Two Tweet Weeks: July 25 – August 7, 2011

Selected short messages and links you might have missed if you don’t follow me on Twitter.

July 25, 2011

Added the +1 button to http://www.UnmaskParasites.com/ – let’s see how it works

[h-online.com] phpMyAdmin updates close critical security holes — Upgrade! phpMyAdmin hacks lead to server-wide problems

RT @StopBadware: RT @DarkReading: Websites on average are attacked once every two minutes, new @Imperva study finds

July 29, 2011

[abuse.ch] How Criminals Defend Their Rogue Networks — FastFluxing, DGA, custom DNS

RT @spolsky: This wild story about a deeply incompetent security auditor has over 100,000 views already:

[serverfault.com] Our security auditor is an idiot, how do I give him the information he wants? — must read

August 1, 2011

[hostexploit.com] Implement Mitigation Strategies to Stop Cyber Intrusions — top 4 strategies prevent 85% intrusions

August 2, 2011

[journeyintoir.blogspot.com] Google the Security Incident Detector — using Google to find security issues on your site

August 3, 2011

Fake antivirus industry down, but not out. via @briankrebs . That’s a milestone!

[markmaunder.com] Zero Day Vulnerability in many WordPress Themes — buggy timthumb.php + follow up

RT @stopbadware: New insights on web hosting provider liability for malicious content

August 5, 2011

“Google just released the biggest refresh of their spam report form in, oh, say 10 years”  via @mattcutts

August 6, 2011

[armorize.com] willysy.com Mass Injection ongoing, over 6 million infected pages, targets osCommerce sites — osC holes

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