Massive brute force attacks against WordPress websites
Recently, many web hosting companies have reported brute force attacks being launched against websites using WordPress and Joomla. Attackers are using massive botnets which included more than 90,000 servers to break into the websites’ administrator panels by attempting to “guess” the username and the password. From a website owner prospective there are few things that [...]
Scribd.com hacked: Admits Network Intrusion
World’s largest online digital documents library was suffered from hacking attempt. Scribd’s security operations team discovered unusual activity on its network and a conscious & successful attempt was made to access username and password of Scribd’s registered users. However, Scribd’s security team have stated that passwords are stored very securely and the passwords of less [...]
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Massive DDoS Attack to Spamhaus [Infograph]
The recent & massive DDoS attack to Spamhaus was the largest ever recoded. Dutch ISP Cyberbunker who attacked Non profit organization Spamhaus after getting blacklisted. As a result of which, people faced slowdown of internet at wide level.
Pakistani Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Visa, Paypal, HP Defaced by Turkish hackers
Pakistani version of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Ebay, Visa, Paypal, HP, Cocla Cola, Cisco, HSBC and many other popular websites have been hacked and defaced by Turkish hackers group ‘Eboz!’. whereas three additional domains blog.microsoft.pk, adsense.google.com.pk, code.google.pk have been defaced by a Pakistani hacker collective. A security vulnerability registrar’s systems ‘PKNIC’ allowed cybercriminals to easily hack [...]
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Zero Day Cross Site Scripting [XSS] Vulnerability Found in Yahoo! Mail
A Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability has been found in Yahoo.com which allows hackers to hijack Yahoo! Mail accounts and redirect users to malicious & Phishing websites. Yahoo! Mail users should be extra careful as this zero day cross site scripting vulnerability may compromise their account. In a typical form of Cross site scripting [XSS] attack, [...]
7 Different Methods to Get Traffic on your Website
Traffic is important to stay in competition and webmasters and bloggers already take certain step to drive traffic to their website. Writing high quality and unique articles, Social bookmarking, blog commenting, keyword optimization etc. is not what I’m talking about. I know we all try to write high quality and unique articles to get traffic [...]
1 More Year with Hostgator India
Lifefive.com is going to celebrate its second year and will continue with Hostgator India as its web hosting provider. In early days with Hostgator India, I’ve already reviewed the services and support of Hostgator India but just after one year I want to clarify and point out other aspects that I’ve experienced in past one [...]
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Schema.org supported markup [Microdata] plugins for WordPress
Schema.org is a Joint effort from major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo! & Yandex to improve the web search results by creating schema supported data markup called ‘Microdata’. On page schema markup helps search engines to understand the information and provide valuable results for users. A normal user will visit your WordPress blog [...]
How to do Safe Shopping on Mobile?
Is it safe to shop online via mobile phone? and the answer is yes, you can do safe shopping on your mobile phone or tablet. All you need is to take some preventive steps to do this. Many e-commerce firms, Banks and online shopping giants provides their own mobile applications to visit and shop anything [...]
Google’s Answer on Spammy Guest Blogging Activities
Many Bloggers chose Blog Commenting and Guest Blogging for link acquisition from other popular and ‘dofollow’ blogs. Indeed, It is the hassle free way to get good amount of Backlinks to your site. Bloggers and website owners [Let’s suppose its you] who allows Guest Blogging on their weblog should be careful and you should verify [...]
