Years ago I encountered a company called NBD and posted my very popular thread NBO - National Business Online.
I was alerted recently that they’ve started up two new websites: jobleader.co.nz and nzcareerexpo.co.nz. It’s an ambitious project given that the Herald have their search4jobs and there’s seek.co.nz dominating the market.
The good news is that they appear to be trying to make a legitimate business and I’ve seen billboards around town promoting the jobleader.co.nz website.
The bad news (according to Melinda) is that their sales techniques haven’t changed.
So, I was wondering, are there any other New Zealand (or Australian) companies with first hand experiences?
This is a big topic in Auckland right now as our City Council Elections are hijacked by a supposed candidate promoting his porn empire. It’s hard to separate the “no harm done” side of the industry from the exploitive and damaging side and to understand, in the long run, where to draw the line.
Aside from the obvious industry fronts of websites, movies, magazines and gadgets there are the rogues that exploit the demand for the product. I guess anytime you have something popular there are going to be people who trick and connive.
Take Captcha - it’s a great way to bot proof your website and unless (more…)
This is a hot topic at DigitalPoint right now as there is a bot working it’s way down the memberslist and doing bruteforce or dictionary attacks on the logins. Because the forum uses vBulletin it only gets 5 shots before there’s a lockout and it has to move onto the next member and then remember to return later. But it’s keen and has been running for a couple of days now. Reports indicate that it’s tried some other forums too.
Why? (more…)
Manuel Lemos from phpClasses.org has written an excellent post about about the risks when allowing users to upload images. It’s not something I’ve done alot but lets say you have a generated image such as this one - with a .php extension. I could upload it to your server and have it served from there - not much use to me because it would fail to update.
The next guy, however, might be uploading a malicious script that might take over your server, send spam etc.
Read his post here: PHP security exploit with GIF images
I’ve been using a crossword helper for a while, usually when helping my Mother with questions about French Presidents and button collections and Google fails to give me a sensible answer.
The tool I use is at http://casr.adelaide.edu.au/craig/wow.html
They have a little teaser on the page saying What is docapy? (more…)
People who do business online frequently have their earnings held by pseudo-banks such as PayPal and e-gold. A problem then arises when the same people need their money out of these pseudo-banks or transferred between them.
The most common way to do it appears to be to find someone who is happy to trade. So A puts money into B’s PayPal account and B puts money into A’s e-gold account. (more…)
I’ve just taken a novel step and am trying out two directory submission services. They’ve both taken a while to get started and yesterday I received a flood of submission notifications. Yay!
Buried within them though were some requiring a second step - click this link to confirm your submission. (more…)
