The informational files found here pertain to developments and information related to Computers and software.
This page provides several websites which offer information and resources to assist you in making your website usable by those with visual and other disabilities.
How To Make Your Website Usable By Those With Visual and Other Disabilities
This article explains how the Phishing Filter in Internet Explorer actually works.
How The Internet Explorer Phishing Filter Works
This article describes the methods they use and what they are hoping to accomplish. It also makes suggestions on how to protect yourself.
Hackers Attack A computer Every 39 Seconds
This article discusses why home networks are often vulnerable to attack and how easily that can be fixed.
Is Your Home Network Vulnerable? You can easily Fix That
This new tool will allow the Blind to experience a level of control over web video they've never had before.
IBM Creates Tool To Read Web Video For Blind
This new free service will quickly convert text documents to Braille.
Braille Converter Eases Web Use
Wells Fargo's website now meets the requirements for easy use by the Blind.
Wells Fargo's Website Certified For Use By Blind
This new Trojan is intended to trick you into providing important personal information.
New Trojan Horse Impersonates Windows Reactivation Message
A new CyberCrime bill in Congress is drawing praise from CyberSecurity firms and Tech groups alike.
CyberSecurity Vendors Applaud CyberCrime Bill
This recently released study indicates that women use the net more than men, but for different purposes.
Women On Net More Often Than Men
Efforts are being made to develop a tool that can verify the author of e mails quickly and definitely.
Backing For Tool To Battle Spam
Rising SPAM levels are forcing ISPS and legitimate e mailers to come up with a way of ensuring delivery of good e mail.
Will Certified E Mail Be The Wave of The Future?
The FBI is moving to attempt to reduce the number of botnets available to spammers.
FBI Says One Million Computers Controlled By Botnets
A new Trojan has been infecting websites with malicious code.
MPack Trojan Attack Claims 10,000 Websites
This article makes it quite clear why it pays to be careful when surfing the net as well as keeping protection up to date.
Nearly 30,000 New Malicious Websites Appearing Each Day
Hackers have developed a new technique that allows them to create a fraudulant website in about two seconds and reduces the chances of them getting caught.
Hackers Can Create New Phishing Website In about Two Seconds
While this new worm is not considered to be much of a risk it could delete all your MP3's.
New Worm Hunts Down MP3's and Deletes Them
While the conclusions of this study are preliminary it's worth being aware of.
Laser Printers May Give Off Harmful Particles
A new growing trend has children leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and their own domain name.
Many Children Now Receiving Domain Names At Birth
A Blind Computer Programmer at Google is leading the effort to make Google products as accessible as possible.
Google Strives To Make Searches Fully Accessible
This study indicates that substantial investment will be required to prevent Internet gridlock by 2010.
Study Warns Internet Gridlock by 2010
This article indicates that many top ranked search results are an attempt to infect your computer.
Perhaps You Should Be Viewing Thos Top Ranked Search Results With a Suspicious Eye
A discovery by IBM's research team will drastically reduce the size of supercomputers and increase their efficiency many times.
Future Supercomputers Could Be The Size of a Laptop, Thanks To IBM Research
Researchers caution that spammers use most holidays to lure you into opening malicious e mail.
Watch Out For Holiday E Mails Researchers Warn
Storage capacity continues to expand.
Hitachi to debut 500GB drive for laptops
It appears that the security used by the World's utilities needs to be tightened.
CIA Says Hackers Have Demonstrated Their Ability To Disrupt Power Grid
In order to prevent the Net from running out of addresses authorities have begun the move to a new system. How will it affect you? Read this article to find out.
Overhaul of Net Addresses Begins
Work is under way on a system that could allow the use of one idenity and password for multiple websites.
The Days of Having Multiple Internet Passwords May Be coming To an End
This movement in the U.K. probably has world wide implications.
Could Illegally Downloading Copyrighted Material Cost You Your Internet Connection?
It seems that there are some people who just can't get enough of those tangled cables.
New Sport Tests How Fast You Can Untangle Those Computer Cables
Netscape Navigator is saying its final good-bye on March first as support is withdrawn.
Final Good-bye For Early Net Icon
Since this program is often suggested for use with screen readers this PC Magazine article is well worth reading.
Review Of Spybot Serch Destroy Version 1.5
If you rely on encryption to protect your important information, you definitely want to read this article.
Memory Trick Breaks PC Encryption
According to this article governments are bringing censorship to the World Wide Web.
How The Open Net Closed Its Doors
The writer takes a look at the origin of the name SPAM and some of the issues it causes as well as the problems involved in elliminating it.
SPAM Blights E Mail Fifteen Years On
Users unhappy with Vista are martialing their efforts to try to save XP.
Users Fight To Save Windows XP
This study indicates that most computer users use only a few passwords putting themselves at risk.
Most Computer Users Repeat Passwords At Their Peril
PayPal is announcing their intention to block unsafe browsers as their next step in the ongoing battle to stay ahead of the criminals.
PayPal To Block Unsafe Browsers
The fight over who's right in the music piracy wars is still yet to be decided.
Policing The Internet Not I S P's Job
This article takes a look at the question of whether or not two Internets may be eventually needed.
Should There Be Two Internets?
Could we be going back ten or so years to the time our Internet usage was metered?
Time Warner Experimenting With Metering Internet Usage
This article takes a look at which domains are the most likely to lead you to an illegal or corrupted website.
When Surfing The Internet For Safe Websites, Not All Domains Are Equal
The next generation of chips will require much better cooling than simply moving air can provide.
IBM Aims To Cool Chips With Water
The author explains how the 8086 processor came to set the standard for future generations of processors.
Birth Of A Standard, The 8086 Processor, Born Thirty Years Ago
According to this article we may be about to see major changes in the Internet.
Is It Time For An Internet Wakeup Call?
The author describes the birth of what would probably be considered the first true computer.
First True Computer Celebrates Sixtieth Birthday
This new service can allow the blind to surf the internet from any computer anywhere withoutinstalling a screen reader.
Online Service Lets The Blind Surf The Internet From Any Computer
This study indicates that many dialup users simply don't want broadband.
Study Shows Many Dialup Users Don't Want Broadband
A study has revealed that millions of people are browsing the web using browsers that leave them woefully unprotected.
Study Shows Greatest Online Risk Due To Out of Date Browsers
This article points out that due to the proliferation of Thumb Drives hackers are now beginning to target them.
Is Your Thumb Drive The Weakest Link In Your Security?
With this infusing of funds the project to rebuild the Internet has taken a few hesitant steps forward.
Project To Rebuild Internet Receives 12 Million in Initial Funds
Participants in this experiment expected to find that they would receive additional SPAM. However, they were amazed by just how much it turned out to be.
SPAM Experiment Overloads In Boxes
This article looks at the differing points of view about whether or not the computer mouse is on the way out.
Are We About To Say Goodbye To The Computer Mouse?
A recently discovered security flaw makes it possible for hackers to intercept and read your e mail.
Major Internet Security Flaw Also Affects E Mail
This excellent article from PC Pitstop, presented here with their kind permission, takes a realistic look at the advantages and disadvantages of the new solid state drives.
Changes Are Coming For The Hard Drive
Can slowing light down actually speed things up?
Slow Light To Speed Up The Net
This latest attack aimed primarily at Macs and Firefox is very hard to get rid of once encountered.
Clipboards Hijacked in Web Attack
This article points out that the weakest link in the security chain probably lies with your local retail store.
How Secure Are Your Credit Card Details?
The author reviews the new Google browser plus two more. Two out of the three proove to be resource hogs, the one he favors may surprise you.
Review: New Google "Chrome" Browser Lacks Polish Under The Hood
A recent study shows that spammers tend to target certain letters of the alphabet more than others.
The First Letter In Your Address May Determine How Much SPAM You Receive
This article indicates that celebrity searches are a risky business.
Searching For Information About Celebrities On The Internet Could Be Risky
This study warns about the risk of fake pop-ups.
Study Shows Computer Users Fail To Spot Fake Pop-ups
This highly respected anti-virus lab indicates that viruses are no longer the main threat.
Kaspersky Lab Says, Trojans Not Viruses, Now Main Threat
A report from Panda Security warns that those free anti-virus scans may be trying to relieve you of some of your money.
Beware Of Fake Anti-Virus Scans
Updated on ... October 06, 2008