Hacker Site Gets Hit!

How about that, one of the biggest hang out spots for hackers got hacked. The site, which I’m not going to name, because you should never visit a hacker site, was hacked by the user “Catch Them.” He gathered the full list of registered users, all their passwords, and even their email addresses. Then he or she posted the gathered information on the Full Disclosure security mailing list. This person also posted screen shots of the hack job, including their user list. I guess things really do come full circle. I read the site has been in and out, but not fully sure, I didn’t visit the site. Hacker sites provide information to people to use against good people. And sites that provide tips to hack others should be removed. And we can only hope that this one stays down for good, but the chances are it won’t.

New Hosting Providers!

I have a few questions for all of you. Are your fed up with your hosting provider? Does your site have a lot of down time? And do you feel that your hosting provider could deliver much better customer service? If you answered yes to any of these questions you need to seek out another provider, fast.

If you’re business website constantly goes down it will cost you money, and customers. If you’re a site owner, business or personal, you know how hard it is to find reliable web hosting, which is very critical to your business. As most of you know, when your site goes down you just want to pull your hair out. You purchase a plan, your promissed up site time, then out it goes, drives me nuts. So do what I did, research, research, and research your next provider. Call them, talk to someone on the phone. Most of these providers don’t offer toll free numbers, but that’s not a big problem. They just want to reduce the calls for low level questions. To avoid phone charges, call from your cell phone. I know I’m running on here, but I can’t stress enough, call your provider, and research them. Good luck on your searches.

Intel Corp Pays!

For doing one of the biggest scams around the world last year, Intel Corp, the biggest chip maker will pay euros $1.06 billion in fines. That comes out to about $1.44 billion is U.S dollars. Intel had used illegal sales tactics to stop other chip makers from coming to market. This hurts us, the consumers, we had a cheaper product to buy but couldn’t, because Intel paid them off. One of the other chip makers paid off was AMD, which should be fined as well. After all they took payment to delay computers with their chip in it.

The European Commission stated that Intel broke the law. That law is the EU competition law. They simply paid another maker not to sell their product, which is breaking the law, so now they must pay. About 2 years ago Microsoft pulled the same scam, they where fined euros $899 million, which I think their appealing. I’m sure Intel will appeal as well. Other country’s around the world are fining Intel as well. They better just pay their fines and move on, after all they took advantage of every consumer out there. If they pull this scam again their going to be unable to sell their crap anywhere, and that would be the end of them.

The Best Deal Ever!

As I look back over the years of the internet I can’t think of a better deal than the deal that just formed between Microsoft and Yahoo. This deal will hurt Google in many ways. Google will never say it, but it’s going to hurt their bottom line. Microsoft has their new search tech site bing.com, which is much better than Google’s search. In case your not sure what this deal details between Microsoft and Yahoo I’ll tell you. It’s very simple, Microsoft will be handling the search side of Yahoo, that’s it. Microsoft has the money to bring new tech to the world. And Yahoo has the people, which make for a perfect match. This deal is great for the world marketers. This will drive down advertising prices from Google and other online search engines. I just hope this 10 year deal last for a very long time. What I think will happen in the end is that Yahoo will build up their other businesses and then sell the whole company to Microsoft for billions.