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Are You Affected by the Heartbleed Bug?
The Heartbleed vulnerability affects CentOS 6 servers with an OpenSSL version less than 1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7.
What is a DDoS Attack and Can it be Prevented?
You have probably heard reports, or even experienced firsthand, a Distributed Denial of Service attack. But what exactly is a DDoS attack, and can it be prevented?
The 15 Best Encryption Programs to Protect Your Internet Privacy
Don’t ask your government for less surveillance, take control of your internet privacy with these best encryption programs.
Protect Your WordPress Login Against Attack
As you are hopefully aware, a brute force attack affected global WordPress installations. Here is an informative tutorial to quickly protect your WordPress login page via cPanel.
Ultimate Password Security Guidelines
Ah, passwords, the keys to modern living. It seems you can’t go anywhere or do anything these days without a password. You workstation needs a password, your gym needs a password, even your trusty buddy the cell phone may need a password. With so many passwords it’s tempting to make life easy and just have one master key, or password to make life simple. While this may be easy, it’s definitely not secure and you risk putting in danger every access point where you use that “master key.”
It brings to mind the old castle housekeeper with gigantic ring of keys to every room in the castle. What a burdensome load to carry. Wouldn’t a master key be better? Yes it would, but one stolen key and the whole castle is breached.
Google’s Updated Privacy Policy Faces Opposition
In an effort to streamline and simplify its services, Google has recently announced its plans to combine the privacy policies from over 60 products into one unified and surprisingly short privacy policy. The new policy, taking effect March 1st, clearly outlines what kind of information the company collects from its users, how they obtain it, and what they use it for. Google also announced that the new policy will allow them to seamlessly share this information across their wide array of services, creating a smarter and more efficient browsing experience. Many seem to think that the search giant is being too careless with their personal information, however, and are subsequently facing strong opposition from not only users, but Congress as well.
It’s a trap! Phishing Scams and Malware
Guest post by: Jonathan S.
Abuse & Security Analyst
Phishing scams and malware infected sites are some of the many problems that the Abuse & Security Department is in assigned to handle here at HostDime. It’s also one of the most common issues that we will find when clients inform us of warning labels placed on their sites.
Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers are featured with “Phishing and Malware Protection” which will alert the visitor that the page they are about to view may try to steal their information. The alert message is spawned from a published list of known attack sites which is maintained by Google and StopBadware.org.
The primary reason this message will appear is either a phishing scam attempting to lure the visitor into updating their personal information on fake (but very real looking) website, or malicious scripts that have been injected into the source of the website which cause your browser to download malware.