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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 malware [...]

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Spam 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 [...]

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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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I 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 can [...]

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