by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
Malicious operators are increasing their attacks on .edu sites so they can use them in search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning schemes. The .edu sites are given higher rankings by search engines because they are expected to have more reliable information. A...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 27, 2010 | Uncategorized
And 350 million Facebookers. Consumer metrics firm RJMetrics of Camden, N.J, said in a recent report that 75 million people were using Twitter at the end of last year. At that point, there were 6.2 million people joining the micro-blogging service each month, down...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
At the Cisco Networkers Live 2010 event in Barcelona, a Cisco spokesman estimated that video would make up 90 percent of Internet traffic by 2019. All Internet traffic will grow five times its present volume in the next three years, he also predicted. Marthin De Beer,...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ben Edelman, Harvard privacy researcher and guru has revisited the features of Google Toolbar and was appalled to discover that disabling it doesn’t really disable it. He is recommending that all users uninstall it. In a long, thorough and well-written piece on his...
by Alex Eckelberry | Jan 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
StopBadware, an anti-malware effort started at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, has announced that it has begun operating as a standalone non-profit organization called StopBadware, Inc. Google, PayPal and Mozilla have provided...
