On the 10th of March this year I wrote about OpenID, a service that lets you use the same account from one provider to login at other sites without registration . Now it turns out that both Google and Microsoft will join other companies like Yahoo, WordPress.com and AOL in supporting this fantastic login feature. [...] Continue Reading
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If you've been following my mini-series on how to secure your cPanel account you should have a look at the guest article I've written for Moms Cash Blog. I love the articles at Moms Cash Blog and it looks like JJ from Moms Cash Blog sometimes visit this blog too . Backup your blog Back [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
If you allow open registrations in your WordPress blog, then you better upgrade to the recently released version 2.6.2. This is because of a vulnerability found in version 2.6.1 and earlier versions that make it possible to reset the password of other users. The "hacker" will of course not get access to the new password, [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging
In part one of this article series I wrote about doing backups in cPanel, but that can be hard to do if you have many accounts on the same server and you have to remember to do it on a regular basis. But don't worry because in cPanel there's an option for the server admin [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
If you got cPanel as your hosting control panel you got several ways of creating off site backups. Please note the off site part above since keeping your backups on the same server (and maybe even in the same account as your site) is extremely dangerous (see my last post). To make a backup of [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security
I've said it before and also written about it several times before but I feel that I can't repete myself enough: make sure you backup your data!!!! It's always important to keep off site backups of your databases and other files so you can restore your content in case of a hard drive failiur or [...] Continue Reading
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Yesterday we got 3 comments posted in two of our blogs that looked strangely the same. All three comments came from the same IP address, and had the same name and email of poster. If I only had noticed one of these comments I would have approved it as it would have been just another [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Blogging, The World According to Xavier
These days we can read about all kinds of attacks, software vulnerabilities, security updates for blogs more then ever before, and I don't think this will ever slow down as long as the attackers can earn money from this activity . Therefore you as the site owner must keep an eye on your own web [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Search Engines & Directories
Most web hosting companies offer catch-all email addresses for all their customers and at first it may seem like a fantastic service. With catch-all you don't have to setup forwarders for each and every email address you need since all email sent to your domain will be forwarded to the same account. That means that [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Domain names, Web Hosting
I just read a blog post at Mcafee Avert Labs Blog about a special type of maleware that can infect computers in Internet cafes and I started thinking about secure Internet connections when you travel. When traveling many of us use Internet cafes to access our email, check the server status and maybe even do [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, The World According to Xavier
Earlier today when I tried to access Reviewme.com I couldn't access the site because it seemed offline. I also noticed that it was problems with iWebTool.com too at the same time so it must have been something wrong with the Internet connection between me and them, but when the access to ReviewMe got back I [...] Continue Reading
Posted in Antivirus & Security, Domain names
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