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Reported Twitter Data Breach Potentially Affects 5.4 Million Accounts

July 26, 2022 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

Twitter data breach

WEST PALM BEACH, FL – Stolen personal information from 5.4 million Twitter users has been discovered for sale on a hacker forum. With this information, including emails and phone numbers, cybercriminals can create profiles to target victims with spam or phishing attempts which could lead to identity theft. Twitter is currently investigating claims that a near-seven-month-old vulnerability in its software has been exploited and the hacker is asking for $30,000 for the … [Read more...]

10 Simple Yet Effective Security Tips To Keep You Cyber Safe and Worry Less in 2020

January 23, 2020 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL - There is no shortage of security breaches and data leaks reported in the news this past year. As we all move into 2020, here are some simple tips to help keep you stay cyber safe, so you can worry less and have more to look forward to this year. Don't Shorten 2020 in Dates You shouldn’t shorten the year 2020 when signing things. Scammers can easily change the abbreviated date, for example from “3/30/20” to “3/30/2018”. Make sure to write out the full … [Read more...]

Why Do My Search Results Look Different? “Determining Relevance Based On Users”

December 27, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL - Just because you see something in ‘search’ doesn’t mean someone else will see that same result. This is because more and more of the web, as well as the experience you receive on your mobile device – be it Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, Google, etc., is being influenced by your past search and browsing habits, as well as where you go and how valuable your visit might be, and/or how many times you might return for more - all of which are being done through various … [Read more...]

Data of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed in Online Database; Found on Hacker Forum

December 21, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL - Data security researchers discovered an online database containing the names, phone numbers, and Facebook IDs of 267 million Facebook users available for download on a hacker forum. The database was not password protected and had been posted on December 12th. On December 14th, the researchers contacted the internet service provider that was hosting the database and the database was removed on December 19th. According to the Associated Press, a … [Read more...]

U.S. GDPR: The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Goes Into Effect January 2020

October 21, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH, FL - The US's answer to European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018, will create new consumer rights relating to the access to, deletion of, and sharing of personal information that is collected by businesses. It also requires California's Attorney General to solicit broad public participation and adopt regulations to further the CCPA's purposes. The proposed regulations will establish … [Read more...]

Half of All U.S. Households Likely Victims of New Data Leak; 80 Million Records Exposed

May 7, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH – A new data leak will likely make victims out of what has been estimated at approximately half of all adults in the United States; 80 million records of those over age 40. This new leak is the cause of an undisclosed company which hosts its database with Microsoft services and the information was freely available on the Internet for those who knew the location of the data, until this week according to Forbes.com's Kate O'Flaherty who contributes as a … [Read more...]

NamesCon 2019 Domain Auction Returns from Explosive Year of $2.4 Million is Sales

May 3, 2019 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

PALM BEACH – What do you do when a live and online auction produces lackluster results? Why, you re-run it again a couple of months later (Just kidding - As soon as I saw the title of the email, Back by “Popular Demand”, I thought, yea right – but NUMBERS my friends, do not lie, and those numbers show that Domaining, is indeed very much alive and well; at least at NamesCon it is.) Yesterday, NameJet.com and RightOfTheDot.com announced via email and a formal press release … [Read more...]

World Not Ready to Lose Access to ‘WhoIs’

April 21, 2018 By John Colascione Leave a Comment

NEW YORK, NY – There has been so much back and forth about the loss of ‘Who Is’ data that its been difficult to fully keep up on it. The ordinary availability of this critical industry information is expected to cease next month on May 25, 2018 when the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) becomes fully enforceable (it already went into effect this year but there is no recourse till May 25). However, today I received a meaningful update from the Internet Commerce … [Read more...]

List of 300+ Cryptocurrency Domain Name Sales and Sale Prices [All Time] (NameBio)

September 25, 2017 By John Colascione 19 Comments

NEW YORK, NY - The other evening I made a list of domain name sales which contained the exact match word of "Bitcoin" in the domains, but that list left lots of domains off the table since there is so many different types of Cryptocurrencies. This list, still not all inclusive, includes more different types of cryptocurrencies and keywords such as Coin, Litecoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Ripple, Crypto and many other terms. I built the list with several rounds of … [Read more...]

209 Online Tools to Run Your Domain, Development and Online Business

August 10, 2017 By John Colascione 1 Comment

NEW YORK, NY – There are a lot of tools out there which make running your online business more efficient, reliable, secure and productive. Listed below are some of the services I use or have used in the past. They are all great services and are the ones I use currently, or have used in the past (My collection of goodies). This list was updated on 6/28/2022. If I have used an online tool and it makes my work easier, it's here. Domain Names (33) Godaddy.com (Domain … [Read more...]

Greatest Benefits of New gTLDs is PR, Temporary “Buzz Factor” “Link Equity”

June 24, 2017 By John Colascione 7 Comments

NEW YORK, NY – A long time ago, say, 8-10 years ago, to effectively market a website on the Internet you needed to know how to do some very basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and you needed to acquire lots of inbound links to your site – from just about anywhere you could find them, and when you understood this and utilized it, you could reap tremendous reward from search engine traffic. This is because if you simply acquired or purchased enough inbound links to your … [Read more...]

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John Colascione is Chief Executive of Internet Marketing Services Inc. He specializes in Website Monetization, authored a book called Mastering Your Website, and is a key player in several Internet businesses through his brand SEARCHEN®

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quote icon The domain name is equivalent to Gold. It is the only packaged item which is globally tax-free, portable, with value that is universal across different cultures. quote icon – Frank Schilling

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Recent SEDO Weekly Sales List Includes “LLL.org” Domain Name Sale for $35,000

PALM BEACH, FL – According to the latest SEDO.com weekly domain sales report, the three letter “LLL” web address "FTP.org" just sold for $35,000.00. Other recent sales of “LLL.org” … [Read More...]

GOOG To Follow FB With Restrictions On Housing, Employment, and Credit Ads

WEST PALM BEACH, FL - Usually Google is a leader in all things advertising, however, a recent update to policy by GOOG (NASDAQ) will have it following Facebook (FB) where the ad giant will implement … [Read More...]

Data Breach: Unauthorized Party Accessed DoorDash Customer Information

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