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The US government - along with organizations like the RIAA and the MPAA - are hitting Torrent sites where it hurts.

 Indeed, due to a slew of recent domain seizures, affected websites are currently experiencing major dips in traffic. 

 However, Torrent-Finder is refusing to throw in the towel. The moment the website's .COM domain was seized by the government, it instantly lost search engine relevance because all links pointed to the old .COM domain, which was no longer functioning. As expected, the broken links not only affected surfers searching and navigating to the site, but the website's SEO ranking as well.

 This is because Google employs an algorithm along with other parameters to determine a site’s relevance to a certain term. 

For example, if a website such as NASA.com writes a number of articles about "supernovas," the more relevance it has when people search that particular term. Furthermore, if there are external sites linking to NASA's su...

Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugabe, wife of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, was recently reported to be suing a newspaper for $15 million after it published a WikiLeaks cable that claimed she has benefited from illegal diamond trading. As news spread amongst the loosely-knit group of Anonymous hackers who support WikiLeaks, websites belonging to the Zimbabwe government and Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and, in the case of the Finance Ministry, defacements. The Zimbabwe government's online portal at www.gta.gov.zw and the official ZANU-PF website continue to be offline, and the Finance Ministry's website now displays a message saying it is under maintenance....

   Nivosb ( Blue&White Team - Israel Hackers )   Found Venerability in  Iran Ministry of Foreign Affairs's  Website   XSS Venerability Preview :

V@N!$H3R found venerability in 5 biggest Windows IT professionals community Websites ! V@N!$H3R is an Indian Hacker, who is member of Group " Ethical Pen3trators ". There motto is ' Securing Indian Cyber Space '. They Found venerability in 5 biggest Windows IT professionals community Websites and next step will be to inform their webmaster about these bugs. 1.) Windows IT Pro - The leading independent community for IT pros Venerable Link :   http://www.windowsitpro.com/home/search.aspx?query=%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cmarquee%3E%3Cfont+color%3Dred+size%3D5%3E--You+Have+been+Hacked+by+V@N!$H3R--%3C/marquee%3E%3C/font%3E%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3E%3CIMG%20SRC=%22http://www.boncherry.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/happy-new-year-2011-odometer_design.jpg%22%3C/body%3E%3C/html%3E 2.) Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows Venerable Link :   http://www.winsupersite.com/home/search.aspx?query=%3Chtml%3E%3Cbody%3E%3Cmarquee%3E%3Cfont+color%3Dred+size%3D5%3E-...

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