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What to do if your Hotmail account got hacked – the recent spate of attacks on Hotmail accounts

Danny — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:24 +0000

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 blog security top tips – Some things you MUST do!

Danny — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 09:44:33 +0000

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 [...]

Oh Sh*t – Google Chrome Doesn’t Really do THAT?!

Danny — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:44:32 +0000

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 – what to do if you get this (June 08)

Danny — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:34:01 +0000

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: [...]

Photobucket Hacked – Latest Updates

Danny — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:52:07 +0000

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 [...]

How Do I Flush a DNS cache?

Danny — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:31:30 +0000

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, [...]

Photobucket hacked – and how not to handle your customers when you get hacked!

Danny — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:33:07 +0000

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 [...]

Jane Smith (jane85smith@gmail.com) is giving you free love and you should be ashamed of yourself!

Danny — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:55:16 +0000

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 [...]