Cloud Forensics: Challenges Only Ahead

1.   Cloud Computing is emerging amongst all the bombilate words of acclivitous technologies as the most prodigious maturations in the chronicles of computing. As it still takes time to settle, a new egressing challenge as felt whilst its implementation across has been a relatively more newfangled field known as Cloud Forensics. Today as Cloud still needs time to mature and offer its full exploitation, the even newer subfield Cloud Forensics is a carking cause to negate immediate acceptance of cloud computing with open arms. The research in this field is still in parturient stages to say from perspective of the way cases and incidents are being handled on ground today. 

2.   My paper got published in "Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management".The "Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management" (CTIJTM) was launched in 2007 by "Cyber Times - PRESS" in order to promote Latest Research and innovations in the Area of Technology & Management.The"Cyber Times International Journal of Technology & Management" (CTIJTM) is Bi-Annual, Double Blind Peer Reviewed, International Journal with International Serial Standard Number which is available in print and online versions. It provides the new paradigms in the embryonic fields of Technology, Management, Science, Electronics, Law, Economy etc. and visualizes the future developments in the respective areas. It is meant to publish High Quality Research Papers with innovative ideas, inventions, and rigorous research which will ultimately interest to research scholars, academicians, industry professionals, etc.The paper is available at the following links :

http://journal.cybertimes.in/?q=Vol8_A_P1_01

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   Cloud Forensics: Challenges Only Ahead

"LIKE" Button in Facebook : Tracks u!!!

1.   Internet users tap Facebook Inc.'s "Like" and Twitter Inc.'s "Tweet" buttons to share content with friends. But these tools also let their makers collect data about the websites people are visiting.

2.   These so-called social widgets, which appear atop stories on news sites or alongside products on retail sites, notify Facebook and Twitter that a person visited those sites even when users don't click on the buttons, according to a study done for The Wall Street Journal.Few things about these widgets :

- Prolific widgets

- Already added to millions of web pages in the past year. 

- The widgets, which were created to make it easy to share content with friends and to help websites attract visitors, are a potentially powerful way to track Internet users. 

- They could link users browsing habits to their social-networking profile.

- For example, Facebook or Twitter know when one of their members reads an article about filing for bankruptcy on MSNBC.com or goes to a blog about depression called Fighting the Darkness, even if the user doesn't click the "Like" or "Tweet" buttons on those sites.

- A person only needs to log into Facebook or Twitter once in the past month. The sites will continue to collect browsing data, even if the person closes their browser or turns off their computers, until that person explicitly logs out of their Facebook or Twitter accounts.

- Facebook places a cookie on the computer of anyone who visits the Facebook.com home page, even if the user isn't a member. 

3.   Thanks http://online.wsj.com