Backdoors in WordPress

In recent months I have had to clean up my hosted WordPress sites due to scareware by javascript injections.  In so doing, it occurred to me that most people don’t keep up with the world of WordPress in the way I do, and so have not seen nearly as many hack attempts....

The Hole Trick

The hole trick How Skype & Co. get round firewalls Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator’s nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in...

Blogging for Money – A Passive Income?

Blogging for Money – A Passive Income? Last year two posts popped up in my RSS feeds with the words ‘passive income’ in their headings. BJ asked – So Where’s the Passive Income? and Dave writes about Growing a blog or blogs as a source of passive income....