Let’s do the Wave… (Or at least as soon as I figure out how…)

I finally  received my invite for Google Wave. If you have not heard of Wave, below is the snippet from Google Wave about page:

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Read more

Affiliate Marketing – Highly Cost Effective, Highly Efficient

The Internet has fast become an efficient and trusted way for companies to market and sell their product. One of the reasons for this has been the rise of “Affiliated Marketing” – which is when a website directs traffic to itself through adverts on other (usually related) websites. Affiliated marketing either pays the affiliate through a pay-per-click program (the affiliate receives money every time an advert is clicked) or a pay-per-sale program (the affiliate receives commission every time a posted advert on their site generates an actual sale or subscription.) Generally, the pay-per-sale program (also called cost-per-sale, or CPS) is the tried and trusted form of affiliate marketing used. Read more

Monday DeMondaynizer: Scary

November 30, 2009 · Posted in Random Stuff, The Demondaynizer · Comment 

There’s plenty of this stuff going around, funny how people still fall for them. Never gets old…. ;-) … At least if you have the sense of humor of a 6 year old like yours truly :-D

Happy Monday…

CISSP Exam Note (Domain 2: Telecommunications and Networking Security) – The Responsibilities of CIRT aka Computer Incident Response Team

November 30, 2009 · Posted in Information Security, Information Systems · Comment 

What is CIRT?

CIRT (Computer Incident Response Team) is also commonly called CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) – they are personnel responsible for coordinating the response to computer security incidents in an organization (Source: www.net.ttu.edu/security/policy_definitions.doc) Read more

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