Lessons to learn from the Spamhaus-Cyberbunker battle

Believe some media sources and yesterday saw the entire Internet ground to a crawl by a spectacular cyberfight. It’s a story that’s been overhyped, but the incident does highlight a technical flaw that’s very open to abuse. The story involved a sustained attack of Spamhaus, an organization that maintains a blacklist of servers believed to […]



eBay: Google advertising largely a waste of money

Research by eBay suggests paying to advertise on Google only works in limited circumstances and even then the effect isn’t massive. It also suggests that for established brands at least, slashing the ad spend causes little damage. The company intentionally suspended its advertising for a trial period, save for in several regions used as a […]

Facebook Likes more revealing than you think

What you “like” on Facebook can predict your demographics and personality according to a Cambridge University study. The authors go as far as to say these links could be misused by oppressive regimes. The study involved asking 58,000 US volunteers to provide their demographic information, allow access to the list of pages they had “liked” […]