Thank you Akismet, the blogger’s Saviour!

I reached another blogging milestone of sorts overnight. The Akismet plug-in has now blocked it’s first 1,000 spam comments. Thanks Akismet, and all the folks at WordPress for having the vision and good sense to include it in your offering. The accuracy is incredible and it has never failed me even as my traffic and [...]

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Watch out, there’s Paypal Spam About..or..How to Spot a Fake

I’ve decided to post this for 2 reasons:

Despite all the scaremongering that the security and anti-virus companies in our industry engage in, I dont get all that much spam, especially phishing emails
I hope this will help educate others to spot a fake and avoid the thievery of phishing artists

I received this email at the weekend. [...]

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Is LinkedIn’s security shot?….or just me?

I’ve just logged in to LinkedIn and was greeted by something out of the ordinary, LinkedIn thinks I’m Moe! Now who the hell Moe is (or his buddy Ken Halpin) I’ve no idea.

The funny thing is though, if I click on the My Contacts or My Profile tabs it does show my own profile and [...]

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Nike+iPod Surveillance – could you become a target?

Now this is interesting reading, courtesy of Wired.It seems with a little know how the Nike+iPod training combo that folks raved about on it’s release could allow others invade your privacy, tracking every step you take. Could your habitual lunch time jog be plotted for the world to see?
Apparently the RFID signal output from the [...]

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And you thought Windows was flawed…is this a record?

This week Apple released an OS update containing no less than 22 fixes, 12 of which were security holes. Is this some kind of record I wonder ? The fixes address hacks like buffer overflows and remote code execution, attack methods that we’ve seen long since patched again and again for Windows. It’s no different [...]

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