by Joseph Forbes | Apr 14, 2013 | HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
from the pressing-all-the-words dept. “Some of us have been experiencing attacks on WordPress sites for the last few days, but it’s now beginning to be widely reported that there’s a fairly large brute force attack happening on WordPress users on...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals, Web Hosting
As you may know, Tuesday, a widespread “brute force” attack against WordPress sites started impacting sites across the internet. This attack is leveraging a botnet which looks to have more than one hundred thousand different computers at its...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 13, 2013 | SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
from the but-thanks-for-testing-it dept. Microsoft announced last night that it has stopped pushing a security update originally released on Patch Tuesday because the fix is causing some PCs to blue-screen. Microsoft recommends users uninstall the patch, which is also...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the why-don’t-they-just-apt-get-the-next-version? dept. “In one year today exactly, Microsoft will shut down support for Windows XP. The deadline will prove a challenge for many of Australia’s largest users of IT, all struggling to migrate to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | INTERNET, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday on 9 April will be an important spring cleaning day; the company plans to implement nine security bulletins. One of the bulletins deals with vulnerabilities in Windows Defender for Windows 8 and RT; the hole is rated as important and...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 12, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, Technical Support, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the quick-name-an-os-that’s-never-been-compromised dept. We frequently have guests in our home who ask to use our computer for various reasons such as checking their email or showing us websites. We are happy to oblige, but the problem is many of these...
