In all my recent posts, I’ve stopped short of saying that Google hacked us, but that the code inserted had Google’s name all over it. But if Google was party to or had profited from hacking, then it wouldn’t be the first time, right? Remember when Google hacked the Safari browser to track […]
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Google continues to throw up big red flags to anyone visiting Lucire’s website today, although its own Webmaster Tools page reveals that it has not found any problems since Saturday: Given that we had sewn up the server on Saturday, and deleted every instance of the hack, then Webmaster Tools’ inability to find dodgy […]
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I wasn’t too far off the mark with my last post. It’s not unlikely that what was placed into our site by hacking during the small hours of Saturday morning was Google Adsense code: here’s an article entitled, ‘Google AdSense Potential Source of Malware’ at Resources for Life. While ours was more serious, because […]
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All of the sites that carry advertising from our ad server (ads.jyanet.com) were blacklisted by Google yesterday, including this one. In fact, Google still blacklists them, despite Google and Stop Badware clearing the server of any problems. Here’s the kicker: the code that was injected by hackers appears to be Google Adsense code. If […]
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Because of privacy concerns and the unethical way Google has gone about its interest-based advertising, I never connected my YouTube and Google accounts. In fact, I block the YouTube cookie on my desktop machine and my laptop. Which makes these findings all the more interesting. Six to seven months ago, despite taking all these […]
This has been my year for acquiring new technology, beginning with a new external hard drive just after Christmas 2011, to a new desktop machine right after New Year. The keyboard, printer, scanner have all given way to replacements; while even the internet package and modem are new. TelstraClear then gave me a new […]
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I’ve written so many editorials about Lucire’s history for our various anniversaries that now we’ve turned 15, I feel like I’d just be going over old ground. Again. I’d do it maybe for the 20th or 21st, but the story has been told online and in print many times. But 15 is a bit […]
I remember when Michael Wolff was very bullish about the internet in the 1990s, so when he starts sounding warning bells, we had better take heed. The way Michael paints Facebook—and a belief that its advertising model will eventually collapse for being so limited—is not unfamiliar to anyone who ever wondered, during the dot-com […]
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Take a car range that’s not selling too well, and try to pull the patriotic heart-strings to see if you can move a few. Trouble is, this ad for the MG 6 Magnette, which is running on some of our sites, is pretty awful. It’s not convincing, for starters. Brand Germany has its […]
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PS.: I got two pop-ups today (December 21) of the same nature, this time while using Facebook. I think we can rule out Speed Dial as the reason.—JY For the Firefox boffins out there, I began using Super Start, after having trialled Speed Dial and Fast Dial over the past year or so. These […]
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