Kroll Releases Top Ten Data Security Trends for 2011

The 2010 calendar year brought with it an onslaught of new regulatory requirements, technological advances and increased scrutiny in data privacy and security matters that have laid the groundwork for a significant shift in how businesses handle data security in the year ahead. Today, Kroll’s Fraud Solutions division has released its data security forecast for 2011, highlighting the key areas where businesses will see the most noteworthy changes with regard to new data security regulations, breach vulnerabilities and protective measures.

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Half a Million People Donate to Keep Wikipedia Free

Supported by half a million people from all over the world, the Wikimedia Foundation today announced it has exceeded its goal of $16 million USD to support Wikipedia and its sister projects for the 2010-11 fiscal year. To close the annual giving campaign, Wikipedia will transition to banners to both thank its global community of contributors and invite its 400 million readers to become volunteer editors.

In just 50 days, the shortest fundraiser in Wikimedia history, the Foundation received an average of $22 per individual donation from people living in about 140 countries, to reach its goal.

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Mozilla Addresses The Leak Of User Information

On December 17th, Mozilla received an email from a third party notifying the company of a file that contained user records that was posted to a public web server. The information in this file listed users email, addressses, first and last names, and MD5 password hashes.
The Company relied through an email stating “We immediately took the file off the server and investigated all downloads. We have identified all the downloads and with the exception of the thrid party who reported the issue, the file has been downloaded only by Mozilla staff.”
Since the the company has removed the passwords from their site and are asking users to reset their passwords for all content used through Mozilla. “We have identidied the process which allowed this file to be posted publicly and have taken steps to prevent this in the future. We are also evaluation pther processes to ensure your information is safe and secure” the email also declared.
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Microsoft Co-founder Continues Lawsuit Against Top Tech Companies

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen refile a patent infringement lawsuit against several companies on Tuesday. This was just shy of the December 28th deadline for refiling the case given by the court. The original case had been thrown out of court in early december after U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman declared that the complaint was too vague after stating “the allegations in the complaint are spartan.” The amended suit includes details that were not included into the original filing, and also hosts 40 displays showing the alleged patent infringement in action according to the Seattle Times. The companies named in the lawsuit among Apple are Google, Facebook, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo, Youtube, Netflix, and eBay.
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Search Marketing Expo Agenda Now Available

The agenda is now available for Search Marketing Expo – SMX West 2011. It features 60 sessions, networking activities and keynote addresses. See the agenda at http://searchmarketingexpo.com/west/agenda.

SMX West will be held March 8-10 in the San Jose Convention Center. The program includes advanced, intermediate and beginner-level sessions on paid search, SEO, social media marketing, analytics and conversions, local, mobile and more.

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Siemon Adds LC Fiber Optic Adapter Lock to its LockIT™ Line

Siemon, a global leader in network infrastructure, announces the launch of its LockIT LC optical fiber adapter lock. Joining Siemon’s LockIT line of secure network connectivity, this new, tamper-proof adapter lock protects against unauthorized access to unused LC ports. The adapter locks require no special connectivity and can be utilized to secure nearly any LC optical fiber-based network infrastructure. The LockIT system is designed to provide physical layer security without adding complexity or impacting overall functionality and density.

The LockIT adapter lock snaps securely into any industry-standard LC port, blocking cord access and preventing tampering. Removable only with a specially designed key, the lock fits flush within the port, providing full access to adjacent ports regardless of density, and it is brightly colored to allow network personnel to quickly identify locked ports. These new secure components are system and cabling performance independent, allowing it to secure any active equipment LC port, or passive LC patching, plug and play or work area port.

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1&1 Provides Affordable Storage in the Cloud

1&1 Internet Inc., www.1and1.com, a global leader amongst web hosts, is offering additional storage space for 1&1’s Online Office so small businesses can manage important documents more effectively.  If the default online storage (2 GB per account) is not sufficient, users can now order more capacity, for example, an additional 10 GB for only $2.99 per month.

Once purchased, the additional storage is accessible within seconds. Thus, businesses do not need to determine storage capacity requirements far in advance and have the flexibility to adjust the volume to suit their needs at any time.  Such scalability is inherent to Cloud solutions and only requires businesses to pay for what they actually require.

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Better Ranking Of Websites Using SEO

Marketing of a website in the internet has become very difficult nowadays; the internet world is overcrowded with billions websites and because of this the job has become much more difficult for the websites looking for a good online business. When any website is published in the internet, it remains deep beneath the load of thousands of similar other websites and due to this it remains invisible to the internet users. Such a condition is extremely unsuitable for any kind of business. If proper marketing techniques are not applied any online business, then the target will not get to know about that website and it will cause huge loss for the website owner. The newly published website which lies deep beneath the load of other websites needs proper steps to be followed to rise up in the rank and get a superior position in the page rank


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SEO Hosting Will Revolutionize the Optimization Business

“The world has constantly managed to create and uphold a number of factors in the development cycle of search engine optimization where today’s conventional techniques are beginning to become outdated with the introduction of SEO Hosting formulations. It is for this reason that webmasters have been seeking a well established and innovative strategy which would be able to produce results in an impeccable manner. It is for this reason that webmasters have sought the need to consistently outperform themselves when it comes towards creating and developing a winning formula of strategies which will be capable of achieving top search rankings on the best search engines of the world.  With a view to be able in making sure that webmasters can get the best possible results, there have been a few firms in the market today

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Third Annual “SMX Biggest Search Geek” Contest

Marin Software and Search Marketing Expo today announced the opening of the 3rd Annual “SMX Biggest Search Geek Contest,” the popular quiz-based contest to win a trip to attend SMX West in San Jose, March 8-10, 2011.

The contest is now open at the SMX Biggest Search Geek website.

For all those geeks stuck in the office while others enjoy the holidays — or those who are sneaking a peek at work email while the family celebrates downstairs — the SMX Biggest Search Geek contest is a fun way to test your Search IQ *and* enter to win some great prizes.

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