New Facebook Phishing Scheme Be advised: watch your email inbox for this hoax! A new email is going around informing unsuspecting individuals that their Facebook account has been blocked or locked out. It requests the recipient to click a link in order to “reactivate” the blocked account, and “Subsequently you will be able to take [...]
Latest Phishing Scam: Fake Linkedin Invitations Our clients have been recieving emails inviting them to link with high profile individuals… only problem? It’s a phishing scam! Boy am I glad this client asked me first, instead of clicking on the links! Take a look at this email: As you can see, this email looks [...]
Google Admits to Serving Random Search Results…Especially When you’re Paying Attention Ever get the feeling that the search results you’re getting are changing every time you click the ‘search’ button even while using the same query? We know you’ve had that ‘WTF is going on’ thought when you’re trying to show a client or employer [...]
This is why keyword research takes a lot of work to do well. Good SEO begins with good keyword research. After all, if you don’t know the ways people are seeking your content, it’s pretty hard to ensure that your content “speaks” to them using the words they search for. The folks at Promodo created [...]
Convincing spam is the new normal It looks like an email from PayPal, but a closer look reveals it’s a fraud! Who did it really come from? Where does it really lead? What is this emails real purpose? Check out the version I received, and let me explain what this email shows me. This [...]
Major LinkedIn Password Breach! 6.5 million accounts compromised – be careful of phishing attempts… In a blog post, LinkedIn says that it will email all the users whose accounts were affected by the hack and give them instructions as to what to do next. The company warns that you should not click on [...]
As you might know, HTML5 introduced many exciting features for Web developers. One of the features is the ability to specify gradients using pure CSS3, without having to create any images and use them as repeating backgrounds for gradient effects. Important: You’ll need a recent version of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera or IE to use [...]
Internet search results have surpassed e-mail as the main way cybercriminals attempt to victimize Internet users. That’s the upshot of an analysis of Web traffic from more than 75 million users on home and corporate networks conducted by Blue Coat Security Lab. Researchers found criminals are poisoning the search results consumers receive when searching on [...]
Facebook has introduced a major revamp for business pages that gives you more control over the look and feel of your company’s page. The new page layout helps you interact more easily with your Facebook fans, enabling enhanced graphics, the capability to feature posts, and private messages with fans. If all this information sounds foreign, [...]
Latest scam to steal your money There are several versions of this scam. Some are automated calls that leave a callback number; some talk with the victim. One version of the SCAM works like this. The victim receives a recorded message from a credit card or bank. The message indicates that the credit card or [...]
Something big happened in the worlds of social media and search this month. After much speculation about search engines factoring social media influence into website rankings, we got hold of a big interview with Bing and Google to find out that indeed, social media IS affecting search rankings. BIG STUFF! What I mean is, if [...]
Google Wants The Best of the Best ONLY Now The old approach for ranking well on Google was to create lots of content to dominate a particular space or niche. That game is now obsolete. As both search and the web mature, Google must now work more rigorously to consume greater quantities of data [...]
Just because I like to keep my clients and associates up to speed on whatever I happen to be looking at, learning about, or working with when it happens to be interesting and not beyond technical in nature, here’s a cool new one to check out: Cool Ap for your phone and iPad… check out: [...]
This is a clever one I just received, that really gives me a good example to show you what I mean when I talk about these email scams and how they work. Below is the text copy of the email I just received. I have deactivated the links because I don’t want anyone to misinterpret [...]
Visa / MasterCard FRAUD This is a really clever scam; I probably would have fallen for it. Read carefully and pass it on. This one is pretty slick since they provide YOU with all the information, except the one piece they want… All they want is the pin on the back of your card [...]