by Joseph Forbes | Jan 15, 2013 | Blog Entry
This is a very general skill set that covers most tasks I have performed in the residential market. Know How To Google Lets face it, its almost impossible for a technician to know how to fix everything they come across. There are all sorts of strange error messages...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 11, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, Malware Reports
IDG News Service – An exploit for a previously unknown and currently unpatched vulnerability in Java is being used by cybercriminals to infect computers with malware, according to security researchers. An independent malware researcher who uses the online...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 10, 2013 | Blog Entry
I’m a huge fan of Reddit. And therefore I should express myself through my own and someday submit the post on Reddit… for KARMA! However I’m not a karma guy, and I’d much prefer to just post here on my own site to use as an example for...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 8, 2013 | Blog Entry
Spam sucks. Any site which allows unauthenticated users to submit forms will have a problem with spamming software (spambots) submitting junk content. A common technique to prevent spambots is CAPTCHA, which requires people to perform a task (usually noisy text...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 7, 2013 | Blog Entry
Early this month I had to remove some malware from some of my hosted WordPress sites. The malicious code was there for a little while and the sites were blacklisted by google. That’s how we noticed it. I recently added all our sites to Google’s Webmaster Tools,...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 6, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, SECURITY
Fixing a website “hack” is actually a fairly heavy technical thing to do. Most bloggers are not webmasters. They are not really technical people. They’re probably people who simply purchased a web hosting account, maybe set up WordPress using a one-click install, and...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 5, 2013 | Blog Entry
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....
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog Entry
What Should I Do With All My Old, Outdated Computer Parts?.
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY
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...
