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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 ReadingTechTSS.com - “CASL-Compliant” SEO Spammers, hosted by BlueHost [UPDATED 2017-08-29]
In the past, we've written about the extremely dim view we take of SEO & web development spammers; while it's nowhere near as dangerous as other types of spam, it can be a bigger...
Continue ReadingGuliSons.com/DigiProw.in - SEO spammers, hosted by OVH [UPDATED]
As we've detailed in the past, French hosting provider OVH has become one of the Internet's largest single sources of spam, blurring the lines between a true "bulletproof" host that...
Continue ReadingOVH & the “Three Stooges” Approach to Network Abuse
When you run a mail server and spend several hours a day blocking & reporting spam, patterns become noticeable after a while - in particular, which providers are good at addressing...
Continue ReadingComment Spam Advertising WebHoster.pk
Comment spam advertising hosting companies seems to be a common theme recently - earlier this month, we reported on spam advertising Bulgarian hosting provider "BGCloud," and now we've...
Continue ReadingComments Spam advertising BGCloud.com - Bulgarian Hosting Company
As hosting providers ourselves, it's fair to say that a large amount of our time is eaten up dealing with spam of all types - whether it be traditional EMail spam, or contact form...
Continue ReadingWebsites.ca - Spammers?
Late last week, we received a report from a hosting customer that they received spam advertising Websites.ca. This was unusual, as most spam we see has its source obfuscated in some...
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