Monday, April 27, 2009

Budget Not Likely To Aid Confident First-Home Buyers

The much-elated first-home buyers in Australia are to turn disappointed with the halt plans of their Prime Minister. The boost aided by the Government for the first homebuyers, is likely to end up by June 30th.

With the announcement made by the Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, that all good things will “come to an end,” analysts already estimated that this would be the end of the boost of the housing industry.

When we look at the conditions of the housing sector all over the world, it is bad and gloomy in many places compared with the situation in Australia. The governments of the alleged nations have no opportunity to boost the sector from at least the losses. In addition, it surprises me that the Australian government is readily confining its opportunity for a little period.

The $10.4 billion stimulus package of Australian government was a big hit with the first-home buyers who wanted to escape the rental-cycle.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Social Networks – The Highly Profiled Attack Surfaces

Assume that you have logged into a social network site from your PC casually and enjoying it. You get a luring message, which you can’t help yourselves from clicking on. That’s the end of your good working PC. Some virus enters your system and turns your computer into a zombie, sending all your crucial information to some hacker a hundreds of miles far away.

Hackers have found social networking sites as a great attack places to hack a good number of PCs on the network. Many people on these sites have no good knowledge of tricks played by hackers. This makes them more vulnerable towards falling prey towards different viruses on the internet.

Social networking sites are designed with a concept of getting as many users as possible. These kinds of sites always have more security flaws compared to other normal sites, thus making it easier for hackers to target.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Italy’s Earthquake Leaves People In Distress

The terrible earthquake which hit Italy in the morning of April 6th left many people in distress. The death toll according to sources was 27 and it is likely to increase later.

The earthquake, with a potential of 6.3 in magnitude, hit the central Italy at around 3.30 a.m. (8:30 p.m. ET). The US geological survey had found the epicenter to be at 60 miles away from Rome in the mountainous Abruzzo region - 6.2 miles beneath the ground.

Since, there are many buildings in Italy, which are very old – some even of centuries age – the damage is likely to be big. Some say that the quake must have damaged around 10,000 and 15,000 buildings. These buildings include churches, government offices, historic monuments and obviously a big number of residential houses. Thus, many people have lost their homes to the earthquake, which they lived in a few moments ago.