Yahoo Hits and Misses 4 Months Later

Since the new redesign, there have been noticeable improvements and problems from a user experience. The most noticeable improvement is how you can add and remove your favorite links and sites from the My Favorites in the left sidebar. Yahoo has really done a nice job in providing a preview page when you mouse over [...]

What The Heck G?

I mean come on, you are the colossus of companies with an infrastructure that is so large, it’s even hard for most Geeks to even imagine. This was a cluster “expletive here”.
According to Google – Their Gmail service was offline due to a maintenance miscalculation for the glitch and engineers took some servers offline, it [...]

Gmail now has Task Manager

Did you forget to do something? Google’s Gmail team has added a new task manager that lets users keep track of their agenda.
Go to Settings at the top of your inbox, click the Labs tab and you’ll see the new feature option at the top. Select enable and click Save Changes at the bottom. You [...]

Spam Bots On The Rise Again

It didn’t take long (2 weeks) after the McColo host company was shut down for the world’s biggest spammers to get back online and start updating all their bots, a recent report by FireEye revealed. This means that all the time we’ve enjoyed with less spam is over now that the Srizbi botnet – responsible [...]

How Safe is Your Email?

Are you using Gmail, Yahoo or Windows Live Hotmail? Did you know there has been a tremendous increase in phishing emails due to the holiday season as well as the financial crisis? You can feel safer by downloading a free utility for added security protection for all 3 of these email services!
WOT (Web of Trust) [...]

Malicious Email Spam on the Rise

The amount of spam containing dangerous attachments designed to infect PCs with malicious viruses increased by eight times between July and September this year, according to Sophos.
The security firm said one in every 416 email messages received between July and September was spam compared to just one in every 3,333 emails between April and June.
Much [...]

Busted: Spam Group Caught by FTC

The U.S. government has helped break up one of the largest organized spam rings in the world, which was responsible for sending billions of unsolicited e-mails. I am sure many of these emails have made it to my inbox in the past year.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 3 million complaints from internet [...]

Password Management Tips

Listed below are 10 tips on managing your passwords and preventing someone from knowing your credentials.

Passwords must not be written down.
Passwords must be set. When the password is “password or a default that is assigned”, change it immediately.
Make sure (if available) to create a secret question (in the event you forget your password) that no [...]

Hackers at it again

The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for several [...]