I’ve seen various figures on the recent increase in DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks from various sources, if you use the figures from this story in PCmag, which might me more of an advert for Arbor using just …
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Why is my email broken? Cpanel, CNAMES and MX records
I have set-up dozens of web applications firewalls (WAF), but often I’m asked to fix other peoples set-ups after they’ve had a go of setting them up themselves.
The most common issue I see always has the same cause, the …
Edward Snowden on 911, Boston and the NSA meta data collection program
Where privacy meets security, two of my favourite subjects, that often collide, both very emotive and contentious.
I think Snowden is wrong here, processing power increases exponentially, a proven fact (Moore’s law) and data mining methods are only …
ICANN Certified Appraisal Scam
There are just so many companies around claiming this designation, just do a google search for “ICANN Certified Appraisal“, but the problem is simply, ICANN don’t certify “appraisers”.
So here’s how they tried to work the scam on …
HeartBleed, its not a Virus or Hack, it’s worse it’s a vulnerability
one that’s extremely easy to exploit, and the potential harm, disclosing sensitive data that was expected to have been being transmitted securely makes it a great threat.
While there is no evidence that the HeartBleed vulnerability that was disclosed only …
What is, and how do I clean up Digital Dirt?
Net Lingo give the most complete description I have seen so far for Digital Dirt:
Unflattering information or opinions that you may have written on blogs or in chat rooms that could come back to haunt you, for example …
Blog Spammers and which CAPTCHA, 5 reviewed
CAPTCHA, standing for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart” has been around since 2000, so was already fairly well developed when the bots started targeting blogs, guest books and wiki’s which are the main target …
Migrating a large Blog installation from Movable Type to WordPress, lessons learned
First, although Movable Type is rock solid, personally I like it a lot but a number of apparently unsurpassable issues have come up that negatively affect the client, the once vibrant open source community that supported MT is now gone …
Personal privacy is now being taken seriously
In these very sad cases of malicious sharing of embarrassing images and video. In Canada, Rehtaeh’s law is being proposed and now in Israel revenge porn is punishable with 5 years imprisonment, “putting an end to virtual rape, in which …
How and where to backup cloud based installations?
This is a question that comes up more often as applications and services are being moved more and more into “the cloud”.
If we take our own situation of having recently decommissioned our local Exchange Server and opting instead for …