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Bloggers advised on online security

Corporate bloggers have been warned to put in place proper online security measures on their blogs to prevent being compromised by cyber crooks.

The warning comes from managed security company, Network Box, which has published a new guide written by its internet security analyst Simon Heron in a bid to keep bloggers safe from hackers.

"A new blog takes a lot of time to do well and all that work is being put at risk by bloggers not taking simple security steps," says Mr Heron.

"Most bloggers are not security experts, so their blogs don't have the usual checks that their email systems will have in place, for example."

Among the suggestions The Secure Guide to Blogging offers are watching out for comment spam and SQL injection attacks, which are said to be the two main threats bloggers face.

According to the firm popular blogging platforms Blogger and Wordpress have been targeted by SQL injection attacks before and are especially vulnerable as they do not provide enough care when it comes to validating SQL queries.

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