I graciously received permission from Willie Crawford (be sure to check out his blog) to share the following with you. Willie posted it in the forum at his private membership site The Internet Marketing Inner Circle. I’m also a member and forum moderator at the site, and we have a good group of great people [...]
The same rules that apply to regular web surfing and email, i.e. don’t open strange attachments, don’t go to strange sites, don’t click on unexpected links — also apply to the social networking sites you use.
I came across an article (link here) about malware that is spreading via Facebook and MySpace. Nothing new here. I’ve [...]
I came across an article on The Register about an individual in California who was sent to prison for over 5 years for hacking into his former employer’s network and destroying data. Now there’s nothing wrong with the sentence and fine; the guy did wrong and deserves to be punished.
But there’s one VERY important question [...]
For years, AVG Anti-Virus has been the choice of many home computer users because of one simple factor: it’s free for personal use. Based on that, their user base has grown to about 70 million users, mostly due to word of mouth advertising and marketing. It’s been a brilliant marketing strategy and they’ve gotten TONS [...]
I came across this post where somebody wanting to do good apparently did it the wrong way. They wanted to raise some money for a children’s cancer charity — Candlelighters — but were doing so in the form of an auction that featured artists’ reproductions of DC Comics characters.
Apparently Warner Brothers is the owner of [...]
There’s a series of website attacks going on right now that take advantage of a number of vulnerabilities. I just read on the Prevx Security Blog (one of my daily stops) about an often overlooked, yet easily exploited security vulnerability that sadly exists on many websites.
777. Yes, wide open permissions! World-wide read, write, and execute [...]
Don’t want to upgrade your WordPress blog to the latest version? Why not? I can only think of a couple of reasons:
1. You have plugins or custom coding that won’t work under the new version (or you simply THINK that some of your plugins or custom coding won’t work with the new version).
2. Upgrading your [...]
It’s not too often that I’ll promote a live event because most of them turn out to be nothing but “pitch fests”. I’m making an exception today.
Now don’t get me wrong; almost any live event that you attend that relates to Internet marketing and Internet business will have some type of product for sale. In [...]
Twice today I’ve received spam emails (obvious phishing attempts). They look like the standard Nigerian 419 scam attempts — but with an interesting twist.
In the first one, the person writing was claiming that a Scott G.Brownsword of the 2nd Battalion,505th Parachute lnfantry (sic) Regiment,3rd Brigade combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Ft Bragg NC had [...]
This is a test post. I apologize for the inconvenience.
–Tom