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I started to take a look at how much trackback, and comment spam is trying to get added to this site on a daily basis. Over the past 14 days we have measured just how many attempts are made to get a bogus trackback or comment spam added to the site. We averaged over 150,000 attempts each day. Heck a
I have gotten to the point here in my business operation that I want to make sure that I am not the next company reporting that my databases have been hacked and all of my customers and associates information has been stolen. I am a very small business which at this point consist of my wife, Chantal in marketing and
It seems the server that the SpreadFirefox website was hosted on was hacked earlier last week and was taken off line to determine total damages. Apparently the box was turned into a Spam zombie, but their is some concern that some personal information from users and supporters of the site may have been compromised. No further details on this yet.
This is pretty amazing stuff. A little to amazing if you ask me and pretty darn accurate. I did a little search on the road I grew up on and the names, address and telephone numbers that came up were dead on. Directories have been available for years but they cost a lot of money. For those of you in
I have seen a rash of trackback spams that have the regular nasty messages in them but they have put regular valid domains in the trackback and comment spam. Here are the three that I see showing up today. google.com, msn.con, blogspot.com, sixapart.com, movabletype.com, technorati.com, feedburner.com and pubsub.com It is obvious that the trackback and comment spammers are not happy
A update has been issued for Firefox to fix eleven vulnerabilities make sure you update. [eWeek]
ScanIT, an Internet security consultancy, reports Microsoft's Internet Explorer was unsafe 98 percent of the time, during 2004. The data were collected from 195,000 internet users who used ScanIT's online security checker. The reported 98 percent unsafe rating is based on security holes being found in fully-patched installations of Internet Explorer on every day of the year 2004, except the week between October 12 and 19.
Symantec Corp., manufacturer of the popular Norton series of antivirus products, yesterday warned customers of a multiple critical holes in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. The security holes make the Windows systems vulnerable to remote attack. Following postings to the Bugtraq mailing list, a respected source of timely security information, Symantec security managers also detailed the heap overflow vulnerabilities of
The new Santy worm uses the Google search engine to find vulnerable websites and then defaces the sites' bulletin boards. The worm, formally named Net-Worm.Perl.Santy, attacks website bulletin boards (Internet forums or message centers) running versions of the popular phpBB bulletin board application. The worm exploits a known security vulnerability in early releases of the phpBB application, defacing the contents
Three academic computer scientists have uncovered a serious security hole in the Google Desktop Search Toolbar that was released on October 14th. Dan Wallach, assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and two graduate students, Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson, have known of the security problem for a month; however, this is the first confirmed report of a serious
Pennsylvania State University now urges all students to stop using Microsoft Internet Explorer and use an alternative web browser, such as Firefox, Opera, or Safari. This week the university, famous for its Nittany Lion mascot and graduates who seem to never forget their alma mater, took serious notice of the security issues caused by Microsoft's flagship web browser and took
A flaw in the Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) in Windows NT Server 4.0, Server 2000, and Server 2003 creates a security hole that would allow a cracker to gain full control over the network server, thereby putting corporate data at risk.
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