Polish Pep Bois Discover SEO

"PandaLabs has identified over a million spam links used to target Google searchers looking for information about automotive parts from Ford and Nissan especially. Panda calls it `a major Blackhat SEO attack` designed to dupe searchers into downloading spyware or purchasing phony security software.

"Searching for the keyphrase `Diagram Of A 1998 Nissan Pathfinder Blower Motor,` for example leads to a Google results page packed with spammy sites. A savvy user can identify them by their unusual URLs starting with an arbitrary number, followed by nonsensical combinations of letters and resolving to Polish domains..."

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Hot Security Buzzword: Space Faking

"THE growing trend of online `space faking`, where users masquerade as other people, has reignited concerns about the safety and security of social networking sites.

"While space faking is not a crime, federal Home Affairs Minister Bob Debus said such activity could be a precursor to identity theft.

"`This sort of activity can be innocent but you only have to take it a few steps forward to commit an identity crime,` he said.

"`Clever people may be able to use fake identities to gather clues about your identity and then go on to commit a crime.

"`All users have to be aware that strangers can access information you put on the internet.`

"Increasingly, social networking sites are being overrun by space fakers, who swipe other users' photos and create entirely new identities for themselves."

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