UPDATE on Jill’s blog. To recap, Jill’s Personal finance blog https://frugalhoney.com was suffering a denial of service (DOS) brought about by a Brute Force attack. A brute force attack is when the website is made so busy trying to serve pages that it essentially hangs. After I backed up the site and made it run …
Frugalhoney.com Attacked Part III – Moved It To Blogspot Read More »
So i’ve confirmed that Jill’s site https://frugalhoney.com is going through a brute-force attack. A brute force attack is software that does two things. 1. keep trying to guess a password and 2. tie up the login page of the website disallowing anything else. Think of yourself as a bad guy and you do not want …
So jill’s Personal Finance website https://frugalhoney.com may or may not have been hacked. I say ‘may have been’ because Server logs showed classic hack signs such as brute-forcing wp-login.php and wp-admin.php, the key wordpress files to try and access the dashboard. For a site that gets only less than 200 visits a day that’s suspicious. …
So as a government consultant I am subscribed to the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGeps), and I get an email whenever the keyword ‘consultant’ pops up on any requirement. A few days ago I was quite surprised when I got this:
There is a popular post on FB making the rounds regarding a Mr. Ian Caballero and his recent unfortunate incident with Globe Telecoms. To summarize, his postpaid Globe SIM was replaced (copied) without his authorization. The only time you would usually allow this is when you lose your SIM or it is unusable for some reason. …
The ‘SMS As A Recovery Option For Any Of Your Online Accounts Is A Bad Idea’ Viral Post Read More »
Yesterday I received this email supposedly from Godaddy, a domain registrar I occasionally use.It says ‘Your account contains more than 3259 directories and may pose a potential performance risk to the server. Please reduce the number of directories for your account to prevent possible account deactivation’. It is followed by a convenient link to where …
To say that the Heartbleed issue has shaken me up is an understatement. It is in fact so serious so as to make me start questioning the open source model of trust and distribution per se even if I have been a great believer since I’ve learned of it – but that is a topic for another post. Today I …