This week’s Loose Wire column is about the future of email: E-MAIL IS GOOD. Very good: Of all the things that started out with the Internet it’s about the only survivor (ever heard of Gopher? Archie? Telnet?). E-mail works because it’s simple. You send e-mail, you receive it: Two standards, or protocols. People communicating with… Read More »
Here’s a new service for those of you wanting to track websites that don’t have RSS feeds, or email subscription, or just updates a lot. Called Trackle, it will: Track (“trackle”) Web pages for content changes, up to 24 times a day; Excerpt, combine and email you changes in easy-to-read plain text format while preserving… Read More »
Here are some tools to help folk worried by all this identity theft/fraud/phishing thang. Protecteer LLC has today released SignupShield 2.0, an add-on for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that, among other things “automatically creates a hard to guess password and a disposable email address, each time a user signs-up with a new Web site”. It then… Read More »
Worms cause a lot of problems, long after we’ve forgotten about them. Sandvine Incorporated, a network hardware provider, says that worm attacks are hitting internet service provider networks, “degrading the broadband experience for home Internet users and imposing anywhere from thousands to millions (of dollars) in unplanned network and customer support costs directly related to… Read More »
I don’t know whether this is new or not, but I ain’t seen it before. Could virus senders be making use of a new social engineering tweak? The problem, it seems to me is that a lot of anti-virus manufacturers and system administrators insist on including automated alerts which supposedly inform users when their email… Read More »