Because a large portion of our Web application user interface is done in Flash, we here at Cafe ID (http://www.cafeid.com) took special interest in Monday's official announcement of Flash 8 by Macromedia.
In my article "Spear-Phishing - New Angles On An Old Game" (http://www.cafeid.com/art-spear.shtml), I wrote about a variation on "traditional" e-mail phishing that has proved to be more effective than random casting of stink-bait into a vast pool of random e-mail addresses.
It usually doesn't take long for emerging trends in business IT security to reach the point at which a new name for a given phenomenon is required to set it apart.
Last week, we looked (http://www.cafeid.com/art-rss.shtml) at the recent news that Microsoft had decided to embrace RSS in a big way in its upcoming releases of Internet Explorer and Windows "Longhorn" and determined that this was a Good Thing.
At Seattle's Gnomedex technology conference (http://www.gnomedex.com/), a cutting-edge exploration of emerging Internet technologies like RSS...
For this lifelong Macintosh fanatic, the urge to react to the news that Apple would be making the switch to Intel processors over the course of the next year had to be suppressed for a few weeks.
Web-enabled consumers are tossing their cookies in greater numbers; and although this phenomenon is related to the stomach-churning activities of some Internet marketers and their offerings, it has more to do with taking back control of their Web browsing, and less to do with violent physiological reactions to bad snack food.
Dennis Miller once said that "Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being a bad guy in a James Bond movie." Last week, Hewlett-Packard announced that it, along with Gates' Microsoft, is getting set to make a push into yet another market currently dominated by small niche players and Unix-based software platforms -- identity management systems at the national level.
So you've read the glowing press and you're sick of the gaping security holes Internet Explorer opens into your personal computer and the personal data it manipulates
When it comes to creating a robust server environment for delivering dynamic content securely and reliably across the Internet, it's practically impossible to beat the LAMP setup. LAMP is an acronym which represents the combination of Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP which is probably the most common and best-loved collection of server-side technologies on planet Earth.
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