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Restore The Web Security Tools Plugin Back in the WordPress Repository!

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February 5, 2012 — Ralph Ritoch, from VNetPublishing.Com has released the latest version of the popular WordPress security plugin named Web Security Tools. The plugin provides some new features, including the ability to detect and destroy new and unknown PHP virus strains along with its existing dictionary of viruses. Other new features include encryption support in the threat definition libraries, email notifications, and protection against multi-byte character encoding attacks which are commonly used in a hacking method known as SQL injection.

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I LOVE YOU – Virus-inspired movie trailer and world premiere

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grey I LOVE YOU Virus inspired movie trailer and world premiere

A film inspired by the infamous Love Bug computer worm is due to premiere on Friday.

The Love Bug (AKA I love you or LoveLetter) clogged up inboxes and email servers worldwide as it spread rapidly in May 2000. The virus, which came packed in a malicious attachment with the subject line “I love you”, overwrote multimedia on infected machines before forwarding copies of itself to everyone in a user’s Windows Address Book.

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Weekly Inspiration #6

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This post is part of our weekly series of posts showing the most inspiring images. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it, also use “Weekly Inspiration” in the subject.

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Penetration Testing Quick Tips: Compatible Cards for WEP and WPA Wireless Network Cracking

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With the popularity of wireless networks and mobile computing, an overall understanding of common security issues has become not only relevant, but very necessary for both home/SOHO users and IT professionals alike. This article is aimed at illustrating current security flaws in WEP/WPA/WPA2.

Successfully cracking a wireless network assumes some basic familiarity with networking principles and terminology, as well as working with command-line tools. A basic familiarity with Linux can be helpful as well.

Disclaimer: Attempting to access a network other than your own, or one you have permission to use is illegal in some U.S. and other local jurisdictions. Web Ninja Wannabe and SpeedGuide.net, Inc are not to be held liable for any damages resulting from the use or misuse of the information in this article.

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Google Redirecting to MysearchX.com

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These recent days,i came accross to some blogsite for me to find some inspiring post about wordpress designs. I use google of course. Then i stumble on this blog(forgot the url and the name) full of advertisements like the annoying popup ads. I’m using Google Chrome, i didn’t mind using Mozilla Firefox(with Adblock) since i was pretty impressed with Chrome’s performance.

But then the day after it, i begun searching again and typed my keywords on Chrome’s address bar, it keeps redirecting me to MySearchX.com. Then i begun to suspect that something’s wrong either with Google Chrome, with Google, or my PC. I am using Windows 7 anyway. I use 3 major browser for my web design debugging purposes. Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 8. I noticed that Firefox isn’t affected with MySearchX but the other two. As i have remembered that blog ask my persmission to allow a Java Application. But then unfortunately i didn’t mind it and just click the button.

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Squid Proxy: How To Make a Transparent Squid Proxy Server on Ubuntu

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Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

This is a short guide on how to set up a transparent squid proxy server on an Ubuntu Distro. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

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Avira 10: Halt Warcraft III!?

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Just this day, I was on the internet cafe business owned by my family. Since i am the one who configured everything, my job is to maintain it also. From the operating system setup, online and offline games, up to the security, tweaks and auto-maintain features of the workstation.

I use the Avira Anti-virus 10 on the net cafe. Not to say it’s free, but it also provides concrete protection (as for my experiences and for the independent antivirus testing organizations). Most of our customers are gamers. Warcraft III: Frozen Throne and the DOTA (Defense of the Ancient) are some of the most-played games since 2004.
Since i have set the Avira Anti-virus to automatic update it’s viral definition, for the past months on business, i can’t compare it’s stability with regards to viral protection.

One customer complained to my cafe attendant that Warcraft III: Frozen Throne is showing an error. To be exact, it’s an file-missing error that the FrozenThrone.exe could not find the war3.exe. I decided to turn off my stable cyber cafe manager I then boot up another unit beside the customer to see if another computer was also having that error. If not, i could transfer him and fix it. But after launching the Frozen Throne shortcut on my desktop, i got the same error too. Until i decided to let the other computers boot up and try if it’s getting the same. Well as i’ve suspected, they are on the same page of the book.

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