Microsoft to fix a 17 year old security bug in it’s next security update coming up this month.
Well, a bug can stay forever unless someone uncovers it, right? In this case a Google researcher discovered a utility that allows users of new versions of windows to run old versions of windows software.
This bug goes back [...]

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France followed by the German government lately warned web users against Microsoft’s IE and advised using an alternative web browser. They knew about the vulnerabilities earlier, but announced the warning after the malicious code that was used on Google was published online.

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Unless you are using a plugin to hide your WordPress version number, you will notice the message in the admin area for upgrading your WordPress installation.
2.8.6 released late last week addresses a couple of issues that can be exploited by users of your site with posting privileges. If you have multiple registered users or plugins [...]

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I was working on a site that needed SSL setup for credit card form submission.
SSL ( Secure Socket Layer) is a protocol that allows data to be encrypted when transmitted from the browser to the server.

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Nowadays I always search the web when looking for any topic, checking for an event, or trying to find directions. I don’t usually think when searching, that some searches are riskier that others.

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I was surprised to read last week a news story from avast, warning about the increase of websites infected with the iframe tag or thread.
In the story they mentioned that high visibility sites like USA Today, ABC News, and Wal-Mart were affected.
This happened to one of my sites not long ago. Thanks to avast, I [...]

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PayPal is known to be safe in general. If you have an issue with a transaction, PayPal provides the means to dispute it online through your account.
I got recently a security key and think it’s good investment any paypal account holder should have. Even if you don’t keep a lot of money in your account, it [...]

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According to wikipedia: “phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information”.
I had previously many instances of phishing that happened to come through my email. The sender simply asked me to click on a link to update my Payal account.
I always look at the URL of the link in the status bar [...]

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Using your laptop in public could be risky, especially when you type passwords, check your bank, credit card account or type any sensitive information.
I read about a study from a security research that shows keyboards were not safe when transmitting information.
The study was conducted in Switzerland (School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL ) [...]

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I updated my ebook over the weekend by adding a couple more chapters and feedback received from previous readers.
In every wordpress release of the software, functionality is added to better secure it.
However there are steps you need to take in order for your installation to be  more secure. Steps as tightening permissions, naming database tables, [...]

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