All Entries Tagged With: "Security"
Download Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 Trial Version
The team of popular anti-virus software has recently released a free version of Kaspersky Internet Security 2010. Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 has been released on a trial basis and can be used totally free of cost.
While it is free it doesn’t limit itself by not offering great features that you will need to have a [...]
AntiVirus And AntiSpamBee Plugins For WordPress
Last week my server was attacked by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack for about 5 days, which took my sites down for about 4 hours. My host liquidweb responded brilliantly and although they couldn’t stop the attack, they tweaked my server so that it could handle excess load from the attack.
The incident made [...]
How to Protect your PC using USB Flash Drive
Once in a while a software comes along that solves a major issue yet it leaves you surprised with is plain ingenuity.
Leaving your computer out in the open is a Green signal for co-workers (usually of the malicious kind) to play a prank on you or, even more seriously, intentionally damaging or stealing valuable information [...]
F-Secure Say Stop Using Adobe Acrobat Reader
Mikko Hypponen from respected security company F-Secure at this year’s RSA security conference in San Francisco, the #1 conference for security professionals, has advised users to stop using Adobe Reader because of the number of exploits targeted at it.
Of the targeted attacks so far this year, more than 47 % exploited holes in Acrobat Reader [...]
How To Revive a Zombisque PC
After a few months, every brand new PC, regardless of how many cores or memory chips it has installed, staggers to a comatose lumber. Most folks call in a pricey technician to get the ole box back to speed. Others invest in costly repair suites like Norton 360. I don’t. I do the smart thing [...]
Hacked Again – DDOS Attack
After getting hacked last month, my site was hacked again last week. This time I was subjected to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
I first noticed that something was wrong when my pages were loading very slowly, so I contacted my host PowerVPS. I was stunned when they told me that my second site, [...]
How To Vex Laptop Thieves
Nothing can give you sleepless nights more than your laptop disappearing at the internet cafe. Sure, you can buy the latest one- but it’s the data that matters. If you’re the average bloke, chances are that little notebook of yours holds not just lovenotes and a secret porn stash, but also financial documents, credit card cookies and a masterfile [...]
AntiLeech WordPress Plugin: Stop RSS Splogs In Their Tracks
There are so many plugins for WordPress, that it’s rare that a new one comes along that I think all WordPress users should install. However I’ve just discovered a new plugin that will help me sleep better at night.
AntiLeech is a WordPress plugin that stops Splogs, i.e. feed scrappers that steal other blogs traffic, [...]
Does Spam Still Bother You?
I receive a ridiculous amount of spam email because I own a few domains and all email comes into one box. OIonly realised today just how much I receive when a colleague who was looking over my shoulder saw that I had 7,225 spam emails in my inbox. When I explained to him that this [...]
Hundreds of Passwords? No Sweat!
My notebooks’ bookmarks are a mess. I stashed over a hundred sites in at least 20 categories. Fifty percent of them requires me to login with unique credentials and twenty percent of them hold sensitive information. Imagine that data overload!
Last year, I used to maintain a hidden truecrypt volume on my disc where I hid [...]
What Security Applications Do You Use On Your PC?
Most of my regular readers know that my ‘day job’ is working for an ISP in the UK. One of the projects I’m working on is looking at PC-based security applications. I realised today that I’m a bit out of touch as to what applications people are running on their machines.
So, I thought rather than [...]
Windows Home Server Deleted My Files!
The worst thing that could ever have happened to my Windows Home Server occurred yesterday – my personal files were deleted! I have no idea how this could have happened. I’m sure it wasn’t human error as I can’t see how I could have done it, as one file was left and [...]
Windows Home Server Review
Over the last 2 years I have amassed a quite substantial media library as I have ripped all my CDs and DVDs. The problem I have in sharing this media collection around my home is that no single machine within my home has enough storage. An even bigger problem I faced was creating [...]
Sony PlayStation 3: Hacker’s Best Friend
You can use the powerful processors in PS3 to cracking passwords, other than gaming, claims a New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese.
Breese who has been working on the project ‘Crackstation‘, for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research.
Breese claims to have used PS3 console to crack passwords [...]
Top 5 Free Antispyware Tools
Spyware is among the most prevalent PC annoyances I am aware of. It threats our online privacy, not only by monitoring our activity; but also by potentially collecting personal information such as passwords and transmitting them to unauthorized 3rdparties.
Luckily, although spyware threat is definitely on the rise, so is the quality and capabilities of the [...]
What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet
Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]
WordPress Blog Housekeeping
My server has been pretty well behaved of late, so my blog had been getting a bit shabby around the edges.
Server problems last week, prompted me to do some long overdue housekeeping. I’d recommend blog housekeeping at least once a month to keep your blog running nice and smoothly. I thought I’d share [...]
WordPress 2.22 And 2.0.11 Released
There hasn’t been a WordPress update for about 2-3 so surely that’s a record… The latest update has just been released updating the 2.2 WordPress release to 2.22, and 2.0 to 2.0.11:
Today we have two security-related releases available for both users of our main 2.2 branch and the legacy 2.0 branch. As these releases [...]
When Was The Last Time You Upgraded Your Plugins?
Many of us religiously upgrade our WordPress installations whenever a new version is released, usually because vital security fixes are included.
But, when was the last time you upgraded your plugins? Keeping your WordPress plugins up-to-date can be just as vital in order to keep your WordPress blog safe and secure. Upgrading to the [...]
Harry Potter Leak Caught Via Serial Number
A few days before the latest Harry Potter novel was released, someone thought it was a good idea to photograph every page and upload the full copy of ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ onto BitTorrent. However, amazingly it seems that the ‘enterprising’ individual might be caught because many cameras add EXIF [...]
