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Email-based Cyber Attacks Continue to Target Users in Philippines
Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to trick users into providing login credentials, initiating fraudulent transactions or unknowingly install ransomware TAGUIG CITY, PHILIPPINES, 25 Sep 2018...
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Advertising Inquiry Spam
I’ve noticed that in the past few months, I’ve been receiving several emails with the same subject line and message but from different names/persons &...
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Updated to Akismet 2.5.6
In the past I used several plugins like Cookies for Comments and Simple Trackback Validation along side Akismet to fight comment and tracback/pingback spam. Nowadays...
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Beware of Fake iTunes Receipt Emails
If you own an iPhone, iPod or iPad then you’re used to regularly receiving iTunes receipt emails on your inbox. Last week, my wife was...
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Google Adds Email Signing on Google Apps
Since 2004, Gmail has supported e-mail signing standards like DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) to validate mail with digital signatures and help users identify...
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Beware of WordPress Theme Malware
One of the things that make WordPress great and popular is the huge number of available free themes and plugins. Unfortunately, the popularity of free...
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Gmail Priority Inbox
I have been using Gmail the past 5 years and for me what makes it better than other webmail services, (aside from it’s very effective...
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Google Webmaster Tools: New Message Center Notifications
From small personal sites, forums, school & university websites, large corporate websites to government websites – thousands of websites get hacked, maliciously attacked and compromised...
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Akismet 2.2.1 – Now With Stats
Spam comments graph Was checking my WordPress dashboard earlier today when I saw a notification for a plugin update. When I checked on the Plugins...
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Update to Akismet 2.1.8
The first thing I did when I went back to blogging was to make sure my WordPress installation was up-to-date so I upgraded it to...
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Another Warning To WordPress Users
Around three months ago, I posted a warning to WordPress and Joomla users about downloading themes from TemplateBrowser.com which contained hidden spam and malware links....
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Weekend Roundup #7
NOTE: This post was supposed to be auto-published last Friday afternoon but something went wrong and it didn’t get published. My apologies for the delay...
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PayPal Phishing Email
Yesterday, while I was checking my Gmail spam folder I came across an email that’s supposedly from PayPal. It says in the email that my...
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A New Breed of Comment Spam
Commenting or comments is one of the essential parts of a blog. Weblog owners provide and allow users and visitors to leave comments so they...
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Warning to Joomla and WordPress Theme Users
Found this article from Derek Punsalan’s blog 5ThirtyOne. Templates Browser dot com is collecting WordPress & Joomla public themes and modifying them by inserting hidden...
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Spread Love not Viruses
The title may be misleading. This post is about computer viruses. In some parts of the world, people are already celebrating Valentine’s Day. During this...
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Spam Problems? Challenge ’em!
I use Akismet to fight blog spam. These past few days I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments. Yesterday morning alone, I found 61...
