According to V3, a new web attacks is targeting web applications written with the ColdFusion development tool. Hackers targeting two components in ColdFusion applications, the CKFinder file management tool and the FCKEditor text editing tool. Once the application is compromised, the attackers can take complete control over the targeted server. Security groups SANS advised administrators to make sure that all applications are fully updated and patched. They also advising admins to search their web servers for any forgotten or discarded ColdFusion applications which may be vulnerable to attack.

Regardless of how good your website is, if it does not have a page ranking high in the search engines, many potential visitors may never discover it. You would ideally want your website to figure on the first page of every search engine when a query related to your topic is entered. So here are a few tips which will help you design a website that is SEO friendly.

Flash Will Not Help: Crawlers cannot read flash graphics. However, they do make the website slow and annoy visitors who have to spend a few minutes waiting for the page to load.

Limit Graphics Usage: Be careful with the amount of graphics that you use and only use ones that are related to the content on your site. Spiders cannot read graphics so always provide keyword rich alt tags, not only for the web spiders but also for your visitors.

Links: Even though image links can be indexed by crawlers, your best bet would still be text links since the crawlers tend to follow them more than the image links and you can also use the appropriate anchor text. Read more »

Skype revealed version 3.0 of its VoIP application for Windows Mobile phones. Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile work smoothly because of its carryover features such as file transferring, SMS, add to contact wizard, dial helper, emoticons support, hyperlinks support, added option to block users and option to remove Skype folder from application data.