Google: Spam, Virus Attacks to Get More Clever - Google's Postini team recommends enterprises guard against socially generated spam and virus attacks in 2008. Spam and virus threats to enterprise messaging security and compliance may level off this year compared to 2007, but social engineering techniques are evolving to challenge businesses and security software providers, according to a new report released by Google's Postini team. The report, released March 6 after Google's Postini team commissioned the study to survey 575 IT professionals, found that Postini data centers recorded 57 percent more spam and virus attacks in 2007 compared to 2006.

Clint Boulton on Socially Generated Spam

Forgotten Fundamentals of SEO - Would you like to get more traffic from your business website? It's a rhetorical question, of course, because we all want more traffic for our websites. It's the first step to Internet marketing success. In this article, I'll show you an easy way to increase your website's traffic levels (and overall success) through a systematic and proven technique. And you probably already guessed the technique based on the title of this article. Essentially, you are going to write one page of quality web content for each of your key phrases.

Brandon Cornett on Search Optimization

There is a misperception among much of the security community that Mac users don't care about security. Since joining TidBITS I've learned that Mac users are just as concerned about their security as their Windows brethren, but they aren't really sure what they need to know. Even the most naive Windows user understands that their system is under a constant barrage of attacks, but the Mac user rarely encounters much beyond the occasional pop-under browser ad and, of course, their fair share of spam.

Rich Mogull on Macintosh security