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Protect Your Passwords

Quick! Can you remember all the user names and...

CSS Support is Poor in RSS Feed Readers

Once upon a time, different Web browsers supported different...

Phishing Filter Prevents E-Mail Identity Theft

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, working with federal grant...

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Tiny Bluetooth Adapter Leading Micro Revolution?

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas earlier this month focused enormous media attention on really BIG subjects, like which vendor was displaying the largest flat-panel television set. So it's odd that one...

Has the ‘SpamThru’ Trojan Doubled Spam or Not?

Screaming headlines in the past few days have proclaimed that unsolicited bulk e-mail -- known universally as spam -- has broken all known records. But is this really the case, or does it just seem like...

Holiday Gifts for the Executive Geek

Most of the time, I urge my readers to be cautious and frugal. But now it's the Christmas shopping season, so that advice has to go right out the window. This is the time...

Behavior Blocking Coming to (Some) PCs

A major U.S. Internet service provider (ISP) plans to offer a novel security technology to its millions of customers within the next month. EarthLink, based in Atlanta, will add "behavior blocking" software provided by...

Can You Prove Your E-Mail Isn’t Spam?

There are some simple steps your company can take to demonstrate that the e-mails you're sending aren't spam. If you're not taking them, many recipients are now ready and willing to filter your messages...

Phishing Filter Prevents E-Mail Identity Theft

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, working with federal grant monies, have discovered that phishing e-mails are decidedly different from most other spam -- so much so that the fraudulent messages can almost entirely be...

CSS Support is Poor in RSS Feed Readers

Once upon a time, different Web browsers supported different forms of HTML markup or "tags." It was difficult or impossible to make a Web site look good in different browsers. Beginning a few years...

Click Forensics Aims to End Click Fraud

Click fraud has become so large that it's setting records, and not in a good way. "We've seen indications that the overall losses due to click fraud could equal more than $1 billion" each...

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