Recent Links » May 2008

• Managing away computer fraud - May 23, 2008 → A US computer scientist reckons company managers should be educated about the ins and outs of their company infrastructure and computing resources so that they can send out cues to staff that they are fully aware of the potential for computer fraud. #
• Alexa drop - May 21, 2008 → Yesterday, my Sciencebase blog was just inside the top 100,000 sites across the whole web, according to Alexa traffic ranking system. Today, it’s showing zero traffic data and I hear others have suffered similarly. Whether it’s a glitch or a penalty (for whatever unknown whim) we’ll have to wait and see. #
• Getting Word back on track - May 20, 2008 → I’m still stuck with Word 2002, but wish I was using Word 97 instead, with its easy next and previous skipping for Track Changes. This functionality can be restored by adding the ToolsReviewRevisions command to the Reviewing toolbar from the All Commands category in Tools | Customize. #
• Identity fraud via VoIP - May 15, 2008 → Is someone listening in to your internet phone conversations or, worse still, using your credit to call their friends in faraway places? #
• Violent video reduce violence - May 15, 2008 → That’s the claim of British researchers who have studied a series of research papers, found evidence of bias and suggest that there has been a decline in violent crime in the USA despite an increase in the number of people playing violent games. #
• A great blah job - May 12, 2008 → Wayne Smallman grabs the long tail of technology sites with both hands. #
• Commercial apoptosis - may 8, 2008 → Business and other organizations that take a cue from biology and use programmed cell death (apoptosis) to cut out dying wood from their systems and divisions should survive credit-crunching recessions more effectively than those that don’t. #
• mp3 files are Trojans too - May 8, 2008 → Next time you’re downloading music files, you might want to virus scan them before you play them. A moderate risk Trojan that serves ads has been spreading itself wildly on the P2P systems since May 2. Wonder if it’s an RIAA money-making scam. If it’s not then surely it’s an idea for how they might monetize illegal downloads. Regardless, the rogue file isn’t even an mp3 it’s an exe according to sources, so who’d try and play that in their media player anyway? #
• Alerts for non-geeks - May 7, 2008 → The team at CyTrap makes a case for sending out useful alerts and howtos rather than techie warnings about security failures and patch downloads. #
• Stay safe with Searchscan - May 7, 2008 → Yahoo! Search has teamed up with McAfee to bring a safer way of doing search at Yahoo with a new security feature called, SearchScan. SearcScan uses McAfee’s SiteAdvisor technology to warn users if a particular website that appears on Yahoo SERP pose any form of risk to the users. Hasn’t Google’s malware detection been doing this for years, though? #
• Microsoft! gives up on Yahoo quest - May 4, 2008 → Microsoft has abandoned its pursuit of multibillion dollar search company Yahoo! #
• Cleaning up security - May 2, 2008 → An international campaign on security hygiene to raise awareness of issues such as computer viruses, phishing attacks, trojan horses, and other aspects of cyber crimes should be launched says Urs E. Gattiker of CyTRAP.eu #
• Future blogging - May 2, 2008 → Blogspot bloggers can now future date their posts, just as those of us on other blogging platforms have been doing for years. #

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