MySpace Moves To Protect TeenagersJune 21st, 2006 MySpace moves quickly after being slapped with a lawsuit claiming 30 million by a teenager, molested by a contact she made in MySpace. MySpace will adopt a series of measures next week to make it harder for strangers to send messages to younger teenagers.
How To Change Temporary Download Directory of Download Accelerator Plus (DAP)October 8th, 2006 While downloading Fedora Core 5 using DAP, I ran out of temporary disk space (which is by default in C: drive) thereby wasting several hours of download. Download Accelerator Plus (DAP is a popular file download utility) saves the partially downloaded segments in %TEMP% directory.
Hijacked Blackberry Turns Data SpyAugust 9th, 2006 A booby-trapped game of noughts and crosses (BBProxy) has been used in Black Hat hacker conference to show how a Blackberry can be easily hijacked to steal confidential data. Created by a security researcher the game contains malicious code that turns the popular mobile e-mail device into a backdoor into corporate networks.
Off-the-Record Messaging for the ParanoidFebruary 15th, 2005 An interesting technology to keep an eye on. Off-the-Record Messaging
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
IBM Accused of Mail Server HackingJuly 14th, 2006 Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm filed suit against IBM in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Nasty PHP 4.4 Bug in Session DataNovember 3rd, 2006 We deployed an application on client site yesterday and we faced a really puzzling problem. Some data stored in session variable ( $_SESSION["messages"] ) was returning the data of a global array $messages.
How to combat small-font-spam..March 3rd, 2005 A recent trend in spamming observed in Larry Seltzer's blog and elsewhere is to use very small font size characters to create an ascii art to provide spam messages. What is interesting is that unlike the example above spammers can use legitimate email messages chosen randomly from computers they have hacked to create the ascii art.
Spamming is a successful strategyMarch 23rd, 2005 According to a survey conducted by security firm Mirapoint and market research company the Radicati Group, nearly a third of e-mail users have clicked on links in spam messages. One in ten users have bought products advertised in spams.
How To Easily Censor External Web Email Sites in FirewallApril 17th, 2006 I found a super-simple way to block access to external email providers like GMail or HotMail or Yahoo Mail in firewall. The process while trivial to configure has a caveat.
Goodmail Systems: Who is it fooling?February 10th, 2004 Goodmail - Index
"Senders of volume email attach paid stamps to their outgoing messages. These encrypted stamps include verification of the sender's identity and require the sender to honor a "trusted unsubscribe" mechanism enforced by Goodmail Systems.
How to create HTML signature in Microsoft OutlookMarch 15th, 2005 Email signature are by default text messages. However I wanted to create HTML signature (see below) for my email messages.
I am back...December 7th, 2006 I am back from a business trip to USA. Last 10 days have been very hectic and I couldn't properly respond to many emails nor could I address some of them, despite my best efforts.
Google GMail versus Yahoo Mail betaJune 24th, 2006 Yahoo Mail sucked (pardon my French). However their new version (beta as is the norm these days) is getting rave reviews.
Self declared spam king files for Chapter 11 (Bankruptcy protection)April 1st, 2005 Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages.
Acrobat.com Plugin for Microsoft Outlook 2007 - The Complete How ToMarch 19th, 2009 How to Send large files (say more than 1GB!) through Microsoft Outlook 2007? Did you ever have a question like this? Here is a solution now. E-mails have become indispensable for all of us both professionally and personally.