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10 July 2008
Future on the line for regionals
Regional papers are turning to the net for their future revenue streams, as they haemorrhage advertisers from their print editions amid growing economic uncertainty.

7 July 2008
Mobile journalists to share desks
Mobile journalists, or mojos, face losing their desks as newspapers look to take advantage of mobile technologies, such as laptops and WiFi, to cut down on office real estate.

3 July 2008
Regional star does four million impressions
The web offering of Britain's biggest-selling regional evening newspaper, the Express & Star, has reached a new milestone by breaking through the four million barrier for monthly page impressions.

30 June 2008
Journalists should take blogging seriously
Too few journalists treat blogging seriously and are failing to grasp the truth that the blogging revolution is threatening the established order of journalism, according to Guardian media commentator, Roy Greenslade.

26 June 2008
BBC wants Ł800,000 local video kitty
The BBC has unveiled plans for an £800,000 fund to source local video content from outside the organisation, as part of a £68 million investment in its local network.

23 June 2008
Mail posts first-class online figures
Mail Online has leapfrogged Telegraph.co.uk to become the most popular online national newspaper, according to the latest Audit Bureau of Circulation Electronic (ABCe) statistics.

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7 May 2007

Google ads used in spyware phishing scam

Exploit Prevention Labs found that adverts purchased for specific keywords linked through to a spyware applet which would dupe users into entering account details into fake online banking pages.

The company said it found these links in what it considered to be innocuous search terms – such as ‘better business bureau’.

Internet users who clicked the sponsored links were sent to a Russian-based website which attempted to install the spyware, before being redirected to their intended destination.

Exploit Prevention Labs spokesman, Roger Thompson, said lots of links from search engines point to infective sites and that's not really a surprise, but it does highlight a significant issue.

When internet users move the mouse over a normal natural search result, Google shows the URL that they are about to navigate to if the link is clicked. However, there is no URL preview shown when internet users move the mouse over a sponsored result and this means that a user has no clue where they are about to navigate to.

He added that Google had terminated that particular account for the sponsored link but his company detected about 20 related search strings.