Monthly Archives: June 2010

UFSC.br – Brazilian University hosting SEO SPAM

UFSC.br (Brazilian Federal university in Santa Catarina), one of the biggest universities in Brazil, is hosting SEO SPAM on almost all their departamental web sites: http://www.sead.ufsc.br – Department for distant education http://cco.inf.ufsc.br/ – Computer science department (using WordPress 2.2) http://www.lec.ufsc.br/ … Read more


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Blacklisted sites at Netsol

In the last few days many sites hosted at Network Solution got blacklisted by Google. In all of them the report from Google was: URL: sitename Last checked: June 2, 2010 General problem When Google last tested this page, no … Read more


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Web site security – It starts with your desktop

If you have a web site and you want it to be secure, the first place you have protect is your desktop. Recently (well, since 2009), a large number of sites have been infected with malware and blacklisted due to … Read more


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Google top 1000 sites: Interesting stats about them

Google recently published a list with the top 1000 most visited web sites in the world. We found that list very interesting and decided to take a closer look at them. These are stats we took: Web servers in use … Read more


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WordPress user: Be careful where you get your theme from

WordPress themes are not just design templates, they contain PHP code and must be validated before use. Not only because of bugs, but some may contain malicious code in there. Specially if you download from random web sites and not … Read more


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