A bit belated for a New Year’s post. But just some more updates about what is going on. First, in site news, I’ve recently gone through the site and updated broken links where I could. I also deleted some thin content in that process. Some of you know that I used to be a domainer […]
Editorial Note
I used to write for a parenting website which is now going away. They’ve graciously allowed me to republish many of my articles since they are simply shutting down. So if you starting seeing a bunch of new content, or you arrived here through redirected links, that is what is happening. I’m also going to […]
US $4.3 Billion in Credit/Debit Card Fraud?
Buried in the I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI article on Wired: The full scope of the problem is hard to judge, but nonetheless staggering. U.S. banks lost $546 million to debit card fraud in 2004, according to banking research firm Dove Consulting, and credit card fraud losses were estimated to be about $3.8 […]
Spam Gains Skills in 2006 Looks To Grow Even More in 2007
MessageLabs released their annual MessageLabs Intelligence Report which details their analysis of email threats (spam, phishing, virus) in 2006 and trends to watch in 2007. The report indicates that the annual average spam rate for 2006 was 86.2% with 80% of all spam coming from Botnets (autonomous systems) and 63.4% of all spam cam from […]
Site Focus
I was going get this blog going on all the fun things about the web; SEO/SEM, advertising, web analytics, domaining & monetization, etc. But as a contributing writer to a few different blogs, I’ve realized that the last thing I want to do is create yet another time commitment. What will follow on this site […]
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