Keys to a Secure Website – Passwords

Today’s Topic: Passwords Throughout this week I will be posting some tips on how to keep your website (and other accounts) as secure as possible from malicious activity or unwanted intruders. The first topic I am going to discuss is by far the easiest and most commonly use way of account exploitation: Easy Passwords. With [...]

[Security Warning] Use FireFox? Update to 3.6.2 Now.

Mozilla has pushed out an update for a major security whole within the browser, announced March 22, 2010. Researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported the issue: …The WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being allocated to store a downloadable font. [...]

[Malware Warning] Facebook Password Reset E-mails

Yet another warning about Facebook. This week (and weeks to come maybe?) many people around the world have received an e-mail message supposedly from Facebook with a message that their user password has been reset and attached to the e-mail is a .zip file. DO NOT OPEN THE ATTACHMENT My fiance’ received such a message [...]

Twitter: DM and E-mail Filters Added

Notice a lot of random crazy DM messages this year on Twitter providing a link to go to? Hopefully you didn’t click the link because these DM’s are phishing DM’s sending you to very bad links. A couple of these DM’s follow the lines of: Is this u in this vid? [bad link here] This [...]

This Week in Fails.

Tiger Woods In a testament to show how much the world has become addicted to knowing the private lives of others, the Tiger Woods “transgression” has been a hot bed of speculation, gossip, and privacy infringement. According to many local citizens of Central Florida reports and news media have actually flocked to known hang out [...]

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