Thursday, September 10th, 2009
Chances are that in the past week you've received an e-mail in your inbox that pretends to be from your bank, e-commerce vendor, or other on-line site. Hopefully you've realized that many times this e-mail is fake - a phishing or spam e-mail. The sender (phisher) of these fake e-mails ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | 1 Comment
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
A stitch in time saves nine. I couldn’t sew my way out of a bag, but it’s true advice for bloggers as well — a little bit of work on an upgrade now saves a lot of work fixing something later.Right now there is a worm making its way around ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Trend Micro is warning about a phishing attempt that targets users of Microsoft Outlook.
The phishing e-mail arrives in Outlook e-mail inboxes and looks like it comes from Microsoft. It prompts recipients to reconfigure their Outlook by clicking on a link that leads to a Web site that asks for account ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security, Windows | No Comments
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Project Honey Pot is the first and only distributed system for identifying spammers and the spambots they use to scrape addresses from your website. Using the Project Honey Pot system you can install addresses that are custom-tagged to the time and IP address of a visitor to your site. If ...
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
I just turned off the option that required users to register an account before they could comment on this site. I originally turned this on when I first moved to Wordpress in hopes of avoiding all the comment SPAM. But there are now some great SPAM prevention options that are ...
Posted in General BS, Privacy | No Comments
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