As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
As more people, including etailers involved with Internet marketing opportunities, flock to social networking sites, the more they need to be aware of cyber crime – and learn to avoid being scammed.
<b>10 Things:</b> "Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at the local, state and federal levels. You might be violating one of them without even knowing."
Software giant makes the unusual step of releasing an "out-of-band" security fix for a flaw in versions 6 and 7 of Internet Explorer, deeming the vulnerability serious enough that it had to act before the next Patch Tuesday.
<b>Wired:</b> "Take Ghana, West Africa, for example. If you are a school in a small village with satellite internet and solar power, what device would be best for you? The power-sucking, data-heavy iPad, or the Kindle..."
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "Miro 3 is released! For starters, Miro is widely popular open source internet television application. Miro can automatically download videos from RSS-based channels, manage them and play them."
<b>Mass High Tech: </b>"Karen Tegan Padir is an evangelist. Her gospel is open source software, and she recently changed denominations when she left Sun Microsystems Inc., where she was in charge of running the departments that determined the future of such ubiquitous Internet software as Java and MySQL."
Microsoft proposes throwing malware-infected PCs into quarantine and denying them Internet access. The company also announces availability for its new identity management product.
Network security software vendor SonicWall is warning Internet users that it's seeing a dramatic increase in new phishing scams related to the upcoming IRS tax filing deadline.
<b>Packt:</b> "In this article by Bethany Hiitola, author of Getting started with Audacity 1.3, we will learn all the details of using third-party internet telephony software such as Skype to record telephone interviews. We will also cover how to set up a timed recording."
<b>Serverwatch:</b> "The Apache HTTP Web Server is the most widely deployed Web server on the Internet today, which means that vulnerabilities in the open source server can have a devastating impact. That also makes security updates like the new 2.2.15 release critical, since it addresses several security vulnerabilities in Apache's flagship HTTP Web server."
The Internet VoIP, messaging, and social networking service has partnered with GIPS for both voice and video technologies and is ready to shed beta status.
With Internet Explorer 9 entering Platform Preview release, Sean Michael Kerner compares Microsoft's developer preview philosophy versus that of Mozilla, and comes up with a hands-down winner.
<b>Datamation:</b> "This week's missive is written by Dennis Fowler, one of the members of the Internet Press Guild (IPG). He tells the story better than I, a story about how a small community helped its own."
<b>Linux Planet:</b> "Eric Geier rounds up eight Linux router projects with a little something for everyone, from Internet gateways for home users to enterprise Cisco replacements."
Federal judge seals the fate of 3FN, a corrupt Internet service provider under assault from the Federal Trade Commission for an alarming array of online criminal activity.
Besides patches for Microsoft Excel and Windows Movie Maker, Patch Tuesday includes a warning about zero-day attacks on some users via Internet Explorer 6 and 7.
Microsoft warns users to protect themselves from a zero-day bug in Internet Explorer (IE) after it was disclosed Wednesday at the Black Hat hacking and security conference.
Microsoft touts 'defense in depth' as an effective deterrent after a white hat hacker last week demonstrated a complete takeover of Windows 7 running Internet Explorer 8.
Software giant scrambles to deliver a workaround to protect against a zero-day exploit in its Internet Explorer browser, says it is developing a more permanent patch.
At times when certain Websites are blocked, or in the case of no internet connectivity, PageGetters serve a mammoth boon. Read along as we overview the use of the .NET Framework to build an easy one in less than an hour and serve yourself as a "PageGetter" to your friends.
<b>Linux User and Developer:</b> "The announcement of the iPad not only sent the internet into some kind of meltdown, it also became a talking point that found its way into the newspapers, everyday conversations and pretty much every media outlet with a spare minute in their schedules"