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Man Convicted In Estonia Cyber Attack
By Mike Sachoff - Thu, 01/24/2008 - 5:48pm.
An Estonian court has fined a man tied to hacking official Web sites during last year's riots over the moving of a Soviet war memorial.The court of Harju district, whose jurisdiction includes the capital Tallinn, said it had fined the 20-year-old 17,500 kroons ($1,635) for bringing down the server Web site of the ruling- coalition- leading Reform Party.
Google Hacking Not Fun For You
By David A. Utter - Fri, 01/11/2008 - 1:57pm.
Securing one's server is a waste of time if someone leaves a spreadsheet full of usernames and passwords where it can be found with a public search.
Scoble Shenanigans Shuttered By Facebook
By David A. Utter - Thu, 01/03/2008 - 7:59am.
Notable blogger Robert Scoble pushed the Facebook envelope a little too hard with an automated script and ended up with a disabled account.
CNBC Dismisses Complaints Over Online Poll
By David A. Utter - Fri, 10/12/2007 - 11:12am.
Ron Paul fared a little too well in a post-Republican debate poll run by CNBC, prompting the news site's managing editor to believe astroturfing had taken place, forcing them to take down the poll.
SES San Jose Opens Today
By David A. Utter - Mon, 08/20/2007 - 7:17am.
Four days of the search industry's biggest gathering starts in San Jose, where attendees can learn the finer points about marketing effectively and ranking well with the drivers of search-related traffic.
Google Search Results: Your SERPs At Risk
By David A. Utter - Thu, 08/16/2007 - 5:22pm.
Third parties could hack someone's place in Google's SERPs right out of the index with some malicious proxy work.
Homophobic Hackers Hit Gay Gaming Site
By Jason Lee Miller - Mon, 08/06/2007 - 12:35pm.
GayGamers.net isn't so gay lately. (Look, if you want me to avoid the gratuitous puns, you're going to be severely disappointed.) The site was hate-hacked over the weekend.
Blog Influence Grows
By Mike Moran - Thu, 03/08/2007 - 11:30pm.
Not every company believes they should be writing blogs, but that doesn’t mean they don’t find blogs important. Just listen to Steve Swasey, Director of Corporate Communications for Internet video renter Netflix: “We don’t have a Netflix blog by design—our philosophy is to let our customers speak.”
RIAA: Fair Use Bill = Legalized Hacking
By Joe Lewis - Thu, 03/01/2007 - 3:24pm.
Earlier this week, U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher and John Doolittle introduced the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (FAIR USE Act) for consideration in Congress. Mere days after its initial announcement, the bill is already being targeted for suppression by control-hungry content organizations.
Google's Staunch Opposition to Hacking
By Joe Lewis - Mon, 12/04/2006 - 5:11pm.
Matt Cutts has posted a detailed synopsis of the reinclusion process for sites that have been removed from Google's index under suspicion of spammy link content. He documents the misfortune of talkorigins.org and its owner, who was none to happy about being removed from Google user queries.
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