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McAfee: .gov sites are safest

McAfee: .gov sites are safestThe government sites are the safest becasue they need and have securityThe government sites are this way because they must be secure. The largest number of attempted attacks happen to government sites, for many reasons. Therefore the government has to spend a lot of time and...

Tags: Government, Domain names, OPEN SOURCE, mil, government site, OSX, Apache Software Foundation, gov site, McAfee Inc., gov domain name

Discussion threads 2007-03-12

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US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures

The Commerce Department is considering deploying digital signatures to make DNS less susceptible to hacking, ComputerWorld reports. Under the proposal, DNS records would be signed by DNSSEC Domain Name and Addressing System Security Extensions. There have been some commitments to the system for the following top-level domains:...

Tags: Digital Signature, DNS, ICANN, Domain Names, Digital Signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Networking, Security, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

RIA podcast goodness

There are a couple of news bits on the podcast front that should make anyone interested in RIAs happy. One, Coté and I are getting back in the routine of doing RIA Weekly. We're celebrating by rolling out a brand new RIAWeekly.com domain. Now that summer is over and we've...

Tags: Rich Internet Application, Podcasts, Internet, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2008-10-09

News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...

Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Palin the reformer? In fact, a pattern of stonewalling and hiding

The Associated Press takes a hard look at Sarah Palin's spotty – perhaps, hypocritical – record on open government and online transparency. She claims to be a reformer who will bring to Washington the government openness she says she established in Alaska. But the AP's review of her...

Tags: Associated Press, Alaska, Sarah Palin, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from KentuckyHypocrites and anti-competitionWhat exactly is Kentucky's problem with online gambling? It must not be the gambling part because these same people admit to trying to get casinos into Kentucky. So it must be an effort to do away with the competition...

Tags: Games, Domain names, Taxes, Poker Sites, Hypocrites, game, domain name

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Poker sites fight to get domain names back from Kentucky

This is a novel legal strategy. And so far it's working. Last month, in an effort to preserve the state's monopoly on legal gambling, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear sued to have 141 online gambling sites' domains transferred to the state's control. According to the Washington Post, a big...

Tags: Kentucky, Domain Name, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Palin e-mail hacker indicted, pleads not guilty. Is justice being served?

Justice is being served against the kid who allegedly hacked into Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, right? David Kernell, the 20-year-old son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell and a student at the University of Tennessee, was indicted on a charge of accessing...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Hacker, Computer, Kid, E-mail, Productivity, Online Communications, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Symantec Goes Into The Cloud With Email Filtering

Symantec today announced its acquisition of MessageLabs, a 520-person UK-based email filtering and security vendor. Given the cost and hassles that information & knowledge management professionls IKM Pros have keeping email spam down to a dull roar and keeping viruses outside the firewall, this is a great move for Symantec....

Tags: Symantec Corp., MessageLabs Ltd., E-mail, Online Communications, Ted Schadler

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo emailI bet he is praing for an Obama winin November, as that way he has a great change at receiving a pardon from him.If McCain wins, well five years in Guantanamo is not really [i]all[/i] that bad... ;)RE: Kernell indicted in break-in to...

Tags: Palin, Yahoo Email, Kernell, e-mail, break-in, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Kernell indicted in break-in to Palin's Yahoo email

The Department of Justice has indicted David C. Kernell, the 20-year-old son of a Democratic Tennessee state representative, for "intentionally accessing without authorization" Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account, the Justice Department announced today. Kernell turned himself in for arrest and will be arraigned today. According to the...

Tags: Password, e-Mail Account, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, Family Member, E-mail, Online Communications, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Student indicted for Palin e-mail hack

The U.S. Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury in Knoxville, Tennessee has indicted the 20-year-old son of a state lawmaker in connection with the compromise of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account. David Kernell left, who was identified for a while as the alleged hacker,...

Tags: E-mail, Online Communications, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?

Forget about the name - The real question is how many flavors will Windows 7 come in?They'll all be bitter.Don't get me wrong. I'm what passes for a happy Microsoft user, but all the "flavors" have and shall continue to leave a bitter taste and confused consumers. Another plus for...

Tags: Home entertainment, 64-bit, Operating systems, Games, SKU, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft NEEDS, real question, home theater

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Obama, McCain support making debates public

Both Obama and McCain have come out in favor of the Open Debate Coalition's call to open the presidential debates for fair use on the Internet, Wired reports. Obama sent a letter to Coalition leader Larry Lessig. He quoted his own letter to Democratic Party chairman last...

Tags: Debate, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Student Technology Day: Steve Ballmer Q&A

There was quite a lot to transcribe out, and many questions asked. Some questions put to Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, include: Will we always need programmers? What's Microsoft's input in Facebook and social networking? Does Microsoft have any changes in mind for their...

Tags: India, Pyramid, Laughter, Network, Microsoft Office, Steve Ballmer, Product, Microsoft Corp., Programmer, Question, Microsoft Windows, Social Networking, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

iPhone hits another security speedbump

Apple's ongoing struggles with poor security-related design choices have extended to the iPhone.  According to security researcher Aviv Raff, everyone's favorite mobile device is vulnerable to two separate security weaknesses that expose millions of users to phishing and spamming attacks. [...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Image, Spamming, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-06

Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!

Data Processing scores big success! Linux loses, again!Wrong title, MurphIt should be "IT N00bs at large in Canada" or something along those lines :)Also funny they switched to a windows server. "Oh, we understand windows, cause we use it at home! let's try that! Oh no use! Oh no, what...

Tags: Operating systems, data-processing, Murph, Linux, big success, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Real-time NetFlow Analyzer (zip)

Real-time NetFlow Analyzer has investigate, troubleshoot, and quickly remediate network slowdowns. Easily identify which users, devices, and applications are consuming the most bandwidth. Isolate inbound and outbound traffic by conversation, application, domain, endpoint, and protocol. Personalize NetFlow data displays to view traffic by specified time periods (up to 60 minutes)...

Tags: Network, Traffic, SolarWinds, Networking

Software downloads 2008-10-06

Mobile Edge ScanFast Backpack - notebook carrying backpack

Frequent travelers rejoiced when, earlier this year, the TSA issued guidelines for the construction of a bag that would let you zip through security without removing your laptop. The official guidelines suggest a butterfly, trifold, or sleeve-style case that keeps your laptop separate from other travel detritus so that a...

Tags: Notebooks, notebook, mobile, zipper, laptop computer, compartment, Mobile Edge ScanFast

Product reviews 2008-10-03

End the spectre of science for sale

End the spectre of science for saleOr Not[i]He will graduate from high school next spring, an honor student, and cost me a fortune at some elite college.[/i]Depends on what he really wants to study. There are some world-class universities that are also shockingly inexpensive, even for out-of-state students. ...

Tags: NIH, democracy

Discussion threads 2008-10-03