How many times have you been tricked by phishing emails from eBay or Paypal? Gmail has gone a step further to protect users by authenticating all emails from these services,…
Akismet is a powerful wordpress plugin that blocks spam comments and today Akismet clocked 1 million spam comments on this blog. Actively and efficiently stopping spam in the background, Akismet…
McAfee has released the second annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report which researched the riskiest and safest domain names on the Web. The new report reveals that 19.2% of all…
Want to Download AVG 8.5 Free? AVG Technologies has recently released the AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.5, the latest version of popular free security software, which now incorporates protection against spyware…
WordPress 2.5 has incorporated a cool feature for better cookie security. You can add a SECRET_KEY to the wordpress wp-config.php file and make cookies secure against attacks where someone has…
Its time to upgrade wordpress again and fix the bugs affecting wordpress 2.5. However, its not optional – its a security release and intended for all wordpress users, particularly those…
You always wanted to upgrade wordpress plugin automatically. WordPress 2.5 has brought along its share of goodies which let you upgrade plugins in one click. Now updating plugins need not…
As I switched to full feeds, concerned about feed scrappers republishing our copyrighted content, lots of helpful readers shared their views and thoughts about the issue and how to deal with it….
AVG Internet Security 8.0 is the newly released security software that promises to protect you online. Powered with an Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Rootkit, Anti-Spam, LinkScanner and Firewall system; AVG ensures your…
An urgent wordpress security release is out and its time to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3 again. This time its a flaw in XML-RPC implementation that could let people exploit your…
North America joins 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day 2008 today on January 28, which will feature several efforts to promote the importance of data protection. Celebrating Data…
Has your MyBlogLog community got the seal of approval? MyBlogLog introduced a new feature that lets community owners verify their sites by using an authentication code on their blog. After…
A wordpress bug lets people read your draft posts with future timestamps, as well as get hidden information about your database table structure and limits! WordPress version 2.3.2 is now…
Many wordpress bloggers test a simple math question for posting comments for spam protection. I recently installed the Math Comment Spam Protection and comment spam for moderation is almost zero,…
Ankit Fadia is an internationally renowned independent computer security consultant who has authored several internationally best-selling books on Computer Security. Want to become an Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker? The…
What happens if you remove your blog spam filters completely for one day? By turning off Akismet, can you manage the huge spam that flows in? Participate in the Spam…
Whenever a new wordpress version is released, and we upgrade wordpress, there is one file we never upgrade: wp-config.php which has the MySQL database details. Have you ever looked up…
FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin detects your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. Feedburner reports the plugin has a security issue…
Though many wordpress bloggers talked about email spam from wordpress contact forms, it was never a problem here… until yesterday. It seems someone found a security loophole in the php script…
What do you do if someone creates a new Feedburner feed using your original feed or a splog decides to republish your feed content. Of course there are ways to…
