security

7 Essential WordPress Security Tips

July 5, 2010

For any website, a security strategy is a must. And as wordpress is the most popular open source software for blogging, it is a primary target of many malicious attacks. Wordpress has many protective plugins, functions and techniques to save you. When used in an aggregate, these tools can defend you from vicious activity, hacks, spam and other threats. Let us have a look to few of these techniques today.

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5 Tips to keep yourself Safe and Secure While Surfing Internet

April 20, 2010

We wrote many articles about anti-virus softwares on Shoutmeloud. The main reason for making you aware about these anti-virus softwares was to make your online surfing secure. But just downloading Anti-virus software on your system is not enough, you need to secure your system by other threats which can easily hack your personal details or confidential documents from your system. If you are connected to internet, there are chances that you might face hacking problem. ...

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Public Awareness: Safeguard your self from Phishing Email

February 20, 2010

Email has always been the most used tool for marketing and despite of it’s pros it has it’s own cons. Once your Email details get into any spammer database, in no time you can expect tons of phishing Emails. That includes fake emails from your banking account, from PayPal and most commonly you won lottery mails. How common it is now-a-days when you receive an Email from any bank saying your password has been changed ...

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I’m a forum Spammer : Delete my Account Immediately

December 14, 2009

Today when I was checking my Email, I saw an interesting email, which caught my eyes and I believe other bloggers will take note of it. Here is the content from the Email From: slo.cgreality@mail.ru Russian Forum Spammer To: something@something.com WordPress Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:35:01 +0530 Subject: Re: [ShoutMeloud] Your username and password This email address was created solely to register automatically at thousands of forums for the purposes of spamming forums like ...

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Google Public DNS Launched

December 4, 2009

Those, who are into Networking, must be aware of a fast DNS for faster loading of web pages. Many time, you may be getting errors like web-site failed to load, or internet failed despite of you connected to Internet. One such, issue I have seen at my friend place, where his default Airtel DNS, failed to load Facebook on his system. One way to get rid of such issue is by using Public DNS like ...

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7 Security Tips to keep your Gmail account secure

November 27, 2009

We have already written a tutorial on How to check if your Gmail is hacked. Recently Gmail added security level by adding mobile number verification for Google account. One thing which is common with Gmail account is , it is linked with several accounts like blogspot, Orkut Analytic, Webmaster tools and so on. This is good but a disadvantage of this is chances of security leak from user side. Specially Orkut is one of the most ...

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Find your Recurring Pay list in Paypal

November 17, 2009

Paypal is one must have transaction tool for any internet marketer and I have been using it from quite long. Many website let you link your account with paypal, so that they it will automatically make the payment every month. This is good but many times when you cancel your account from that merchant or service, they scam you and charge you again from paypal. You have the option to create a ticket using paypal ...

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