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putting a machine in the internet, and it does not take long until you get a request like the one above. There is a hole in WordPress, and apparently there are robots out there trying to find those.
Update or move it to a name that is less predictable.
Andreas
in this text somebody claims that 200 people are responsible for 90% of all spam on the world.
Could we find them a job? Please.
forty million credit card numbers walked out of a building somewhere.
The CC companies said there was so far no more fraud activity “beyond the ordinary”.
Lately there has been a flurry of reports. As the linked article explains there is a new California state law that requires businesses to notify their customes when their personal information has been exposed in a security breach. That explains allot.
Citigroup looses tapes with the records
of 3.7 million clients. What _would_ have be cool would be if they would have not have copies.
That would teach them.
Right now all those 3.7 million people can hope for is that UPS lost the tapes real good. They can loose things so good that nobody can find them.
Really, only fedex and UPS can do that.
Finally the stack overflow exploits handcrafted for intel CPU might start work on Macs!
malware alliance
What would happen if the masses of recruited Windows PCs are able to impact bigger part
of the internets, so that outages will be noticebale for more people?
Think “Dr. Evil”. :
You want the internet back? That would be “one million dollars”.
Thanks Microsoft. I hope Bill is paying the ransom he and his OS have caused.
It’s not the internet that is vunerable, it is not the computers. It is the operating system called Windows made by Microsoft.
Technically all systems can have viruses. In reality only Microsoft Windows systems are part of these malware empires.
Since people tend to say different: This has nothing to do with market share. 10% Apple Systems is by far enough to be
attractive. In the webserver market Mirocroft products are the minority but still manage to host all the interesting exploits.
It’s a design problem, and a historical one. For Windows security the geenie is out of the bottle. Apple can afford to fix every problem that becomes known: Their virus count is zero. It is so much easier to go back to zero from one than from multiple thousand.
BlogsNow Version2 is coming along. Instead of moving code and data from Version1 over to this host I decided to write it again. Most changes go into spam detection and filtering.
Right BlogsNow Version 2 flags and ignores –
– spam:
http://midwesternerslavished.blogspot.com/
http://pet-insurance-tips.blogspot.com/
http://guitar-rock.blogspot.com/
– indecent content:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/teen-galleries/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adult-creampies/
[I thought that spaces had such a tight content filter, apparently not]
– ‘blogs’ that forward directly to porn sites:
http://jasmine-disney-hentai.blogspot.com
There is an ever increasing amount of blogs that only were created for spam purposes.
Right now it looks as if BlogsNow can start crawling blogspot.com blogs again in Version2.
Right now this search returns a domain as the first result: www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense/
The real adsense page comes in only second.
Google directs a vast amount of internet traffic. Internet traffic can be made into money. One way or another. If you get it cheap enough there will be a profit. People only click on the first results they find. There is a wide rainbow of SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) activities. From nice to criminal,
and everything in between.
One mean trick is it to hijack a page. Basically steal it. Google never really acknowledged the problem. Nor did they address it.
That’s why they are the victim of it themselves.
From a Microsoft press release:
The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC "healthy" today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average user.
They forgot to add “if you run Windows”.
OS X has no need for ‘OneCare’, since the problem does not exist.