Venngage: Pop-Ups Be Gone: The Solution to Google’s Interstitials Update in 2017
Some great ideas in here about how to get people to engage and give up their email, without being so annoying about it.
1) Instead of pop-ups, create valuable gated content
2) Use NudgeSumo to replace pop-ups
3) Include subscribe forms directly in your content
Read how here:
https://venngage.com/blog/pop-ups-google-interstitials-2017/
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Hacker News: Stop Using these 2 Easily Hackable Netgear Router Models
Carnegie Mellon's Computer Emerency Response Team (CERT) warns
Netgear's R7000 and R6400 routers, running current and latest versions of firmware, are vulnerable to arbitrary command injection attacks, though the number of users affected by the flaw is still unclear.
http://thehackernews.com/2016/12/netgear-router-hacking.html
Hacker News: This Ransomware Unlocks Your Files For Free If You Infect Others
Krebs: Researchers Find Fresh Fodder for IoT Attack Cannons
Lots of deep info here about whole classes of devices that are vulnerable to Mirai.
The fact that these things run telnet simply boggles the mind.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/12/researchers-find-fresh-fodder-for-iot-attack-cannons/
Analytics Toolkit: Future-Proofing Against Google Analytics Spam
If you're seeing this in your Analytics reports,
“Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!”
and are sufficiently technical to do something about it, here's a great article on how to proceed.
http://blog.analytics-toolkit.com/2016/future-proofing-your-ga-vs-google-analytics-spam/
Seth Godin: The best way to stand for something
If you want to stand for something,
You can't stand for everything.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2016/12/the-best-way-to-stand-for-something.html
Daniel Goleman: What Makes a Leader?
Startup Shenanigans: The dark art of Growth Hacking.
And here's what it feels like to be less than authentic...
A few weeks ago I asked a friend who has been doing “growth hacking” for a long time to help promote Asteroid and to show me a few tricks. What I learned was depressing.
https://medium.com/startup-shenanigans/the-dark-art-of-growth-hacking-e3f7f5514f38#.2tr7d7yvu