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Wow. 2 billion torrents. That’s one for every third person in the world, or 7 per person in the US. Impressive figures by any metric, but when you consider that this second billion came only five months after the announcement of the first billion.Those in the entertainment industry that were hoping P2P File sharing would die a quiet death will be sorely disappointed. If new torrents continue to be introduced into the Mininova system at this rate, the Big Four Cartel fighting the growth will surely be swamped.

In the understatement of the year, Mininova’s blog notes that the growth is : this is very good news. You bet.

Mininova’s blog continues: It means our site is growing exponentially: the amount of total downloads roughly doubles every half year. And more downloads means more exposure, so more content available on our website.Of course this is not the end, if the growth keeps continuing we might be able to reach the 4 billion mark by the end of this year!.

Also included in the Mininova blog is a breakdown of the numbers of downloads per content category: TV shows take the number one spot with over 40% of all downloads, while music makes up just over half this with 21.1% of all downloads.

• TV Shows - 40.11%
• Music - 21.21%
• Movies - 17.89%
• Games - 6.59%
• Software - 5.61%
• Anime - 3.61%
• Books - 3.04%
• Pictures - 0.53%

Visual Orange is an IT company in Holland which offers web design services and development of web based applications. From simple corporate web sites to complete E-commerce projects, Visual Orange offers a full range of services. In Holland people usually refer to it as a Webdesign Bureau which is also specialized in marketing web sites on the web. When having a web site developed, return on investment is an important factor and there should be a solid plan how this will be achieved. Most likely a big part in this will be getting traffic to your web site and making your web site known on the Internet.

An excellent way of getting this targeted traffic to your web site is applying Zoekmachine Marketing, as they call it in Dutch, which means search engine marketing. Search engine optimization and search engine marketing is an excellent way of marketing your site successfully and getting targeted traffic to your web site. A big plus is that when people do a search using certain keywords and visit your site by clicking a link in the natural search results of a search engine, you know they are interested in something that has to do with the keywords they have used. You should choose your keywords wisely because some keywords may bring you loads of traffic and hardly any follow ups, yet others may bring you less traffic, but traffic that will lead to more sales. For instance, Web Design might be a popular keyword, but the keyword Webdesign Amsterdam might bring you traffic that will lead to actual more business. Do depending on what your business goals are, a strategy should be carefully laid out.

If you own an online business then you will know the integrity of your site is of absolute importance. You want your clients to believe that your uk web hosting is secure and they are assured their connection to your site is encoded. In this case an SSL Certificate is beneficial as it grants encryption of private information that is transmitted between your website and the client using it. An SSL Certificate generates a private channel which encodes the data throughout sending, and as these certificates are distributed by trusted authorities your customers will be safe in the knowledge that the padlock icon means their data will be secure.

A requirement for setting up an SSL Certificate on your website is that your website is hosted on a dedicated IP address, if you have a reseller hosting account with NetHosted then you would have one or more IP’s included. These can also be added to shared hosting accounts and additional dedicated IP’s can be added to reseller hosting accounts too, these can be bought through the Order Account Addons area in your client area. You order the SSL Certificate at the same time as the IP, or individually again via the Order Account Addons section.

Once you have ordered the certificate you will need to give some information to us via a support email, this information is needed to create a Certificate Signing Request (CSR). The CSR is needed to install an SSL Certificate and the information that we need is as follows:

Email Address:
Address (www.domain.com):
First line of postal address:
Country letters (GB?):
State:
City:
Post Code:
Company Name:
Company Division:
Password:

Once this data has been received and payment received we shall setup the SSL Certificate on your web hosting account for you and your domain will be secured, showing the padlock icon to visitors that assures them that your site is legitimate and trustworthy.

Beware of Phishing

Phishing is a new model cyberspace attack, in which the attacker masquerades a genuine entity and tricks you into providing important user information such as credit cards, account user names, passwords, etc.

Usually phishing starts with an email or an instant message, appearing to be from the genuine entity, asking you to furnish important details or to ‘verify’ your account with the genuine entity to supposedly avoid a “disciplinary action” or on an “unforeseeable emergency.” The email will also have a link that points to a website copy of the genuine party’s website.

On visiting this website, you will be amazed to find its thorough resemblance to the genuine entity’s website; unsuspecting individuals may be fooled to believe that it is the original website. Unsuspecting users, thus, may provide the original user name and password in this website and make themselves victims of the phishing attack (and may still remain unsuspecting). Once given, the phishing entity has a direct door opened to your personal information and your identity. It can do anything with this information.

Online payment systems like PayPal, eBay, and online banking entities like Bank of America, Citibank are very common focus of the phishing attackers.

If you receive an email in your inbox, with subject line asking you to “confirm your email address,” “verify your login,” “log in to prevent disqualification,” etc., you should be wary. The spam detector of your email address may not catch these crooks all the time. If the genuine financial entity you depend on doesn’t usually ask your password or ask you to confirm any personal information, then the email you received must be from fraudulent entity.

You should check the email address it comes from (not the header information alone, the exact email address). Latest phishing mails on PayPal actually come from an email address, support@paypal.com while the genuine PayPal email address may be different (like support@intl.paypal.com). So, you cannot rely even on the email addresses of the senders. However, so many attackers use public email addresses provided by Yahoo, GMail etc. The header may tell you something such as “Bank of America Online Banking System,” while the sender email address would be “bankspoof@yahoo.tk.” Smart people quickly see this anomaly.

Always make sure, when you log in to your financial institution website, that you open a new browser window, type in the address on the address bar, and log in. Never click on any links you get on your emails.

Spot Phishing

Most or all of the professional organizations do not ask for your private and personal information over an email. They won’t ask you to “verify email” or “login to confirm” over an email anyway. So, any such mail you receive is phishing email and report it right away (see below to know how).

Look for promotional or intimidating diction in the emails you receive. If it tells you something like “We have no other means but to close down your account unless you verify now,” then remember it is most likely a phishing email.

Another type of phishing attack offers you large sums of money, telling you a short fiction about a bygone legacy (from which you get paid a percentage), asking your help to set records straight. On proceeding with the correspondence, you will be asked to submit bank account information, or even send small sums of money to enable successful funds transfer.

If the email contains image instead of text (to find out, try selecting the text on the email), then discern that it is an attempt to elude the spam filter of your email software.

Most of the phishing emails, owing to be from uneducated lot trying for quick bucks, may contain loads of grammatical and punctuation errors interspersed in awkward wording and spelling mistakes. Also, they would lack that quality and politeness of a polished professional email.

Another giveaway is the presence of attachments. Phishing emails may contain them while genuine entities never send attachments over emails. Make sure you don’t open any of the attachments received. They can be such potential threats as adwares, malwares, keyloggers, etc.

If you don’t find your name in the greeting in the mail, then it may be a phishing mail. Generic greetings like “Dear sir,” “Dear user,” “Dear subscriber,” etc., instead of “Dear Tom,” “Dear Sarah,” etc., clearly tells you that the sender knows not who you are. So, suspect such mails.

Check out the link provided. A link text of the URL of the genuine entity itself, like “http://www.bankofamerica.com,” with underlying original hyperlink of the phishing website, may evade your eyes. So, always check which address it actually links to. Don’t open the hyperlink unless you are sure. Deceptive URLs can take many forms. Some URLs will be subdomains with the subdomain name that of the genuine organization. Like “http://www.paypal.spoof.com.” Be wary of these addresses.

Fight Phishing

Legally fighting phishing is very easy for you. A way to report phishing attack is through US-CERT, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team. Report phishing to US-CERT through their email address, phishing-report@us-cert.gov. Report phishing with the Antiphishing Organization email, reportphishing@antiphishing.org. Spams may be forwarded to spam@uce.gov (Federal Trade Commission, FTC email address). Also, alert the Internet Crime Complaint Center of FBI (www.ic3.gov).

Most of the online entities have their own designated email addresses for you to report phishing. For instance, PayPal has spoof@paypal.com, eBay has spoof@ebay.com.

Conclusion

To be on the safe side, always make sure you have a current antivirus and firewall application in place. Do not give your personal information through any links you receive in emails. Email is not a safe medium of communication at all; do not communicate with anybody you don’t know. Make sure you forward any spam or spoof you receive to the above-said entities. These simple steps will keep you secure in the cyberspace.

About the Author

Marvin Dreyer is and entrepreneur, author. He has been involved in entrepreneurial activities for over 20 years. He founded Cheap Affordable Web Site Hosting for your web site hosting and domain name registration and more online.

Internet is one sea where all users find various links according to their needs; right from games to a scientific search.. The Internet provides many services to enable and service the people in many ways and one such service is the Web hosting service which will allow the user to upload and maintain their own websites in the Internet. A website is been created by the hosting company which will provide space on a server which are special computers which will house the files and the related pages which is comprised in the website. These hosting companies have a special professional speed internet connection. The web hosting company needs to provide the equipment and the other technical resources which are needed by the user. A web host is considered as the Best Web Hosting service when it provides its user the best services. Web host can even be a given example of a landlord of a building. Continue reading →

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