Fri 23 Mar 2007
Security
March 21, 2007
Surprise, Microsoft Listed as Most Secure OS
By Andy Patrizio
UPDATED: Microsoft is frequently dinged for having insecure products, with security holes and vulnerabilities. But Symantec (Quote), no friend of Microsoft, said in its latest research report that when it comes to widely-used operating systems, Microsoft is doing better overall than its leading commercial competitors.
Thu 1 Mar 2007
by http://www.itsecurity.com/features/25-common-email-security-mistakes-022807/
I still remember receiving my first phishing email in my AOL account. I had won the AOL lottery! As good as it sounded, I was skeptical at best. So without much thought, I opened the email and clicked on the link inside to check if I truly was a millionaire after all. Almost instantly, my computer crashed, and with each subsequent restart would crash again.
Countless computer crashes and thousands of spam emails later, I had learned the lesson that just opening spam email can bring harm to my computer. Unfortunately there are a whole host of traps and errors that catch new email users just because “they didn’t know any better”.
In this article we focus on 25 of the most common and easy to fix mistakes that people make when it comes to email security. We’ve designed this article with the new internet user in mind, so if you’re an email expert, you may want to pass this along to your novice friends.
Fri 23 Feb 2007
MoonRivers Media now supports and integrates Google Apps for our clients. Google Apps brings together essential services to help your business, school, group or family communicate and collaborate more effectively. Everything is unified by the Start Page, a central place for your users to preview their inboxes and calendars, access your essential content, and search the web. Administrators can choose to deploy a mix of the communication and collaboration products listed below. For more information on service, integration, support and pricing contact mark@moonrivers.com
Wed 7 Feb 2007
How to Stop Internet Identity Theft
by: Jack M. Germain, www.newsfactor.com
Internet identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the U.S. today. For five straight years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ranked it as one of the most-reported types of fraud. Despite the increasing awareness of identity theft among consumers and financial institutions, the identity-theft racket shows no signs of slowing. Reported losses from identity theft, currently responsible for over 40 percent of all fraud complaints, approached nearly $300 million last year.
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Thu 1 Feb 2007
Encrypted thumb drive and autoplay howto by Simon
I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro USB thumb drive that I carry around with me. Last weekend I spent a bit of time setting it so that all my data is securely encrypted using the excellent open source software called TrueCrypt. I also managed to get Windows autoplay working on the drive so I can access the data with the least amount of annoyance. Actually it’s about as easy as it’s ever going to get. I stick my drive in, an autoplay menu pops up with “Mount Truecrypt Volume” as the default choice, I hit enter, type my password, hit enter again and that’s it. Here’s how I did it.
Tue 30 Jan 2007
What’s an SEO? Does Google recommend working with companies that offer to make my site Google-friendly?
Search Engine Optimizers
SEO is an abbreviation for “search engine optimizer.” Many SEOs provide useful services for website owners, from writing copy to giving advice on site architecture and helping to find relevant directories to which a site can be submitted. However, a few unethical SEOs have given the industry a black eye through their overly aggressive marketing efforts and their attempts to unfairly manipulate search engine results.
While Google doesn’t have relationships with any SEOs and doesn’t offer recommendations, we do have a few tips that may help you distinguish between an SEO that will improve your site and one that will only improve your chances of being dropped from search engine results altogether.
Tue 30 Jan 2007
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
Written by Charles S. Knight, SEO, and edited by Richard MacManus. The Top 100 is listed at the end of the analysis.
Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use four main search engines for 99.99% of their searches: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and Ask.com (in that order). But in my travels as a Search Engine Optimizer (SEO), I have discovered that in that .01% lies a vast multitude of the most innovative and creative search engines you have never seen. So many, in fact, that I have had to limit my list of the very best ones to a mere 100.
But it’s not just the sheer number of them that makes them worthy of attention; each one of these search engines has that standard “About Us” link at the bottom of the homepage. I call it the “why we’re better than Google” page. And after reading dozens and dozens of these pages, I have come to the conclusion that, taken as a whole, they are right!
Mon 29 Jan 2007
The same way you clean up your house before your guests arrive, the same way you should get your website ready for Google’s crawler, as this is one of the most important guests you will ever have. According to that, here are 10 things you should double check before submitting your website to the index. If you want, you can view this article as the correction of the top 10 mistakes made by webmasters.
1. If you have a splash page on your website, make sure you have a text link that allows you to pass it.
I’ve seen many websites with a fancy flash introduction on the index and no other way to navigate around it. Well, Google can’t read into your flash page, and therefore it cannot bypass it. All you have to do is put a text link to your website’s second index, and the deed is done.
Mon 29 Jan 2007
Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update—available as part of Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003 and Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003—is designed to help small businesses manage customer information and sales opportunities within Outlook 2003. The update includes new capabilities for sharing customer information within a PC network, as well as support for synchronizing business contacts with a Microsoft Windows Mobile–based Pocket PC.
get the update here: http://www.microsoft.com/office/outlook/contactmanager/prodinfo/update.mspx
