BlinkBits Hacked! 981,213 at risk.
The popular BlinkBits Website has been hacked. The exploit can be viewed after registering for the site, at which time you receive aÂÂ confirmation email with the following title: “Welcome to HACKED BY TURK-SOPHİA”.ÂÂ ThisÂÂ seemsÂÂ toÂÂ beÂÂ partÂÂ ofÂÂ aÂÂ prolificÂÂ hackingÂÂ individual/organization: http://www.google.com/search?q=HACKED+BY+TURK Although I do not know the extent of the intrusion, the site claims to have nearly 1 Million “blinkers” in the online community. I have attached the raw headers from the confirmation email. ============== X-Gmail-Received: 906e9a20328403b80ee787f6dff6d3673de6ef27 Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by 10.48.221.16 with SMTP id...
Interview at Sootle
Check out my seo interview over at Sootle.
Pretend You’re From Canada
The good people from Holland.com have a tid-bit of advice for wouldbe American travelers abroad: “pretend you’re from canada”. Amazing.
Google at Catholic University
Being one of the few web marketers able to squeeze into Google’s talk at Catholic University for government web managers, I thought it would be prudent to take a few minutes to explain some of the things that came out of the event. Introduction: As part of a series of seminars and training sessions for government web masters and web managers, FirstGov was able to secure Google’s “Search Evangelist” Adam Lasnik to offer SEO tips. This was the first of its kind and, while Adam did a nice job, there were certainly a handful of “technical difficulties” that come hand and hand any time a technology professional touches a computer with Microsoft Powerpoint on it. Nevertheless, there were a few interesting tidbits to come out of the...
Google Sending Spammers to Yahoo!
Note: Be sure to read Matt Cutt’s comments below. Sure, it is quite an inflammatory title, but hey, I’m a blogger. Anyway, here is the gist. Adam Lasnik gave a speech/session yesterday at Catholic University to assist Government web managers in optimizing their sites. Adam did a great job and it is understandable why Google would want the best SEO’d content to be that created and distributed by Government agencies. Nevertheless, he did let one foible out. Google doesn’t improve the link: command because they don’t want spammy requests. That’s right. Even though it is undoubtably useful to good webmasters, they don’t want to spend time, money, or resources making this command more useful because of the millions and...
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