The automaker Nissan and other major brands have suspended their advertising campaign on Facebook after their ads were shown to an automatic system content on the pages of the aggressive and controversial content. Campaigns have been suspended in the UK just a day before the social network introduced a new policy aimed at rapid detection and removal of obscene and unethical content to Facebook.
Edition The Financial Times reports that the policy changes were implemented after a number of human rights and civic organizations have indicated the presence of Facebook and offensive jokes, as well as incitement to violence against women. FT notes that Nissan have expressed concern about the fact that their ads appear on these pages and can of associated users with these brand. reported that while advertising was suspended only for the British division of Nissan.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Published 6:08 AM by Siva
Passwords are almost a million users of the service have been dumped Drupal.org administration, after hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to private user data. Drupal.org - this is the official website of popular open source content management system. Burglary was the result of an attack carried out in respect of an unnamed third-party application that works with Drupal, and not by the CMS system as such, said Holly Ross, Executive Director of the Drupal Association's blog .
During the attack user names, email addresses, information about the country and cryptographically secure passwords. However, while the analysis is not complete, and some additional data could also be in the hands of the organizers of the attack.
"Malicious files were placed on the server association.drupal.org through independent application that is used by the server. Once the files have been identified during the audit, we disable the appropriate servers and checked the rest of the car. Drupal Security Team Team began an investigation and assessment of the incident and found the leak user data "- says Ross.
Drupal has said that hackers could not modify the source code itself CMS-system, which is under development, and not have access to financial data. Drupal has also reported that on most servers deployed system grsecurity, and tightened the settings in the configuration files of Apache.
There is also a standard security settings have been added anti-virus scanning and other procedures. account owner can change the password at https://drupal.org/user/password Drupal has not provided specific technical data on sales in their address attack. Recall that just Last week antivirus companies warned of a malicious code Linux / Cdorked, compromising Linux-servers running on the basis of nginx and Lighttpd.
During the attack user names, email addresses, information about the country and cryptographically secure passwords. However, while the analysis is not complete, and some additional data could also be in the hands of the organizers of the attack.
"Malicious files were placed on the server association.drupal.org through independent application that is used by the server. Once the files have been identified during the audit, we disable the appropriate servers and checked the rest of the car. Drupal Security Team Team began an investigation and assessment of the incident and found the leak user data "- says Ross.
Drupal has said that hackers could not modify the source code itself CMS-system, which is under development, and not have access to financial data. Drupal has also reported that on most servers deployed system grsecurity, and tightened the settings in the configuration files of Apache.
There is also a standard security settings have been added anti-virus scanning and other procedures. account owner can change the password at https://drupal.org/user/password Drupal has not provided specific technical data on sales in their address attack. Recall that just Last week antivirus companies warned of a malicious code Linux / Cdorked, compromising Linux-servers running on the basis of nginx and Lighttpd.
Published 6:03 AM by Siva
Yandex updated his personal search. As described in the company, and now he is able to take into account not only the permanent interests of the user, but also the short-term. For example, if a football fan decides to read about the cities of England , for [Manchester] Yandex offers him above all the city, and not a football club. The updated search launched on the basis of new search engine - Dublin. still searcher improved his knowledge of the interests of users every day. This allowed us to consider both the long-term interests (for example, love for football) and shorter (say, to wallpaper during repairs).
New search can react to short-term interests that arise and quickly extinguished. Requests caused by short-term interests, a lot - more than half. To take them into account when answering the question, Yandex search engine analyzes the data of the current user session. They begin to affect the results in just a few seconds.
So if a person has just said about the movie, on request [Anna Karenina] Yandex will offer him first movie, not the book. New version of personalized search works for all users. Even when man first walked on Yandex and asked a couple of questions, the search is already beginning to take into account their interests. To respond instantly to changes in exploratory behavior of people Yandex created a data processing system in real time. It handles more than 10 terabytes of data per day, constantly adjusting its knowledge of the needs of users.
"Yandex several years working to ensure that all people have the most appropriate response to him. Initially the program was started," Reykjavik ", taking into account the language preferences of users. With the launch of "Kaliningrad" search has become resistant to adapt to the interests of the people. Yandex is now ready to consider even a short-term interests of users, of course, if they do not mind. As before, a personal search can be disabled in the service, "- said in a statement.
New search can react to short-term interests that arise and quickly extinguished. Requests caused by short-term interests, a lot - more than half. To take them into account when answering the question, Yandex search engine analyzes the data of the current user session. They begin to affect the results in just a few seconds.
So if a person has just said about the movie, on request [Anna Karenina] Yandex will offer him first movie, not the book. New version of personalized search works for all users. Even when man first walked on Yandex and asked a couple of questions, the search is already beginning to take into account their interests. To respond instantly to changes in exploratory behavior of people Yandex created a data processing system in real time. It handles more than 10 terabytes of data per day, constantly adjusting its knowledge of the needs of users.
"Yandex several years working to ensure that all people have the most appropriate response to him. Initially the program was started," Reykjavik ", taking into account the language preferences of users. With the launch of "Kaliningrad" search has become resistant to adapt to the interests of the people. Yandex is now ready to consider even a short-term interests of users, of course, if they do not mind. As before, a personal search can be disabled in the service, "- said in a statement.
Published 6:01 AM by Siva
Company Amazon Web Services announced on the eve of a new set of API-functions with which developers can use the sign-in systems from vendors such as Facebook, Google or Amazon for most of their cloud applications hosted in the cloud, AWS .
A new feature called Amazon Web Identity Federation, and sold it all over her firm service AWS Security Token Service API. The company said that the decision simplifies application development and allows you to organize the web-based platform with authentication without the need to create your own server-side code and databases. In addition, Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services also recently announced integrated system Login with Amazon (free service that allows third-party services and websites use authorization system, operating under the framework Amazon.com). new API, called AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, temporarily requested from security vendors requisites users to open them of some initially closed resources.
If the authentication service sends a positive response, then access is granted. Web-based applications, including new features - it's not just the standard hosting system, but the table DynamoDB, requests Simple Queue Service, as well as storage facilities for Simple Storage Service.
A new feature called Amazon Web Identity Federation, and sold it all over her firm service AWS Security Token Service API. The company said that the decision simplifies application development and allows you to organize the web-based platform with authentication without the need to create your own server-side code and databases. In addition, Google, Facebook and Amazon Web Services also recently announced integrated system Login with Amazon (free service that allows third-party services and websites use authorization system, operating under the framework Amazon.com). new API, called AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity, temporarily requested from security vendors requisites users to open them of some initially closed resources.
If the authentication service sends a positive response, then access is granted. Web-based applications, including new features - it's not just the standard hosting system, but the table DynamoDB, requests Simple Queue Service, as well as storage facilities for Simple Storage Service.
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