Protect yourself from fraudulent emails!
Posted By: nathanpinard on Aug 13, 11:51 am

Hello Everyone,

In the past few weeks I’ve seen a huge influx of fake emails and webpages often leading to people having their information stolen. These sites are simply to harvest information and exploit it. And, possibly even sell this information to a 3rd party.

So here’s a quick how-to in detecting harmful emails. Please note this isn’t a fool proof method, but it’s often the way I’ve seen these emails come through.

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No More Passwords - Not Secure Enough
Posted By: Moonlight Pictures on Aug 11, 1:12 pm

How many passwords do you have? Do you have complex and hard to remember login details or do you fall into the category of easy to remember passwords?

I personally have one password for everything, however, its a password that not even my closest of friends would know. Nevertheless, according to this article I found on Digital Domain, passwords may be ancient technology already…

Password-based log-ons are susceptible to being compromised in any number of ways. Consider a single threat, that posed by phishers who trick us into clicking to a site designed to mimic a legitimate one in order to harvest our log-on information.

Once we’ve been suckered at one site and our password purloined, it can be tried at other sites. The solution urged by the experts is to abandon passwords — and to move to a fundamentally different model, one in which humans play little or no part in logging on. Instead, machines have a cryptographically encoded conversation to establish both parties’ authenticity, using digital keys that we, as users, have no need to see.

In short, we need a log-on system that relies on cryptography, not mnemonics.

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Baseless Opinion: The Unsellable Digg
Posted By: Rob on Jul 31, 5:37 pm

Today I am introducing a new article series I will be writing called “Baseless Opinion” where I will talk about things that I honestly have no real business talking about but will still talk about anyway, after all that is how the internet works.

For this article I will be talking about everyone’s favorite social news mash-up Digg.com. Recently there were rumors of Digg potentially being acquired by everyone’s favorite internet search monster, Google.com. Kevin Rose, founder and chief architect of Digg, outright denied the rumors as being anywhere close to truth, but that didn’t stop the internet from being the internet and going on and on about the acquisition regardless.  Continue reading via the link below.

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Cuil or Un-Cuil?
Posted By: Candace on Jul 31, 3:20 pm

Recently, a new search engine launched that was surrounded by tons of hype. It’s a Google killer! Google has it’s competitor! So much hype, indeed. Then, the bad press showed up. Cuil (pronounced “cool”) was not the search engine it promised to be.

As I read the bad press Cuil was getting, I thought to myself “It can’t be that bad. I’m sure there’s some good qualities to this search engine.” So, I decided to forget about the bad press completely and, take a look for myself. I picked out a search that I knew would be a little tough to get good results from. I picked a vanity search. Then, I picked something a little easier to search for and, decided to compare.

Before I go into my search results, let me say I really like the color scheme of “Cuil”. It’s very modern and, reaches a younger audience. The navigation on the search page leaves something to be desired though. If it were a little cleaner, it would be great! Right now, there is no real separation of results and, the page looks a bit messy. They could take a hint from Powerset in this case for enhanced navigation.

Now, my search. First, I searched “Candace Holly” on Google and Yahoo search. I know that there is a couple of other women who share my name and, I expected them to show in the search on Google. Sure enough, they did. I felt a little more special on Yahoo search. My name showed first where on Google mine was second. Yahoo loves me, maybe?
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“Spam King” and family found dead in murder-suicide
Posted By: Rob on Jul 25, 11:17 pm

MSNBC is reporting that convicted email spammer, Edward Davidson, has been found dead in his parked SUV parked at a farmhouse driveway in Bennett, CO, 25 miles east of Denver. Along side him were the bodies of his wife, his 3-year-old daughter as well as a teenage girl who was shot in the neck and an unharmed baby in a carseat.

Edward “Eddie” Davidson (35), for those unaware, was considered the “Spam King” and worked as a “spammer for hire” of sorts, sending out spam hundreds of thousands of spam emails for his clients from 2002 to 2005. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on in June of 2007 for violating the CAN SPAM Act of 2003, plead guilty in December 2007 and sentenced to serve 21 months in federal prison as well as pay $714,139 in restitution to the IRS.  He aparently “walked out” of the prision on July 20th, 2008 and fled.