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Startup Earth & Internet News Technology & ISPs Open Door To Hackers - Entir…: Apr 20, 1:46am 1 review internet, blogs, startup, isp, blod
http://startupearth.com/2008/04/20/isps-open-door-to-hackers-entire-internet-...; According to a security report by information risk management firm, IOActive, major ISPs in the US have created a massive security hole which puts the entire internet at risk, all in the name of making money. Earthlink, an internet service provider has, along with a British advertising company called Barefruit, been engaged in the practice of hijacking DNS error pages with ad-supported alternatives since August 2006, but failed to protect the redirected error pages from cross-site scripting attacks, which allow hackers to embed malicious data-stealing trojans on seemingly legitimate domains such as Paypal, eBay, Google or any number of trusted sites.

Startup Earth & Blogs News & Gawker Drops Three Blogs From Its Crapfolio: Apr 15, 12:17am 1 review business, blog, startup, gawker
http://startupearth.com/2008/04/14/gawker-drops-three-blogs-from-its-crapfolio/; New York based Gawker Media has sold three blogs from its impressively sized array of online publications, because Managing Editor, Nick Denton couldn't care less about the subject matter, citing a failure to generate enough ad-revenue to make it worth the effort. The three blogs being dropped are Gridskipper, Idolator and Wonkette, all of which are said to fail as ad-revenue generators compared to Gawker Media's other sites, like the popular Valleywag and Gizmodo. Gawker has sold urban travel blog, Gridskipper to Curbed, a blog network headed up by ex-Gawker editor, Lockhart Steele, Idolator has been snapped up by Buzznet, and Wonkette has gone to Ken Layne. In an internal e-mail published by Gawker, Nick Denton had this to say...