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When the folks at Automattic, the home of popular blogging platform WordPress came up with VaultPress, I was doubly pleased. First of all it addressed a real need to have constant off-server backups of WP sites and someone to call on when things went badly wrong with our installations. Secondly, I was [...]
If your friends and contacts have received an email or IM message from your Hotmail account with wording along the lines of “I would like to introduce a good company who trades mainly in electronic products… etc” – it is highly likely that your Hotmail account has been compromised.
IF YOU ARE THE POOR [...]
WordPress is an excellent blogging platform, but as it is so popular it’s also a constant target for those wanting to find and exploit its vulnerabilities. You should note that as with other web platforms, keeping WordPress secure is a constant job of updating and keeping up with the latest news and exploits.
Below are [...]
Following my piece about Google Chrome making password information visible to users (Oh Sh*t – Google Chrome Doesn’t Really do THAT?!) – I got several messages from people who were more worried about my observation that Firefox does the same.
The problem was that anyone using your PC could view a [...]
What do I do if I have a Virus? (Virus Removal and Protection)
This article covers what to do if you have a virus, or suspect you have a virus on your computer.
THE CAUSE
You are usually vulnerable to a virus under the following conditions:
1. You have virus protection on your [...]
Yahoo virus / malware report is a false positive (Avast)
Yahoo virus and malware reports from around the globe were found to be a false positive, captured by anti-virus program “Avast!”.
Concerned users were reporting the following message when they accessed yahoo.com:
“A virus was found!”
Malware name: VBS:malware-gen
Malware type: [...]
MOST CURRENT – 20 June 08 14.15 GMT:
Things seem to have stabilised as the corrected dns settings filtered out across the web. There are still a small number of users accessing the instructions on what to do to get onto Photobucket, of which some would be due to local caches.
So I [...]
Above: Photobucket down – site as seen by some users yesterday.
Photobucket was hacked yesterday, using what seems like a dns hack*
*see “what is a DNS hack?” at the bottom of this post.
Because the Photobucket outage was dns based, it meant that some people could still access the site, whilst [...]
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