BlackHat SEO News & Reviews

Here’s what some computer security professionals from Black Hat 2008 had to say about black hat money makers online.

This video shows some great examples of what NOT to do with black hat SEO nowadays. This company creates doorway pages from the same template (footprint!) and they engage in hidden text, the stupid way, by just making the text the same color as the background. Watch as this video creator exposes the amateurish “black hat” SEO company:

Apparently, it really takes some class and style to “break the rules” of SEO nowadays. Stick with what I recommend on this blog, and what you see the guys doing on the blogs I link to. DON’T be the next loser to get PWNED like these guys did.

The Domain Name System (DNS) associates various information with domain names; most importantly, it serves as the “phone book” for the Internet by translating human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. www.example.com, into IP addresses, e.g. 208.77.188.166, which networking equipment needs to deliver information. A DNS also stores other information such as the list of mail servers that accept email for a given domain. By providing a worldwide keyword-based redirection service, the Domain Name System is an essential component of contemporary Internet use. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system )

Here’s Dan Kaminsky presenting more about the DNS vulnerability. He says the WHOLE internet is potentially SCREWED. This could be a big deal in the wrong hands.