Reflections
Feedburner: Show me the Money
BlogSecurity and hundreds of thousands of other blogs use the Feedburner service. A couple of weeks ago we released a vulnerability in Feedburner which allowed attackers to hijack your feed – this has since been resolved. Today, we will be discussing a hidden feature in the FeedCount service that may come in handy if your [...]
Blogs and Breakins
Why would hackers waste their time with my blog?
Sound familiar? Maybe your the person who said it. In 2006, problogger.net was hacked causing downtime. The attack was apparently for political reasons.
If I may, I will suggest some reasons why an attacker would be interested in gaining access to your blog regardless of your size or [...]
Choosing a hosting provider
So you want to start a blog but are unsure how to go about it and many of us have been burnt making the wrong choices. So what exactly are we looking for when starting a weblog up and how can we prevent having to put an icepack on that finger after making the wrong [...]
September Top 5
We had some great posts in September, here are my top 5:
Spambam Project gets launched – Anyone who is familiar with blogging is more then likely familiar with comment spam. It is a well known fact that 93% of comments are spam! (…)
5 step failsafe upgrade for WP – Roland Rust runs http://wordpress.designpraxis.at and we [...]
Choosing the right blogging software
In this article we examine some of the more popular open source blogging software packages available. BlogSec gets an overview picture of whats out there and whats being used.
According to Wikipedia, there are 35 listed open source, free blogging software packages, and these will be the blogs on which we focus.
This initial research will help [...]
