Ultimate Connection Entry Deadline next Wednesday, May 30
If you’re like me you’re always waiting until the last minute. In fact, if I hadn’t spent so much time straightening my paper clips and refilling my Swingline stapler, I’d have posted this blog entry two hours ago and could’ve gone home early.
Sadly, the deadline for entries for the Ultimate Connection Contest is not as flexible as my deadline for getting this post live. You remember the Ultimate Connection, right? That’s where you could be one of three lucky small business owners who will win:
An executive meeting with Ivanka Trump
A $25,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing budget
A power lunch with your marketing mentor in New York City
Access to your marketing mentor and a Yahoo! Search marketing mentor throughout the year
A web site makeover from Yahoo! Small Business and FastPivot
The deadline for your 500-word essay on what your business needs to succeed and how the Ultimate Connection can help you achieve it is May 30, 2007 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. So, unless you want your life to feel like a scene in “Little Miss Sunshine,” you might want to think about getting started on your essay now.
Friday, May 25, 2007
The Ultimate Deadline
Security Bites Podcast: Skype worm jumps apps
This week, CNET.com's Robert Vamosi features guest security researcher Chris Boyd of FaceTime Communications. Boyd says he has discovered a new Skpe-based worm that manages to jump the fence and infect other IM clients such as Trillian, ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger and MSN Messenger. Boyd also talks about his ongoing work with botnets, in particular one network that appears to be using the botnet's spam profits to buy firearms for a Middle East terrorist cell.
Also on the show, Vamosi talks about Apple's almost-monthly patch cycle, addressing 17 flaws in its latest update, including one affecting specially crafted PDF files, as well as fixes for flaws in Bind, Fetchmail and GNU Screen.
And Vamosi discusses a war in Estonia--online. Up to 128 Estonia-based URLs, including government sites, were victims of denial-of-service attacks over a two-week period. At the height, 58 sites were attacked May 9, 2007, which is Victory Day in Russia, where many of the attacks are thought to originate.
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