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- imeem - Major Security Glitch Exposes Private / Personal Information and Allows Account Hijacking
On August 25th, 2008 - a major security glitch appeared on imeem.com, a Social Media Network which allows it’s users to post Music, Video, and Photos.
The issue involves users who log in and validated through the log in process only to find themselves in someone else’s account. The users log in using their own account’s information — however, they are actually logged into someone (appears to be random) else’s account. They can modify this account just like if they were actually logged into this person’s account using that person’s login credentials. This exposes the user’s private / personal information and allows account hijacking to be done. Once logged into the other user’s account you can send messages, add friends, upload media, and CHANGE private information including the other user’s password.
To see what imeem is doing about this, check out the thread in their feedback forum: Wrong username, Heeelp @.@
Written by Scott Kingsley Clark on Aug, 27th 2008 in The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog, Miscellaneous | No Comments »
- Search Engine Optimization Tip #16: Add a Breadcrumb Trail
This is search engine optimization tip number sixteen in our continuing series of tips from SEO company Vizion Interactive. All of our search engine optimization tips are very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
If you have not been following along with all of our search engine optimization tips, you might want to take a look at some of the previous SEO tips that we have already talked about. The last tip, search engine optimization tip number fourteen, was about fixing duplicate content on your web site. Then, before that, the SEO tip was about removing unused meta tags from your site. To find the previous search engine optimization tips, look at one of my previous SEO tips, I have links to the first fifteen or so tips there. All of these “search engine optimization tips” are things I look at when analyzing a site or optimizing it for the search engines. Keep in mind, though, that this is only the beginning. There are a lot more search engine optimization tips coming. (more…)
Written by Bill Hartzer on Aug, 25th 2008 in The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
- Search Engine Optimization Tip #15: Adding Content to your Web Site
This is search engine optimization tip number fifteen in our continuing series of tips from search engine optimization company Vizion Interactive. All of our search engine optimization tips are very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
If you have not been following along with all of our search engine optimization tips, you might want to take a look at some of the previous SEO tips that we have already talked about. The last tip, search engine optimization tip number fourteen, was about fixing duplicate content on your web site. Then, before that, the SEO tip was about removing unused meta tags from your site. Then, for our search engine optimization tip number 12, I talked about the text surrounding your links. Then, in SEO Tip number 11, I talked about using keywords in your heading tags. These are important because using a H1 tag will give more “weight” to the heading and the keyword phrase you’re targeting on that page. In the SEO tip before that, search engine optimization tip number ten, we talked about checking your links on your site to make sure you are not linking out to any bad neighborhoods or other sites that you do not wish to continue to link to. In SEO tip number nine, we talked about linking out to web sites. In search engine optimization tip number eight, we talked about Alt Tags and how you need to make sure that your keywords are in your Alt Tags and that they need to describe specifically what the image is and what someone will see when they look at it. Previously, before that, we talked about the anchor text of internal links. Then, before that, we talked about having keyword in your urls, linking to your home page, the meta keywords tag, the keywords on your web page, the meta description tag, and your web page’s title tag. All of these “search engine optimization tips” are things I look at when analyzing a site or optimizing it for the search engines. Keep in mind, though, that this is only the beginning. There are a lot more search engine optimization tips coming. (more…)
Written by Bill Hartzer on Aug, 21st 2008 in The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
- Search Engine Optimization Tip #14: Fix Duplicate Content
This is search engine optimization tip number fourteen in our continuing series of tips from search engine optimization company Vizion Interactive. All of our search engine optimization tips are very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
If you have not been following along with all of our search engine optimization tips, you might want to take a look at some of the previous SEO tips that we have already talked about. The last SEO tip was about removing unused meta tags from your site. Then, for our search engine optimization tip number 12, I talked about the text surrounding your links. Then, in SEO Tip number 11, I talked about using keywords in your heading tags. These are important because using a H1 tag will give more “weight” to the heading and the keyword phrase you’re targeting on that page. In the SEO tip before that, search engine optimization tip number ten, we talked about checking your links on your site to make sure you are not linking out to any bad neighborhoods or other sites that you do not wish to continue to link to. In SEO tip number nine, we talked about linking out to web sites. In search engine optimization tip number eight, we talked about Alt Tags and how you need to make sure that your keywords are in your Alt Tags and that they need to describe specifically what the image is and what someone will see when they look at it. Previously, before that, we talked about the anchor text of internal links. Then, before that, we talked about having keyword in your urls, linking to your home page, the meta keywords tag, the keywords on your web page, the meta description tag, and your web page’s title tag. All of these “search engine optimization tips” are things I look at when analyzing a site or optimizing it for the search engines. Keep in mind, though, that this is only the beginning. There are a lot more search engine optimization tips coming. (more…)
Written by Bill Hartzer on Aug, 18th 2008 in The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
- Search Engine Optimization Tip #13: Remove Unused Meta Tags
This is search engine optimization tip number thirteen in our continuing series of tips from search engine optimization company Vizion Interactive. All of our search engine optimization tips are very specific, should not take a long time to fix (or to check to see if you are following the search engine optimization best practices), and will be rather “short and sweet” and directly to the point.
If you have not been following along with all of our search engine optimization tips, you might want to take a look at some of the previous SEO tips that we have already talked about. Our last search engine optimization tip, tip number 12, I talked about the text surrounding your links. Then, in SEO Tip number 11, I talked about using keywords in your heading tags. These are important because using a H1 tag will give more “weight” to the heading and the keyword phrase you’re targeting on that page. In the SEO tip before that, search engine optimization tip number ten, we talked about checking your links on your site to make sure you are not linking out to any bad neighborhoods or other sites that you do not wish to continue to link to. In SEO tip number nine, we talked about linking out to web sites. In search engine optimization tip number eight, we talked about Alt Tags and how you need to make sure that your keywords are in your Alt Tags and that they need to describe specifically what the image is and what someone will see when they look at it. Previously, before that, we talked about the anchor text of internal links. Then, before that, we talked about having keyword in your urls, linking to your home page, the meta keywords tag, the keywords on your web page, the meta description tag, and your web page’s title tag. All of these “search engine optimization tips” are things I look at when analyzing a site or optimizing it for the search engines. Keep in mind, though, that this is only the beginning. There are a lot more search engine optimization tips coming. (more…)
Written by Bill Hartzer on Aug, 14th 2008 in The Vizion Search Engine Optimization Blog, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »