Archive for the ‘Internet Security’ category

GoDaddy Suffering MAJOR WordPress Hacks

May 17th, 2010

GoDaddy has been suffering MAJOR WordPress hacks this week, and some were even today.  This is happening on other sites that are running on PHP that aren’t running WordPress too.
Here are some news posts about the hacks:
http://blog.sucuri.net/2010/05/second-round-of-godaddy-sites-hacked.html

Note all the GoDaddy WordPress hack news here:
http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/

SlashDot
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/04/26/1527215/Massive-Number-of-GoDaddy-WordPress-Blogs-Hacked?art_pos=1

My thoughts after the jump.

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Outsourcing IT Services Will Save Your Company Money

January 5th, 2010

If you are in business, you have certain technology needs. Computers, phones, software, and maybe even a file server or a billing server.  Then comes the question who runs all of this for you.  What do you do if your computers break, your network goes down, or your server crashes?  Do you hire a person to manage all of this for you in what could be a very costly salary position?  Or do you out-source your needs to a technology company like Delaware.Net.

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Delaware.Net now offers lower-cost SSL Certificates

February 3rd, 2009

Delaware.net is now offering discounted SSL Certificates for e-commerce websites, and for websites that require encrypted forms that submit private information.   These certificates were previously sold for $100 each (per year), and they are now available for as little as $52.47 per year.   Contact the Delaware.Net technical support team for more information at 888-432-7965 x2 to order, renew, or extend your SSL subscriptions.  Full pricing is as follows:

1 YEAR: $52.47 48% Savings from previous pricing
2 YEARS: $93.40 53% Savings from previous pricing
3 YEARS: $121.20 60% Savings from previous pricing
4 YEARS: $144.80 (NEVER OFFERED BEFORE) 64% Savings from previous pricing
5 YEARS: $170.49 (NEVER OFFERED BEFORE) 66% Savings from previous pricing

*We will be requiring a credit card at the time of purchase or renewal.

We are happy to offer you this opportunity to secure your site and save some money!

Having problems with Email?

August 8th, 2007

Have you been having trouble with your email lately? You are not alone. Spam and virus mail volume has reached an all time high this summer. July has seen the largest virus attack in over two years with the attack continuing to escalate into August.

These attacks are perpetrated through bot-nets. The concept is simple: A user opens an email containing an attachment, (lately in the form of a pdf or zip, but any attachment can work.) The attachment executes the virus code, and the users computer becomes part of the bot-net. These bot-net infected computers can lay dormant for days or even months before being called into action by the spammer controlling the bot-net. Once called into action, the user’s pc becomes a spam and virus sending zombie. Infected machines can send thousands of emails per day using legitimate credentials. This traffic causes mail servers across the Internet to become bogged down slogging through all this junk. You could be infected right now and not even know it.

What can you do to protect yourself? » Read more: Having problems with Email?

Web Site Design Pricing

August 7th, 2007

One of the most common questions I hear is “what do you charge for a web site?”. My answers to that question have varied over the years and I often find myself wanting to give a dollar figure like the sales person does at Bestbuy when asking a price for a shiny new gadget that my wife will disapprove of.

I found an interesting article today while doing some research on this topic:

There is an old joke I saw once where a ship’s captain needed work on a boiler. He called a boilermaker who went down into the ship’s hold and tapped on the boiler in some different spots with a hammer. He said he was done and presented a bill for $1,000. The captain was upset and demanded an itemized invoice. Here is what he got…

Tapping with hammer: $1.00
Knowing where to tap: $999.00

I think too many of us in this trade are focused on the hammer tapping part (which is the actual coding) and not the part of knowing where to tap (which is the planning, experience, education, etc.)

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Beware of the social engineering threat to your company

July 1st, 2007

Many firms believe that they are security conscious. Large portions of IT budgets are spent on adaptive firewalls, distributed virus scan software, intrusion detection systems, and other security related products. What all of these products fail to address is the human element, which is the weakest link in the security chain. In his observation of the state of physical security at the 2001 RSA (Rivest, Shamir, Adleman) conference, Kevin Mitnick noted: “you could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services… and your network could still remain vulnerable to old fashioned manipulation.” » Read more: Beware of the social engineering threat to your company



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