Representatives from Pleth Networks announced last week that they had launched a new client project with e-commerce capability titled, “The Practical Mom’s Disney Vacation Companion”. The new website can be found at: http://momswdw.com. Any vacation can be more enjoyable with a little advanced planning and organizing, but for a Disney World vacation it’s a must. […]
Archives for May 2008
PayPal XSS Vulnerability (EV SSL)
PayPal fell victim to a cross-site scripting vulnerability this past week. Basically it would allow hackers to carry out a few tasks such as stealing credentials from users as well as displaying their own content. PayPal, in my opinion, has always done a good job in terms of staying up on security risks over the […]
Crypto Bug Cripples Ubuntu Linux
Fortunately we predominately run Centos Linux and aren’t affected by the Major Crypto Bug that was announced this week. Apparently it only affects systems with the Ubuntu flavor of Linux running. Here’s a snippet I found in PC Magazine outlining the bug exploit. A major problem has been revealed in Debian Linux and derivative packages, […]
Facebook Business Pages
This weekend I was looking around on Facebook and discovered something kind of cool, they now have the option for businesses to add a profile page to their social network. Now, keep in mind that this is by no means a “website”, it’s simply a “profile page” that sits on Facebook’s social network. With these […]
(Update) Facebook’s Ad Delivery Solution
I have been doing a little more research on Facebook’s Ad Delivery Solution and found some good information I figured I would post here for those of you that might be interested… Social Ads Facebook Social Ads leverage the power of Facebook News Feed by serving relevant stories when users’ friends take actions with brands […]
Google’s Friend Connect
It looks like Google is getting ready to deploy a framework that will allow website owners to capitalize on the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. I kind of figured that such a framework was in the making but was a little surprised that Google was the one that would bring it to fruition […]