Applied a couple of upgrades to the blog this morning. Decent amount of work that will have absolutely zero impact on you the reader. 🙂 I did a decent amount of research on upgrading from my .Text blogging engine to it’s successor, Community Server. CS is now at 1.1 and it’s …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Blog UpgradesJust implemented some further spam protection to keep the evil doers at bay. I installed this great add-on that requires entering a validation code before providing feedback. I realize it is a bit of a pain, and sometimes the validation code is hard even for people to read, but it keeps those evil spammers away.
I’ve seen a huge increase in trackback spam to my sites lately. It’s now reached hundreds a day. I thought this was one or two hosts so I added a rule to snort to capture trackback spam and found it was coming from nearly all unique IP addresses. I’m guessing this is being …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Stopping TrackBack Spam with DotTextI’ve been having fun with what I expect will be my last weekend of hardcore geeking with my gear at home for a while. Once Baby Thingelstad arrives I’ll have more important things to do! This weekend I jammed on two tools. First is Snort, which I have setup in a network intrusion …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Hardcore Geeking!I’ve got a ton of respect for Google. They do an amazing job with search. Products like Google Maps make my jaw drop. It’s innovative, works exceptionally well and does things that many wouldn’t think you could do in a web browser without client-side software. Their stock, GOOG, …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Google Web Accelerator, Just say NO!It was patch week from Microsoft this week. This month brought 9 or 10 security updates depending on your version of Windows. I find it really funny how differently Microsoft and Apple release their security patches. Microsoft We get a monthly release of all the security updates. …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Marketing Security UpdatesI just finished reading In Code by Sarah Flannery. Sarah’s book is about her love of mathematics and a project that won her great acclaim in building a new public key cryptography algorithm. The book is light on math, enough to get you interested and is approachable to a variety …
Keep reading · 1 minute: In Code“The average American is listed in at least 50 databases, and that’s not counting government files.” This is the lead line in this article from PC Magazine about the amount of data that is stored about you in all the databases that different corporations have. Privacy on the …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Privacy or the Lack Thereof