Phishing is a form of online fraud – phishing emails and phishing websites are used as bait to steal personal information and identities, usually following on from emptying bank computers or damaging businesses.

Online scams are not unknown to us. There is hardly anyone who has not received an email in our bad native language from an unknown victim who has a million dollars in his account and for some unknown reason cannot get to it, so he needs our selfless help and personal information to selflessly share his treasure with us later. The messages are varied and fanciful, but it is immediately clear that this is a scam, an online fraud attempt, criminal activity under a common name – phishing.

Just as the messages and the addresses they were sent from resemble some real-life situations and known addresses, the word phishing, when pronounced, sounds like “phishing,” which means “fishing” in English language. Fishing, angling, hunting in the mud, that’s exactly what phishing is at its core, and the methods are different and more sophisticated.

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Hurray! We’re so happy to inform you that now, after a long-long night of hardwork, the transfer of all our sign in and sign up and verification services been completed! And now it runs AWS – Amazon Web Servces. Why we did that? It is simple, to get more flexibility in grow. To host our project in US to get lowest ping time for the majority of our clients. And to fix email delivery and DNS issue as well!

Next, we’ll transfer our main infrastructure to AWS as well! Stay tuned!

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Nowadays, hackers have various ways to break into and hack various websites and accounts. Unfortunately, with the blossoming and advancement of technology, there are more and more hackers, so there is a growing chance that you will come across a hacker at some point, especially if you’re well-known on the Internet and make money from it.

One of the methods receiving email from hackers with a cooperation proposal. For example, if you make a recording for YouTube, they will send you a link to their app and tell you that they will pay you lot of money if you advertise their new product on your YouTube channel. However, this is not a real app, but when you click on the link, the hacker gets the information they need to hack your website.

Another option is a password recognition program. This program randomly outputs a large number of various combinations of numbers, letters and special characters to guess your password. Such programs can output over 1.000 combinations per minute. So, it is no wonder that after a few hours or maybe even days of continuous operation, it will come across your password.

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On May 3, 1978, the first spam message was sent via email. The culprit was Gary Thuerk, which sent propaganda material to 293 different addresses on what was then ARPANET (the precursor to the Internet, developed within the US Department of Defense).

The material sent contained an advertisement for new computers from DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation). Recipients of the initial spam were upset, but the whole promotion still led to an increase in sales of these computers. The name SPAM for such messages comes from a sketch by Monty Python, where it referred to a kind of canned dish, similar to a meat breakfast, that appears as an ingredient in all dishes in a restaurant.

Today, electronic spam accounts for 80-85% of all global email traffic. The leading spam generator in the world is the US (13.21%), followed by China (11.25%), Vietnam (9.85%), India (7.02%) and Germany (5.66%).

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What is File Sharing? It is the act of allowing two or more people who have been given access to the same file to share that file with other people.

There are many ways that you can put your personal or business information at risk when using the Internet. One of the most common ways is through email. Anyone can send an email message to another person without them ever knowing it came from you. Using a free email account for important communications is not recommended. Instead, you should consider another form of communication, such as by phone or face-to-face.

If someone else is monitoring the emails going out from that account, they can see all the email addresses you are sending messages to. This will give them a link to click on to find out who you are and send you an email message. This is called a “phishing” attack and is a very serious form of identity theft.

The more information you reveal about yourself, the more the identity thief knows about you. We have all seen or heard about the news reports about identity theft. Identity theft and credit score ruin have happened to people. For some, their lives have been completely ruined by identity theft.

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Did you know July 2021 we made a huge landing pages and design code update for Virusdie since 2016? Here is what we did for that – The new Virusdie design code announcement. And that was ton of hardwork behind that. So we just want to share some video with our memories about one of the final stages of that task – making media content for new landing pages. Here in Virusdie we love unique approach and passion. And that is why a part of Virusdie team have made a flight for 1500 km into snowy mountains to Olympic Sochi to make unique photo and video for landing, instead of using stock photos! 🙂

That is how we did that – Watch video on Vimeo.

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Running WordPress or any other CMS (content management system) without adequate security is like owning a warehouse and leaving the key under the rug for thieves. However, despite security, hacking is turning into new reality for a lot of internet entrepreneurs, content producers, and marketers.

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WordPress is a popular platform that simplifies the work of web developers using various website building tools. For many website owners, Internet security is the number one priority to protect their websites from security breaches. Several myths surround WordPress security. These myths actually do little to protect your website. (more…)

Why is website security important? Internet security is a key component of web design and development. Security issues can deter users from a website and cast a shadow of doubt on your brand. Website security protects your information and reputation, your visitors expect it, and Google likes it. Do not forget this, ever… (more…)

At last, the Virusdie add-on for WHMCS (beta) is here! Start earning money by offering website security to all of your shared hosting customers like the big hosting providers, but without complex integration and effortlessly — with just one click! (more…)

What is web scraping? The term scraping literally means “to scrape”; in the context of the Web, it refers to a technique of searching, extracting, structuring, and cleaning data to publish information contained in formats of the Web environment that cannot be reused, such as tables created in HTML (a different type of scraping than Web is used to capture data from PDF).

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At last, the great feature – website hardening (a virtual patch management) available with Virusdie! This feature is something in the middle between real patch management engine and the website firewall. So that helps you get some additional protection against attacks on your website vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities in code are still on your website! (more…)

As of June 1, a QR code will be required at the entrance to locked rooms to verify a person’s Covid status, meaning officially these certificates will be called “digital green certificates”. What is a QR code and how can you read it?

Barcodes play an important role in today’s world, which is all about speed and precision. There are few better ways to quickly classify hundreds of thousands of products, track inventory and warehouse organization, and other potential applications in industry and beyond. Barcodes are nothing more than an optical representation of data that can be read by computers or other devices (barcodes are read by a scanner and interpreted by appropriate software). (more…)

Please welcome, the Virusdie API for “big boy” integration. Now stable, and officially available! And starting at $0.00 with a Freemium plan! So, if you’re a hosting provider, domain name registrar, software developer, or web service provider, you can make significantly more money by offering website security services to your customers using Virusdie’s cloud platform. Simply use our API to integrate Virusdie into your environment. (more…)

In an accordance to Virusdie roadmap today we announcing the website firewall reaction strength tuner! Now you can simply choose a website firewall reaction between 3 fixed presets to setup the one suits you best! (more…)

The brand new authorisation and registration pages are already available and covered with the new Virusdie design code! And more that, the cool thing is that now you can view upcoming update announcement there when you signing in! So you’re always in touch now what you get next with Virusdie.

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On the week of July 12th, the new Country blocking feature been announced. And that was a big deal for everyone 🙂 And you know that is a paradigm, that all new things, features and implementations just have their bugs, no matter how well they have been checked and tested. And the Virusdie country blocking feature was born with 500 error for some of you guys. (more…)

At last, the country blocking feature for Virusdie website firewall is here and available for all on a tab called – Country blocking, on the Website Firewall section for each website on your Virusdie dashboard! Now you can block website visitors by country using the new feature for Virusdie website firewall – country blocking with a map! With one click by the very country you want, just click on Map there! Or use search form there to add/remove countries from blacklist.

Learn more from Helpdesk: How to block site visitors by country?.

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Dear Virusdie clients and partners! That was the long way – more than 6 years with the old design code for Virusdie environment, landing pages, materials and Virusdie graphic user interface. The old design code started with the simplicity in mind that let us keep user interfaces clear and intuitive. And the same time, now you need more features, and we can’t support all we want to share with you, just due to old user interface design. If we add new features on the old interface, that makes interaction with Virusdie inconvenient and not fluent. And that takes the simplicity in use right out of Virusdie. So we have to update the GUI for you. And even more – we have to update all the design code for Virusdie ecosystem completely! Cos that should be more simple and lite, and flat and modern first, to let us build the new user interface for you! And we started with the all brand new set of Virusdie landing pages, to represent you the new Virusdie design code approach for the next 5 years from now. And that is the very design code we’re going to use to rethink all Virusdie interfaces for your right this year. Entirely! So please welcome, the new Virusdie landing pages!

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What is the difference between old and new design code?

The thing is that is completely new. Our goal for all what we do – to make complex things simple. And that is really hard work – that is 100x harder in average to keep all clear and simple, rather than just add more and more info or details or features.

To let it looks always on top and keep first sight interaction clear, we used to implement a Huge Graphic Area design for our new landing pages. A media set made with special custom Photo and Video to show you how Virusdie really works. And Virusdie team made a 2000 km flight from one of the offices to make a photoset and video-set for new landing! ‘cos we believe, stock photo or illustrations – are the thing everyone can get. We dreamed about something beyond of standard approaches for design for web-services. And all of that now, yours! In frond of your eye! 🙂

Now for landing product pages, like Tools, frames are separated for each very feature you need to know with a per-screen scroll (per feature scroll) to hold just main info on each your screen! For other pages a standard scroll used. We used blur to let your feel that pages have some weight and that is not just a primitive flat design. So many new tiny details, photos, and new landing structure to let your get more info in a simplest way ever possible!

That is all new Virusdie design code. We add more and more new landing pages each day, so you may feel how Virusdie changing in real time! And you already can start with the visit of new main page available: The brand new Virusdie landing pages. Please make sure your browser’ cache cleaned first.

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You probably may find that some of new pages are blank, during the navigation. That is ‘cos we’re working on the content and finish soon! The next thing where we’re going to implement the new design code – the new Virusdie graphic user interface and the Marketplace, and the plugin for WordPress! All coming in 2021!

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What is HTTP? HTTP is an application protocol for transferring web documents. It’s the language that governs how you and your users experience the web. Sure, it may sound like technical mumbo jumbo, but understanding what HTTP is and how it works will help you optimize your website for better performance, security, and search engine friendliness. (more…)