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- Cheat sheet: SEO
- Confused about what SEO is and what it does? Silicon.com put together this SEO cheat sheet to help you understand why it's so important. SEO--something to do with aliens and unidentified objects, right? Hmm, not quite, but crawlers do come into it. Not outer space beings, mind,...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine, Site, Bot, Marketing Research, Marketing, SEO, search, Google, bots, crawlers, Bethan Jones, Silicon.com
- News items 2008-09-16
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- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Never let a human do a malware infected host's CAPTCHA recognition job. On their way to abuse the DomainKeys verified server reputation in order increase the probability of their spam emails reaching the receipts, spammers and malware authors are once again attempting to break Microsoft's "revisited" CAPTCHA, and are able...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Spammer, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- SpyCop Cloak (exe)
- Instantly become invisible to threats like keyloggers, viruses, hackers, spyware, trojans, worms, and bots. New cutting edge technology cloaks all your passwords, credit card numbers, banking login information, and screenshots. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Credit Card, Soft Media Publishing, Banking, Sales Channel, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Financial Services, Viruses And Worms, Security, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-09-22
- Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service
- A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...
- Tags: Malware, Server, Bot, Spamming, Spamming Service, SET-X Mail System, MX, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-09-13
- Google's Top 10 Cloud Computing List
- Dontcha just love Top 10 lists? At the Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Matthew Glotzbach, who leads the Enterprise Products team at Google, offered a "Top 10 Things I Can Do in the Cloud That I Couldn't Do A Year Ago." No surprises that many of the tasks...
- Tags: Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Mobile, E-mail, Productivity, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- 1.5m spam emails sent from compromised University accounts
- With the increasingly common spamming as a service underground propositions relying on botnets, and services offering thousands of pre-registered accounts at popular email providers, it would be logical to consider that old school techniques consisting of compromising accounts and abusing them to send as many spam emails as possible in...
- Tags: Account, Spammer, Spam Email, University Of Otago, Staff Member, E-mail, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-15
- Coordinated Russia vs Georgia cyber attack in progress
- In the wake of the Russian-Georgian conflict, a week worth of speculations around Russian Internet forums have finally materialized into a coordinated cyber attack against Georgia's Internet infrastructure. The attacks have already managed to compromise several government web sites, with continuing DDoS attacks against numerous other Georgian government sites, prompting...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Alania TV, RIA Novosti, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-11
- Avira AntiVir Premium (exe)
- Avira AntiVir Premium enhances the comprehensive protection of the Avira AntiVir Personal - Free Antivirus with important security and configuration functions and protects you against viruses, worms, Trojans, ad/spyware, dialers, bots and dangerous ''drive-by'' downloads. Premium functions: - Low system resources used; - Central configuration with user-friendly standard and advanced...
- Tags: Malware, Virus, Avira, Avira AntiVir Premium, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Rootkits, Security, E-mail, Phishing, Scanners, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2008-08-04
- YouTube Account Creator (exe)
- YouTube Account Creator has its features: Lifetime Updates; This software doesn't use the WebBrowser component, so it's much faster than other bots; New - Confirm all of your accounts email confirmation with the click of a button. New - Select where you would like your accounts saved to; Create accounts...
- Tags: Software, Account, YouTube Inc., StartHere Software, YouTube Account Creator, E-mail, Tools & Techniques, Online Communications, Management
- Software downloads 2008-07-28
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Georgia President's web site under DDoS attack from Russian hackers
- From Russia with political love? It appears so according to a deeper analysis of the command and control servers used by the attackers. During the weekend, Georgia President's web site was under a distributed denial of service attack which managed to take it offline for a couple of hours. The...
- Tags: Web, Russia, Server, Web Site, Hacker, Distributed Denial Of Service, Georgia, Attack, Russian, Shadowserver, C&C, C&C Server, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter
- Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...
- Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- E-mail Link Protector (exe)
- Email Link Protector is a software to protect your email address, It can anti-spam solution that prevents spam bots from email address harvesting on your Web site. Key Features: Encode "mailto:" tag behind email address; Convert text-written email address into an image; Automatically integrate anti-spam protection into selected pages (single...
- Tags: Anti-spam, E-mail Address, Eraidea Technologies, Email Link Protector, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2008-07-16
- My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....
- Tags: Information Technology, Chief Architect, Hobby, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Strategy, Programming Languages, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- AVG changes its stance on LinkScanner
- A few days ago I wrote a story about AVG's LinkScanner causing a massive amount of additional traffic on the net in the name of protecting customers... yeah. Well, here's a quote from the original article to give some background: Apparently AVG is spamming the Internet with traffic that looks to...
- Tags: Web, Web Site, Whirlpool Corp., Search Result, Slashdot, AVG, LinkScanner, Web Site Development, Search, Channel Management, Web Technology, Internet, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dan Glass A recent blog proclaiming that Twitter could soon become a rival to PayPal made me shudder in fear. The blog author postulated that Twitter could offer a method to...
- Tags: Payment, PayPal, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Obama resisters claim campaign to silence blogs
- On the battlefield that is Blogger, a fight is raging, apparently, between pro- and anti-Obama bloggers. Some pro-Clinton, anti-Obama bloggers are reporting that, all of a sudden, their blogs are being flagged as spam – and Google bots have dutifully blocked the bloggers from updating their sites. Simon Owens reported...
- Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Blogger, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Adobe makes Flash searchable, crawlable
- It's not gadget news per se, but if you consider Adobe Flash a tool in your arsenal, this is big news. Posted on Slashdot today is news that Adobe has figured out a way to make Flash crawlable by search engines: Today Adobe systems made an...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Search Engine, Shockwave Flash, SWF Specification, Search, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Q&A with Twitter's Biz Stone
- While the Twitter stability debate is intense, I got back to basics with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about what's on the radar in terms of features, battling bots, community engagement — and why he isn't afraid of a "Twitter killer". by Jennifer Leggio
- Tags: Twitter, Team Management, Management, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
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