Of the two big browsing features of 2008, one seems to run counter to where developers are driving their browsers. The melding of the location bar to the search bar was expected in Firefox and Opera, thanks to beta versions. Chrome has it, too, calling it the Omnibar. What seems to have caught developers off-guard [...]
Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary.
Source: CNET News
Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company Google and other companies use to handle human resources functions, were stolen in a burglary on May 26. An undisclosed number of employees’ details [...]
For many years, the Internet was the “final frontier,” operating largely unregulated — in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws when communications crossed not just state lines but also national boundaries. That was then; this is now.
Legislation that affects the use of Internet-connected computers is springing up everywhere at [...]
Temporary Mailbox Services
Now a days Internet has become a home to spam. Millions of spam bots crawl the web daily to find email addresses and then bombard them with spam emails thus destroying their efficiency and creating problems for users. The best solution to this is to get a temporary or disposable [...]
The IRS Stimulus Rebates being sent to tax payers has provided another opportunity to phishers to harvest personal information. The emails arrive with the subject line ‘2008 Economic Stimulus Refund’ which is sure to catch the attention of many people who are eager to know their status. Remember, the IRS never sends emails soliciting information. [...]
Protect yourself against ID Theft. Millions of people across the world fall prey to this menace. It is more compounded in countries like the United States as well as Western Europe where identity-related information could be used by anyone to make illegitimate gains. The problem is spreading in Asia and other parts of the world [...]
