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Security

So what happens when your Blog Service goes down!

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.

Google Earth causing Foreign Government Agencies to be Nervous

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

Google Safe Browsing Firefox Extension

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 issues IE Patches

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]

96 hours of Hell

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

Moving Servers is not fun especially when it could have been avoided

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

Oh what a weekend!

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