Here’s another phishing attempt that got into one of my e-mail accounts, this time undetected by several anti-spam mechanisms in place. It’s an easy phishing scam to detect by a trained (or even a bit more detailed oriented) eye, but considering that it didn’t get tagged as spam it could make some users fall for it and therefore share their …
Export and import saved passwords from Firefox
While certainly not one of better security practices we are all guilty of saving passwords in Firefox (and other browsers of choice) for frequently visited websites. If you visit a particular site daily it is much more convenient to allow your web browser to save your user name and password for later use. This is fine as long as you …
Facebook’s new privacy settings
Facebook is finally catching up to some of their perpetual security concerns and is strengthening their privacy policy and therefor the settings as well. It took a while but as of this morning (when I noticed the change) privacy settings have been tightened a bit and are finally working as expected. It will take some time for majority of folks …
Designing a client friendly website
We have all came across websites with a mass of links and never ending scroll bars of text which have frequently left us frustrated and annoyed. Being able to quickly find what you are looking for is important and websites with a clear structure who have also been properly indexed (site specific search) are a joy to visit. Unorganized sites …
Keep your websites secure
I‘m on a search for a few replacement windows and have been looking all over north New Jersey for a place that can provide them in less than the standard 2-6 weeks time frame. One of the places recommended to me was “Air-Chek Window Depot” in Clifton, NJ. First thing I did is went online to see if they had …
Is Blackboard the best CMS out there?
Our institution has been using Blackboard (Bb) for a while now as their Course Management System (CMS) of choice with mixed results. Depending who you ask, based on their technical knowledge and their experience using Blackboard (and other CMS solutions) you will get different responses. They range from it is good, does what I need it to do to can …
Make your Outlook better with Xobni
For a while now my team and I have been using Xobni, an Outlook plugin that improves e-mail client’s search for both messages and contact information. It also goes a step further by aggregating and correlating data between different social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. Xobni also provides data from Hoovers on companies your contacts work for and …
Anti-Virus software
In today’s world where network and system security is of great importance and we live and operate behind firewalls, VPNs, SSH, encryption, anti-virus software and many other tools that help make us more secure, it is often difficult figuring out that winning combo to stay safe online and protect your personal information. One component that in a sense started it …
Firefox 3.5.x has been a disaster so far
Love Firefox, but not a fan of their latest version. It’s been crashing left and right, slow, unresponsive, buggy and to be honest more than a bit annoying.
It’s quiet out there
On this morning of social networks outages where Facebook is iffy and Twitter is down it’s nice to enjoy a cup of coffee in “peace” 😉 By the way, I wonder if they both run on the same hardware or are in the process of merging? Update: As a was going through my RSS feeds I came across info on …