Category: Security
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Why you should be using a VPN
What is a VPN? A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is basically a secure encrypted link from your computer to a computer or network somewhere else. Your computer then routes some or all of it’s network traffic over that encrypted link. Typically they are used to get access from secure private or corporate networks from…
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ATG Newsletter Went Out
Our first Spark::red ATG Newsletter was sent on Tuesday morning! We’re pleased and proud to have delivered the first of many monthly ATG Newsletters. In this newsletter we talk about the importance of improving your site performance, especially now that Google is using site performance as a search result ranking factor. We talk about Why,…
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Interesting Phishing Technique
I got contacted today with a non-form e-mail from a person offering a partnership which would “highly increase your context advertisement block (adsense) earnings” on 10MinuteMail. Essentially saying that they could increase my ad revenue, and would do that for a share of the increased revenue. Which sounds good as I was wondering if there…
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DDOS Against 10MinuteMail
You may have noticed 10MinuteMail was unavailable for a few minutes over the last couple of days. 10MinuteMail recently came under a DDOS attack which locked up the site a few times. Most of the malicious traffic came from the Netherlands, Germany, and to a lesser extend other European countries and the USA. Initially I…
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Monster.com Security Breach
The Monster.com job board database was illegally accessed and large amounts of user data were stolen. As is the case with many companies that maintain large databases of information, Monster is the target of illegal attempts to access and extract information from its database. We recently learned our database was illegally accessed and certain contact…
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AT&T DNS Cache Poisoning
Recently there has been a lot of press about AT&T DNS servers being hit with a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. Some new easier exploits were recently published, and many DNS servers are still vulnerable. And up until the new exploits were published publicly, the majority of DNS servers were vulnerable. This situation is worse once…