Tips and tricks about security and its challenge and doing it like a pro.
How many times have you been tricked by phishing emails from eBay or Paypal? Gmail has gone a step further to protect users by authenticating… Read More »Gmail Blocks PayPal and Ebay Fake Phishing Emails
Akismet is a powerful wordpress plugin that blocks spam comments and today Akismet clocked 1 million spam comments on this blog. Actively and efficiently stopping… Read More »Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments
McAfee has released the second annual “Mapping the Mal Web” report which researched the riskiest and safest domain names on the Web. The new report… Read More »Hong Kong (.hk) Most Dangerous Country Domain Name
Want to Download AVG 8.5 Free? AVG Technologies has recently released the AVG Anti-Virus Free 8.5, the latest version of popular free security software, which… Read More »Download AVG 8.5 Free Antivirus Software
WordPress 2.5 has incorporated a cool feature for better cookie security. You can add a SECRET_KEY to the wordpress wp-config.php file and make cookies secure… Read More »Add WordPress SECRET_KEY for Secure Cookies
Its time to upgrade wordpress again and fix the bugs affecting wordpress 2.5. However, its not optional – its a security release and intended for… Read More »Fix WordPress 2.5 Bugs with 2.5.1 Security Release
You always wanted to upgrade wordpress plugin automatically. WordPress 2.5 has brought along its share of goodies which let you upgrade plugins in one click.… Read More »One-Click Automatic WordPress Plugin Upgrades
As I switched to full feeds, concerned about feed scrappers republishing our copyrighted content, lots of helpful readers shared their views and thoughts about the issue and… Read More »Stop RSS Feed Scraping with AntiLeech WordPress Plugin
AVG Internet Security 8.0 is the newly released security software that promises to protect you online. Powered with an Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Rootkit, Anti-Spam, LinkScanner and… Read More »AVG Internet Security 8 Released
An urgent wordpress security release is out and its time to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3 again. This time its a flaw in XML-RPC implementation that… Read More »WordPress 2.3.3 Urgent Security Release for XML-RPC Flaw
North America joins 27 European countries to celebrate Data Privacy Day 2008 today on January 28, which will feature several efforts to promote the importance… Read More »Data Privacy Day Today: Promoting Data Protection
Has your MyBlogLog community got the seal of approval? MyBlogLog introduced a new feature that lets community owners verify their sites by using an authentication… Read More »Verify Your MyBlogLog Community: Claim Ownership
A wordpress bug lets people read your draft posts with future timestamps, as well as get hidden information about your database table structure and limits!… Read More »WordPress Bug: I Read Your Future Drafts!
Many wordpress bloggers test a simple math question for posting comments for spam protection. I recently installed the Math Comment Spam Protection and comment spam… Read More »Math Question Blocks Most WordPress Spam Comments
Ankit Fadia is an internationally renowned independent computer security consultant who has authored several internationally best-selling books on Computer Security. Want to become an Ankit… Read More »Learn Ethical Hacking from Ankit Fadia
What happens if you remove your blog spam filters completely for one day? By turning off Akismet, can you manage the huge spam that flows… Read More »Spam Filter Free Day: Turn Off Akismet for One Day
Whenever a new wordpress version is released, and we upgrade wordpress, there is one file we never upgrade: wp-config.php which has the MySQL database details.… Read More »Should You Upgrade WordPress wp-config.php?
FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin detects your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. Feedburner reports the… Read More »FeedBurner FeedSmith Security Update: WP 2.3 Fails to Notify
Though many wordpress bloggers talked about email spam from wordpress contact forms, it was never a problem here… until yesterday. It seems someone found a security… Read More »Secure Your WordPress Contact Form: Block Spam Emails
What do you do if someone creates a new Feedburner feed using your original feed or a splog decides to republish your feed content. Of… Read More »How to Report Feed Content Republishing to Feedburner