Archive for June, 2008

vBulletin 3.7.1 PL2 and 3.6.10 PL2

vBulletin 3.7.1 PL2 / vBulletin 3.6.10 PL2
An XSS flaw affecting the vBulletin URL redirection system has been identified. It could allow an attacker to trick a moderator or admin into unwittingly performing an action in either the front-end or control panel that they had not intended. To resolve this issue, it is necessary to release [...]

Spammer asked to pay US$ 6 million to Myspace!

In another blow to organized spamming networks, court has awarded US$ 4.8 million in damages and US$ 1.2 million in attorney fee to Myspace.
MySpace continues to wage a legal war on alleged spammers.
An arbitrator has ordered Scott Richter and Media Breakaway to pay the social networking giant $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in [...]

Google testing new interactive adsense ads!

It seems Google is testing new types of interactive adsense ads. I was just going through my travel directory, when the top adsense ad caught my attention.
Apart from the usual banner, it seemed to have navigation arrows which when clicked would display different packages from Viator.
Here are the screenshots of the Google Adsense Ad from [...]

Forum censorship, avoiding certain topics!

Running and moderating an online community is a tough job, especially when you come across situations where you need to stop a certain thread/discussion to prevent a rift between members of your community.
Martin Reed recently wrote an interesting post on this, titled “Should communities ban the discussion of certain topics?”
Martin has managed to hit the [...]

Directory 101: Approving only quality links

Quality vs. Quantity, this is one question that no matter which organization/business you are running, is bound to popup at one point. The same is also true if you are running a web directory and free directory in particular.
A decent directory on averages receives tens if not hundreds of submissions each day, while we tend [...]