Posts Tagged with 'Security'

March 19, 2008

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Blog Hacked – Paying the price for not upgrading WordPress

I don’t remember which version I installed first when I started this blog back in Nov’06 but I followed the upgrade cycle with every release till 2.1.1. I became a bit lazy and did not follow the security exploits news that kept circulating on net about WordPress security exploits with version 2.1.1 and few other releases. Beginning first week of march, the traffic from Google started to dip in a big way. By second week the traffic was down by

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Posted in: Blogs

March 6, 2008

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Review: Full Hard Drive Encryption from AlertBoot

Millions of laptops gets stolen every year and information worth millions of dollars is lost. Many organizations throughout the world keep losing confidential data from their office computers and some of them don’t even know about it. What if your laptop gets stolen – what kind of data resides on your system – what could be the price of the data that you may lose? One of the best solution, to prevent access to important data in an event of

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Posted in: Software/Apps

May 14, 2007

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Bank of America Customers be Aware of This Phishing Attack

There have been many phishing attacks happened in the past but this one seems to be a major one with fraudulent emails hitting email accounts and they all are being sent from numerous email addresses. The website address used in this attack are different ones and attempting to trick Bank Of America customers to click on the embedded URLs in the email and provide the remote website with your important banking information. You must delete these emails as soon as

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Posted in: Internet | Security

April 1, 2007

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Matt Cutts WordPress Blog has been Hacked!

Matt cutts is currently the head of Google’s Webspam team and frequently blogs on his site. I am a subscriber to his blog and use Netvibes to read the RSS updates from various sites and since yesterday the blog of Matt cutts was showing up an error message in Netvibes. I initially thought it be to a network related problem due to which Netvibes was not able to reach his blog site but it was only when I typed his

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Posted in: Blogs | Internet | Security | SEO | WordPress

March 18, 2007

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How To: Create Your Own Linux Distribution

That’s right! It will be your own Linux distribution that you can name after yourself or any one else. If you have not heard about it already, it’s called LFS [Linux From Scratch] project that will let you create your own Linux distribution. What are the advantages of LFS? Learn the internals of Linux: If you are new to Linux, you will find it very useful. Creating your Linux distribution will teach you a lot about how Linux works internally.

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Posted in: Unix/Linux

March 13, 2007

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Top and Best Antispyware Softwares for your PC

Every Internet user needs at least two softwares on their systems. One being the Anti-Virus software and the other being Anti-Spyware software. In last few years, Internet users saw less virus threats when compared to Spyware threats. Viruses are known to cause serious problem with your overall system’s health. Spywares, on the other hand, can reveal lot of sensitive information from your system. Below mentioned is a list of some of the most popular (not in any order) Anti spyware

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Posted in: Internet | Software/Apps | Tools/Utils | Windows

December 26, 2006

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A Guide to Better and Secure Passwords for Your Accounts

Almost everyone of us who uses Internet has at least one online account that requires a username and password. While some of us choose to use complicated passwords, others give least importance to it. Every now and then many websites surfaces on Internet with loads of new services and requires that you to register with them to be able to use their services. A few days ago, I sat down thinking about different websites with whom I had an account

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Posted in: Internet | Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux | Windows

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