Posts filed under 'Security'

Manipulation of Google search results to gain high search engine rankings is a common SEO practice. But Googlebombing is something which is frowned upon. A Googlebomb or Linkbomb is a prank where people attempt to cause someone else’s site to rank for an obscure or meaningless query. Read more about Googlebombs at Wikipedia. (more…)

MyBlogLog Communities have recently become a craze with popular bloggers displaying their recent readers using the widgets. A race has begun to encourage more members to join your community and showcase your blogs popularity. (more…)

Just 10 days back there was a new release of Wordpress 2.0.6, recommended as an essential security upgrade for all Wordpress users. Then a Feedburner issue bugged the release and now they have released Wordpress 2.0.7 that fixes PHP security problems and those Feedburner issues. (more…)

An important upgrade of Wordpress 2.0.6 is released it includes an important security fix and they recommended everyone upgrades their Wordpress installations. I guess this release fixes the recently reported Wordpress template.php Exploit, which had WordPress users confused about applying patches. (more…)

Digg can drive huge traffic to your site, and create a long term stream of site traffic as thousands of visitors browse through the Digg archive. But Digg community can ban your site and deprive you of access to Digg, a wonderful tool to publicize your best content. (more…)

Privacy is an important issue today. Disclosing your personal information to total strangers online is a privacy issue you can avoid. First there were free disposable email services, then expiring emails, and even the Yahoo Mail Plus AddressGuard that protects your precious personal email from spam. Now Craigsnumber provides a similar service to protect your phone numbers. (more…)

All modern browsers are building in anti phishing tools to prevent online fraud and increase online security. The new Opera 9.1 web browser launched today with fraud protection measures. Phishing sites aim to steal your passwords, your credit card numbers, and other personal information by impersonating authority websites like banks etc. (more…)

Securewars is a unique Microsoft India initiative to promote the concepts of Information systems security amongst Indian IT Professionals. Any IT professional residing in India shall be entitled to participate in the contest (except Microsoft employees or related). Registration process will start from 30th Nov 2006 to 31st Dec 2006. (more…)

10 Minute Mail provides you a temporary email address for 10 minutes only. Any e-mails sent to that address will show up automatically on the web page. You can read them, click on links, and even reply to them till the email address expires after 10 minutes. (more…)

I was recently asked - do you really need upgrading to the latest Wordpress version everytime? The quick answer is Yes. I upgraded to Wordpress 2.0.5 codename Ronan which was released a few days back. (more…)