Security

Tips and tricks about security and its challenge and doing it like a pro.

How to Report Corrupt DMOZ Editors and ODP Abuse

Report corrupt DMOZ editors whose ODP abuse brings disrepute to the directory’s quality and integrity. DMOZ (Open Directory Project) is the largest human-edited directory of the web maintained by a global…

McAfee SiteAdvisor Phishing Quiz : Spot Fake Websites

Phishing websites attempt to fraudulently acquire your personal and sensitive information like usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a legitimate official website. Since the fake website looks…

Akismet Blocks 400,000 Spam Comments Here

This blog gets hundreds of spam comments every day and Akismet is the wonder comment spam blocking tool that works in the background and keeps us spam free. Checking the…

WordPress 2.2 is Mandatory Security Upgrade

I have read lots of bloggers waiting for some weeks before they upgrade to the new version of WordPress 2.2. Everyone knows your WordPress version and once the WordPress security issues become public (with fixes announced),…

Fake Google Penalty Emails to German Webmasters

Several German webmasters received fake penalty notification emails that allegedly came from Google Search Quality from donotreply@gmail.com. Google has clarified that these emails have not been issued by Google. Search…

asirra

Microsoft Asirra: Captcha with Pets

CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) or HIP (Human Interactive Proof) are often used to reduce email and blog spam and prevent brute-force attacks…

Free Disposable Email Expires in 10 Minutes

10MinuteMail.com 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…