CERT Cyber Security Tips re IE
In case anyone hasn't heard, CERT, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, issued a warning about Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser in a June 3, 2004 posting to the CERT website: Use a...
View ArticleWhen email spam is more than that
A word to the wise. We're all long since tired of spam, and perhaps have cast a suspecting eye on some of the strange offers we receive … a good thing, according to Computerworld's Organized Crime...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney General & Operation Web Snare
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's speech regarding Operation Web Snare been posted on the usdoj.gov website. Continue reading → Related posts:When email spam is more than that How to make favicons
View ArticleMerchant911.org
E-commerce merchants may find Merchant911.org a useful resource for keeping up to date about fraud and e-commerce issues. "To give merchants the information they need to help themselves protect against...
View ArticleDesktop Search a Threat to …?
Lots of desktop search applications coming out. Google has one. Ask Jeeves is coming out with one. Microsoft has one. I have to ask myself why I need such a thing; after all, I tend to organize my...
View ArticleCopyscape finds pages that copied yours
DMOZ meta editor hutcheson does us a favor at Danny Sullivan's forums by noting a new Web service: copyscape.com. Input a URL into Copyscape's online tool and it returns a list of pages containing text...
View ArticleGuruNet – Answers.com free app
Good news from the "I haven't tried it yet but" department. Given that not knowing definitions of words in information one is studying is a major barrier to learning, a quick way to get answers and...
View ArticleYahoo Los Angeles?
The Los Angeles Times' online (thanks for the tip, MarketingVox) says: Watch out, Hollywood. There's a new player in town. Yahoo Inc., the Internet portal created a decade ago by a pair of Stanford...
View ArticleSES NYC from SERoundtable
As usual, Barry Schwartz aka rustybrick is blogging coverage of Search Engine Strategies in New York. Pretty interesting stuff, particularly if you can read between the lines: Danny's Indexing Summit...
View ArticleIdentity Thief Sentenced to 14 Years
MSNBC reports that a former help-desk worker for a software company sold passwords and codes for downloading consumer credit reports: According to court documents, Cummings was paid roughly $30 for...
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