TELsquisite: I am the butt of my own typo

TELsquisite has been my iPhone gmail account handle for 20 months, completely unknown to me, until tonight…   TELsquisite Hack? No, nothing that elaborate happened. My gmail account undergoes some very heavy sent mail usage on on this smartphone, with some days averaging up to one hundred replies, or more. So, I was completely dumbfounded when my Experts-Exchange friend Eric (Netminder) messaged me on YIM with...

MyCleanPC.com, you be the judge…

MyCleanPC.com is on plenty of infomercials lately, offering to clean your pc. Don’t waste your time or your money purchasing this Cyberdefender software. Happy Mother’s Day Honey I received a phone call this afternoon from a frustrated friend who received a brand new laptop for Mothers Day, whereby her husband had installed MyCleanPC in hopes of keeping her new pc clean. The only thing this software did was...

WordPress sites under a global attack?

WordPress sites have been under an escalated botnet-based brute force attack since late last week. Though brute force attacks are quite common with most popular CMS’s; using the admin default user name with a weak password will get your site hacked. It is obviously not a matter of if (you will get hacked), it is a matter of when (you will get hacked) - if you continue to use the default admin account combined with a...

WordPress blog (self-hosted): What you need to kno...

WordPress blog (self-hosted)  If you opt for a self-hosted WordPress blog, there are a few things that you should know prior to installation. Perhaps you’ve read self-hosting your WordPress site in ten easy steps (or the equivalent of such)? Did you notice any mention of how to secure your new blog? Probably not. Self-hosted WordPress blogs are a dime-a-dozen when launched for the sole purpose of...

NVD US National Vulnerability Database Hacked

NVD Hacked The US National Vulnerability Database (NVD)  was hacked and has been offline since last Friday. According to Business Insider, security researchers found malware on two NIST servers. Interestingly, the NVD site that warns about security problems, didn’t warn the world about its own. Chris Wysopal, Veracode CTO & co-founder was the first to ask about NVD downtime on Twitter: Security researcher, Kim...

I’ve been late with scheduling blog posts

I’ve been late with scheduling blog posts since October 2011. Indeed! I’ve been late with scheduling blog posts since October 2011. At times, I’ve even been guilty of playing musical hosts on a monthly basis.  That was after Midphase informed me that they would be retiring my VPS. It has been a rough 17 months in the blog-sphere for this gal…  At times, I’ve even been guilty of playing musical...

I bungled a tech question today

I won’t get specific about the purpose of this tech question (not yet anyway) – but I was asked to explain the difference between FAT and the NTFS file system today. BTW, It has been a few years since I’ve worked specifically on NTFS servers. Much later – long after the question arose, I remembered max files, volumes, limitations, features, security and blah blah. It doesn’t matter that I...

Do our smartphones really rule us?

Update [22-Jan-13]: My iPhone is back in operation this morning. Weird!  Tonight, my iPhone died Holding  the HOME and SLEEP buttons didn’t do squat. Using various charging methods (electrical/USB/Belkin iMac charger did nada either). Though I whined a tad on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn – nothing could bring my iPhone back from the grave. Without access to my contacts, I felt entirely alienated. How do I...