Large Scale Web Attack Compromises 1000′s Of Websites

June 12, 2010

On June 7, Cisco Systems’ Web-tracking subsidiary, ScanSafe started tracking the affects of a new web attack that has been described as the “worst since a large number of WordPress-based sites were hacked in April,” by Andre DeMino, a co-founder of the Shadowserver malware-tracking group. Some sites are totally compromised while others only have small [...]

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Online product reviews can cost you $11,000

October 6, 2009

If times weren’t hard enough American FTC have decided that in some cases it’s wrong to review products and to implement a fine of upto $11,000. Until now online promotions via blogs were not covered by any guidelines and this worried some consumer groups. The issue being that the links between the products being reviewed [...]

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One year on and £48K each later …

September 15, 2009

Today is the first anniversary of the collapse of Lehman which as we now all know was the catalyst for the world wide recession we have all had to endure.  Vast sums of money have been pumped in to support and bail out financial institutions and other big businesses which has supposedly made the effects [...]

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Something doesn’t add up with this world financial resuce plan.

October 9, 2008

According to Wikipedia the world population is approximately 6.8 billion people. According to the BBC financial bail out figures,  in the US and UK the cost of the bail out is $1,575 Billion ($700 Bn in the US and £500 Bn in the UK)  These figures do not include other countries. Said quickly, we know [...]

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