.ph34r` http://ph34r.net Jovanni Hernandez, Freelancer Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:36:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Better SEO leads to 21% Increase in Search Impressionshttp://ph34r.net/2011/12/03/better-seo-leads-to-increase-in-search-impressions/ http://ph34r.net/2011/12/03/better-seo-leads-to-increase-in-search-impressions/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:33:07 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=333
It’s been a little over a month since we rolled out the new scoobysworkshop.com website. A major aspect of the redesign was to formalize a  strong search engine optimization (SEO) program. The process involved creating quality content, good old fashioned strategic descriptions and a more social friendly sharing environment. The results? Well, they speak for themselves. Google Webmaster Tools reports a 21% increase in search impressions over last month:

21% Increase

]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/12/03/better-seo-leads-to-increase-in-search-impressions/feed/ 5 ScoobysWorkshop.com goes live!http://ph34r.net/2011/10/30/scoobysworkshop-com-goes-live/ http://ph34r.net/2011/10/30/scoobysworkshop-com-goes-live/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:10:36 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=319 I am very pleased to announce that as of last night, the newly designed Scooby’s Workshop website has gone live. This isn’t to say that the process has been a breeze, it certainly hasn’t! Scooby and I learned a huge lesson on scalability when dealing with several hundred http requests per hour. Everything seems to be going smoothly so far, which is a rarity, let’s hope it stays that way. Go ahead and check it out ;)

ScoobysWorkshop.com

Here’s a cool testimonial snippet from the project:

Going from an old fashioned static HTML website to a dynamic one like WordPress takes far more work than meets the eye. I’m a software engineer and I hadnt even heard of these things till Jovanni educated me. Number one is security. As I found out 6 months ago when my old website was high-jacked and forwarded to a spammers website, security is a high stakes game now.

Jovanni is an expert at security (its his field) and he took a multi-layered approach to make sure the new website is safe. Cool new services and ways to protect digital assets that an old-school software engineer like myself had never heard of. I learned my lesson the hard way, you can learn from my mistake. If you have a popular website, even if its not a commercial website, you need to get a security expert involved to make sure your website is safe!

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View Jovanni Hernandez's profile on LinkedIn

 

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Anyways, this is my first career fair so I’m a little nervous, I don’t quite know what to expect. Hopefully I can avoid being awkward!

]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/09/27/career-fair-shenanigans/feed/ 0 Camden Church of the Nazarene: Web Presence V2http://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/camden-church-of-the-nazarene-v2/ http://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/camden-church-of-the-nazarene-v2/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:01:23 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=281 It was about time to upgrade the look of the Camden Church of the Nazarene’s website. We agreed on a more modern, clean, and crisp look for this round
  • Custom Redesign
  • Built on Catalyst Theme Framework
  • Added Multilingual Support
  • Advanced SEO enhancements
  • Coming Soon: Mobile Optimized Version
  • http://www.camdennaz.org
Camden First Spanish Church of the Nazarene
]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/camden-church-of-the-nazarene-v2/feed/ 0 Understanding Web Advertising Privacy Through Browser Instrumentationhttp://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/understanding-web-advertising-privacy-through-browser-instrumentation/ http://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/understanding-web-advertising-privacy-through-browser-instrumentation/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:37:43 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=227 My blog posts have been littered with me talking about my research at Stanford Security Lab, but I neglected actually posting the final research paper — here it is!

Abstract

A growing number of websites serve tracking content from third party advertisers, advertising networks, advertising exchanges, advertising data providers, and more. Most consumers are unaware of what information is gathered and how it is used. We conducted web crawls with a new browser instrumentation tool to better understand the privacy-related business practices of the largely unregulated and unstudied online advertising ecosystem.

Keywords

Online Privacy, Browser Instrumentation, Fingerprinting, Tracking Cookies.

  • Download link 1: pdf
  • Download link 2, for those paranoid (rightfully so) of pdfs: .doc
]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/09/22/understanding-web-advertising-privacy-through-browser-instrumentation/feed/ 0 Summer Wrap uphttp://ph34r.net/2011/09/19/summer-wrap-up/ http://ph34r.net/2011/09/19/summer-wrap-up/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2011 03:55:03 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=263 It has been a very fun and enlightening experience working at the Stanford Security Lab this summer. I’ve learned tons of different things, and noted various topics in which I have to become better versed in with security and privacy as a whole. I can only hope that the drive I currently have sticks with me as I wrap up this last year of undergrad and prepare myself for grad school.

Just as a quick  summary, here are various articles in which I either did research on, wrote, or was featured in along with project websites in which the work was related to (most notably, the Tracking the Trackers series):

Just wanted to give a shout-out to Jonathan Mayer, Stanford C.S. PhD candidate, for being an awesome mentor this summer. Also shout-outs to John Mitchel for being my sponsoring faculty along with the NSF funded  Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies (TRUST) in Cyber Security and Trustworthy Systems for granting me this wonderful opportunity.

Hopefully I will be able to update this blog with news of grad schools that I get into!

]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/09/19/summer-wrap-up/feed/ 0 Stay Away From FatCow Hosting!http://ph34r.net/2011/09/12/stay-away-from-fatcow-hosting/ http://ph34r.net/2011/09/12/stay-away-from-fatcow-hosting/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:06:49 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=256 The title says it all! I picked up this hosting company after serious consideration of many online reviews I found, and boy what a mistake that was! All the reviews I read must have been contrived because the quality of service has been a disgrace.

In the last two weeks, all customers hosted on FatCow have experienced 3 sessions of downtime, one session lasting for almost 6 hours before being fixed. On top of the terrible up-time, the hosting is just plain out SLOWWWWWWWWWW. I’ve tried contacting FatCow support various times, only to get the same sorry excuse, “Everything looks fine on our end, you don’t know what your talking about.”

Save yourself the hassle and use hostgator. I have used their VPS and shared hosting for a rather large client of mine and have not been disappointed with their service. Think I’m making exaggerated claims about how lousy FatCow really is? Check out their Facebook page to see all of the disgruntled customers:

https://www.facebook.com/FatCow

I certainly can’t wait for my contract with them to be over so I can switch over to a more reliable service. In the meantime, please bare with me here :(

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Fourth Party

]]> http://ph34r.net/2011/09/08/fourth-party/feed/ 0 Maid In Heavenhttp://ph34r.net/2011/09/08/maid-in-heaven/ http://ph34r.net/2011/09/08/maid-in-heaven/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 04:08:36 +0000 ph34r http://ph34r.net/?p=235 This is a project I worked on and finished about 4 months ago for a local cleaning services. The client opted in for a basic, custom design built on WordPress Content Management system. For this project, I incorporated the use of Catalyst Framework for the page structure. This gave me increased flexibility and allowed for quicker production and release while enhancing the markup structure and providing minor built in SEO features.

  • Custom Design
  • WordPress Integration
  • Minor SEO (Google, Yahoo!, Live)
  • Social Media Integration (In progress)
  • Content Creation
  • http://www.maidheaven.com

Maid in Heaven

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