THE WEB CAN BE A BETTER PLACE TO SURF AND DO BUSINESS !
Last Updated: November 20, 2005
[September 21, 2005]
Spyware Warrior: "Let's hope that physicians' offices, practice groups and medical practitioners' computers are free of spyware, but their no guarantee. If your doctor has online medical records or records stored on an office computer that goes online, I suggest you ask about their security practices. Some may not like being questioned but as a consumer of health care, I think you have the right to know."
George Ou: "Now that Firefox has become the first viable contender to Microsoft Internet Explorer in years, its popularity has brought with it some unwanted attention. Last week's premature disclosure of a zero-day Firefox exploit came a few weeks after a zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer appeared on the Internet. Firefox not only has more vulnerabilities per month than Internet Explorer, but it is now surpassing Internet Explorer for the number of exploits available for public download in recent months."
[September 19, 2005]
Marcus J. Ranum: "Let me introduce you to the six dumbest ideas in computer security. What are they? They're the anti-good ideas. They're the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying "trying to ignore reality." Frequently those misguided attempts are sincere efforts by well-meaning people or companies who just don't fully understand the situation, but other times it's just a bunch of savvy entrepreneurs with a well-marketed piece of junk they're selling to make a fast buck. In either case, these dumb ideas are the fundamental reason(s) why all that money you spend on information security is going to be wasted, unless you somehow manage to avoid them. For your convenience, I've listed the dumb ideas in descending order from the most-frequently-seen. If you can avoid falling into the the trap of the first three, you're among the few true computer security elite."
[September 14, 2005]
E-banking security provokes fear or indifference: "Based on responses to its survey, Forrester concludes that an estimated 600,000 from a total of 15m subscribers have ditched online banking as a direct result of security fears. Forrester reckons that users are confused and banks need to step up their efforts to educate customers about online fraud. Measures to restrict the functionality of some accounts (for example controlling how much money can be transferred on any day), stronger internet banking authentication and improved customer profiling are also needed to defend against security threats, it advises."
[September 12, 2005]
The History of Internet Explorer: "The Grandpa of Internet Explorer was a web browser called Mosaic, which first began development at the National Center for Super Computing Applications (NCSA) back in 1987. It was the first browser to use a GUI (graphical user interface) and was ground breaking stuff. The technology and trademarks behind Mosaic were eventually licensed to a company called Spyglass, Inc. Spyglass, Inc was an Internet software company associated with the University of Illinois that was founded in 1990 especially to commercialize various technologies during the early days of the World Wide Web. In 1995, Spyglass licensed the source code for Mosaic to Microsoft and Internet Explorer was born."
[September 08, 2005]
Intranet Journal Update: "The credibility of the content providers translates to the credibility of content, which in turn translates to the credibility of the intranet as a whole. [...] Every piece of content should be given a 'face' by specifying the content's source - whether internal knowledge assets or external information sources. This eliminates the anonymity often associated with intranet content. Users are far more likely to trust known authorities who have provided reliable, high-quality content in the past."
[September 03, 2005]
Mark Game: "Today many users of the Internet are using information-based web sites to try and satisfy their information needs. How well they satisfy these needs (finding relevant information) can often depend upon one common feature -the site's information architecture. An information architecture, or IA, is a structure made up of menu labels and content pages. A user, looking for relevant information, has to navigate through the IA to get to the target information. In order to reach that target, a user must first browse or scan the available menu labels and then guess at the probability that those menu labels will in fact lead to the desired information."
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