A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army redirected users to a defacement page showing a flag, according to a screen grab on Flickr.
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Internal Twitter Credentials Used in DNS Hack, Redirect
Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 08:00 Written by External Post Friday, 18 December 2009 08:00
Twitter’s website went offline for about an hour Thursday, with many tweeters redirected to a defacement page boasting “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army.” Twitter acknowledged the 10 p.m. takeover, one in a series of security
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Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows 7 ads target the general public
Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 01:45 Written by External Post Friday, 18 December 2009 01:45
Today (17 December) I’ve seen two Google Chrome ads, both in traditional offline formats. One was a cover wrap on Shortlist, a weekly giveaway aimed at male London commuters. The other was a billboard as I walked out of Sutton station in Surrey. Google,
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Hackers Take Twitter Offline
Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 01:45 Written by External Post Friday, 18 December 2009 01:45
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to another Web page. Instead of the usual Twitter Web site design, visitors
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