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Main on December 30th, 2011 by Pingdom
As 2011 draws to a close we wanted to take a look at computer and information security in the twelve months that have passed.
What will probably stick in most people’s minds is the Sony PlayStation Network and Qriocity hack, which resulted in an outage lasting 23 days. In other developments, hacktivist groups like Anonymous and LulzSec took to social media to further their causes, and mobile malware got more attention than ever before.
All in all, there’s no doubt that 2011 was a very busy year for IT security professionals.
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Main on January 19th, 2011 by Pingdom
As you may have seen in our “Internet 2010 in numbers” recap, the amount of email spam on the Internet is mind-boggling. Approximately 89% of all emails are spam, resulting in an estimated 260 billion spam emails sent every single day.
We thought it might be interesting to dig a bit deeper into the facts and figures around spam, so we’ve gone through a massive 66-page report from Symantec about spam and malware in 2010 to get you a ton of interesting little nuggets of information.
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Main on June 23rd, 2009 by Pingdom
URL shortening services have been around for a long time (TinyURL started back in 2002) but it wasn’t until Twitter started gaining momentum that they became widely popular. Now we have a TON of them, including the original TinyURL, Bit.ly, Is.gd, and many, many more.
We have all placed an enormous amount of trust in these services by using them to such a large extent. They offer a legitimate, highly useful service, but we should at least be aware of the flip side of the coin.
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Posted in
Main on February 16th, 2009 by Pingdom
You may remember the incident that Google had on January 31, when it during 55 minutes accidentally flagged all URL:s containing “/” as a potential malware site. This meant that every single site on the Internet was marked as harmful, including Google.com.
This is a look at some interesting side effects of that incident.
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Pingdom on August 14th, 2007 by Pingdom
Mr Uptime (Pingdom’s brand new Firefox extension) has been certified 100% clean by the popular software library and download service Softpedia, one of the top 500 sites in the world according to Alexa. From the Softpedia website: Softpedia guarantees that Mr Uptime is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, [...]
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