Posted on Dec 03, 2009 - 1:59pm by John P. in Security, Wordpress - 15 Replies
Dammit!!!! I HATE SPAMMERS MORE THAN ANYONE ON EARTH! I honestly, 100% mean it when I say that I want to KILL spammers. You guys are laughing right now… “hehehe. Here goes that crazy John P. with another rant about spammers. Aww, he’s just kidding!” No! I am an ex-Marine, I own guns and knives, and I’m begging a spammer to show up at my house so I can do horrible things to him!!!! GRRRRR!!!!!
Today I got an email from Google as follows:
Dear site owner or webmaster of onemansblog.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times, they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in our index.
The following is some example hidden text we found at http://onemansblog.com/:
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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, pages from onemansblog.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 days.
Why, pray tell, would Google ban OneMansBlog from the index? Well, because some sneaky bastard somehow added a bunch of spam to the footer of my blog! HOW? My directory permissions are correct, I have all the latest versions of plugins installed and WordPress is up to date. So, let’s run down a checklist of things you should do so as not to fall victim to the spammers too:
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Posted on Jan 07, 2008 - 1:44am by John P. in Security, Videos - 11 Replies
Windows security is sad. Although most of you have probably already read my article about using strong passwords, even the strongest passwords won’t keep your Windows login account from being penetrated. In fact, it takes only a couple of minutes to gain complete access to a Windows system using nothing more than a free CD ROM.
Now, if there is any good news – people are constantly locking themselves out of their personal laptops and home computers by forgetting the password. And recently I’ve had two different friends do this within a period of a couple of days. So you guys know how this works… when I start getting requests, I document the solution.
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Posted on Oct 23, 2007 - 12:28am by John P. in Security, Travel - 23 Replies
Folks, I was at the airport and I popped open my laptop to hop on the net and upon doing so I encountered a seriously sneaky bastard. Do you see anything wrong with the image below?

Well, hopefully you notice the little icon of a laptop beside the network entitled “Free Public WiFi”. This is NOT a free wireless access point, but instead a laptop computer that someone has configured to capture your personal data and rob you blind.
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Posted on Sep 06, 2007 - 1:42am by John P. in Tutorials, Videos - 64 Replies
I wouldn’t actually do this, but for some reason I’m just fascinated with these unbelievably simple methods of circumventing the system.
Just like the How to Pick a Padlock, this method of using a coin operated washing machine for free is so simple it makes you wonder how they would ever collect any money in these machines!
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Posted on Apr 22, 2007 - 1:53am by John P. in Security, Tutorials, Videos - 6 Replies
Here is a demonstration of how to open a padlock in 1 minute or less using nothing more than scissors and a coke can.
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Posted on Mar 26, 2007 - 2:17am by John P. in Computing, Security - 278 Replies
If you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before I got it?
Let’s see… here is my top 10 list. I can obtain most of this information much easier than you think, then I might just be able to get into your e-mail, computer, or online banking. After all, if I get into one I’ll probably get into all of them.
Statistically speaking that should probably cover about 20% of you. But don’t worry. If I didn’t get it yet it will probably only take a few more minutes before I do…
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Posted on Dec 15, 2006 - 2:00am by John P. in Google Tools, Tutorials, Web Links - 4 Replies
Have you ever come across a link in a blog post or from a Google search to a Web site that essentially wanted you to either register or pay to access the content? Well, it just so happens that most of the sites that make you register allow Google to come right on in because they want their content indexed so that people will find it, come to their site, and register!
Given that information, all we need to do now is convince the Web site that we are Google. The way to do that is to change a setting, called the User Agent, in the Windows registry which gets fed to the Web server in question.
I’ve put together an easy way to do this for myself, and I’m sharing it with the world in case anyone else would like to do so as well.
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Posted on Dec 05, 2006 - 3:24am by John P. in Computing, Security - No Replys
Damn it! I’ve been preaching this for years but I don’t think many people are listening. Security practices in the Internet era have to change! We are way, way behind the technology available and it’s costing far more not to do anything about it than to fix the problems.
For example, the UK government estimates that ID theft costs the nation £1.7bn every year. Let’s see, that’s 1.7 billion divided by 60 million people or £28 per year, for every man, woman, child, infant, invalid and 90 year old in a nursing home. You could equip every person in the country with a fingerprint reader or secure ID token for a fraction of that cost and practically eliminate this huge – and growing – threat.
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Posted on Dec 01, 2006 - 1:56am by John P. in Computing, Security - 1 Reply
I hate to be the one to continually complain about security, but that doesn’t mean I won’t keep doing it. I would estimate that 95% of people are FAR too lax when it comes to security measures, and that another 4% are just plain old lax.
This latest story focuses on a concept called social engineering as a weak link in the chain (among other issues). Social engineering is the process of causing a security breach through submersive human interaction – in this case fooling bank personnel into believing you are someone you are not.
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Posted on Aug 02, 2006 - 3:34pm by John P. in Computing, Security - No Replys
What’s so scary about this little blue pill? Well, it represents the prototype for a (currently) completely untraceable, and therefore unrepairable, new type of software which can infect a computer with malware.
The only good news is that the person alerting the world to this new menace is the ethical hacker/researcher who invented it. Joanna Rutkowska is a security researcher who is making her findings public in order to allow the entire security world to work on the issue. While is is probably not a threat to your current machine, it does use technology planned for upcoming PCs.
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