Risky Business: Big W infecting photo printing customers?
“On its own, an isolated incident of a photo kiosk infecting a USB device might not be newsworthy. But what makes this item stick out is Big W’s reply to Morgan after he notified the company of the issue….”
Seth's Blog: The non-optimized life
“…a never-ending cycle of optimization can become a crutch, a place to hide when you really should be confronting the endless unknown, not the banal stair step of incremental optimization.”
DarkReading: Six Messy Database Breaches So Far In 2010
“The list of disturbing database breaches so far this year mostly could have been avoided. The affected organizations had to learn the hard way, through public embarrassment and expensive incident response procedures. But the missteps that led to them provide a cautionary tale for other organizations.”
The Tech Herald: Email becoming a booming Malware delivery method
“Several security vendors have singled out a major theme during the second quarter and first half of 2010, and from the looks of things, criminals are starting to focus more on delivery and less on diversity.”
The Next Web: Apple’s app store, filled with “App farms” being used to steal. [Examples]
“…clearly when one developer completely dominates the ranking in a particular category, other app developers suffer but when it happens by means of hacking end users accounts – it’s a serious concern that leaves everyone involved suffering. Developers don’t get the recognition they deserve, users are robbed and left with a poor user experience, while Apple is left with a tarnished brand and a lot of explaining to do.”
Feeding Pirates: When Legit Companies Advertise On Shady Sites : NPR
“The ads were not limited to cheesy online gaming sites, etc. Rather they include a number of legit companies like Sony, Radio Shack, Porsche, AT&T, Chase, Auto-Zone and even Netflix.”
New York Times: Services Monitor Children’s Activities Online
“…it comes as no surprise that, after years of headlines and horror stories about predators, cyberbullies and other dangers to children online, a crop of subscription services has emerged to help parents monitor their child’s activities on social networks. …The services gather data that can be freely collected with a bit of ardent Web searching.”
Alex Bogusky: The first Cannes Lion for not advertising at all
“Advertising to adults is not without controversy. And although I’m concerned about consuming for consumption’s sake, I am able to see the role advertising plays in moving our economy forward and the benefit to society that can be created. However, when it comes to advertising to children, it’s much more difficult to find any redeeming value created by the activity. In fact, to the contrary, it is easy to see how destructive the process is to most of us.”
CCFC puts this article in context.
Word to the Wise: ESPs, Non-portable Reputation and Vendor Lock-in
“Portable reputation is reputation that is tied to you, and mostly independent of your ESP. You can build up a history of sending email that people want to receive through one ESP, then you can move to a different ESP and take all that good history with you, keeping all the delivery advantages. (Or use multiple ESPs for different campaigns and send some mail from in-house and pool your good reputation across all those sources of mail.)”
Jart Armin in Internet Evolution: DotXXX Is Irrelevant to the Future of the Internet
‘However, the bigger issue is technological, as any Internet user can see. For example, how many users now type in http://……… or “www…” on their Web browsers? Many users simply type in, say, “Internet Evolution,” and the browser and/or the search engine does the rest from the user’s browser history or favorites. This will undoubtedly become even more sophisticated and essentially negates whether it’s a .com, .org, .travel, or .XXX anyway.’
MediaPost: ClearSight Launches Targeting Platform Tying IP Addresses To Offline Data
“The start-up ClearSight Interactive on Monday launched a new behavioral targeting platform that is already raising eyebrows of privacy advocates. …ClearSight obtains users’ IP addresses from publishers, who themselves gather it from users when they register. Some of those IP addresses change regularly, or are from work addresses or public places, but others persist and can be tied to users’ homes, ClearSight CEO Tom Alison says.”
Lauren Price in CircleID: DNSSEC Deployment Among ISPs: The Why, How, and What
“It’s no secret that Comcast has been leading the charge of DNSSEC deployment among ISPs. For the past couple years, Comcast has been testing and pushing for the widespread adoption of DNSSEC. In the spirit of increasing adoption, I thought I would interview the DNS gurus at Comcast to see what they’ve learned and what advice they would give other ISPs considering DNSSEC deployment.”
Wired: You Don’t Want ISPs to Innovate
‘Free-market groups and the industry are banging the table, arguing against the consequences — saying that the FCC is trying to regulate the internet and will kill innovation.
Here’s the simple truth: You don’t want your ISP to innovate.
At least not in the way, they want to “innovate.”’
threatpost: Scareware, Black Hat SEO and You
“The scareware and rogue AV problem that initially appeared a few years ago and has since found its way onto thousands and thousands of legitimate Web sites, including The New York Times home page, has now reached epidemic levels. The scams are mostly boilerplate and well-understood, but it’s not often that we get to take a peek behind the curtain and see the inner workings of the schemes. Here’s just such a chance.”
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