Sunday, February 9, 2014

Tools for Creating an Optimized Mobile Website

If you feel like you're behind the eight ball, there's hope. Here are some great solutions to help you quickly and cost-effectively develop a mobile version of your site.

MobDis
MobDis is a service that lets you build websites with a mobile-first approach. Rather than starting from a template or from an experience that originated from your desktop website, the application makes creating a mobile site feel like you are editing a Word or Illustrator document, starting from a plain white page.

Once you've created your mobile site, MobDis gives you every possible option on how to display it. You can host it with MobDis on your own domain or on a sub domain on their website. You can also export your mobile site and move it to your own hosting environment. You can even publish it as an app and submit it to the Apple or Android app stores. Cost is $28 per month.

DudaMobile
DudaMobile gives you two options for creating your mobile site, both of which are super simple. If you're looking for a jump-start on your mobile design, DudaMobile can scan your site and pull content, images, and other information into a template that you can then customize or edit to best fit your goals. Once the content has been converted you can use their drag-and-drop editor to remove site elements that might not be necessary and move around page elements to make an optimal experience for mobile visitors.

On the other hand, if you want to take a more thoughtful, ground-up approach, choose one of DudaMobile's templates and build your mobile site from there. Their advanced site editor allows you to configure template settings, navigation, HTML, CSS, and more. But even users without tech skills can easily make edits with their simple drag-and-drop tool. Cost is just $9 per month.

goMobi
GoMobi gives you a selection of 40 site templates to get you started each of them totally customizable. Create your own menu, build forms, add and optimize video, and display reviews, all with simple click and go integration. And unlike many of its competitors, goMobi also supports e-commerce sites, allowing visitors to purchase directly from your mobile site.

The team at goMobi really seems to understand mobile interactions, and have integrated a ton of features that go way beyond click-to-call and basic mapping functions. You can create special offers, let people leave you a message or request a call back, and translate your site into their language with a single click. GoMobi is available through hosting partners and other Internet service providers.

Landr
Landr is specifically designed to help marketers capture more leads from mobile devices by creating mobile landing pages. That's right: landing pages. It seems to be the only tool available that allows you to build single pages that are focused on getting the conversion. It's built to simplify the mobile experience out of the box so visitors see exactly what they are looking for and nothing more. Landr's "less is more" strategy is a particularly good option for marketers who need the flexibility of creating campaign landing pages without the involvement of IT. You can even run A/B tests with multiple Landr pages. Cost is $12 per month.

MoFuse
MoFuse is another monthly subscription tool that allows you to easily build and host your mobile site. But one option that distinguishes it from the others is that you can hire their team to completely build your mobile site for you. Custom features include a range of design tools, m-commerce functionality, mobile analytics, mobile advertising, GPS-guided store locator, and more. If you are looking for mobile marketing services in addition to a site build, you'll like MoFuse's SMS text marketing package and its search and SEO support.

SproutMobi
Few people would dispute the fact that building a successful mobile site is not just about the tools. You have to have the right strategy, and that's where SproutMobi really shines. For $99 you'll get a dedicated developer/consultant who will help you develop your strategy, identify the right features and functionality for your audience, and build up to 10 customized pages for you. They'll even set up the code to reroute mobile traffic to your mobile-friendly site. Once they build your site, you'll be charged $10 per month for unlimited hosting, support, and access to make your own edits via their content management system.

YoMobi
While many of the tools and services listed here offer free trials, YoMobi takes that a step further with a free standard plan that includes hosting, unlimited pages, and all the bells and whistles. The only catch: your site will display a discrete mobile ad. But for those on a really tight (as in nonexistent) budget, this just might be the best way to get your dedicated mobile site up and running. Have a little money? Spend $6 per month on a custom plan and you get all the YoMobi features without the pesky ads. This plan also allows you more customization options as well as a custom m.domain name. Both plans come with free SMS and email blast capability, click-to-call, and GPS-guided location finder.

Hacking of Social Media Accounts

Desktop Phishing
Desktop Phishing is more advanced method form of phishing attack. In a simple Phishing Attack, attacker convinces the victim to click on a link which contains a fake login page, the victim then enters his credentials such as user names and password in the fake login page that goes to the attacker etc...

In Desktop Phishing, attacker just replaces some text in the hosts file which is located in Windows directory of our victims computer. The attacker does this by sending a executable or a batch file and convinces the victim to click it, Now whenever the victim visits the real website like paypal.com He is redirected to the attackers phishing page But the domain name (paypal.com) remains the same as typed by the victim and the victim doesn't come to know that it is a fake page, thus this type of phishing attack has very good success rate.

Tab-Napping
Tab Napping is quite new hacking trick through which you can't directly hack accounts. But if you use phishing methods combined with tab napping, then you can hack accounts. Actually Tab-Napping is a script which you put into a site/blog and when the user visits your website/blog and reads your articles, plays games or watches videos, then the user goes to other tab in browser which contain other websites like YouTube, Google etc. and comes back to your website then your website will be redirected him to the phishing page and telling them to login with Facebook/Gmail/yahoo account to continue. When the user enters his login information he will be back to your page and user password will be send to you.

Website Cloning
To this method we will need Backtrack 5 platform. In this method we will clone the login page of a website using Backtrack abilities and stealing the user's logins.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Dangerous Smartphone Mistakes

There are two types of dangerous smartphone behavior that stand out, carrying an iPhone into a hot tub with a beer in your hand is one type, while the other is leaving a smartphone and the data on it unprotected from loss or theft.

Despite advances in software and hardware many iPhone and Android owners don’t take the simplest steps to protect the data on their smartphone from theft.

Read on to find out if you are guilty of these 10 dangerous smartphone mistakes and how you can fix them.

Protect Your Bubble is one of the top smartphone insurance options we found last year and they’ve rounded up data on dangerous smartphone behavior. The list below and the infographic shows the Top 10 dangerous smartphone mistakes users make.
  1. No password
  2. Saving banking login information
  3. Taking, sending and saving nude photos
  4. Clicking on risky links
  5. Posting photos while on vacation
  6. Posting photos with location settings turned on.
  7. Giving out personal information to random callers
  8. Using it without a case
  9. Connecting to unsecure WiFi networks
  10. No smartphone insurance or warranty
It’s not surprising that a smartphone insurance company lists this as one of the options, but these are all valid items that users should be aware of and take steps to be safe. Check out the infographic to see more about the behaviors and read on to learn how to use your smartphone safer.