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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 Verizon.net is home to more than twice as many spam-spewing zombies as any other major Internet service provider in the United States, according to an analysis of the most recent data from anti-spam outfit Spamhaus.org. Verizon, however, says it plans to put measures in place to prevent it from being ...
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