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Hackers Sending Illegal Images to Harmless Sites

Hackers Sending Illegal Images to Harmless Sites Filters or not, hackers will find a way. Nothing demonstrates that better than a recent story out of the UK, on the heels of the mandatory ISP filters for pornography their government is talking about imposing. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), supportive of…

Khristen FossAugust 6, 2013

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More Torrent Sites Blocked in UK

Torrent Sites Blocked in UK Yesterday, we announced that all adult content would be blocked for UK residents. We also reported that publishers are urging companies like Google to remove pirated websites from the Internet. Today, we report that a ton of UK torrent (and other) websites have been blocked…

HarrietteJuly 30, 2013

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Contest: Win $1000 From Ananova!

Contest: Got Tech Skills? Prove It! You Could Win $1000! You’ve read our stuff. Now it’s your time to shine! We want you to come up with a completely unique (like, really unique!) solution for webmasters. Solution to what? Anything that can help webmasters out. Things like: Web hosting topics Web…

HarrietteJuly 29, 2013

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How to Build Your Brand

How to Build Your Brand Snagged a great cheap hosting deal? Set up a site? Got tons of readers? Now what? You have to keep pushing the envelope in order to keep that momentum going. How? It's not as tough as it seems. The brands that manage to keep readers…

HarrietteJuly 29, 2013

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Requests for Removal of Copyrighted Work On the Rise

Requests for Removal of Copyrighted Work On the Rise Google's publishing of the company's 'Transparency Report' back in 2012 let the world see what requests were being made of Google by various organizations. For most, this report provides a way to see how many requests Google receives on a regular…

HarrietteJuly 29, 2013

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Bing Is First Search Engine to Filter Illegal Explicit Searches

Bing Search Engine Microsoft’s UK version of Bing (the popular search engine) now includes pop-up warnings that flash at users searching for inappropriate online images of children. The pop-ups include a strict warning that such content is illegal. In addition, the pop-ups link users to appropriate counseling services where help…

Khristen FossJuly 29, 2013