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More than a year ago, some bad guys on the Internet wrote a piece of malware inartfully dubbed DNSChanger. About a year ago, law enforcement tracked down the bad guys behind the malware, arrested them, and took over the servers they were using to cause Internet mayhem.

... the servers are scheduled to be shut down on July 9, 2012. When that happens, nearly half a million Internet users who are still infected could lose access to the web, email, and anything else that depends on DNS.

The DNSChanger Working Group has been working to get the word...
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About a year and a half ago, I had a client whose website would get hacked every few months.  We took security step after step to protect the site built on WordPress but it kept getting hacked.  Simple passwords was one of the original problems, but it seemed that once the hackers realized the site was there, it became...

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The Presets - I go hard, I go home, Joker.Commentary:

Great little tune to speed you along through the end of your day from The Presets.  Video updated to one that will hopefully play on embed.

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Organized by Phoenix based WordPress Hosting company Page.ly, the PressNomics conference sessions are focused exclusively on the commercial economy fueled by startups and SMB's leveraging WordPress. Discussion topics will include: bootstrapping to profitability, software licensing guidelines, SaaS, interface and application design, and finance.

The open source web publishing platform WordPress supports a very successful commercial economy estimated near $1B/yr. Commercial entities of all kinds serve the market of ~72 million WordPress powered sites and blogs with custom designed themes, plugins, web hosting, and service based consulting. PressNomics is a once a year gathering of international WordPress professionals to learn,...
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PressNomics 2012 is offering early bird registrations for this WordPress Conference in Arizona organized by Page.ly.

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By Ray Donovan

 Globalicious!

World has synchronized in a compact dwelling. All the scattered continents are now interconnected through various technologies. Invention of new means of transportation has led to this phenomenal globalization. Multinational companies are the best examples of corporate globalization. Today, with the help of...

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However, events in San Francisco quickly took a sinister turn when Oracle posited an ominous theory: that Google had violated Oracle's Java copyrights by re-implementing Java APIs in Android. The question of the copyrightability of APIs is the hinge on which the first part of the trial now rests, and it provides a disturbing vision of how software development might look should Oracle prove this claim.

In a nutshell, if the jury sides with Oracle that the copyrights in the headers of every file of the Java source base apply specifically to the syntax of the APIs, then Oracle...
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This is a very very huge shot across the bow, first at Google because they have deep pockets, but consider Oracle owns MySQL the backbone that allows massively popular open source systems including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and dozens of shopping cart systems. Can open source systems survive if they continue to evolve in a...

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More than 1,000 WordPress blogs have been modified to redirect visitors to sites serving malware, affiliate and pay-per-click redirectors, and low quality PPC search result aggregators, through the WordPress' automatic update feature.

The individuals behind the attack have discovered how to add the malicious code to the update.php file, which prompts WordPress to update. This code then injects other code in the wp-settings.PHP file, and effects the redirects.

The update.php file contains the "wp_update_core" function, which is used by the WordPress Automatic Update feature, says Sinegubko.
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For years web developers and WordPress developers will told the world and their clients if you want to keep your site secure, you need to keep it updated.  The best (easiest) way to do that  is simply to run auto updates (within reason) when they come available.

The most common WordPress updates, WordPress theme updates and WordPress plugin updates are security updates.  Someone finds a weakness,...

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Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers of Kindles in the offline world, though most of the devices are sold at Amazon’s Web site.

Like other big retailers, Target has been trying to figure out how to stop Amazon shoppers from visiting Target stores to check out products, and then buy them online from Amazon. It is a practice encouraged by Amazon; over the Christmas holiday, for example, the company offered a promotion on its Price Check app that gave shoppers 5 percent off any item scanned at a store.
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More details have come out signalling loud and clear why Target is dropping Amazon’s Kindle and related items from Target stores.  Seems this brick and mortar retailer is fed up with Amazon openly touting their competitive advantage to Target’s shoppers while in Target’s stores!

The Amazon Mobile App allows shoppers to scan a product...

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The new Google Penguin update was a big change that has been very unsettling to SEO’ers, both blackhats and whitehats. It seems that everywhere you go, people who had previously considered themselves to be “professionals”, are now dumbfounded as their stable authority sites have moved from ranking in the top 5 for competitive keywords, to not ranking at all.

What Did This Update Do and How Do I Recover? (By Reading This Post. Duh!)

Microsite Masters is in a unique position; we have historical ranking data for thousands of websites. We have data on sites that are still...
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MicrositeMasters has offered up 5 good points for navigating the new Google Penguin updates. They also provide some convincing evidence for why your site may have been hammered during the latest Google update named Penguin. There are lots of good details and insights in this article, but for the average website or business with a website, I think the third...

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By Brett Bumeter curated from cnn.com
Target will soon stop selling the Amazon Kindle line of e-readers and tablets, the retailer confirmed Wednesday.

The Kindle was an apparent hit for Target: The company said last year that the just-launched Kindle Fire was Target's bestselling tablet on Black Friday.

Target would not comment on the reason for the Kindle's elimination, saying only "we typically don't discuss our relationships with vendor partners." Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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Target and Amazon have come a long way together since the days back when Target needed help running their online presence, but it would seem that something has gone significantly wrong in the  relationship for them to nuke a successful product from the shelves.  Now if this were a dog of a seller it might be a different scenario.

*Disclaimer – I bought...

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Ad-clicking Component
The Flashback ad-clicking component is loaded into Chrome, Firefox, and Safari where it can intercept all GET and POST requests from the browser. Flashback specifically targets search queries made on Google and, depending on the search query, may redirect users to another page of the attacker's choosing, where they receive revenue from the click . (Google never receives the intended ad click.)
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So a person with an infected Mac, performs a Google search in a browser, and the AdWords ads displayed on that browser when clicked take them to somewhere other than where the advertiser wanted them to go. Google seems to lose visibility to the fact that the ad was clicked, and the advertiser does not get charged. Unfortunately, the searcher/clicker ends up going somewhere unexpected, possibly dangerous.

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