I run a few WordPress websites and they all have a firewall set up that also monitors and reports suspicious behaviour. In the last few days I have seen a new URL appear in the logs; /index.php?option=com_simpledownload&controller=../../../../../../../../../../../../../../../proc/self/environ%00 A quick Google of brings up several websites that talk about Joomla, so it...
If you use Facebook you are probably very used to sort of hoax virus alerts. I am still not sure what the point of them is. Here is the one I saw today: Please forward this to all e-mails. VIRUS COMING ! Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up...
News in that the latest gaming console business to get hacked is Nintendo. A group has already claimed responsibility - Lulz Security. This is the same group which attacked Sony recently. The hacking took place on one of its affiliated servers but on this occasion no client data was compromised. Hacking seems to be on the...
Lockheed Martin has admitted that it was recently a victim of what it called a major cyber attack. Lockheed are not revealing the details of the attack but have said that they managed to keep their systems secure. Lockheed Martin described the attack as “significant and tenacious”. Lockheed Martin have shut down some of...
Microsoft seems to have a tough time really. They go to great lengths to make better software for the mass market, and people go to greater lengths to sniff out any security vulnerabilities and the publish them to the net. In the news today is a report of the latest security vulnerability in the Internet Explorer...
Reports in that the Koobface virus/trojan than sometimes plagues Facebook is back on the march again. Of course, these reports may not be very reliable, as they are from personal status updates on Facebook! Just spotted this Facebook status update: “Virus spreading like wildfire on Fb and My Space! It is a trojan worm...
You are probably due an email any day now to let you know that Adobe is upgrading Acrobat with a 2011 edition. It is always wise to upgrade as soon as possible as some upgrades close security exploits than hackers and viruses take advantage of. But wait ….. If Adobe are upgrading Acrobat, why...
Quick warning – just read about a new phishing scam that targets Amazon customers. This one is a be advanced than the usual, designed in trick more people into handing over their private data to the scammers. In this new Amazon scam you will receive an email which will look genuine. The email address...
Today the BBC has reported that consumer protection laws are being exploited by some online ticket sales companies. There is a new ticket scam that is on the increase at the moment, however it is doing the old trick of taking money from customers credit cards but never sending any tickets. It is estimated that the...
Had another call today from a firm telling me that my computer was generating errors caused by malware, which was caused because my security warranty was out of date. I had a similar call the other day, and knowing it to be a scam I got rid of them pretty quickly. Today I decided...
I just got an email and the person sending it was promoting (spamming) a product but I was curious about what it was. After my recent virus after opening a Google Alert email I did not want to look at the URL direct, so I Googled a solution How To View TinyURL’s Without Visiting...
Last night I received a Google Alert for one of my websites. For those that do not know what this means, Google Alerts is a service that Google provide for free which will send you an email whenever a word or phrase appears to them for the first time. Google Alerts is handy for...
My Dad called me today to say that he had a problem with his PC. A rogue anti-virus got installed on his PC and has hijacked it. He is running McAfee AV but that failed to stop it, although he did admit that he saw warnings, but really thought at the time that the...
Last night Ant-Virus software McAfee released a security update that broke Windows. The AV mistakenly thought that part of the Windows operating system is a virus, so locked it down. This resulted in computers being unable to boot up. So what exactly happened? McAfee’s 5958 update wrongly identified the Windows svchost.exe file as the...
Spam is a horrible thing. It is probably what annoys people the most about the internet. And for webmasters, owners / managers of websites, email spam can be horrific. For years spammers have been building “bots” that crawl the internet and seek out email addresses. As many people rely on email for their online...
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