Secure Websites Affected by SSL Flaw

Secure websites affected by SSL flaw. Bug can be used to hack into servers. Web users are being warned aboout a serious flaw in the technology used to transfer information securely on the internet.

The flaw lies in the SSL protocol, best known as the technology used for secure browsing on websites beginning with HTTPS, and lets attackers intercept secure SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) communications between computers using what’s known as a man-in-the-middle attack.

Squarespace’s Site Management IPhone App Now Available

Squarespace’s Site Management IPhone App Now Available. Squarespace is a hosted blog and Website service that, like Apple, prefers to think different. It offers a lot of drag-and-drop freedom for laying out a site, and now its iPhone app lets users cut their computer umbilical cord and manage a site on the go.

SEO | Google Ignores Keyword Meta Tag for Web Ranking.

SEO | Google Ignores Keyword Meta Tag for Web Ranking. Google’s Matt Cutts has explained in a video on Webmaster Central that Google doesn’t make use of keyword meta tag when computing search ranking.

About a decade ago, search engines judged pages only on the content of web pages, not any so-called “off-page” factors such as the links pointing to a web page. In those days, keyword meta tags quickly became an area where someone could stuff often-irrelevant keywords without typical visitors ever seeing those keywords. Because the keywords meta tag was so often abused, many years ago Google began disregarding the keywords meta tag.

Phone Calling Coming to Twitter

Phone Calling Coming to Twitter. Twitter users on Thursday, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service.
A new third-party offering from Jajah known as Jajah@call is expected to go into beta Thursday morning that will allow Twitter users to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users by typing “@call @username”–where “username” is someone’s Twitter ID–into any Twitter client. During the beta period, the company said, the calls will be limited to two minutes, but the company will evaluate that length during beta. However, it sees the two minute period–after which the call will end–as “the verbal equivalent of a tweet.”