Bogus blogs pose dangerous threat

April 15, 2005 By Leave a Comment

A number of ‘bogus blogs’ are starting to pop up online, posing virus threats and identity theft issues for readers. The BBC News reports that these blogs use keylogging software and viruses to infect visitors’ computers and allow for the stealing of sensitive information, such as bank account numbers and social security digits. The blogs are not easy to stumble upon accidentally, as a perpetrator must e-mail or instant message a link to the blog in order for any damage to occur. Still, roughly 200 of these bogus blogs are floating around on the Web, circumventing traditional virus protection software because of their ability to evade filtering systems.

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About Sogole Honarvar

Sogole is a Master of Arts candidate in Strategic Public Relations at USC Annenberg. She enjoys entertainment, arts & culture, fashion and travel/tourism PR. She is a member of Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society and student-run USC PR firm TriSight Communications. She has held and currently holds several PR internships at prestigious entertainment and fashion companies.

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Yahoo HotJobs partners with MediaNews

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From Editor and Publisher Online: MediaNews, owner and operator of 50 newspapers and sites such as The Daily News of Los Angeles and The Denver Post, has partnered with Yahoo HotJobs in an effort to provide more targeted job advertising online. The deal synchronizes job ads on MediaNews Web sites with those of HotJobs, which allows for the targeting of a wider range of jobs at a localized level. “Our breadth of job seekers coupled with our searching and matching capabilities creates a more valuable experience for advertisers,” said Yahoo HotJobs executive vice president and general manager Dan Finnigan.

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About Sogole Honarvar

Sogole is a Master of Arts candidate in Strategic Public Relations at USC Annenberg. She enjoys entertainment, arts & culture, fashion and travel/tourism PR. She is a member of Lambda Pi Eta Communication Honor Society and student-run USC PR firm TriSight Communications. She has held and currently holds several PR internships at prestigious entertainment and fashion companies.

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