Information Technology Manager

Is Anonymous Surfing Costing You Revenue?

July 2, 2008 – 1:22 pm
Programmers, developers, web designers and webmasters may spend days, weeks, months and years creating websites with unique looks and original content. They deserve to be duly compensated for their hard work. Depending on the nature of their website(s) the only compensation they may receive comes from sources like Google Adsense or other affiliate-type programs. But, when web surfing anonymizers step in their earnings may be lost.

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Global Botnet Destruction Week

June 25, 2008 – 12:40 pm
The net is in serious trouble. The total number of viruses is expected to exceed one million by the end of 2008. Identity theft continues to be a problem, as Botnet armies steal passwords, financial data, credit card numbers, social security numbers and every piece of personal and business data they can get their bits and bytes on. SQL injections and Cross-Site-Scripting attacks continue to plague personal and commercial websites as bots and criminal syndicates target vulnerabilities. Botnets like Srizbi, Cutwail, Bobax/Kraken, Ozdok/Mega-D and Storm Bot continue to run roughshod over the globe. It is time for a complete overhaul of global computing. We need to reboot the internet.

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Server Logs are Your Friend

May 14, 2008 – 1:22 pm
Improving Website Security With Server Logs With the escalating tide of targeted website attacks, server administrators and webmasters would be well advised to examine their logs to predict, prevent and interdict enemy attacks. These attacks can come in a variety of forms, but aside from cross-site javascript attacks, the most prevalent in the second quarter of 2008 are PHP and SQL injection attacks targeting vulnerable systems and websites. The more common attacks appear to be targeted at websites using open source platforms and forums such as WordPress and phpBB.

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Protect Your Website From Attack

May 9, 2008 – 2:15 pm
Don’t Allow Your Website to Become an Attack Statistic Cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, PHP injection, form hijacking and other potentially malicious attacks receive considerable mention in the technical news headlines. Despite the news attention, many webmasters and website owners remain either uninformed or unconcerned about the risk associated with these types of attacks and unsecured webforms and other dynamic content. The risk is huge...

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Latest Hacker Havens: Free Hosting and Free Subdomains

May 7, 2008 – 11:18 am
Competition for internet advertising dollars has encouraged many companies to offer free subdomains to those who might provide enough content to produce a few clicks on the affiliate marketing banner ads and other advertisements generally required as part of these free services. Not a bad deal. But, there is a more ominous side to free hosting and free subdomain services. Free hosting services are becoming havens for hackers, spammers, cross-site scripting agents and other forms of malicious or criminal behavior.

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