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IMing, shorthand for Instant Messaging, could waste a lot of valuable business time. Even though IM could be a digital replacement to the office water cooler, replacing the physical congregating to swap office gossip and the athletic spreads, IM seems to be used appropriately.
Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable.
The craziest thing that I've ever heard is to pay spammers not to spam, and that's just what a startup company from San Antonio, Texas, Global Removal (GR), is planning to do. Their theory is that spammers are in business to make money, and that the lowbrows will remove your e-mail address from all of their junk mail lists for a buck.
If you do run XP you can check to see if your system is patched to protect you from the buffer overrun that the recent Blaster worm. [GRC]
A new flaw can allow a hacker to take over your computer. I'm not surprised seems this is a weekly event. [Cnet] [Microsoft Patch]
I tried to count today how many passwords I have to remember. It astounded me I think I am up around 30. Proof is in the times I simply forget and have to call a system admin or request a temporary password e-mailed to me. My employer has very very strict naming conventions for passwords and they have to be
System Administrators across the world who depend on Osirusofts servers to help filter known relays and spammers, I am sure are aware of the Osirusoft Server outage. I figured it out when my server started sending me bounce messages as incoming mail was not being verified. I had a contingency plan and immediately switched to SPAMHAUS and pointing my RBL