Tag Archives: bots
Malware Getting More Sophisticated
We recently wrote a blog about Malware is at an all time high, totaling more blocked in July than in all of 2007 according to SaaS vendor ScanSafe. Every time you turn around, there is another phishing scam, email disguised as a FedEx notification, or outlandish news headline. Online attacks will be dominated by smarter [...]
Full StorySpam Bots On The Rise Again
It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]
Full StoryA 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 [...]
Full StoryI Know Your Password
There is a cool tool that scans databases such as MYSQL in an attempt to find accounts using passwords like “password,” “12345,” “qwerty” and “abc123.” The program runs through a list of account names and attempts to login using a number of password combination’s to gain access to a users account. This kind of hack [...]
Full StoryWe Guarantee Web Traffic, Not!
There are many web sites that guarantee you thousands of web visitors for a small fee, but are these web marketing sites really providing you quality and targeted visitors? It’s very important to do your homework to be sure you’re getting the most our of your hard earned dollars. Just a few tips to follow: [...]
Full StoryMalware on the rise!
Phishing is a well known way to entice you to visit a Web site that can exploit your browser and plant malware on your machine. Web content filtering isn’t enough to combat malware deployed over the Web because content filters usually analyze entire sites and not specific pages. So if malware is hosted on a [...]
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