Google has been facing antitrust scrutiny from European officials. Justin Sullivan, Getty Images The United States doesn’t seem to like the European Parliament’s proposed breakup of Google. The US Mission to the European Union responded to news of a draft proposal by the European Parliament calling for an “unbundling” of Google’s businesses with a disapproving...Read More
A Finnish IT company has uncovered a bug in WordPress 3 sites that could be used to launch a wide variety of malicious script-based attacks on site visitors’ browsers. Based on current WordPress usage statistics, the vulnerability could affect up to 86 percent of existing WordPress-powered sites. The vulnerability, discovered by Jouko Pynnonen of Klikki...Read More
Anyone managing an SEO program, either in-house or for a client, knows there are a multitude of challenges. In fact, at SMX East back in October, Mark Munroe gave us this hilarious quote applying Murphy’s Law to SEO: When it comes to SEO anything that can break, does break @markemunroe #smx — Casie Gillette (@Casieg) October...Read More
24 November 2014 Last updated at 02:10 The case of a UK businessman who wants Google to stop malicious web postings about him appearing in its search results is set to begin. Daniel Hegglin says he has been wrongly called a murderer, a paedophile and a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser during a malicious online campaign...Read More
Remote control for virtualized desktops An estimated 86 per cent of WordPress websites harbour a dangerous cross-site scripting (XSS) hole in the popular comment system plugin, in what researcher Jouk Pynnonen calls the most serious flaw in five years. The bug could provide a pathway for attacking visitors’ machines. The WP-Statistics plugin lets attackers inject...Read More
So, you’ve done your due diligence when it comes to your website. You are on board with the Inbound Marketing philosophy, you recognize the value of your Internet presence and you totally get why high search engine rankings are valuable Internet real estate. You’ve committed to optimizing your website for search engines. But what can...Read More
(Reuters) – The European Parliament is preparing a non-binding resolution that proposes splitting Google Inc’s (GOOGL.O) search engine operations in Europe from the rest of its business as one possible option to rein in the Internet company’s dominance in the search market. European politicians have grown increasingly concerned about Google’s and other American companies’ command...Read More
The content management and blogging system automatically updates users for cross-site scripting, request forgery and password-reset-attack protection. Millions of open-source WordPress site owners received email notifications over the last 24 hours advising them of a site update. The new WordPress 4.0.1 update provides multiple security fixes and data-hardening improvements to help secure WordPress sites. The...Read More
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the most powerful digital marketing tools available to restaurant marketers today. It has the ability to dramatically increase website traffic, brand awareness, and sales. Unfortunately, restaurant marketers today have to navigate an industry filled with misunderstandings and myths, which make it difficult to separate fact from fiction. Marketers...Read More
AÂ Google data center in Mayes County, Okla. (AP Photo/Google, Connie Zhou) According to Google, I am a woman between the ages of 25 and 34 who speaks English as her primary language and has accumulated an unwieldy 74,486 e-mails in her life. I like cooking, dictionaries and Washington, D.C. I own a Mac computer that...Read More
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