Sprechen Zie Blog? Although your first reaction might be ‘Why would I want a blog on my website?’, a better question is likely ‘Why wouldn’t you?’. You have yourself a well-designed and functioning site, you have done your due diligence with respect to Search Engine Optimization and you are keeping tabs on your site with …
Monthly Archives: October 2010
GMail Security Checklist
The folks at Google have been nice enough to create a checklist to help you secure your system – it’s mostly a collection of best practices known to those in information security, but maybe less obvious to the general user populace. Either way, it would be beneficial for any GMail user to work through the …
Why SORBS sucks.
I like RDNSBLs – they are extremely useful, and when used properly, they can reduce your SPAM intake by 90% or more easily. When they don’t work well though, they kind of suck. No, actually, they really suck. One big problem with SORBS is it’s overly aggressively blacklist of supposed dynamic IP addresses – many …
Microsoft ASP.Net OOB Patch
sorry to interrupt the flow of the Making the Web Work for You series, but this is somewhat important. Microsoft issued a patch last week for the outstanding .Net issue that could pose a significant threat to those of you with Internet facing IIS servers. Although all .Net systems are vulnerable, the affected IIS boxes …