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All internet service need our password to login as authorized person. Sometime we just too lazy to think of strong password and put in simple, easy to hack password.

Can you imagine a full time blogger’s Google Adsense account’s password has been guessed by someone? Or your blog’s account password changed by someone else? So strong password is the factor to secure
your blog, website and money!

5 Rules to Stronger Password

You can set a better and stronger password with 5 simple rules. I believe if you follow the rules below, hacker might take hundred or thousand years to break your password.

1. Do not use password related to your personal info

Most of the people like to use password that easy to remember such as their birthday date, house location, name, age, etc. All these personal info can be guess by hacker easily by looking at your profile from Internet service.

2. Do not use enhanced password related to yourself

Some more advance user will “enhanced” their password get from personal info. For example, one may enhance their name from “George” to “G3orge” as their password. Some brute force attack can guess these enhanced password by using the special algorithm. So, do not think this is secured.

3. Do not use password that exist in dictionary

The most common password cracking technique is use the words listed in dictionary. The most silly password is use “password” as their password!

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Recently I have discovered some spammers target on my blog contents. As usual, when I check my wordpress dashboard for latest activity, there are many incoming links. I want to know who link to me and what they are talking about. As I noticed, there are few weird incoming links because they links almost every of my recent blog posts. Among these links, the most are from one source.

The spammers use spam engine to crawl my excerpt as their blog content, some even claimed as their own content by putting their name inside. After do some research on these spammers, I decide to reveal one of the spammer! Hopefully with these spy back information on the spammer, he learn to be more behave on his spam techniques.

Spy back and Reveal Spammer

Do you believe all these incoming links below come in from just one source, dulq.com. I do not border if he just link to my blog, but he copy my content excerpt and trackback to my blog post. I’ve delete his trackback from my blog post.

I have use certain techniques to spy and reveal the spammer’s information. With the help of Whois service, I have found the registrant of the domain. As you can see from the screenshot below, I reveal his name, house address, email address and even his phone number. (more…)

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Recently my computer was attacked by virus again! Nowadays, really a lot of virus out there in the internet even though I did not download pirated softwares, or surf unsafe websites. There was 10 virus has been detected by AVG but unable to clean. So why use antivirus that can detect but unable to clean? Are you having the same problem?

Norton Anti Virus Software is the solution for you! Of course, no one can say it is the best antivirus software. But with its new features, Norton Anti Virus 2008 with Antispyware is no more only an antivirus software. It is worth your money esspecially for small business or probloggers. I believe with the latest version of Norton Antivirus 2008, it give you the best protection for your desktop computer and laptop.

Why Use Norton Antivirus 2008?

Since many antivirus has been integrated with antispyware module, Norton also integrate its antispyware feature in this version. It also protect you from virus email, instant messages, and much more. These are the main features of the latest Norton Antivirus 2008:

• Detect and remove viruses and spyware
• Automatically block worms and spyware
• Stop virus-infected emails from spreading
• Detect and block worms, spyware and viruses automatically, before they install on your PC.
• Find and remove deeply hidden threats on your operating system with Rootkit Protection
• Internet Worm Protection stops worms, spyware and viruses without the need for specific threat signatures
• Scan instant messages and emails to find and delete infected attachments before infecting your friends and family.
• Deep scan the hard disc and system to eliminate existing threats, such as viruses and spyware, with Full System Scan.
• Norton Protection Center gives a centralized location for checking your overall security settings
• Live Updateâ„¢ Notice lets you know about the latest threat advisories, product updates and features as they become available during the renewable service period.

Tips: For all my readers here, use the code: NAV15 to get 15% Off when order your copy of this Norton AntiVirus Software. (more…)

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Do you know how secure is your blog hosting server? A blog’s security is one of the most concern topic by most probloggers. Especially full time bloggers, we know what will happen if their blog has been hacked by someone. Daily earnings and years of hard works might lost within minutes.

Blog hosting server is out of our control if we do not have dedicated server. But we still can do something to put our blog to more secure stage. There are some must do to secure your blog from hacker. Do it now to give you peace in mind.

3 Ways to Secure Your Blog

1. Use strong password.

Don’t ever use simple weak password like 123asd, password, or 123456. Use the Password Checker to check your password strength. The higher strength you have, more secure you are. If possible, change the admin to your own username.

2. Restrict Unnessacery Folders Access

As wordpress user, only share default files and folders as permission 644 (allow others to read only). If it is a script that need execute permission, only allow 755 (allow others to read and execute). Don’t ever set to 777 if you not sure what the folder for (allow others to read, write and execute). You can use FTP client such as Filezilla to check files ad folders permission with few clicks without hassle.

3. Daily Backup Your Blog
Backup your wordpress database is one of the important step to secure your blog. In case hacked by someone, we still have complete data to restore. Use Wordpress Database backup plugin to schedule your daily backup. I have set the database backup send to my email daily. Make sure your mailbox has enough space for it. (more…)

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