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By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Mar 23, 2010

We have moved our blog to a new location so this feed will no longer be updated. Please update your RSS subscription to http://feeds.feedburner.com/TurnLeftBlog and the new blog URL is http://www.inetsolution.com/turnleft

Good Security on Banking Site No Match for Poor Security Elsewhere

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Mar 9, 2010

Marc Rapport's advice in his article at CUTimes.com is a good reminder that even high-caliber security like MemberProtect provides is cannot protect bank and credit union user's who don't exercise good judgment when managing their online identities.

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New Bugat Malware Aimed at Banking Websites to Steal Customer Data

By Justin Gattuso
Posted on Mar 6, 2010

Security researchers have recently discovered a new black market malware application specifically targeting banking websites that offer ACH and wire transfer services. Similar to its popular counterparts Zeus and Clampi, Bugat works by harvesting logon, RBA and PIN credentials from infected users' machines, among other things. Most bank and credit union websites have few defenses against this type of malware application, but the latest versions of MemberProtect can help to render Trojan horse applications like Bugat ineffective.

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Google Will Now Alert You if Your Website Has Been Hacked

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Mar 4, 2010

For some time now Google has warned its search users if your site contains malware or other dangerous code. Unfortunately, they did not provide any notification to webmasters of the hacked sites. This meant that website owners usually learned of hacking issues from their customers or site visitors. Not only can that be embarrassing for site owners, but it can also have a severe impact on sales and lead to potential identify theft, especially on banking websites.

Well, now I have good news, especially for banks, credit unions, retail e-commerce and other website owners for whom security and quick response to website hacks is of utmost concern. According to Google's Webmaster blog, Google will now notify webmasters when Googlebot has detected that a website has been hacked.

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Code Optimization A Factor in Google Search Rankings Yet?

By Jason Sherrill
Posted on Mar 3, 2010

If you've worked with us on a web development or SEO project, then you've undoubtedly heard us preach the benefits of code optimization. Not only does lightweight, well-optimized code reduce development, troubleshooting and on-going maintenance costs, but front-end code optimization can improve user experience as well by, among other things, reducing page load times.

There has been buzz for the past few months that Google may give developers another benefit to optimizing code for fast page loading - search engine rankings.

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