According to Trend Micro you should stay away from files called start.html, begin.html, r.html, main.html, news.html, and about.html since all these files will try to install a dangerious file called WATCH.EXE. This .EXE file contains a malware called TROJ_AGENT.AYZO. Since all these .html and .exe files are hosted on legitimate …

Most web hosting companies offer catch-all email addresses for all their customers and at first it may seem like a fantastic service. With catch-all you don’t have to setup forwarders for each and every email address you need since all email sent to your domain will be forwarded to the …

Trend Micro has created the new word (or at least it’s the first time I’ve seen it) YAMSIA in one of their latest blog posts. The reason for YAMSIA is Yet Another Massive SQL Injection Attack which is causing problems for certain .ASP pages. The botnet behind this attack is …

A little “bug” in Google Calendar allow you to find out the name of any person behind any gmail.com email account (if the person registered with his own real name that is). How to do it: Get a Google Calendar account at http://www.google.com/ Select “Share this calendar” Fill in the …

The latest version of WordPress has been released so hurry up and download the new version as soon as possible before you get hacked. When new versions of the softwares you use are released you should upgrade as soon as possible even if there are no immediate threats.

I just read a blog post at Mcafee Avert Labs Blog about a special type of maleware that can infect computers in Internet cafes and I started thinking about secure Internet connections when you travel. When traveling many of us use Internet cafes to access our email, check the server …

I just got an email letting me know that Snapnames has been down. I hadn’t noticed, but I think it’s nice of them to send out an email informing their customers of the incident: Dear SnapNames Customers: As you are likely aware, the SnapNames service was unavailable between last Thursday …

This is actually the first time I have seen a spam message with a link to a document at docs.google.com get past the spam filter. If you click the link you’re taken to a document at Google Documents with a link in big letters followed by a nonsense text. Could …

In the last few days I’ve noticed some weird blog spam in some of my blogs. The thing with this spam is that Akismet is not reacting and marking the comments as spam. They go directly to the approve comment queue. It’s easy to see that the comment is a …