Archive for December, 2009

Is Facebook Wells’ Big Brother?

When Facebook made the national news a week ago through changing its privacy policy (e.g. here), it shows that the website not only has a huge exposure to the population, but also that people are genuinely worried about the data it holds on them. And we are right to be. My background before websites was [...]

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You’ve received A Hallmark E-Card! – Or Have You???

The following email arrived overnight, and it looks very realistic. Sent from ‘hallmark.com’, with graphics that outlook blocked (and probably a good job too), it contains the following message: “Hello! You have recieved a Hallmark E-Card. To see it, click here, There’s something special about that E-Card feeling. We invite you to make a friend’s [...]

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Sample PayPal Phishing Email

I’ve received a Phishing email targeted at PayPal accounts, and given that a lot of website owners use PayPal for collection of payments, it is worth while including the content here as a warning. DEAR CUSTOMER, paypal is pleased to notify our online banking customers that we have successfully upgraded to a more secure and [...]

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Links That Are Too Cheap???

I was sent an email in the week, offering a cheap link building service. Here is the bulk of the email, less the company’s information We are an expert link building firm which provides outsourcing services to a wide variety of agencies and clients globally. We offer One-way thematic/contextual link development and have generated more [...]

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We Are At It Again…

I got the nod yesterday evening that we are starting another rush job. ‘Only’ 10 pages this time, but for whatever reason, it is to be live by Monday. I’ve not been told why a builder suddenly wants to document their business on a website and why that needs to be done in 2 working [...]

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