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 [...]
Your passwords and indiscretions for world+wife to see.
OK – I admit it’s a problem that’s also inherent in Firefox, but Google’s new browser, supposedly built from the ground up, should really NOT do this. It’s absolutely effing bonkers!
What am I on about? Google Chrome allowing users to view ALL their saved passwords [...]
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 [...]
This article was written originally to help those who could not access Photobucket after a DNS attack, but is retained here, to help anyone who needs to flush their DNS cache.
Because of the nature of dns, a dns problem (due to a technical glitch or hacking), can take up to 48 hours to resolve, [...]
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 [...]
If you’re asking yourself: “who is Jane Smith?” then you must have received an email from her, coming from the email address jane85smith@gmail.com. She also writes from live.com and various other addresses.
Don’t respond, don’t worry, hit delete. Forget about it. She’s not worth it: she’s spam.
It’s the oldest trick in the book, but [...]
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