Entries Tagged ‘Blogs’:

Hackers Attract Users to Fake Blogs

Cybercriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google’s Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct it to malware serving blogs primarily hosted at Windows Lives’ Spaces.
According to a recent advisory issued by Webroot:
“For the first time, hackers are [...]

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Flame Wars Hit The Blogosphere

I never thought that a flame war could actually happen in a blog, but it does. I remember running a very popular gaming fan site based on the game called Delta Force by Novalogic. Our web site was called DFWorld.com and we had thousands of active members and there were some huge flame wars in [...]

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A Must Have WordPress Plugin

WP-SpamFree is by far the best plugin I have installed. It virtually eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam and uses very low bandwidth.
I installed this plugin a week ago to give it a test drive and I am amazed that I have not had one spam comment in the last week. Our blog [...]

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What’s All The Buzz About?

Yahoo Buzz, like Digg is a rating service where you can submit stories and rate other stories. Buzz went live on Tuesday and many bloggers lined up to submit stories of their own.
The goal is to get as much positive ratings so you can hit the sweet spot, the ‘front page’. Easier said than done, [...]

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