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McAffee put out their annual "Mapping the Mal Web" report. It is a PDF that lets you know how risky a website in a Top Level Domain (TLD) can be. Since the .com is so widely used, it's easy to say it's on the top of the list. But it's not #1 - that dubious honor is left to Camroon
An Arizona school district information technology administrator is being investigated for misuse of campus computers because he installed and ran SETI software on up to 5,000 machines. The school district contends that this cost between "$1.2 and 1.6 million dollars over a 9 year period." As I would have expected, quite a few people are giving that figure a wide-eyed
Today, according to the Google Blog, Google is making some changes in the "First Click Free" way they have been indexing pages. Up until now, Google and publishers have worked together to allow Google to spider and index news sites, so that searchers can find it when they want it, but limiting the number of times or pages a searcher
A couple of days ago, a friend of my son's called me with panic in her voice. Her fancy media-enabled Acer laptop had died. Kept booting into a recovery mode but then could not recover, so would shut down, only to do it all over again. I asked her if there were any CD's or DVD's that came with the
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