by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Good tips from Matt Cutts:Here are three easy but important ways to protect yourself if you run a WordPress blog:Secure your /wp-admin/ directory. What I’ve done is lock down /wp-admin/ so that only certain IP addresses can access that directory. I use an .htaccess...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Got this note from a technology-saavy and faithful blog reader. Even he got nailed with this. No matter how careful one is, it can still happen. Somehow, some one, got my debit/visa card info and placed a small $11.89 charge against my account. I check my account on a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Faithful readers will recall a Trojan that had a pay-by-phone extortion scheme.The payment processor sent me this yesterday:I have just found your blog entry about our company being involved in pay-by-phone extortion.I can say that this is clearly against any terms we...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
“Ever been prosecuted for tracking spam? Running a traceroute? Doing a zone transfer? Asking a public internet server for public information that it is configured to provide upon demand?No? Well, David Ritz has. And amazingly, he lost the case.Here are just a...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
A brand new rogue.Home page:Typical fake dialog box:Fake scan:Application:This program creates fake “infection files” These files are placed into the document and SettingsUserAcctLocal SettingsTemp directory (list here). Here is an example of what is actually inside...
