Twice today I’ve received spam emails (obvious phishing attempts). They look like the standard Nigerian 419 scam attempts — but with an interesting twist.
In the first one, the person writing was claiming that a Scott G.Brownsword of the 2nd Battalion,505th Parachute lnfantry (sic) Regiment,3rd Brigade combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Ft Bragg NC had [...]
This is a test post. I apologize for the inconvenience.
–Tom
I received several blog comments overnight that included links to Chinese IP addresses. All of them were in perfect English. Some were complimentary, some were insulting.
While they were quite comprehensive, none of them had anything to do with the content of the blog post.
Therefore all of them were spam. I also suspect that the links [...]
Last night I was working on updating a web site that I’ve neglected for quite some time. While working on it, I noticed that the links on that site’s blog were redirecting to a domain that had hosted my redirects at one point, but I later decided to use it for something else and deleted [...]
I’ve heard too many horror stories about hacked WordPress blogs lately. There are a lot of reasons why these blogs were left vulnerable and open to exploitation:
Some of them did not have the latest version of WordPress installed.
Others had improper configurations.
Yet others had stuff available (plug-ins and themes) that weren’t necessary.
And some even had zero [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
My cPanel configuration gives me the option to save my websites’ raw action logs at the end of every month. It saves them in a folder in a non-publicly accessible part of my web server.
Setting this up is quite simple; you simply log in to your cPanel, click on the “Raw Access Logs” link, and [...]
Do you work from your home or have a home office? If the answer is “yes”, then here is one way that you can plan and prepare for emergency situations.
Buy a laptop computer. When disaster strikes, it is much easier to grab a laptop computer and run than it is to grab a desktop computer [...]
Friday, September 28, 2007
October is Cyber Security Awareness Month and I’ve chosen this month to kick-start this blog. The National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) joins with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) and other partners to help educate “the American public, businesses, schools [...]