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.
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>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."
<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..."
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>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."
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.
Microsoft proposes throwing malware-infected PCs into quarantine and denying them Internet access. The company also announces availability for its new identity management product.
<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."
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.
<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."
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.
<b>Network World:</b> "In this first-of-its-kind test, we invited cloud vendors to provide us with 20 CPUs that would be used for five instances of Windows 2008 Server and five instances of Red Hat Enterprise Linux – two CPUs per instance. We also asked for a 40GB internal or SAN/iSCSI disk connection, and 1Mbps of bandwidth from our test site to the cloud provider."
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.
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.
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 Magazine:</b> "It’s popular to hate on IE8, and easy to do! But the truth is, Firefox could take a few cues from stodgy old Internet Explorer. From user-friendly features to deployment tools, there are still a few things that IE does better."
The State Department has been elevating the profile of Internet censorship as a diplomatic priority since Hillary Clinton took over, but free speech advocates are concerned.
<b>Krebs on Security:</b> "A proposal to let Internet service providers conceal the contact information for their business customers is drawing fire from a number of experts in the security community, who say the change will make it harder to mitigate the threat from spam and malicious software."
<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"