Posts belonging to Category 'Security'
April 16, 2009 | Posted by chris
WordPress Firewall – Referred to me by a good friend Mark @ Keenpath. This plugin is highly recommended and can block and detect Transversal Attacks,SQL Injection Attacks, WordPress-specific SQL injection attacks,remote arbitrary code injection and also blocks executable file uploads. Possible attack alert reports are sent conveniently to your email address. Sometimes there are false [...]
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April 14, 2009 | Posted by chris
Storm Worm – The Storm botnet was first identified around January 2007 and according to many sources has said to have infected roughly around 150,000 – 1 million computer systems around the Globe. It was also said at one point that the Storm worm accounted for 8% of all malware infected PC’s First detected on [...]
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April 13, 2009 | Posted by chris
I recently came across an interesting piece of software called Adeona created by the University of Washington’s Computer and Science Engineering department. This software is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary or a central service. Best of all this [...]
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March 31, 2009 | Posted by chris
I will keep this simple and to the point. There seems to be a lot of hype surrounding the Conficker, and hopefully these tips will help you wade through it all. Make sure your OS has all Critical and Recommended Updates (Specifically MS08-067) Ensure your Anti-virus Software has latest definitions Don’t Panic ..Nobody really knows [...]
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December 24, 2008 | Posted by chris
Im sure many of you may have seen the commercials for FinallyFast.com. They are quite comical and are good for at least entertainment value only. Below I will explain more in detail on why you should steer clear of this company. With this software it claims it will speed up your system and fix malware,spyware,registry [...]
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December 23, 2008 | Posted by chris
If you are still using IE, make sure to visit here Choose your OS and Service Pack level to make sure you download the correct patch for your system
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