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How to Prevent Special Type of “Hacking”: Hijacking Affiliate Commission

Online World Security — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:26:01 +0000

Affiliate hijacking, involves intercepting and stripping off affiliate marketer's affiliate id, inserting attacker's own affiliate id, and placing his/her own cookie in a computer, in hope to get credited for the sale. ... In reality, TOS of the majority of affiliate programs forbid buying through your own link. Affiliate programs are well aware of this practice, so if they see that the purchase is made from the same ip or using the same name/email address, or some other parameters raise the red flag, affiliate commission is annulled. When affiliate id is stripped, affiliate marketer is not credited for the sale. to affiliate marketers, it costs tens of millions of dollars in lost commissions each and every year. If you're an affiliate marketer, today I'll show you the tool that will stop the theft of your affiliate comissions: Phantom Affiliate Protection

RoboForm: Are You Sure Your Passwords are Not Stolen?

Online World Security — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:37:26 +0000

...Average internet user has hundreds if not thousands of different logins. Since trying to remember all those passwords is impossible, such user just write them down in an ordinary notepad or word file, and save them on her/his computer as-is, without any protection whatsoever. ... Can you honestly tell me that you know the exact permissions and protocols required by each program installed on your computer? Are you sure that you know the number of processes required by each program, correlated PIDs and port numbers used by this program both for incoming and outgoing connections, as well as ip range? ... if you now keep all your passwords on your comp, I highly recommend you to go right now and purchase RoboForm.

Twitter Hacking Goes to the Next Level…

Online World Security — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:08:56 +0000

... this “twitter login page” was nothing more than just a page mirroring actual twitter login page, and its whole purpose was to gather the usernames/passwords provided by unsuspicious twitter users… Then perpetrators used those accounts to twit the same url (and other malicious links containing trojans and viruses) to other twitters.

How to Protect Your Computer and Smart Phone from Physical Data Theft and Your Business from Total Crash

Online World Security — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:33:31 +0000

Today I’ll share with you a great resource. It will help you not only to create automatic backups (just set up the system once, and it will automatically backup your data in two different datacenters). It also will allow you to recover your stolen item. You can also lock down your device before it’s retrieved. This way it will be much more difficult to steal your data. Or you can wipe out the data remotely from the device if you choose to do so. It’s very inexpensive, plus they offer 1 Gb of backup for free. So go get your Smartphone and Laptop Protection now.

Black Hat SEO + Hackers = The End of Google Relevance?

Online World Security — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:30:36 +0000

SEO specialists from Poland identified one of the factors which are currently heavily used by Google to define relevancy of the search results. I’m talking about the velocity. In lame terms velocity is nothing more than the “freshness” of the particular post and links. The more recent the post is, the bigger its weight. Sure, there are many other factors that are taken into consideration as well – such as the number of incoming links, domain age, etc. I’m talking about velocity here, because that’s what allowed seo pros to exploit Google algorithm and, along with artificially generated incoming links, get millions of pages ranked for the keywords of their choice.

Online Safety Education For Kids Should be The Highest Priority

Online World Security — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:16:48 +0000

Children don’t have any substantial experience yet in dealing with real life situations. Hence it’s our responsibility as adults to make sure kids know about possible traps that they can encounter online.

Meet the Most Dangerous Drug of the 21st Century

Online World Security — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:58:37 +0000

Paradox, but its danger lies in its extreme usefulness and self-sufficiency. Internet resembles the snake biting its own tail. In a small dosage it’s very helpful - you can get virtually anything on the Internet - from information on any subject to any product.

Identity Theft Prevention, Junk Credit Card Mail Lists and Credit Freezing

Online World Security — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:55:16 +0000

The worst thing is when fraudsters gather enough information about the victim to be able to apply for new credit cards on this person's name, and provide different mailing address. So it could be a long period until the victim realizes that he has many more open credit cards that he actually applied for. Quite often it's happens when person tries to apply for a loan, and bank declines his request, states that victim's credit score is way below the acceptable minimum and shows him and outstanding balances for all the credit cards he "used".

Website Security, job seekers and ransomware as a new form of web hacking

Online World Security — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:03:58 +0000

After collecting approximately 1.6 million records of job applicants, attackers crafted very well written personalized emails to those applicants and tricked victims to open those emails. When email was open, a Trojan was installed on the victim’s machine. Financial information was stolen or files were encrypted and ransom demanded to “free up” the files.

Privacy invasion and security measures: the borderline to preserve the dignity of human beings…

Online World Security — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:07:57 +0000

Do you still have illusion of privacy? May be you think something like this, “I might be scanned, but at least my thoughts remain private”? Don’t kid yourself. Look at government wiretapping that is often done without a warrant. Can it really help to find potential terrorists or it’s just a great substantiation for the eavesdropping on all your calls? May be both, but my guess is that terrorist are capable to encrypt their calls much more effectively than average citizen who has no idea about wiretapping and eavesdropping.