I get, as readers of this blog will know, a lot of spam. I've been using the same email address for decades (my AOL address since 1992, my own domain address since 1996), so I've had plenty of time to get on a lot of spam lists ( Read more... )

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It is a fact universally acknowledged that running a WordPress site is a dangerous thing to do. WordPress is often attacked by hackers, because so many sites run it and so many people are not good about installing security updates. The hackers will use the commandeered sites for all sorts of nefarious purposes: installing malware, hosting phony ( Read more... )

I have a problem I've been beating my head against for a while now, and I've finally given up and decided to put this out there to the hive-mind of the Internet ( Read more... )

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In this blog post, I talked about a recent Wordpress hack attack on two of my WordPress sites that appears to be using a zero-day vulnerability to gain administrator access to WordPress sites ( Read more... )

I run a number of WordPress sites. Running a WordPress site is an invitation to hack attacks; it's such a popular platform that it provides an appealing target for hackers. On top of that, I have a somewhat tumultuous relationship with Eastern European organized crime that extends back quite a number of years (I've worked with law enforcement on ( Read more... )

A short while ago, I blogged about why I'm moving off Namecheap as my domain registrar. In the past six or seven months, I've received a tidal wave of spam advertising domains hosted on Namecheap, and their abuse team has proven to be remarkably incompetent at dealing with the problem ( Read more... )

I have a rather extensive collection of Web sites, where I write about everything from photography to transhumanism to sex. As a result, I have rather a lot of domain names, which until recently I've registered with Namecheap, as they have in the past been cheap and reasonably reliable ( Read more... )

...or, why do I get all this spam, and who's serving it?

Spammers have long had to face a problem. Legitimate Web hosting companies don't host spam sites. Almost all Web hosts have policies against spam, so spammers have to figure out how to get their sites hosted. After all, if you can't go to the spammer's website to buy something, the spammer ( Read more... )