Tag: bbc
Most Common Internet Purchase – Books
According to today’s article at the BBC the most common items purchased online are books! Obviously Amazon has alot to do with this. Many probably still associate books with Amazon even though they are well beyond this stage. Books are also a good online purchase because they are modestly priced and a pretty standard commodity. […]
Posted: January 28th, 2008 under General.
Tags: bbc, book, internet, purchase
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Would you help a spammer? – Don’t answer so quickly
Here is an article from the BBC that caught my eye for creativity and innovation. It turns out that Captchas are pretty effective methods of slowing down spammers. There really isn’t a good automated way to read the distorted characters. So, what’s the alternative? Simple; enlist a bunch of unsuspecting people to help you. But […]
Posted: October 30th, 2007 under General.
Tags: bbc, innovation, internet, spam, spammers, spam_problem
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Have you changed your router password?
BBC News reports that 50% of home users have NOT changed the default passwords on their router administrative privileges. Researchers from the University of Indiana and security firm Symantec created an attack that surreptitiously redirects a user to nefarious sites once they have visited a booby-trapped webpage. The attack works by re-writing the address book […]
Posted: February 16th, 2007 under General.
Tags: bad_guys, bbc, home_network, news, security_threat
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