How many of you have seen this commercial? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmx4twCK3_I There is so much misinformation on the Internet and so much good information on the Internet too. Unlike a good library where you can do research and pretty much trust the sources, the Internet is replete with uninformed sources, rumors, lies, intentionally misleading sites, opinions, and millions of people… Read More »
How to search like a spy: Google’s secret hacks revealed The National Security Agency just declassified a hefty 643-page research manual called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research (PDF) that, at least at first, doesn’t appear all that interesting. That is, except for one section on page 73: “Google Hacking.” “Say you’re a cyberspy for the NSA and… Read More »
This has nothing to do with the news media’s over-reaction to Google’s lawyers’ unfortunate use of the phrase “no expectation of privacy”, although it does remind us to remind you that email is a very insecure form of communication. But if you encrypt email, someone has to decrypt it to read it. Most encryption programs are arcane and… Read More »
After reading horror stories from Yahoo Mail users and reading about how Yahoo’s servers were hacked using simple Unix commands pasted into open (available to anyone) email sign-up forms and other Yahoo Web forms, and almost a half of a million users had their account passwords and user names posted on hacker sites for all to see, we… Read More »
Perion, IncrediMail’s other name, is notorious for bundled software – Smilebox and worst of all Sweet IM, announced today the release of a program to manage add-ons and extensions in browsers. This beats all! It’s like McDonald’s releasing a book, “The Guide to Healthy Eating”, or Bernie Madoff writing “How to Invest and Get Rich Legally”. You have… Read More »
If you sign-up for a lot of newsletters, free things, contests or other things online that require you to include your name and email address, this browser extension for Firefox and Chrome (sorry, I.E. users), Mask Me might be just the browser extension you’ve been looking for to protect your real email from the wrath of spammers. You… Read More »