Having your own hosted web domain has never been cheaper, or easier, with the vast array of free resources out there. Here are our ten favorite tools to help anyone launch and maintain their internet presence. Photo by Jasison_Judd. 10. Control access to your pages with .htaccess Editor You're worki...

I’ve declared this the Year of Original Content and I’m inviting you to help join the fight against those who abuse our content. Scam, spam, splog, and scraper blogs are big business, taking in $3.2 billion dollars in 2007 just in the United States. Russia, China, Zimbabwe, and other cou...

As a quick update from the information in Downadup Worm Infection: Cyber Attacks on the Rise in 2009 and Security and Hacking: Protect Thyself and Thy WordPress Blog concerning the still spreading Downadup worm, ComputerWorld and others are reporting that the Downadup worm now infects 1 in every 16 ...

Last year, there was a lot of noise about WordPress being especially vulnerable to attacks and hacks. Not all of those reported hacks and wild fire assuptions about WordPress security were true. In “SecurityFocus SQL Injection Bogus,” Matt Mullenweg talked about one false report: Online,...

SecurityFocus reports an estimated 3.5 million computers have been compromised due to a “Downadup worm,” a malicious bot that spreads through websites and blogs. The Downadup worm, a malicious program that spreads using a recently patched Windows flaw, has compromised more than 3.5 milli...

JournalSpace was a popular blog hosting tool, till all blogs vanished with no data backup in place. Thousands of JournalSpace blogs were wiped out overnight and bloggers left nowhere to go. If you visit their site today, it reveals Journalspace is no more and DriveSavers has informed them that the d...

WordPress 2.7 downloads now past 650,000. Poll out for WordPress 2.8 input. Possible WordPress Theme threat you need to know about. BuddyPress beta released. Imagine moving millions of Typepad blogs to WordPress? Want some WordPress schwag? WordCamps coming up in January - are you going to a WordCam...

Been quite a while since I have posted a roundup of new/improved software finds. Here you go from the previous weeks’ culling. CompuSec - (freeware) – German proprietary whole disk encryption solution I just discovered this week.  The free version has no limitations and is open to both prof...

According to a report from World Information Access, an organization based at the University of Washington, that’s happened to 64 people since 2003. Only 64? I would have expected the number to be much higher. And the researchers themselves admit that the exact statistics are hard to pin down....

Changes to the law coming in May starting  from May 26, when it will become a criminal offense for brands to seed positive messages online without making the origin of the message clear. Looks like this is a EU directive being implemented - wonder if the way its implemented will ave unintended cons...