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Crowd-sourcing mischief on Google Maps leads customers astray

07

Sep

2011

As if we weren’t already a drifting, confused mob of smartphone-jabbing zombies already, Google has presented a new way to baffle business customers. As the New York Times recently reported and a bunch of “No, we are not closed” businesses subsequently protested, Google’s Yellow Pages-ish Google Places turns out to be dismayingly easy to lie […]

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Are you monitoring your business’s Google Place?

06

Sep

2011

Running a small business can be a difficult job (particularly in today’s economic climate). Competition can be very cut-throat… and dirty tricks are sometimes played by the unethical. For example: In 2003, Saad Echouafni, owner of Orbit Communications (a satellite television reseller), paid for an Ohio botmaster (Richard Roby) to DDoS the websites of two […]

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WikiLeaks exposes thousands of sources in written-password SNAFU

03

Sep

2011

The cone of silence over WikiLeaks’ thousands of sources – many of whose lives are at risk if identified – has been shattered, all thanks to the most mundane, all-too-human security screwup imaginable. To wit: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange wrote down the password on a piece of paper, and then forgot to change it later. […]

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