Biz Tech 2.0

On the web, as in life itself, the risks are unpredicatble, especially with the advancement of information technologies and computer security it has led to the criminals of the network to improve their skills and develop “he simple and phishing spam emails to the new threat of the Internet: ClickJacking.

ClickJacking is:

An online criminal practice that is that when we click the button on a page that seems legitimate, but we are clicking a button controlled by a third party that opens itself on another page and enables others to be able to feast your private information.

Such redirects are possible through ActiveX controls, JavaScript and other sort of malicious code, which often are not detected by our browsers, so we should have our current version of antivirus and trustworthy spyware as well as a tool to manage our security and information online that is reliable and updated constantly.

Browsers like Firefox3, IE7 and Safari already have extensive databases of sites mainly phishing but not yet detected this new type of data theft.

Microsoft, in its new attempt to launch a full war against Google has now entered in the search field and although we know that the results are not the best, after the purchase of Powerset … we will wait and see how it goes. For now it brings us the most recent release, BrowserRank, a kind of Pagerank, but under the responsibility of Microsoft.

Microsoft has changed the approach it now gives Pagerank, the Google ranking to measure the relevancy of a site within the network, which is based solely on a criterion of backlinks that people give Bill Gates a result inappropriate because “links can be easily added and removed by the webmasters.

The academic paper entitled “BrowseRank: Letting Web Users Vote for Page Importance,” has been published jointly by researchers from Microsoft: Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu and Li Hang, Ma Zhiming of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Liu Yuting of Beijing Jiaotong University; Shuyuan He of Peking University, and Ying Zhang of Nankai University.

As the name suggests the paper, it proposes greater participation of users in the web, so they can assess the contents of a page when visiting her. It is an interesting idea but for sure will have enormous implications on the privacy of the users do not you think?