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S'pore Net users can't fish out phishers
News Some 83 percent of Singapore Web users are unable to spot tell-tale spelling errors in phishing scams, compared to 76 percent in India, new survey finds.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Phishing, Web Browser, Survey, Phishing Web Site, Singapore, Internet, Web Site, Web, Spam and phishing
S'pore transport regulator partners Google Maps
News Country's Land Transport Authority hopes to make public transport "choice mode" by offering Google Maps as part of travel planning service.
Tags: Location-based services, Transport, Google Inc., CEO, partnership, Singapore, ERP, Southeast Asia, Regulator, data-processing
Net pioneer GeoCities finally laid to rest
News With Yahoo's closure of GeoCities, Internet community bids farewell to one of earliest Web startups, but several efforts underway to save its content.
Tags: Web sites, GeoCities, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Portal, dot-com, Hollywood, Internet, Web Site, WWW
Phishing attack hits thousands of Hotmail accounts
News Several thousand user account credentials have been posted on a public Web site as a result of a phishing attack.
Tags: E-mail clients, E-mail servers, Spam and phishing, PC security, Data security, Phishing, E-mail Account, Microsoft Corp., software, Pastebin.com
Mirroring Web sites with wget
Techguide Vincent Danen demonstrates the basics of wget for mirroring entire Web sites.
Tags: Open source, Mirroring, Security, FTP site, HTML page, Wget, Site, Vincent Danen, exploit code, researcher
US govt Web site makes open source move
News White House Web site now employing open source software. Given the U.S. federal government's widespread adoption of open source, the amazing thing is that it took so long.
Tags: Open source, Government, Drupal, Open Source, Acquia, software, Open-source Software, Associated Press, White House, proprietary software
UK intelligence site breached by hacker
News Intelligence agency has closed up a cross-site scripting vulnerability on its Web site after details of the flaw were published on a hacker forum.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Data security, Hacking, Spokesperson, Flaw, malicious attack, search tool, Hacker, agency, Web Site
Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
News In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data mining & analysis, Database management, Page, Google Inc., Web Site, Hallmark, Webmaster, Web Page
Targeted e-mail distribute malware in PayChoice breach
News E-mail included names and partial passwords and directed people to a Web site or download software that dumped a Trojan on their computers for stealing data and disabling security software.
Tags: Data security, PC security, Authentication and encryption, Hacking, IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems), Spam and phishing, Adobe Systems Inc., Malware, Security, software
Google gadget translates sites into 51 languages
News Gadget, which is powered by Google Translate, allows any website to be automatically translated into the language of the viewer's choice.
Tags: Web 2.0, Data Management, Gadget, Google Inc., Language, automated translation, authentication system, Web Browser, Tool, product manager
Spam offers to let people use their PC to attack Obama site
News Regardless of your political leanings it's unwise to fall for the spam.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Malware, Spam, Attack, computer, e-mail, denial of service, DOS, Web Site, Web
Google patches severe Chrome vulnerabilities
News Maliciously crafted JavaScript and XML could let an attacker take over a person's computer through the stable version of Chrome, Google warns.
Tags: Web browsers, Network security, PC security, Sandbox, Web Browser, Vulnerability, computer, Attacker, patch management, program manager
GetJar: The unknown app store leader
News Everyone knows that Apple has the largest mobile application store in the world, but who is second? A small company called GetJar.
Tags: Mobile applications, Personal applications, Business applications, Facebook, Apple iPhone, Phone, Personal applications, Mobile applications, GetJar, Web Site
Yahoo updates YUI tool for slick Web interfaces
News Yahoo's User Interface library, used by the Internet pioneer and many others for interactive Web site design, just turned 3.0.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Open source, Yahoo! Inc., Web Site, Web Page, software, Web server, Web Interface, Web sites
Microsoft controlling Australian govt 2.0 funds
News Government 2.0 Taskforce has released a draft contract for fund recipients, which revealed that any funding agreements will be between successful bidders and Microsoft, not the Commonwealth.
Tags: Web 2.0, Government, Microsoft Corp., partnership, Taskforce, Microsoft Australia, Training, intellectual property, Web 2.0, blog
