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I can tell you what happens because it happened here earlier in the month and it was partially my fault. You simply panic. I can also tells you what it does to your momentum it slows it down. The 3-4 days I was having trouble caused my site hits to drop by nearly 20% the initial week after the recovery.
Lets gets a couple of facts out of the way, first of all overhead pictures have been available from private companies for a long time, second anyone that had a credit card could get access to that data. So I am sure it makes some countries a bit nervous that this low resolution imagery can be seen by the public
Firefox has released an extension that you should load. This extension will help you when you are are surfing the web and are directed to a website that may not be who or what it appears. Phishing has been going on for a while and people are usually sucked in when they get a e-mail that tells them to visit
Microsoft released 4 critical patches for IE yesterday, if your still using IE you will want to make sure you run windows update immediately. [Yahoo]
The past 96 hours if nothing else has been one heck of a learning experience, nothing like having to get in deep very quickly with Linux. Thank goodness I have a terrific system administrator. He pulled an all niter to get the box ready and we had to deal with some nagging bind issues but all is good now, and
I explained in my last post that we had to rebuild servers over the weekend, this was due to a security exploit in the VoteCasterPro Comdevweb application. One thing that upsets me about this is I subscribe to a lot of security mailing list and I also do not install applications in their default locations. A message to the company
A application I had on this box that I have not used in months apparently had a security issue and you guessed it the busy bees got into the box, GoDaddy was worried that the box was compromised and wanted to re-provision. Well I have been thinking for a while that this domain needed some more horses under the hood
Running short on time this morning and wanted to point you all at this, the question I have to ask myself even before loading it is this. I have Norton Antivirus, a firewall, a spyware sweeper and a host of other tools to keep the bugs out why would a geek need these prevention tools. The average consumer who is
I have been swapping e-mail with a representative of AuthenTec the company that has released some interesting survey results. I am always looking to see how insecure we are and this survey goes about as far as any I have seen in recent times to indicate that we sure are a bunch of sitting ducks. There is nothing more distressing
Security researchers seem to thing that Internet Explorer Version 7 will be the holly grail for hackers and crackers to use to infect PC's by hijacking RSS feeds. The concept sounds quite feasible considering everything else that these Trojans and bots have been doing to wreak havoc across the Internet. [eWeek.com]
Sony is going to announce a recall of all of the CD's that have the Rootkit installed on them and will be refunding money for customers with these disk. Now I wonder if they are going to pay to have customers take their computers to a repair shop and have their computers fixed. Not to mention that it is being
It appears Skype has some security bugs folks and I would rank them in the fairly severe category. Skype has issued patches for some of the critical bugs so you will want to head over to Skype and either download a new install of utiliz the patch that they have put together. [The Register]
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