Wordfence Lists Top Security Analysis Tools
Wordfence Lists Top Security Analysis Tools, and it is generally worthwhile to read their material.
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An E-mail Trick to Watch For
The full description is at Red Tape Chronicles. Spammers are using Google search links in e-mails to get people to their sites. As usual the solution is not clicking on things if you don’t know what they are. Consider it first. Also, as usual, look at the bottom bar of your browser with the mouse…
Smishing
Smishing is sending a faked text to your phone in an attempt to gain personal information. This personal information can be used to gain access to other accounts. Here’s a link with more information. It’s targeted at me, as a service provider, but it provides you with information you need as well.
If You Need Another Warning
… consider yourself warned. I have encountered several machines recently on which people were either running without anti-virus protection or had allowed the anti-virus subscription to lapse, sometimes for long periods of time. I know it’s tempting to avoid that little expense, but the protection is critical. You also need to let those scans run,…
Will Vista become Standard?
Jason Hiner thinks not. The problem is likely less that Vista is bad, than that it is new and different and just a little clumsy for people who are accustomed to Windows XP. The idea of resolving security issues by forcing people to respond to the computer more often may be necessary–I don’t really know–but…
Upgrading to WordPress 2.5
I’m about to upgrade this blog. It may be temporarily unavailable. I’ll post an update in this post when things appear to be back to normal. Update: The upgrade was quick and without glitches. WordPress 2.5 appears to be running well with all my normal plugins.