A whole industry has developed on the internet dealing with reviews of businesses, hotels and restaurants. Perhaps you’ve used some of these sites, such as Yelp, Trip Advisor, and even Google to assess where you do business. But can you really trust these reviews? Should you trust these reviews? Review Manipulation The reviews are crowdsourced …
Author Archives: Marvin Schuldiner
Drupal 8 is Out…Should You Switch Now?
In November 2015, Drupal released its long awaited Drupal 8. It’s now the shiny new (free) object in the Content Management System (CMS) world. Should you convert my Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 or WordPress website to Drupal 8? Not yet. Drupal and WordPress take vastly different worldviews of their CMS’s and users which largely …
How Safe Are Your Digital Assets?
Author Kevin Roose recently dared two hackers to see how much they could mess up his life. So I decided to stage an experiment that, in hindsight, sounds like a terrible idea: I invited two of the world’s most elite hackers (neither of whom I’d ever met) to spend two weeks hacking me as deeply …
Using one of these Passwords? The 2015 List
The 2015 list of most used passwords is out. It looks much like the list from the previous year. From the folks at SplashList, here it is without further ado: 1 – 123456 (unchanged from 2014) 2 – password (unchanged) 3 – 12345678 (up 1) 4 – qwerty (up 1) 5 – 12345 (down 2) …
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Site not Mobile-Friendly? Here’s why that Is A Problem…
I previously wrote about Mobilegeddon, the “name” given to the change Google made to their search algorithms which will deemphasize websites that are not mobile-friendly (sites that will not fit on a smartphone or tablet screen, requiring left-right scrolling — which most users don’t like — or that require a lot of zooming in to …
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Multi-factor Authentication May Have Helped Prevent Cardinals Hack of Astros
Earlier this week, news outlets reported on an FBI investigation alleging the St. Louis Cardinals, one of the National League’s most storied and successful clubs, hacked into the Houston Astros’ scouting system to steal information. Reports (or perhaps rumors) have also surfaced charging that current Astros General Manager Jeff Luhnow — previously an executive with …
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You Social Media Posts are NOT Private
Last week, the Gawker reported that Twitter blocked Politiwoops from using its service. Politiwoops is a service from the Sunlight Foundation (dedicated to transparent government) that tracks Tweets politicians delete. Sometimes they are just “mistake” tweets (tweets with typos or accidental re-tweets), but others are politically charged/incorrect and potentially career threatening. Politwoops would use Twitter’s API …
Mobilegeddon is Here…Fix Your Websites Now!
Why is Google king of search engines? They provide search results that are relevant to searchers. They do this by constantly tweaking their algorithm to ensure relevant results. Over the last 5-10 years searches from mobile devices (smartphones, tablets) have grown dramatically and now comprise roughly 50% of searches. 40-45% of the average website’s page views …
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Lenovo Computers pre-installed with Malware?
Forbes is reporting that Lenovo is pre-installing a piece of software on their new computers called Superfish. Superfish is considered by security experts to be malware. Excerpts: From what’s known about it thus far, Lenovo uses Superfish to place adverts into Google search results that the laptop manufacturer wants them to see. It’s a good …
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To Allow Comments or Not? Realities.
When starting a website or blog, the owner of such a site must determine whether or not they will allow users to comment on pages or posts. The upside is customer and potential customer or constituent engagement. Social media, after all, is about being social. The downside is significant too. Comment spam needs to be …