The latest security breach at WordPress.org where someone (most likely) have guessed or used brute force to find out the passwords for some of the plugin authors and insert malicious code into their plugins, shows that using the same password for multiple services could be really dangerous for both you and your customers/partners. Continue Reading
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Yesterday Dropbox updated their code and a bug was introduced that made it possible to login at any account without the correct password. So for 4 hours it was possible for anyone to access any account. Continue Reading
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One of the most popular web browsers on the Internet is still Internet Explorer 6, almost 9 years after it's release. The most resent news about IE6 was that a bug in it helped hackers to gain access to Googles network. Continue Reading
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Yesterday I got an email from Spotify telling me to change my password since their music service had been compromised by the group behind Despotify. This is from the email they sent out: Last week we were alerted to a group that managed to compromise our protocols. After investigating we concluded that this group had [...] Continue Reading
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The latest version or WordPress is here so visit www.wordpress.org and upgrade today! One of the new things you will notice in version 2.7 is the new interface. They've listened to us users and made the new version much faster They've also added a few new features like drag and drop so you can put [...] Continue Reading
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RSA has been tracking a trojan called Sinowal Trojan since early 2006 (almost three years) and they've estimated that this evil piece of software have stolen over 300,000 logins to online banks ! Since this number is just an estimate the actual number may be even larger. The trojan has also been used to steal [...] Continue Reading
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As always popular and good services will be targetted by evil spirits trying to make a few bucks of innocent people . This is of course sad, but the best we can do is to warn as many as possible when we see these kinds of fake emails. Yesterday I got thre emails that looked [...] Continue Reading
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cPanel is one of the best control panels I know and my company Xavier Media is using it for most of our own hosting accounts. But as always a control panel (or for that fact any software) is not more secure then the users using them. Therefore you must make sure that anyone with access [...] Continue Reading
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