March 2014 Entries
I’ve given WordPress a bit of a bad rap to various people over the years, however I like to think I’ve done so with good reason – it’s incredibly popular, but has some very bad history in terms of security related statistics. WordPress hosting: Do not try this at home! contains a number of those negative WordPress stats, and makes for interesting reading. Compromised WordPress blogs were used to host nearly 12,000 phishing sites in February. This represents more than 7% of all phishing attacks blocked during that month, and...
I’ve blogged in the past about the terrible Domainz website, and that they’re owned by Melbourne IT who seem to make a lack of security something of a company wide policy. Well, it’s 2014 and it seems that MelbourneIT stores domain passwords in cleartext. Just, wow.
I last looked at OneNote quite a while ago, and it didn’t quite take with me. However it looks like now is the time to give it another try. A (free) OSX client on top of the Windows client (which now has revised pricing of its own), syncing to OneDrive, and most importantly, a cloud API. It’s weird, hoping that you like using a piece of software simply because it ticks so many boxes on paper, and yet that’s the situation I find myself in. Would you like to know more? Link: Microsoft launches free OneNote for...
F-Secure: Android accounted for 97% of all mobile malware in 2013, but only 0.1% of those were on Google Play – I guess it’s not so much of a concern if you stick to the Google Play store, however I imagine a lot of people love the “freedom” that Android gives them to grab apps from anywhere. If the stats are correct, that’s a pretty high figure – I wonder why? Oh, maybe because of ecosystem update issues such as: Android KitKat is now rolling out to Samsung Galaxy devices in the US. KitKat was announced quite some time...