The largest newspaper in sweden, aftonbladet.se, got their servers totally hacked during the last weeks. The group called “Vuxna arga hackare” which in english would be “Adult angry hackers”. The reason of why Vuxna arga hackare (VAH) hacked aftonbladet is because of a couple of days earlier they hacked one of the biggest TV channels in Sweden, Tv3, and got no attention at all from media. They totally ignored the hacking and because of that, they attacked aftonbladet.

VAH hacked afonbladet and gained control of their whole mail-server and all passwords and usernames to the system, which they then released to public at the swedish forum flashback.se. Ironicly, the IT-security crews had passwords such as “anakin” and a dozen of the publishers had their firstname as password.

They did also hack this same newspaper two years ago and was called “script-kiddies” by the aftonbladet security team which then, of course, had this eaten up this time when they decided to publish the story.

What can we learn from this? Well.. It’s not possible to be totally safe on the net and even though you are dedicated to keep the security up, you are not guaranteed to complete the job.

ps. VAH got inspired of another big swedish hacking-group called AUH(Arga unga hackare), which means Angry youth hackers. I love their names!

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The computer science portal, csdir.org, has published another tutorial about hacking.

This tutorial is great for newbies and the newcomers to unix and linux. They also have tutorials about bash and ansi c which I really recommend. Bookmark csdir.org if you are interested in computer science in any aspect since it’s easily the best site to gather resources about computer science, programming, security, unix and everything about it!

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Hehe I found a very funny picture (or it’s actually a graph) about productivity and Stumble upon combined.. Everbody knows that Stumble Upon drag your productivity down but still.. It’s such a good and funny plugin to have!

For those who don’t know what stumble upon is, it’s a service that let you choose an area in which you will be served several of very good internet pages. The pages has been stumpled by other users which should prove the quality and you will enjoy the results.

So for the people that have not tried it yet, I suggest you do! And please stumble this as well!

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Before you jump onto the Internet Marketing arena, please read these posts - Internet Marketing in the Public Eye; Part 1 & Part 2. I believe these posts provide a honest opinon on the whole internet marketing industry.

To break it down into small pieces, this is Internet Marketing for you.

1. Everyone claims to be Guru or discover a secret ‘Get Rich’ formula. Most internet marketers claim to be Master/Guru in Affiliates Sales or Make Money from Online Ads (E.g Google Adsense, etc) Or they will be the directly opposite, E.g. common people who made millions from these programs and want to share their secrets with you. (Cmon!)
2. Congrats! You Won! Or You Get Something FREE! This is the second thing you can expect, you won something, just key in your email and you can download your free e-book now. Or you get to buy something at a discount price, for a limited time only.
3. You can certainly find Email Subscription Box (email, name). Next they will try to get you to subscribe to their free newsletter or discount with this email subscription box.
4. Sometimes you get to see a display Box, Books or CDs. Then some internet marketers will have a nicely done up display box with books and cds in their websites, etc. This way you will think that these are the actual items you are getting.
5. An Unbelievable / Unresistible Offer. Finally you will get a unresistible offer being offered to you, maybe something like for a limited time period only, you get item a, item b, item c … to z for a one time cost of only $99.
6. Expect to see ClickBank. Most internet marketers will use clickbank to promote their products or get affiliates to sell their products.

No matter where you go, if someone claims to be a internet marketer, you will definitely one or two of these items in their websites. The next question you might ask is why are these a norm?

Here’s why.

1. Internet marketers make their money from their email lists. Most internet marketers will work on their email subscribers, and to try to get them to buy from them. Most of these follow-up are taken care by email marketing software already, they just setup the email list, fill it in with the right copy. And blast!
2. You are almost certainly to get an e-book. Shipping worldwide can be costly, so e-book is the best way to deliver to everyone, anywhere and at zero cost. Plus the cost of production of an e-book is zero, and you can always reproduce it.

So when you look at it, the potential to make good $$$ from it is very good. Consider this, you have 200 email subscribers and any email blast you do, 3% convert to sales, that’s about 6 person. And if your item cost $99 each. You made $594 already for doing nothing but sending out emails! Most of the time, internet marketers will work on their email lists again and again and again.. Lol.. so everyone is a millionaire internet marketer!

But here’s something that no one will ever tell you!

More and more people no longer fall for these ‘Get Rich’ secrets ‘ideas’. People reading up more from respectable websites on how to make $$$ online. So now… the question remain is Who else wants to be an Internet Markerter?

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For those SEO folks, here is the list of Top 500 Search Engine Keywords Of The Week ending 19 May 06.

These are the top 300 queries from the last 48 hours, which represents the complete queries from the largest Metacrawlers on the web.

Nos. Count Keyword
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1 5349 myspace
2 5224 google
3 3927 yahoo
4 3704 myspace.com
5 3359 ebay
6 3021 akon
7 2977 paris hilton
8 2907 flowers
9 2462 mapquest
10 2455 yahoo.com
11 2107 girls
12 2053 game cheats for ps2
13 1906 youtube
14 1643 lil wayne
15 1607 linkin park
16 1593 games play
17 1590 naruto
18 1468 dogs
19 1359 cars
20 1345 jenna jameson
21 1339 t-pain
22 1323 google.com
23 1294 msn
24 1290 craigslist
25 1282 anime
26 1276 dictionary
27 1262 you tube
28 1253 wikipedia
29 1231 fall out boy
30 1231 games
31 1230 hot
32 1222 britney spears
33 1205 insurance
34 1199 yahoo mail
35 1198 music
36 1192 meaning of names
37 1179 beyonce
38 1152 my space
39 1151 eminem
40 1146 avril lavigne
41 1124 girlfriend
42 1120 fergie
43 1116 dog
44 1113 jessica simpson
45 1111 funny
46 1108 50 cent
47 1088 play games
48 1088 american idol
49 1037 lyrics music
50 1034 carmen electra
51 1023 hotmail.com
52 1006 walmart
53 1004 jessica alba
54 997 ps 2 game cheats
55 968 hotmail
56 966 holocaust
57 956 pamela anderson
58 954 ask.com
59 951 www.myspace.com
60 933 home depot
61 933 three days grace
62 933 bikini
63 912 mom coupons
64 905 lyrics
65 898 aol.com
66 888 search engines
67 872 my chemical romance
68 868 thong
69 867 dogpile
70 858 global warming
71 839 dancing with the stars
72 839 lost to end
73 839 kids fly free
74 823 poetry
75 823 weather
76 822 runescape
77 812 nudist
78 807 free e-cards
79 804 myspace layouts
80 802 mims
81 785 lindsay lohan
82 783 antonella barba
83 782 facebook
84 779 vida guerra
85 778 rihanna
86 776 www.yahoo.com
87 775 thongs
88 770 girl
89 768 lowes
90 766 mothers day
91 762 map quest
92 758 umbrella
93 756 gospel music lyrics
94 753 babes
95 751 civil war
96 748 booty
97 743 lingerie
98 741 korn
99 740 chris brown
100 740 samuel blankson books

If anybody asked say Jennifer Laycock made the list, and Paul sent you along.

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When I first started this blog, like most bloggers out there, I have great plans for this blog, I wanted to do interview, review, videos, etc. And much Much more. Slowly and gradually, the readership for my blog started to increase, but after a couple of month, things just stand the same even though I was blogging more then ever.

But I’m just not getting the traffic, I would like to get. Then it strike me that I forget to KISS! Instead of staying focus and being really REALLY good at one thing, I am trying to everything on this blog. Obviously this is not working, I’m sending all sort of signals to the visitors to my blog. Soon instead of sending signals, I’m becoming noise, before I knew it, they became confused at what I’m writing about and start leaving my blog.

Now I trying to Keep It Simple, Stupid! I no longer try to do everything here, I just wrote about technology and blogging here. For all my other interests, I’m starting separate blogs for it all.

If you still dun quite get what I mean, think Woot. Woot like most online store and community out on the Internet selling cool stuff cheap. But what’s special about Woot is that it sell one item per day only, and nothing more.

Or think Twitter perhaps. Instead of spending the time to get the whole email newsletter thingy or mailing setup, Twitter allow users to send updates to subscribers or public in a jiffy! Yet another surprisingly simple concept right? (this is my twitter, add me too)

And yet both ‘projects’ are very successful online, so now maybe you want to re-evaluate your website. Are you trying to do too many things? And in mist of it, instead of sending the right signals to your customers, you are creating noise/spam instead.

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