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Bing’s Search Results Include Five Times As Much Malware as Google

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Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test.

The study concluded that while all the search engines the lab evaluated delivered malware, Google delivered the least. It was followed by Bing, which returned five times as many malware sites than Google. Yandex, the Russian website, delivered 10 times as many malicious sites.

To move their malware-ridden spawn to the top of Google’s search results, the bad guys are using tried and true search engine optimization tactics—the very same used by corporations and bloggers.  According to AV-Test, the attackers use a very simple trick, “they first create a multitude of small websites and blogs before selecting the most frequently used search terms from top news stories and using backlinks to optimise these terms for search engines.”

The study went on to say that users “are the least suspicious” when they see a search result attached to a hot news story. More troublingly, AV-Test reports that sites with Trojans or other malware are returned as “top” results.

Keeping Kids Safe Online – T-Mobile Customers

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Web Guard is an optional feature that, when activated, blocks access to certain Web sites for safer browsing.

Message blocking (text, picture, IM, and e-mail) is available free for T-Mobile customers.

Message Blocking is a service that allows you to block messages to and from your phone, helping you avoid unwanted messages. Best of all, T-Mobile provides this service to you at no charge!

  • With Message Blocking, you can block incoming and outgoing text messages (SMS), picture messages (MMS), Instant Messages (IM), and email.
  • Blocking incoming and outgoing Instant Messages and email applies to phones which use text messaging to send/receive these messages.
  • If you want to be able to send or receive messages, Message Blocking is not the right service for you.
  • Messaging Blocking is intended to block messages in general, not to prevent overage charges. Message Blocking is not currently available for Prepaid accounts.

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Amazon Cloud Outage Finally Explained

Turns out major web sites were knocked off-the-air by an upgrade Amazon was performing to its EC2/EBS service. Last Thursday’s outage caused sites including Foursquare, Reddit and Quora to go offline, some for days.  Thousands of smaller web sites were off-line for much longer.

A statement on Amazon’s website said: “We know how critical our services are to our customers’ businesses and we will do everything we can to learn from this event and use it to drive improvement across our services.”

Amazon promised to “spend many hours over the coming days and weeks improving our understanding of the details of the various parts of this event and determining how to make changes to improve our services and processes”.

Amazon has released a technical explanation of the problem and their current fixes that are in place.

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First Robotics Competition Videos

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We finally found the site where they’ve been hiding the videos that were taken at the FIRST competition.  Visit the Blue Alliance Web Site , where you’ll find archives of lots of games, including the Manchester, NH Regionals from February 28th at this link .

Overall, we had a great time at the event!  Thanks to all the people who visited us at the event and for your comments regarding our live broadcast.  We’re always looking for ways to improve things for next year!

If you have any comments about our coverage, send me a note via craig at craigpeterson.com and let me know what you think!

Key Tricks to Keep Your Business Productive During Vacation

Summer and Year-End are always a slow time for business and many people take off from work.  It creates more problem for small business owners since they have a small team and they primarily rely on people support to move their business ahead.  It’s a great challenge to manage a lot of things.  For them, it’s like moving ahead with a handicapped leg.

So, let’s look at some ideas that you can use to overcome these obstacles / challenges during these summer.

  • Biggest challenge is working around other people’s vacation schedules to get things done
  • Work with web designer for improvement and keep update the contents
  • Need to be very persistent and methodical in following up with people in order to keep projects moving along and meet deadlines
  • Keeping the blog alive during this summer
  • Adding a podcast features or add more podcasts on the site
  • Incorporating RSS or widget capability to your website
  • Summer is a great time for innovation due to the larger blocks of uninterrupted time!
  • You can also do some marketing activities since it will give some leads once you end the summer
  • Plan ahead for the coming months
  • Summer is a great time to network – you can talk to others about how they are incorporating new technologies
  • Summer is a great time to attend an industry trade show and see how technology advances are changing your industry
  • Summer is a good time to implement changes that affect limited number of individuals in your company (e.g. – a new electronic filing system for business cards that only an Administrative Assistant would use).
  • Hold off on implementing changes that involve training everyone in your company (e.g. – new computer system, new video e-mail software) until everyone’s back from vacation => minimizes potential confusion/disruption
  • Also, you can work on new product development

Scott Swaney
CEO
Swaney Sports Consulting

Scott Swanay – A biography

Scott Swanay
is a fully qualified statistical wizard and sports guru. He graduated from Harvard in 1987 with a degree in Applied Math & Computer Science, and worked as an actuary for the next 17 years, holding a series of positions with increasing levels of responsibility. He completed a series of ten rigorous exams to become a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) in 1998.

In 2004, Scott decided to combine his great knowledge of sports with his statistical and analytical expertise, leaving his previous field to pursue his dream full-time.  He spent the next two years developing the database that led to the creation of Fantasy Baseball Sherpa, a sports projecting web-site that stands out in the many, because Scott, the statistical expert, has figured out how to include unique elements into the player predictions.

About Swaney Sports Consulting:

Swanay Sports Consulting, located in New York, NY.  Swanay Sports Consulting’s line of business is business consulting services.

Fantasy Baseball Sherpa offers customized baseball player rankings for fantasy baseball team owners.   New Fantasy Baseball Sherpa product forecasts players’ performance for the rest of the season – it’s the first product of its kind!  He is also developing a Fantasy Football Sherpa website – will be launched later this summer.

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Tech Talk Podcast Downloads Passed the 3,000,000 Downloads Mark

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As of July 28th we passed the 3,000,000 podcast downloads mark, with 900,000 coming directly from my site!  That’s actual podcasts downloaded.  Amazing. My podcasts have become so popular that they are now being cached by the two biggest network bandwidth caching companies in the world — which means that the actual number of downloads is north of 3,000,000.  Wow!

Thanks to everyone who regularly listens to my podcasts and visits my web sites.  It’s quite an honor to be so well listened to!  (I still can’t believe it)

Make sure you drop me a note to let me know what you think of the radio show and my podcasts!  I’d love to hear from you.

Craig Peterson.

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