I’ve said it before and also written about it several times before but I feel that I can’t repete myself enough: make sure you backup your data!!!! It’s always important to keep off site backups of your databases and other files so you can restore your content in case of …

Yesterday we got 3 comments posted in two of our blogs that looked strangely the same. All three comments came from the same IP address, and had the same name and email of poster. If I only had noticed one of these comments I would have approved it as it …

These days we can read about all kinds of attacks, software vulnerabilities, security updates for blogs more then ever before, and I don’t think this will ever slow down as long as the attackers can earn money from this activity 🙁 . Therefore you as the site owner must keep …

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 …

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 …

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 …

I guess you’ve heard of GPS (Global Positioning System), a system allowing you to find out your exact position using satellite signals, and the map service Google Earth before. But did you know there’s an easy way to combine these two? By using the GPS Tracking Key from LandAirSea Systems …

As you may have seen on Twitter we moved our blog (blog.xaviermedia.com) to another server yesterday due to poor response times at the old server. So how did we know that the response times where poor? I’m using a service called mon.itor.us where you can setup web site checks to …

If you got a camera to improve your posts (like I wrote in Five things all bloggers need) then you will sooner or later find a jerk or two that’s stealing your work and using it on their own blog/web site. As a blogger you need to protect the content …