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Aston University Accommodation uses Chameleon Web Services 360 Virtual Tours to show prospective students the accommodation online.
http://www.aston.ac.uk/accommodation/prospective-students/types/accommodation-virtual-tour/
A Russian based website has been streaming webcams from all over the world which seems impossible you might think. Not impossible if you do not protect yourself by changing the default password when the device is sent out to you.
The website showing the cameras is http://www.insecam.org.
Webcams are all shipped with a default username and password and the hosts of this website have been using this default user information to show the webcams without anyone being aware.
The webcams were in places such as children’s bedroom and shops with over 400 streaming from the UK alone which is a shocking and the message from Chameleon is “CHANGE YOUR DEFAULT USER DETAILS”.
The website has claimed that this was only done to show the problem and highlight a security flaw.
This problem is something that people need to take seriously and look at and this is not just with webcams but anything that we use online.
Below are some examples of these and to see that they are in fact live press F5 or refresh your browser and look again.
UK Examples:-
USA Examples:-
Switzerland Examples:-
Disclaimer – We do not have permission to show these examples and these are used a reference to this problem in order to ensure people take this seriously. We are not responsible for what is shown on the CCTV images.
Chapman’s Electrical in Cradley Heath gets a 360 virtual tour allowing customers to visit the store from the comfort of there home.
Chapman’s Electrical, 112-119 Reddal Hill Road, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64 5JN
Tel:- 01384 566497
With the Internet growing to be an increased part of our lives the speed at which things happen has to improve to make this function as we need it to, responsive and information at the click of button.
A users experience on a website should be not be a frustrating one. A faster and more responsive website will keep user engaged and focused on your content, rather than waiting for scripts and images to load or leaving the site to go to a competitor.
Website’s look more attractive, images and video’s are shared in high quality across many platforms including mobile, so speed is so important. Since 2010 Google uses speed as part of the algorithm and they suggest a focus on user experience so we thought we should compare our website hosting platform against a few of the largest companies who spend millions if not trillions on infrastructure to see just how we compare to them.
Testing hosting speed and website coding is simple, there are various methods and varied software platforms you can use. We like the GT Metrix for the simple reason it provides in-depth data to help you improve things.
We selected the cream of companies to test against selecting Facebook, Microsoft and Adobe and the test is obviously carried out in a fair manner by a third party software.
The testing is using the following URLs www.chameleonwebservices.co.uk, www.facebook.com, www.microsoft.com & www.adobe.com.
We think we did very well against the very strong competition and decided to do even more testing.
We decided to compare even more selected Ebay, Apple and AOL to see how we do against these guys.
The testing is using the following URLs www.chameleonwebservices.co.uk, www.ebay.com, www.apple.com & www.aol.com.
These test results please us as we be can sure that are our web hosting and coding is being provided at a very high standard in terms of speed and reliability.
Our clients experience is always good and are happy to share these results with pride.
Hosting Speed & Coding Test using GT Metrix
The SEO world is again all going mad with the news that Google have rolled out yet another algorithmic update which is Google Penguin 3.0. It has been announced and launched on Sunday October 18th 2014 which is just over a year since the Penguin 2.1 update was launched October 4th 2013.
In the SEO industry there are mixed reports of big losses and other with big gains so it is again dependant upon the type of SEO activity that has been carried out. As always following Google’s guidelines means you should have nothing to worry about and we have seen many of our sites gain in rankings due to our hard work. With clients sites that came to us with Google penalties we are also seeing huge jumps and this suggests that potentially penalties have been removed or refocused.
It is really too early to tell if we have seen the full extent to what the Penguin 3.0 update has changed but from our point of view this is another movement forwards helping us achieve of clients goals.
What can you do if your site has suddenly dropped and lost rankings? First thing is do not panic, wait over the next few days to let the dust settle, if the site doesn’t recover then contact one of our SEM consultants to take a look at the profile of the domain and understand why and what caused the problem. It might be a quick fix or a complicated repair process but either way we will be able to fix this.
One of the things we have come to learn is that Google have also rolled out with this update a way to reduce the rankings of pirate sites which is a movement forwards in the copyright world due to the fact that Google contains pirated media locations and is used by users to find movies and music illegally. With Google beginning to punish pirate sites within the search results this will make it more difficult to find pirated materials. Google have stated that this move is designed to “help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily” and we feel this is great movement forward.
