Windows Defrag to News 9 Today Browser Scam

Free Windows Defragmenter Search Take this for a scam and a half way of fixing the Google search results! Today I was looking for an old defrag program, but couldn’t remember the name – so I went to Google.  That’s the screenshot on the right. The second result looked promising.  After all, the text says, [...]

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How do You Keep the Gates Closed when the Gatekeeper Loses the Keys?

Despite the best made plans and intentions, no security system is perfect. A massive recent security lapse means that (again!), the government’s continuing plans to implement ID Cards should be seriously examined. Not only have their own credentials at data security been demonstrated by themselves to be wholly inadequate (I’m thinking of the DVLA, MOD, [...]

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Captcha Broken says Matt, I agree!

….That’s what I’ve determined empirically recently.  Matt’s (WordPress prime mover) post here and this article in the Guardian mention the various failings of CAPTCHA. It’s the kind of thing that’s dawned on me progressively and is the reason I don’t use Captcha any more.  I’ve tested it and in the WordPress plugins that use it, [...]

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What? Still no Decent Viruses!

This is just a little follow up to and earlier post.  Secunia, in their latest weekly summary to me, state this: VIRUS ALERTS: During the past week Secunia collected 215 virus descriptions from the Antivirus vendors. However, none were deemed MEDIUM risk or higher according to the Secunia assessment scale. ==================================================== 3) This Weeks Top [...]

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Probable DDOS attack Using SQL Injection on my Websites

Over the last day, my sites have been really slow and twice to my knowledge have tripped out.  I’ve been getting a mysql error message like so when I try to resolve the problem in phpAdmin; MySQL: ERROR 1040: Too many connections I tried hosting chat support (as I’m in a hurry) but the connection [...]

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