If in your office you can’t visit say Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or other websites because they are blocked by the administrator with tools like Websense, then try to get around to these blocked sites with web-based anonymous proxy services. More»
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Firefox 3 tries to regain fame and prclasse with Firefox 3.0.1 – this patch is suppose to redeem the over 8 Million download-users of Firefox 3 from the security flaws that came-up hours after Firefox 3 was released. The bug could permit an attacker to run malicious code on a computer via a link, email or webpage. More»
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Find out how secure are your passwords with this online tool called Password Meter. It would tell if your mother’s surname you use as password is secure enough. This tool able to show you exactly where your password “fails” and where it “excels”.
Putting together Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, Numbers, Symbols makes a better password, but repeating characters or a letters-only / numbers- only passwords make a bad password and Password Meter gives you a low password score.
Most WordPress administrators continue to use the default Username “admin” – this username is very easy to guess, which means all the security burden is left on the “Password”. Find out how secure is this password.
Do something good for yourself – change the “admin” username to something else at your Mysql database.
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If you’ve taken the big task and pain in privately hosting your website or blog on the open source web server Apache, or if your web host uses Apache, then beware of the successful attacks Apache servers have undergone in the last months.
The attacks are based on botnot, event though their provenance is still unknown or is not Chinese or Russian for sure.
It is not that Apache has vulnerability issue, but the intruders use a combination of stolen log-in accounts (user name and passwords) and the Apache feature – “dynamic module loading” that most web masters do not master, thus making it difficult to even clean-up an infected site.
If you’re not an expert on security issues than ask for help before some ingenious indivclassual gets into your system and plant malicious ware that can “modify Apache memory to monitor requests and inject the script tag, script contents or the Rbot executable”.
via [ComputerWorld UK]
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Well, after looking at the statistics of my blog, I felt it was necessary to write this post because I noticed about 88.3% of the visitors of this blog use Mozilla Firefox- WOW, whilst only 7.2% of the visitors use IE. If you are one of the 7.2% then know you are EVIL. IE is the cause of about 50% of the problems you could encounter on your system. That evil software ruins your system and mine too, so stop viewing this blog thru the eyes of IE, this blog is made to run better and faster on Mozilla Firefox, like many other blogs or sites around. More»
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