5 Tips for SEO Friendly Blogging

 Tips For SEO Friendly Blogging

1. Content is king

With panda being the major algorithm that affects content and bloggers directly, you’ve got to be able to produce posts that have quality information and media for your visitors.  The volume of content you need to produce is directly related to the type of competition you have working against you in the SERPs.  For the most part any competitive niche is going to need 600+ word posts for best weight and keyword associations.  Larger volume posts can also add in a lot of long-tail keywords that will produce extra organic traffic from low volume first page rankings.  Competition is a lot lower for the long-tail keywords.

SEO is still very useful for bloggers, but if you do not have quality content, you will not see high rankings on high competition keywords.  Many low volume/low competition search results can still be obtained by small niche and micro websites, but authority and content powerful websites are starting to dominate all high to mid competition search engine results.  You’ve got to be keeping up with the “freshness algorithm” and producing large volumes of strong content that is loved by the “panda update”.

2. Keywords in Title

Titles are one of the more important factors of on-page SEO currently with Google, don’t waste too much time with meta keywords, but titles go a long ways.  Make sure to match up the keywords in order as well, exact match will give you the strongest weight toward better rankings.

Don’t build long, spammy titles, just try to remember what your audience is looking for and how to include your key search terms into that heading.  Most titles should not be over 100 characters, and that is on the long side.  This is one of the most simple ways to see quicker rankings from on-page SEO, no need to write very vague and mysterious titles unless you already have the clout and rankings to go with it.  Otherwise, make sure you include the keywords that your keyword research has provided you.  All of the old keyword stuffing and junk on-page techniques are useless, focus on producing top notch content and making sure search engine spiders can read/associate the right keywords and phrases along with it.

3. Add Images and Video

1. Create your own original images and media!
2. Make sure to re-size and fit properly, keep file sizes manageable for broadband users
3. Place keywords in file names, good for getting picked up by Google images and search spiders
4. Place keywords in titles
5. Add all applicable meta tags – don’t spam, keep them diverse and no duplicates

Google demands that top level blogs are including serious media for their users.  You don’t have to be uploading HD video, but nice stock photography or other quality imagery can really make the difference.

Not only is media important for Googlebot to see, you can also gain quality back links from distributing and uploading your original work around the web.  Sites like Flickr, Youtube, and Slideshare are great for sharing media, adding keywords, and getting solid inbound links.  Make sure to also be using your image creation talent or go buy some stock photos for social media uploads as well.  This can really help you get more views and better results when social bookmarking or writing content like press releases, articles, and more if you can include your related imagery.

4. Integrate social media sharing!

There has been a major shift over the past two years in Google’s algorithm toward giving significant more weight to social media “signals” over other styles of generic back links.  These social media backlinks are created when original pieces of work are shared, discussed, and often spread virally through communities online.

• One of strongest back links currently = social media shares
• If your post goes “viral”, you can get major traffic boosts
• Let people make back links for you, white hat links and they can build them faster than you

Matt Cutts and Inside Search blog have both stated that social media signals are the new back link of the future.  You want your blog’s readers to be reading, sharing, and discussing your posts.  Ultimately you need some sort of sharing tool or platform that users can click into immediately once they land on your blog.

Goals = to get blog readers to share your posts through likes, +1′s, Diggs, Stumbles, Tweets and more

Top Sharing Tools for Blogs:

 Sharethis

 Addthis

Sharebar

5. Get the right plugins

Some of our favorite ideas for plugins and widgets are:

• SEO plugin – homepage and posts meta data tags, time saver
• Inner linking between posts/pages on keywords – i.e. SEO smartlinks
• 301 redirects
• WP cache tools
• Custom permalinks
• Social media “sharing” widgets and plugins
• XML sitemaps
• PCRobots.txt
• Automatic ping tools
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3 Basic SEO keyword tips

How to tell the search engines what keywords you want your page to be ranked for...???

Did you know that you can actually tell google et al what keywords you want each page in your website to rank for? And that google will happily follow your instructions?

Before you start doing any fancy SEO like link building, link baiting, etc, you need a decent foundation.  This means doing the basics first.  No page will get a decent ranking if you havent clearly indicated exactly what keyword/s the page should be ranked for.

So how can you tell google what keywords you want each page to rank for? Just use these 3 SEO factors - keyword in the url, keyword in the title, and keyword in the only <h1> tag.  It sounds simple - and it is, yet it is completely overlooked by many sites.  For this demonstration we will be telling Google that our page keyword is "red widgets".

1. Keyword in the URL

Just make sure that your URL is in the form www.example.com/red-widgets (.htm or .php or .aspx or whatever).  Avoid URLs without the keyword eg www.example.com/products.htm?id=1234567.  Not matter what you use to create your site, there will be a way to put the keyword in the URL - so use it.  For the URL it is best to have only the keyword and no other junk.

2. Keyword in the title

It is also easy to use the keyword in the page title, eg "Red Widgets for sale Example.com".  Do not repeat titles on all your pages, and do not dilute keywords by putting the same keyword in all your titles.  Some extra wording in the title is a good idea, especially if it is good english and reads well.

3. Keyword in the only <h1> tag.

When you describe your red widget, there should be a header above your description.  Just add <h1> tags, eg <h1>High quality red widgets for sale</h1>.  The title should also have some extra wording that is different from the title wording.

And thats all you need to do tell Google what keyword to use for your page - and Google will do exactly what you say.  Of course to rank highly for this keyword you will need to get some links - but that is a different subject!

Some advanced techniques:

Ok great, now you have gone through your site and made sure every single page has those 3 basic factors done right.  Now what? Here are some more advanced techniques to try.

1. Keyword in the URL - advanced

Try using keywords in the url to categorise the various areas of your site.  Instead of /red-widgets, try /widgets/red-widgets and /widgets/blue-widgets.  Then when you add a new section selling cubes, your urls for that section can be /cubes/red-cubes and /cubes/blue-cubes.

2. Keyword in the page title - advanced

Try putting a couple of variations of the keyword in the title - but not too many, eg "Red widgets for sale at the redwidget shop Example.com".  Here we can target people who search for red widgets with and without a space.  Dont over do this and put every single variation in one title, Just the 2 most important variations should be enough.

3. Keyword in the only <h1> - advanced

Again, just like the title, try targeting the keyword and a different varation, or the keyword and its acronym if any, eg "<h1>The RW red widgets shop sells only quality red-widgets</h1>"

And to finish it off .. try your very best to make sure that every title and <h1> that you write is good english - it will make your users happier.  If it's not good english, then rewrite it.  (* unless your website is written in swahilli of course)

How to Harmonize Google+With Your Other Social Platforms

Google's Search Plus Your World is the most recent and arguably most significant change the search engine behemoth has made to search yet. In the old days (old = a couple of weeks ago) search results could be based on say, keyword relevancy, page authority, and social signals. With Search Plus, the nature of search, relevancy and ranking is transforming.
Search Plus essentially aggregates data from your Google+ network (when you're signed in) and delivers personalized results (from your Google+ network), which get bumped up to the top of your search engine result page (SERP). So if you search for SEO, you'll get suggested People and Pages on Google+ that are relevant to your search term. Regardless of whether there is more relevant or pertinent information about SEO, Search Plus gives preferential treatment to Google+ activity.
Essentially, Search Plus has been forced on to users, and is singlehandedly knocking down the rankings of quality sites. This has made Twitter mad. It has made lots of people mad. In fact, it drove Twitter, Facebook and MySpace to team up to create a Don't Be Evil browser add-on, which counteracts this latest Google update.
But let's get beyond the anger and instead get practical. How can you play nice with the new update and your existing sharing platforms.
Search Plus has magnified the importance of blending your web marketing strategy so that it will adhere to the at once social, personal, and personalized search algorithm. Search Plus Your World doesn't mean Social Minus Your Other Networks! Use your extended branding channels for specific purposes.
Here's a drill down on how to harmonize Google+ with your current platforms.

1. Perfect Your Website's Usability

Before throwing all your eggs into the Google+ basket, make sure you've perfected your main website's usability. Think of website optimization as the lungs of your web marketing strategy. Your optimized pages act as the oxygen being delivered to the heart (search engines) so that that it can travel through the rest of the body (the SERP).
This means having the following.

Clean Title Tags & Meta Descriptions

Make your website robot and human-friendly. The more personalized the web becomes, the more important it is to create metadata for the user. Properly optimized title tags should contain the search terms you're targeting. Titles are the first to communicate with both spiders and readers, so clean, concise title tags can get your site reviewed faster by search engines and by people.
While meta descriptions don't significantly influence search engine rankings, they are extremely important in gaining user click-throughs from SERPs. Meta descriptions are a way of telling searchers what your content is about and how it's relevant to their search.

Proper Alt Attributes for Images

Images are one of the most shared pieces of content on the web, but especially in the social sphere. Since Googlebots can't see images directly, we need to provide them readable information in the "alt" attribute. Alt tags should be brief, clear, and descriptive of the image.

For example:


Would look something like this:

<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3252" title="pew-pew-pew"

src="http://www.example.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/24/pew-pew-pew-300x225.jpg"

alt="adorable cat wizard meme pew pew pew" width="300" height="225" />

Doing this simple (but often neglected) step will help make your images more accessible to other platforms. Image descriptions also add rich snippets of data that enhance the user's experience and understanding of the visual.
Adding alt attributes and descriptions can help boost your rankings in image search if you choose to include a keyword you're targeting (but only do it if it's relevant).

Linking Website Pages With Your Other Community & Social Networks

On top of linking specific web pages to their valuable counterparts (product pages, about page, contact form), you need clear links to your social platforms on your home page. This will help keep your brand name SERP filled with listings of your social platform pages and clear from less predictable brand related content on other sites.

Share Buttons

The most important pages (from a user perspective) on your website (like the home page and product pages) should include the top share buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.) in easy-to-find locations on the page. Generally, the top or bottom of the content is good starting point for position optimization.

Fresh Content

Before the Search Plus Armageddon, Google's Freshness update was the big change to search. With this update, Google returns the latest, relevant web content for certain queries. We were speculating that it would make real-time sites like Twitter a main contender for top rankings in the SERP. No dice with Search Plus.
The main takeaway is that you should be modifying your website's content (e.g., adding new products to products pages, modifying descriptions) but mainly, you should be using your brand's social profiles as key channels for publishing fresh, updated content.
Key takeaway: Optimize for humans.

2. Learn From Your Competition

Once you have a fully optimized, human-robo-friendly website, it's time to start investigating what others in your niche are doing on their social platforms.

• What's working for your competitors on their social networking pages?
• How many people are in their Circles?
• How many Fans do they have?
• Twitter followers?
• How much engagement are they actually inciting across these platforms?

Look at what your competition is talking about, sharing, and promoting and run an exhaustive analysis of their social channels to determine what kind of content is getting the most positive feedback, and what does poorly.
You can do a quick assessment of their content using tools like Open Site Explorer or bit.ly to track the number of shares, votes, and Likes the content got. See if you can find a connection between the top content and the platform it was submitted to. Maybe you'll find that Facebook has more video and images being shared while Google Plus users may prefer news and articles.
Once you know what your competition is doing right, determine what they could be doing better. Fill that gap.
As an example, one surprising search result you can find is for Coca-Cola's Google+ page. Not only do you have to type that exact phrase to find it, but Pepsi's Google+ page actually outranked Coke's for a branded search term!

Seriously, look at what your competition is doing.
Key takeaway: Steal and improve. (Don't tell the SOPA patrol!)

3. Measure Your Social Presence

You know what other major players are doing right, you've identified what they could be doing better, now you have a comparison base to start initiating your own search/social coup. But first, know thyself and know thy audience:

• What kind of engagement are you getting across platforms?
• Who is your audience on Twitter?
• Are they different from your Facebook audience?
• How about Google+?
• What type of content is working with your Twitter followers?
• What gets shared the most from you on Facebook?

Again, find out which avenues are better for specific types of content. Use social tracking tools like Radian6, Sysmos, or even less purpose-built tools like OpenSite Explorer, bit.ly and Blekko to help you pull a thorough analysis of both your best and lowest performing content.
Now, start thinking about how you can harmonize your content/sharing strategy.
Key takeaway: Master what you've got.

4. Regroup & Define

Once you've determined where you (and your competitors) stand within your specific platforms, consider creating unique strategies for each.
Each social platform can provide rich channels for engaging with your different audience segments in unique ways. Harmonize the accounts by defining specific roles for each.
All these extended channels allow you to show your business' many faces. For instance, Facebook could be your go-to venue for promotions and contests. Twitter may be where you offer quick tips, answer questions, comment on industry-related news. Your own YouTube channel could be a space where you post instructional videos or entertainment (be aware that corporate videos will very rarely see the same kind virality as user-generated ones, unless your campaign is really unique and engaging).
Google+ can (should) be a tool for improving your rankings (you can actually apply your SEO tactics to Google Plus!).
It's still early to draw any conclusions about how deeply Search Plus will influence your sharing strategy in the long run, but you need a strong presence. That means lots of people in your Circles, and an SEO-friendly profile that is fresh and updated. These will directly impact your rankings, so act now and define your G+ presence.

Living in Harmony

The adoption of Google+ is growing fast, 90 million users strong, 60 percent of them active. If you snooze on this one, you're missing out on some really easy ranking opportunities.
An important lesson that we can take away from events like Search Plus is that we should always leave room for interpretation and change in our online marketing strategies. Keep tabs on what industry leaders and competitors are doing. Draw from their strengths, and modify them to implement them into your own practices.
Making sound business decisions comes from learning what's going right and wrong on the other side. You have to try things out, take risks, and establish a presence in the many existing facets of social media.
This will help you understand what the advantages and drawbacks are in each platform. By keeping abreast of the web climate, you will learn to develop a sixth sense about when things might be subject to change. This way, you can hear the quiet before the storm.
By adopting strong SEO and social strategies, you can diversify the way you raise your brand to search engines and most importantly, to people.

Why Every Site Owner Needs a Client Friendly SEO Agent

And Why Search Engine Friendly Optimization is a Necessity?

Owning a business web site is comparable to owning a road going, commuter car, which unless is worked upon to the standard, is never ready for the (business) race track. But to put it on the business race track, you got to find the right kind of developers, builders, and optimizers, who should not only claim to know all about SEO, but let their work show returns on the track. With so many fake SEO’s on the sprout, clients who reach for services aren’t sure where to find a client friendly SEO agent. And even the authentic SEO agents, sometimes fail to offer the required page optimizing solutions, or even to advice clients about the necessity of creating search engine friendly (SEF) pages before optimizing for the next level of marketing and promotional campaigns.

Search Engine Friendly Schema Makes it User Friendly too

Whether or not site owners understand that creating a Search Engine Friendly and user friendly sites through better keyword lists, punchy sales copies, optimized site structure, minimal number of clicks that leads to the content-in-search, SEF architecture that aids easy navigation, and clear-cut channels for marketing to reach clients who would end up as conversions, SEO’s have to ethical responsibility to educate them on the ‘what’s’ and the ‘How’s’ when clients pay and seek solutions. While the Landing page URLs that figure on the SERPs, against search engine queries, are being evaluated by Google’s URL evaluators, pages should be optimized in such a way as to figure within the first couple of search engine result pages, which would also enable a bigger compulsion for the customers to click on you.

In addition, the more harmonious a website schema is, the easier it becomes to navigate that website. Bad attitude developed over confusing navigation on a website, is more like the attitude developed toward a bad ad, which has direct correlation to the acceptance or rejection of the brand displayed on the site’s pages. Likewise, a positive experience that gradually forms over good site basics and navigation is sure to transfer the same experience toward a new product or service on the site. While partnering an SEO agent who can tune your site and top it up with a report on the attained results is hard to find, there are many who blow their trumpets louder than they are worth and do little to find you the right returns. Only diligence will help you find a SEO partner, who guides you towards better ROI and delivers on the promise.

The Googlization of Search and the Panda Penalties

2011 was the year of the Panda, when it was time to rethink strategy starting from the landing page, which bids you to reorganizing the URL, meta-structure, meta-data, the content, the site-structure, PageSpeed, schema elements, Social Media signals and every other thing that would fall within the Search Engine perspective to gain a better ranking, and 2012 is not showing any signs of deviation from the past, though we can expect more additions to the same logic. If you are still cursing the Panda for what it has done to you, it is also time you analyzed what went wrong with your website and how you handled it.

Well, the 2011 Panda is only an indicator that there could be more to follow as search engines algorithms are being bettered to bring out the best search results, and unless we are prepared to find recourse that get the basics right for any websites, only those who don't cater to the desired search engine standards need worry about what the next Panda-like update could do and you know, who the loser would be. It would be foolish to stand your ground and blame the algorithms for ‘what went wrong’ when the ‘wrong’ is within us to rectify. Google implemented some 30 additions to its value system in the last month of 2011, and with the 2012 updates set to happen earlier than expected there sure is a lot more to follow, as Google stands by its resolve to help users find the best answers against a query for which websites that are found good, in Google’s terms, rank. And Google has to be taken into account as it dominates the search engine domain with an 80% global market share.

Optimizing beyond the Landing page

There are a few things to consider for you to shoot your way up the search pages, like optimizing all your web pages instead of just the landing page, which is often being rated by human raters, at least for Google against a set of pre-defined indices. While Google’s leaked 2011 URL rating scheme would give you some idea on how to manage your landing page and the others, it doesn’t end there. Optimizing the landing page is one option that site owners can’t over-ride, though every page on the site counts in finding the best ranking on the SERPs as one page with duplicate content or wrong schema or site architecture can spoil the rest of the pages on the website resulting in a low page rank. Duplication of content in the sub-pages and flaws in design, coding, site structure and architecture can lead to degradation of a site in no time, when Panda is still in force. The best possible solution is to rectify the present against future damages by optimizing every page on the site, while also making probable off-page marketing and ranking solutions thereby making onsite and offsite solutions work together towards higher organic ranking and more traffic that monetizes in lesser cost per customer acquired.

So inorder to let SEO, SEM and SMP work to your benefit, start with optimizing the landing page and let the effect flow to the linking pages. Your landing page only succeeds when all of its elements work together to persuade visitors to take an action.  Yet, the task is never an easy task to make valuable conversions from a single page as it requires a deep analysis of whom you are targeting, what they are looking for, and the art of developing a message that will appeal to the masses yet feel personalized enough for every individual visitor. Unless your site is search engine friendly, you would not stand to gain the actual benefit of any number of campaigns, as the site would function like a bottomless pit that never fills up. Building search engine friendly pages is not the same as optimizing a website for top search engine ranking performance.

Finding the Right Recourse

Any owner of a website, who has been in the business of selling a service or a product for a year or more, knows Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing and Social Media Promotion are vitally necessary to bring in customers within the stipulated marketing budget, unless over shooting the limit would mean more conversions. Moreover, 2012 is going to see the expansion of the SEO budget for over 72% of the businesses according to research stats. Optimizing and marketing against a growing list of keyword phrases is useless unless there is a real demand that can get you bigger profits while it would make sense to score on a few that would convert into profit. Moreover, all these would work to your favor when you have products and services on your site that has some demand and is priced to provoke a customer to buy.

To build or retune your website so as to make it SEF, the existing flaws should be analyzed and the site reconstructed with an understanding of visitor usability and needs to be built on a sound architecture that would channelize visitors through conversion funnels, in addition to making it friendly for search engines bots to index your page. Once your site is made SEF, then you would find better returns from the SEO, SEM and SMM/P strategies that can continuously be employed till you attain the visibility and ranking that would result in more organic traffic and conversions on your site. Inspite of  both SEF and SEO, requiring two entirely different approaches, the efforts need to be a coordinated to maximizes the efficiency of the site.

Phone hack logs keystrokes from nearby computers

If there is a smartphone resting somewhere close to your laptop straight away, it may well be logging everything you sort into your desktop keyboard and sending that data back to a hacker.

Students at Georgia Tech's college of Computing conducted a proof-of-concept hack to demonstrate how, by tapping into a smartphone's accelerometer, that measures the vibrations of the device, they were able to infer what a target was typing on a keyboard placed close to the phone with up to eighty % accuracy.

The team used an iPhone for his or her experiment, however constant attack is feasible using "any smartphone from the past 2 years with an accelerometer," Michael Terrazas, assistant director of communications for Georgia Tech's faculty of Computing told SecurityNewsDaily.

Watch for computer scan scam: Police ‎

If you receive a decision from somebody informing you that your laptop is not operating properly which a replacement product can improve its performance, decision the police.

The scam is proving profitable for these scammers and police are asking you to be vigilant.

Police in Prince George, BC, say that when a laptop owner permits access to their laptop remotely, "the fraudster states that he's doing a 'scan' and fixing or up grading the pc however he's really putting in 'spy ware' or alternative malicious software which will capture sensitive information like banking info, dates of birth, user names and passwords.

"At the conclusion of the decision, the scammer requests a mastercard variety and will even raise the victim to send payment via a wire transfer company. On checks with the bank a handful hours later, the fraudster had already tried to use for a mastercard with the knowledge he obtained from accessing the victim’s laptop," police said during a statement.

They say that the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received over 350 similar fraud reports since the attacks started occurring in japanese Canada in February 2011, which mastercard transactions or wire transfers are created for up to $500 in every of those cases.

The crimes are exhausting to prevent since wire transfers cannot be traced or recovered by the police. And since the phonephone solicitors are from foreign countries, police say prosecution is unlikely.

Bill Gates to Testify at Novell Antitrust Hearing

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is on decision next week to testify in an antitrust hearing filed by Novell, Microsoft confirmed.

"We have nice confidence within the jury system and believe that when the jury considers all of the proof during this case it'll confirm that Novell's claims haven't any benefit, and can notice for Microsoft," said James Jardine, a managing partner at Ray, Quinney and Nebeker, on behalf of Microsoft.

The Novell case dates back to 2004 and accuses Microsoft of bundling product in a very manner that may create it not possible for Novell's rival software to enter the market. Originally, the recently acquired Linux-maker had accused Microsoft of withholding info that may facilitate the mixing of Novell's WordPerfect and Quattro professional with Windows product. That lack of integration hurt Novell within the market – one thing Microsoft planned on all along, in line with Novell. In 2008, the Supreme Court denied Microsoft's request to dismiss the case.

Computer Sciences Chairman, President And CEO Michael Laphen To Retire

Announced Tuesday that its Chairman, President and CEO Michael Laphen has set to retire from the positions. The board has fashioned a pursuit committee to spot a replacement CEO and has retained Heidrick &amp; Struggles to advise it on potential candidates. Meanwhile, the company has not revealed the rationale for his retirement.

"On behalf of the Board and everyone at CSC, i might need to thank Mike not just for his leadership over the last four years as Chairman, President and CEO, however conjointly for the dedication and commitment that he has given to CSC for nearly thirty five years," Lead Director Irving Bailey, II said in an exceedingly statement.

The Falls Church, Virginia-based company said Laphen, age 61, has agreed to continue in his positions until a successor is known as and to help at intervals the completion of the CEO transition, however solely until October thirty one, 2012.

Laphen, who began his skilled career with CSC in 1977, has served as a results of the chairman, CEO and president of the company since 2007. He was appointed chairman in July 2007, and was named to the position of President and CEO in would possibly 2007. Earlier in 2007, he was elected to the board of administrators of the company.

Laphen previously served the company in roles additionally as president and chief operating officer from 2003 to would possibly 2007, company vice chairman from 2001 to 2003, and president of the eu cluster from 2000 to 2003.

"The Board is committed to conducting an intensive search to spot the proper candidate to manage CSC's next CEO and should complete the search as expeditiously as doable," Bailey, II added.

CSC closed Tuesday's regular trading session at $30.11, up $0.52 or 1.76 performing on a volume of one.47 million shares, beneath the three-month average volume of two.62 million shares.

Computer programming pioneer dies

San Francisco - Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.

Ritchie created the popular C programming language and helped create the Unix operating software.

He died a month after his birthday, according to his biography on a webpage of Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. Ritchie joined Bell Labs in the late 1960s.

The company confirmed his death to The Associated Press but would not disclose the cause of death or when Ritchie died. A spokeswoman said the company was trying to contact his family.

Ritchie is best known for his contributions to computer programming and software. The C programming language, which Ritchie developed in the early 1970's, is still popular. It has gone through a number of upgrades, and it is commonly used for website development and other computer tasks. The Unix operating software also surged in popularity. It and its offshoots, including the open-source Linux, are widely used today, in corporate servers and even mobile phones.

Ritchie's biography on the Bell Labs site says that he was born on Sept. 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York, and studied physics and math at Harvard University.

“My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat,” Ritchie wrote. “My graduate school experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be an expert in the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural languages better than functional ones.”

Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs, wrote in a blog post on Thursday that Ritchie was “truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man.”

Increase in teen network hacking stats

Washington - a lot of youth recently say they've had their web accounts hacked or spied on. several conjointly say they grasp who did it and do not appear too bothered.

An Associated Press-MTV poll finds 3 in ten teens and young adults have had individuals go online to their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or different web accounts and either impersonate or spy on them. that is nearly double the extent seen in 2009.

The poll found solid majorities saying they knew who was behind it: seventy two for spying, sixty fifth for hacking.

Richard Lindenfelzer, 20, says it happened to him, however it absolutely was a lot of innocent and playful than the rest.

Computer virus fraud warning for Wakefield residents

FRAUDSTERS are leaving elderly of us across the city with computer viruses and hefty repair bills.

Pensioners have reported getting phonephone calls from of us claiming to be Microsoft staff who have identified faults with their computers.

The con artists then offer bogus recommendation over the phone, tricking their victim into allowing them access to private files.

They then demand money for finishing up a “repair” once they need terribly merely infected their victim’s computer with a virus.

Computer repair specialists say they have been receiving up to thirty infected systems a month all of that are victims of the scam.

Stuart Ward, of Wabsys, in Horbury Bridge, said most of these customers required repairs costing a minimum of £65.

US sued over new net rules

NEW YORK (AP) — A media and net advocacy cluster sued the national Wednesday over its new rules covering net traffic, saying they do not defend wireless traffic from interference by phone corporations.

The cluster Free Press filed its challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's so-called "net neutrality" rules in federal court in Boston.

The rules were adopted in December and take impact in 2 months. They prohibit net service suppliers from favoring or discriminating against net content and services.

First computer forensics firm with e-Crime lab established in Ghana

Accra, Sept. 26, GNA - A Ghanaian expatriate, Albert Antwi-Boasiako has established the first ever computer forensics firm with an ardent e-crime laboratory among the country to assist company bodies, law enforcement agencies, government institutions and stakeholders to fight the emergence of cyber connected criminal activities among the sub-region.
The company, e-Crime Bureau has been established to produce a decent vary of services along side computer and itinerant forensics services, digital forensics skilled witness services, information security  and cryptographic services, e-fraud investigations  and countermeasures, incident response and cyber intelligence analytics.

Researcher discloses zero-day flaws in SCADA systems

Flaws disclosed in product from Rockwell, 5 alternative vendors

An Italian security researcher in the week disclosed details of many zero-day vulnerabilities he discovered in Supervisory management and information Acquisition (SCADA) product from multiple vendors, a disclosure that is seemingly to strengthen issues regarding crucial infrastructure weaknesses.

This is the second such disclosure by researcher Luigi Auriemma this year. In March, he disclosed similar vulnerabilities in SCADA product from Siemens, Iconics, 7-Technologies and Datac. His disclosure prompted the US-Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT) to issue four alerts warning regarding the vulnerabilities.

The most recent flaws discovered by Auriemma have an effect on SCADA product from six vendors, together with Rockwell Automation, Cogent Datahub, Measuresoft and Progea. many of the failings may enable remote execution attacks and denial-of-service attacks against the vulnerable systems.

In emailed comments, Auriemma said that nearly all of the vulnerabilities he discovered are remote code execution flaws that enable attackers to run code of their selection on the vulnerable systems. just one of the failings may be a denial-of-service vulnerability. It's still unclear whether or not the flaw in Rockwell's product may enable code execution, Auriemma said.