Spam & Phishing

Interesting blog trackback spam

A trackback is one of four types of linkback methods for website authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to their articles. Some weblog software, such as SilverStripe,WordPress, Drupal, and Movable Type, supports automatic pingbacks where all the links in […]

General

Would you sell your business on LinkedIn?

If you receive on LinkedIn an email like the one below, with the subject “get back to me ASAP”, wouldn’t you wonder who is needing you so badly?   Do you want to sale 50% ownership or 100% ownership of your business. I just want something casual I could invest on with Eight Hundred Thousand […]

improve-your-security

Cyber security tips (in German and English)

If you understand German, there are tons of information about CyberSecurity and how to improve your security. BSI (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik) has a lot of resources published here:Alliance for Cybersecurity : http://ift.tt/UQNm4c The materials are available here: http://ift.tt/1ILTynT They… < p class=”more-link-p”>Read more → The post Cyber security tips (in German and English) appeared […]

News

OpenDNS acquired by Cisco

I wrote an article which recommends OpenDNS to FritzBox users to use OpenDNS to filter malicious domains and perform parental control on the traffic that gets into their home routers.  &  And now, not a week later I see: Cisco made a big acquisition offer to OpenDNS and they accepted it. Wow, what a news! Read here the […]