Osama bin Laden used USB flash drive for Emails

Computerworld reports that the reason Osama bin Laden used the internet to send emails without being traced was due to the formatting of a USB stick which he could install into his computer. This system hid his...

Phishing Attack Exposes Quarter Million Users

Many Internet users may have been scammed into giving up passwords to phishing expeditions.  The security breach was discovered on the weekend when thousands of passwords were discovered on the net.  Hotmail users have been urged to change their passwords. "More...

Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet

"Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet" " San Francisco: Security researchers warned on Thursday of the increasing levels of viruses and spam using Michael Jackson's name to snare unsuspecting users. One e-mail carries the subject line "Remembering Michael Jackson" was...

Gov. Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Shapur Emails Exposed

The State newspaper in Columbia SC probably knew about the Sanford Affair for months.  The State Political reporter, Gina Smith,  caught the Governor getting off a Plane from Argentina at...

EarthLink webmail crashes on Earth Day

The webmail service 'EarthLink' suffered a major power outage this morning, and users were unable to access any of their pages; ironic considering today is Earth Day. (At time of publication the site is still down)It is not known what caused the crash, as the site was offline...

Choosing the Right Cell Phone

There are many choices and many plans so it comesdown to what you will dowith it. "Smart Phone (such as BlackBerry, Palm Treo, Palm Centro, etc.)What It Does: Works as a PDA and a mini-computer as well as a phone;...

ISAF Soldiers Killed in Southern Afghanistan

The NATO causalities risen in Afghanistan. the dead of these two servicemen were took place when the Afghan defense ministry has announced that security forces will be strengthened this year. " Two ISAF servicemen...

Two killed and Three Canadian Soldiers Wounded in Afghanistan

day by day the sense of resistance is raising among the afghan people. and as result of that the resistance spread all over the country.   Yesterday two Canadian Soldiers were killed and three of them were...

Open Case: Mary Badaracco

" DPS Search: State of Connecticut Department of Public...

'Koobface' Virus Attacks Facebook

"Attention new viewers: those 5000 "friends" you have on Facebook? They might not actually be your friends. In fact, some of them might be scammers trying to infect your computer with a new virus dubbed "Koobface". Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now...

E Mail Overload Cure: To Get Less, Send Less suggests Ami Chitwood

Spreading the gospel of e-mail reduction, Luis Suarez just quoted on Twitter this simple and brilliant E-Mail Overload Cure by Ami Chitwood :"Oh - to reduce the amount of email you get? Simple trick - reduce the amount you send."Cause and effect as Kazuo Inamori put it in his...

OHIO DJFS Chief on leave over Illegal Records Search on "Joe the Plumber"

"Gov. Ted Strickland said today he is placing Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, on paid administrative leave "due to the possibility, as yet unconfirmed, that a state computer or state e-mail account was used to assist in...

Qwitter catches Twitter quitters

Twitter, meet Qwitter, your other half.  Twitter is your life in 140 characters or less, your way to tell the world what you are doing.  Qwitter is the world’s way of telling you that sometimes people...

Be Careful Where you Click

"Fake YouTube pages used to spread viruses ...

E-Mail as the New Addiction, Peter Bauer cuts the Umbilical Cord

How do you treat an addiction?Do you go cold turkey or do you wean it out progressively. Self confessed e-mail addict Peter Bauer of Mimecast, an e-mail management company tells Joia Shillingford in Living without e-mail (FT, Digital Business, October 8) how he plans to go...

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