When selecting a domain name for your web site it’s important to make a good choice already from the beginning since it’s hard to change the name later. It’s of course possible to change domain name for a web site, but it requires a lot of hard work and you …

As always spammers take advatage of big events to make people interested in the emails they get. And as alwasy spammers have already started sending out fake emails about the Swine Flue. McAfee is reporting about spam emails trying to use Swine Flue to sell pills. If you follow the …

The lesson learned from this blog post is to never send any information about your identity without first checking the identity of the company/person requesting the information. I got this email in my inbox earlier today and someone with my ID card, a copy of one of my utility bills …

Today I notice a weird message in one of our discussion forums. It’s a spam bot hosted by Keyweb AG in Germany trying to figure out if the discussion forum is moderated or not. The good thing is that this forum where the spam was posted in is actually moderated, …

As a follow up on yesterdays post about Akismet and how it’s not stopping spam as effective as it used to I’ve counted the spam comments we’ve received in 3 of our blogs since the 10th of October 2008. On the graph you can see 3 major “incidents” where the …

Most of you already know about the WordPress plugin Akismet and you may also laready use it to stop spam in your WordPress blog. But recently we’ve discovered that the plugin is not working as good as it used to. When we started using the plugin it stopped 100% of …

Have you recently noticed an increase in spam linking to docs.google.com? If so there’s a reason for it. More and more spammers have figured out how to abuse Googles fantastic services to redirect visitors to other sites (the spammers own sites) 🙁 Most free web services like for example Hotmail, …

Once again we’re seeing fake emails trying to steal your login information. This time it’s PayPal that’s the victim 🙁 of this scam. The email sent out is really good looking and the links in the email looks like they’re going to take you to www.paypal.com/us/ but instead you’re redirected …

There’s a new kind of scam going on here in Sweden, but I think it’s worth mentioning to all of you since this may happen anywhere in the world. If you get a phonecall with only one tune so you don’t have enough time to answer, then it might be …