Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Six Apart is launching a new free open source product into beta called TypePad AntiSpam. While the product is new, the technology behind it has been used by Six Apart since May 2007 on millions of hosted TypePad blogs.
What's TypePad AntiSpam?
A free, open source system powered by TypePad for blocking ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
The FBI recently issued an alert warning that wireless Internet networks, often called Wi-Fi hotspots, are more vulnerable to hackers than most users probably realize.
Often the security of the free public networks is low and this setting make it very easy for a hacker working from anywhere around the world ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Tips and guides to protect your online privacy when you are surfing the net - When you venture online, the markers of your identity shrink greatly, and you are known only by your digital, electronic signatures. Any one who can mimic these can claim to be you, and wreak havoc ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008
PayPal announced plans to ban older and unsafe Web browsers in an effort to provide anti-phishing protection with the use of EV SSL certificates.
PayPal, the world's largest online payment service, announced on Thursday that it is working on a plan to block users from making transactions from unsafe Web browsers.
PayPal ...
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
One thing is certain. You have to fight spyware, there is no alternative. You cannot leave the issue aside, you cannot say that, “let it stay the way it is.” I mean, you can always say that if you like, but the risk might be a bit too high. You ...
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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A federal appeals court has ruled that MySpace.com is immune from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site.
The Texas girl's family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn't protect ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
Cyberstalking has recently made its place among the most notorious and destructive crimes that involve the use of the internet. And not unlike real life stalking, it is also perhaps the most terrifying.
Cyberstalking occurs when a person is able to gain personal information about you through the internet and online ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports.
MySpace decided to sue when it discovered the ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
W32/MSNworm.EI.worm, which spreads via the MSN Messenger and displays a funny picture of a little pig sending you a kiss while it is infecting your computer.
MSNworm.EI is a worm whose main objective is to spread and affect as many computers as possible. The means it uses to spread is the ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
You've taken this course in internet safety and learnt all that there is to learn about how to avoid viruses and worms. You have installed advanced virus scanners, so nothing can pass through your email program and infect your Operating System, nor be downloaded from the internet or from a ...
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