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Response to the PHP2Shell Vulnerability
Approximately two weeks ago, on October 20th, an extremely serious security flaw was disclosed for PHP—the software that powers the vast majority of web servers and roughly 70%...
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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
Continue ReadingUpdate on Spam-Support Website(s) Hosted by Namecheap.com
Back in November of 2017, we wrote about the provider NameCheap.com - and the difficultly we had encountered in getting them to do anything about a website that they hosted, which we...
Continue ReadingHow ICANN and GoDaddy Shield Scammers
It didn't take long for the domain name registry - the key to all things Internet related - to become soiled by greed. Between GoDaddy's generally successful efforts to hide domain...
Continue ReadingSEO Spam Websites 2018-04-16
We've recently noticed a trend of SEO spammers becoming more and more bold - while most of them are still careful enough to avoid putting easily reportable links to their websites in...
Continue ReadingNameCheap.com - Spam-Friendly Provider, hosting GetMyBusinessFundedNow[dot]com
UPDATE 2018-06-28: see the follow-up post here.
Another day, another large hosting provider knowingly providing service & support to spammers, by turning a blind eye to spam...
Continue ReadingHotmail/Outlook.com - The #1 Choice of SEO Spammers
In the past, we've written a number of articles about SEO & web development spammers, primarily based in India. As we've written previously, SEO & web dev spam is substantially less...
Continue ReadingGoogle Drive Allows Malware to Remain Online for 91 Days (and counting) - [UPDATED 2017-11-10]
Recently, we've started seeing a new type of spam-driven EMail scam involving fake purchase orders. We've seen two or three different examples of the scam, but they all share some...
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