Experts believe that the best way to secure your Wordpress installation is by writing your own codes and not with the use of off-the-shelf codes, known as plugins. While this may be true, not many possess the skills of writing codes for Wordpress. Chances are, you may even be barely capable of finding your way…

WordPress is an open source and free blogging software. Two variants abound; WordPress.com Wordpress.com are blogs hosted by the company that gave us Wordpress, Auttomatic. Recommended to beginners with little knowledge of what goes on behind the scene of this blogging platform. Features - WordPress.com is the safer way to go. There are a lot…

I run a startup web hosting reseller company with a sizeable number of premium and free accounts. Running a web hosting business can be challenging but interesting too. You get to hear varied complaints. About 3 weeks ago, a client called me up, complaining about mails that were being sent from addresses purportedly from his…

The invention of the computer brought much good and innovation; however, there are always those that like to go against the grain – cue the computer hacker! Below is a list of some of the most notorious computer hacks and hackers in history; men that have used the power of the computer to wreak havoc…

DURING A BIT of housecleaning the other day, I uncovered an old USB hard drive that I hadn’t used in a couple years. I decided to plug it in, check the contents, and see whether it contained anything I still needed. The drive turned out to be filled with a bunch of old, unnecessary files.…

A new study from Juniper finds that Android is the hardest hit by malicious apps but says iOS could be vulnerable as well. Android has gotten a lot of negative buzz for its susceptibility to malware. But a new study from Juniper Networks suggests that iOS could also be at risk. Scanning hundreds of thousands…

While no website on the Internet can be deemed 100% safe from hackers, lately, sites based on the Wordpress platform have received more than their fare share of such intrusions. Wordpress is the most widely adopted Content Management platform, with millions of blogs and websites based on this platform. The relative ease of setup and…

As the fraudsters are now becoming more sophisticated in bypassing the Geo-location controls by using proxies (Anonymous IPs) to spoof their IP address, it has become very much necessary to come up with a means for detecting the proxies so that the authenticity of the users can be verified. Using a proxy (web proxy) is…

Old habits die hard, someone said. Nothing sums up my perpetual need to extend the limits of my devices. It's been a little over a week since I took delivery of my Toshiba Thrive tablet but it took me just a couple of days to realize that they was a need to push the limit…

December 25, 2011 was a Christmas day like no other. While most of you fine folks were enjoying the spirit of the festive season and probably, also waiting for the next juicy post on your favourite blog, Diary of a Geek, some low-life, never-do-well, anti-social, society-reject scumbag, nincompoop, scallywag script kiddie was hacking away at…

THERE seems to be no end yet in the war against software piracy in Nigeria, as the country has been ranked second highest in a recent 32-country study of Personal Computer (PC) pirated software users. The latest study conducted by a global firm, Ipsos Public Affairs department of Business Software Alliance (BSA), on users’ acts…

As desirable as the iPad has proven itself to be, it is not exactly very efficient for all tasks. Even for simplest tasks, at times you may crave for the bigger screen estate that the conventional PC offers. However, on the other hand, the iPad can effectively serve as an extension of your work while…