The global advertising market reached $600 billion in 2007 and will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.7% to reach $707 billion in 2012, propelled in large part by growth in the interactive segment, according to a new report from The Kelsey Group. Interactive Advertising Outlook Interactive advertising revenues will increase significantly: [...]

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Most online Americans view online shopping as a way to save time and a convenient means to buy products. But most also feel uncomfortable about sending personal or credit card information over the internet, according to a Pew Internet Project survey, writes MarketingCharts. 78% agree that shopping online is convenient, however 75% do not like [...]

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Have you ever forgotten your password and tried to login multiple times to your bank account. After 3 failed attempts a message comes like “Your exceeded your login attempts. Please try later or contact our account reps” Brute Force Attacks or multiple failed login attempts are sometimes used by malicious users to gain access to [...]

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Bloggers are younger and better educated but earn less than the general U.S. adult (18+) population – and they are more likely to be single, male, and actively engaged in new media, according to a study by BIGresearch. Of those who blog occasionally or regularly (26% of the [online] population): 53.7% are male. Nearly half [...]

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US internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online in December 2007, according to comScore’s Video Metrix, which reported that the month was the heaviest in viewing since it began tracking online video consumption. Top-ranked video property Google Sites (including YouTube) extended video market share gains and now account for nearly one out of [...]

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Secunia reported Popular Wordspew plugin to have an input vulnerability which can be exploited to inject SQL commands to your wordpress installation. User supplied input to the parameter “id” could be exploited by malicious users to inject SQL. Here is how a visitor to your site can inject SQL through the plugin: From the URL [...]

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WordPress users, please note WordPress has a new urgent release update. If you allow registration to you WordPress site, then I would recommend you to download and replace xmlrpc.php. WordPress 2.3.3 has other minor bug fixes as well, but if you are just looking for the security fix, then downloading xmlrpc.php should be good enough. [...]

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My apologies for any hosting service interruption. I host a number of sites on a server that is owned and supported in a datacenter run by Fatnetwork.net. Yesterday, their site was down all day, so I couldn’t even open a ticket and follow up on the issue. I received an email last night letting me [...]

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