Websense Security Labs has detected that Google searches on agreement accompanying to Labor Day sales acknowledgment after-effects that advance to rogue antivirus software. Labor Day is one of the better holidays empiric in the US anniversary year. Retail sales contest captivated during this weekend are some of the best advancing throughout the country.
When Google is acclimated to chase for agreement accompanying to Labor Day sales, awful URLs as aerial as the aboriginal aftereffect are returned. Upon beat an afflicted search-result link, JavaScript cipher redirects the user to a Web armpit advising them that their apparatus is adulterated with viruses.…
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Labor Day Sale-Related SEO Poisoning Leads To Rogue Antivirus
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Twitter as a botnet command center
The folks over at Arbor Networks were browsing Twitter and discovered something very strange: a Twitter account seemingly posting gibberish. At least, that’s how it appeared at first. Upon closer investigation, they discovered that the profile was posting base64 encoded links to PKZIP archives. When they extracted the contents and unpacked the contained DLL and EXE files, they discovered that the account was posing links to malware that would post user information back to certain URLs. The article was also updated to show that the scheme wasn’t limited to Twitter, but also affected users on Jaiku and Tumblr. It’s…
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Moving WordPress Blog Safely
Moving a blog can make it unreachable for 24 – 72 hours, unless the new domain name has fully propagated around the Internet. It is just the way it is and WordPress doesn’t have anything to do with such limitation. Moving is best done when you have the time or have planned ahead.
Moving Towards a New Domain Name
The first thing to do is create a database back-up. The entire WordPress installation needs to be downloaded with no exceptions. This is not the time to tidy up your install or to upgrade/change anything. That would have to wait after…
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Learn Facebook Page SEO Mastery In 7 Easy Steps
This is Day 7 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
For those of you that haven’t spent a lot of time with internet marketing, you probably are not aware of what search engine optimization is. The main goal of search engine optimization is to increase the amount of traffic driven to any given site by search engines. Currently search engines (and mostly Google) serve as the starting point of a user’s journey around the web. While many users will go directly to their favorite sites, search engines are used multiple…
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Using Permalinks in Wordpress (The coolest way!)
Today, I will show you how to use the ‘Permalinks’ feature in Wordpress. ‘Permalinks’ stand for Permanent Links to your posts. This feature can well be configured using the Permalinks Settings Option. It can be used to create a new URL structure, minimal or fancy looking or maybe a whacky word can be formed in the URL itself.
Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link…
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Vulnerable DD-WRT Firmware Exposes Wireless Routers
A hacker has discovered a critical vulnerability in open-source firmware available for wireless routers made by Linksys and other manufacturers that allows attackers to remotely penetrate the device and take full control of it.
The remote root vulnerability affects the most recent version of DD-WRT, a piece of firmware many router users install to give their device capabilities not available by default. The bug allows unauthenticated users to remotely gain root access simply by luring someone on the local network to a malicious website.
The bug resides in DD-WRT’s hyper text transfer protocol daemon, which runs as root. Because the…
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Sweetcron : Open Source Lifestream
Sweetcron is an open source lifestreaming blog software created by Jon “Yongfook” Cockle based on the CodeIgniter framework. It is similar to other web applications such as Tumblr and Friendfeed, but users are able to host their own lifestream on their own server and customize it in any way they want.
Sweetcron is a free and self hosted alternative to services like Friendfeed and Lifestream.fm
Sweetcron runs on PHP and it also needs a MySQL Database to function. It is very customizable and easy to administer. You can add your various feed URLs for it to import and publish.…
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Outpost Firewall Pro 6.5.5.2535.385.10208
Outpost Firewall Pro has been always recognized as one of the best personal firewalls in the world One of the reasons for this is that we continuously work to improve the product 39 s security in order to provide our customers with the best possible protection Outpost Firewall Pro delivers proactive defense against hackers spyware Trojans botnets keyloggers ID theft and other Internet borne threats The integrated anti spyware module defends against the broad range of malicious programs Its on demand scanner enables scanning custom locations while the real time monitor is constantly on guard against the activation of spyware…
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Facebook Begins Rolling Out Free Profile Usernames For Vanity URLs
This afternoon Facebook posted an image of the new Facebook username settings that should be going live shortly. The image suggests that users will not have to pay for usernames and our assumption is that those usernames will be used within Facebook URLs for creating what many individuals now understand as “vanity URLs”. Facebook has not specified yet how this will be rolled out but it’s now clear that they are being rolled out as posted via the Facebook Platform page.
For some unknown reason, the image has been posted to an album titled “Developer Blog Photos”. Would vanity URLs…
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Vanity URLs Are Not A Business, And Why Facebook Will Provide Them For Free
If the primary service your web startup is providing to users is short profile URLs (a.k.a. vanity URLs), you might as well file for bankruptcy. Perhaps that’s a bit excessive since many entrepreneurs figure out a way to survive even after being shot in the leg (metaphorically speaking of course). Last week Techcrunch reported that Facebook would soon be providing users with free vanity URLs in a land grab that would begin later this week. That means services like Profile.to (which is a relatively popular Facebook application) will essentially be rendered useless.
Short URLs have become all the rage with…
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Spammers Getting Desparate With Latest Facebook Phishing Scams
The Facebook phishing scams have continued over the Memorial Day weekend, although it appears Facebook is slowly winning the battle. The latest versions of the scams have used Tinyurls and improperly placed spaces to defeat Facebook’s spam filters. One message I received in the past few minutes simply stated “n u d z . r u”.
While it’s unknown if recipients are following the improperly formed URLs, the spammers are clearly turning to alternative tactics. While the volume has appeared to increase, the new spam messages are not great phishing bait. Rather than luring more victims, the spammers are simply…
