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Everything You Need to Know About Email Spam, Rackspace Infographics Rocks!

We are all annoyed by spam, right? I mean, I could not think of anybody who takes pleasure in receiving spam emails. But have you ever wondered how spam invaded our email inbox? Or how much spam is out there in the online world that we all live in? We are those spams coming from really? Is Nigeria the biggest spammer country? – I think it’s time to debunk this myth in fairness to Nigeria.

These and other facts about spam are answered by this cool infographics prepared by the folks at Rackspace, who like everyone of us are annoyed by these persistently and rampantly attacking spam on our email. Learn and enjoy about folks!








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PleaseRobMe Hits on FourSquare, Other Location-Aware Services

A new site called Please Rob Me is getting some media mileage not only because of its intriguing name but also because of its equally intriguing purpose.  Please Rob Me describes its goal as follows:

The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc. Because all this site is, is a dressed up Twitter search page (link). Everybody can get this information.

So, what does the site actually does? Well, controversial as well. It compiles and lists down all the status updates published on FourSquare and perhaps soon other location-aware services as well, that pertains to individuals saying that they are about to leave their homes to go somewhere else. These are posted on the site and on Twitter.

While Please Rob Me’s goal is unquestionably noble, the way it is pushing things to achieve this goal is not. Raising the level of awareness of the public over some dangerous matters is a good feat, but actually giving the would-be perpetrators an idea about this whole thing is certainly not commendable.

The site posts those updates on their Twitter account for all its followers to see and monitor.   They say that FourSquare, Gowalla and the others are just dressed up Twitter where updates live links that anyone can click through and access.

But the thing is, those location-aware service still give users the options to set up their privacy settings and control who among their contacts they would allow access to their updates. So, I guess location-aware services are still safe, just like Twitter.

Sugababes Promotes Windows 7, C’mon!

If the video promoting Google’s mobile search with movies  was rather inappropriate because it features three geek-looking Google engineers looking for a theater where New Moon is currently showing, wait till you see this new Microsoft video promoting Microsoft 7.  Microsoft’s video stars three babes known in the UK as Sugababes showing us how they use Windows 7 in their daily busy lives. Really? [Read more…]

How Google Chrome OS Will Handle Web Security

Before you get drown into the waves of news items explaining what Google Chrome is and what it is not, let’s not forget one of its most  important feature  which might make it click among Internet security geeks, like us.

The Official Google Blog explains why Chrome OS is very a secured OS by saying that since all apps that you will use will be living within the Chrome browser, Google has made sure that security was given utmost priority. [Read more…]

Miami is riskiest city for online fraud

According to a new survey, New Yorkis no longer the U.S. city eCommerce merchants fear most. That dubious distinction now belongs to Miami. In the survey, an annual poll of online merchants commissioned by CyberSource Corporation, merchants were asked “What single major U.S. or Canadian city presented the highest risk of online fraud?” No city garnered a majority of the votes, but this year Miami surpassed New York City. Runners up were Los Angeles and Chicago. Other cities receiving votes included Detroit, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.

In the “Riskiest Country” category, Nigeria easily retained its position as number one, with more than three times the votes of the next country. Runners up were the UK in second place, Ghana in third, Indonesia in fourth, and China in fifth. Russia, which had been among the leaders in the two prior years of the survey’s history, fell out of the rankings for the first time.

The city and country questions were part of a larger survey, the Ninth Annual CyberSource Fraud Survey, commissioned by CyberSource Corporation and undertaken by Mindwave Research. The survey was fielded September 13, 2007 through October 1, 2007 and yielded 318 qualified and complete responses from U.S. and Canadian eCommerce merchants. The sample was drawn from a database of companies involved in electronic commerce activities.

Support.com launches online PC HealthCheck for consumers

Support.com announced the addition of PC HealthCheck to its roster of services. PC HealthCheck takes a remote scan over the Internet of a consumer’s PC and accesses the performance, security and overall system. Upon pinpointing key concerns, technicians can immediately help consumers resolve those issues with support.com’s lineup of remote repair services such as System TuneUp and Virus and Spyware Removal.

PC HealthCheck is recommended every 90 days, to eliminate future problems that may cause consumer’s PC to shut down or operate at a snail’s pace. The program is ideal for consumers and small businesses that want to ensure their computers are in top shape to handle everyday tasks, important deadlines and frequent family/business communication.