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How A Security Specialist Fell Victim To Attack

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How A Security Specialist Fell Victim To Attack

E-mail Attacks - A Bad Day For Submitting Articles

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These days, I write several pages for our site plus two to three articles per week. The first places these articles are posted are DefendingTheNet.com and CastleCops.com. Several days later, I post these articles on other submission sites. This is standard operating procedure in world of article submissions.

E-mail Attacks

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For most part, articles are re-published without you even knowing. You typically find out when someone visits your site from another where article has been posted. Other times, site that plans on posting article e-mails you and asks you to review it before it goes live. Two weeks ago, I received one of these e-mails. Email attack - It was all downhill from there.

To Click Or Not To Click, That Is The Question

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Our systems are protected by state of art security systems. Our SPAM filter is a hardware device that is nearly 100% effective. It also helps in protecting against Spyware and other malicious code. Our Firewall is similar to those you would find in large corporations. Our Anti-Virus system has served us well and we've not had problems with virus for years. I'm not claiming that our systems are 100% protected as there is no such system at this point in time. However, we are fairly confident in our security systems.

Two weeks ago, I received approximately twenty e-mails requesting review and approval of Defending The Net articles published on other sites. I thoroughly review e-mails to make sure they seem legitimate. I review url's included to make sure they are valid and not redirected to a site that is IP only. The last e-mail I reviewed seemed to be in proper order. When I clicked on URL to article, site failed to load.

If you are running a small business with an internet presence you need a way of sorting treasure from trash in this. The famous thinker Edward de Bono uses Six Thinking Hats as a tool to help us with clear thinking. I prefer to start from bottom, so I’ll concentrate on shoes, in this case Mr Google’s shoes.

Mr Google most successful internet company on planet. Everyone who uses web knows about Google search engine. But have you ever thought through how Mr Google works and how he makes all of that money? A couple of minutes of clear and focused thinking about this could make a big difference in how successfully you attract visitors, and potential clients, to your website. So come with me through this little thinking exercise.

Who pays Mr Google? Advertisers pay Mr Google. You see their ads on side of your search results page and in Adsense boxes on a growing number of websites.

Why do advertisers pay for Google ads? Advertisers pay because Mr Google can get millions of searchers to see their ads. So in effect Mr Google is selling opportunity to gain searchers’ attention to advertisements. For past five years Mr Google has had this field all to himself. But watch out, competition is starting to hot up.

Who is competing with Mr Google? For last few years, answer is nobody much. Although there are thousands of search engines available on internet Google has held majority share. Over past year or so two serious challengers have emerged, namely Yahoo and MSN. The business is quickly becoming competitive, but Google is still ahead by a country kilometre.