Posts tagged with 'Security'
Twelve percent of British internet users fell victim to online fraud last year, with around half of them losing out while shopping according to new research.
Some 2,441 survey respondents to the Internet Safety: The State of the Nation paper reported an average £875 loss in 2006.
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by Robert Andrews
26 March 2007 09:12am
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Despite the amount of deals on offer, and the convenience of booking holidays online, many US internet users still prefer to book their travel over the phone, with perceived security problems the main reason cited.
Forrester Research polled over 5,000 US consumers in the last quarter of 2006 to find out the reasons for their reluctance to use the web for holiday reservations.
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by Graham Charlton
21 March 2007 11:49am
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Microsoft researchers have been looking into the problem of junk web pages, and have found that most of this 'search engine spam' comes from just two web hosting firms.
Microsoft's research, entitled Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers, looked primarily into redirection spam and reveals that the links to spam web pages are generated by a small number of people, with some major advertisers, hosting services and ad syndicators turning a blind eye.
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by Graham Charlton
19 March 2007 16:29pm
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Microsoft has performed a clean-up of dodgy domains in the UK, taking action against several companies it says have earned illegal PPC revenues by registering URLs with misspelled variations of its brands.
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by Richard Maven
14 March 2007 16:54pm
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A group of tiny islands in the South Pacific is the most dangerous place on the web, according to security firm McAfee.
An interactive map produced by the company shows Tokelau’s .tk domain has the highest proportion of nuisance sites that are tracked by its SiteAdvisor security software.
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by Richard Maven
13 March 2007 14:38pm
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Dharmesh Shah at Small Business Hub has pulled together some handy tips on how to search Google like a pro.
Rather than simply typing in a couple of keywords and refining them to find what you're looking for, he points to a number of ways to search Google more accurately.
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by Graham Charlton
07 March 2007 09:37am
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Social news bookmarking site Digg will adopt the increasingly popular OpenID passwords framework amongst a raft of new features.
Founder Kevin Rose announced at the Future of Web Apps (FoWA) conference in London yesterday that similar announcements this year from Microsoft, Yahoo! and AOL had hastened the site's move.
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by Robert Andrews
21 February 2007 10:44am
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Banks are planning to issue their customers with handheld credit card readers under a new pilot scheme to combat online fraud.
The project is being pioneered by APACS, the UK payments association, to give customers greater protection when shopping on the internet or the phone.
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by Graham Charlton
14 February 2007 10:38am
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Bebo has announced that it is conducting a series of workshops to raise understanding among teachers and schools staff about social networks and the internet.
These 'Knowledge Transfer Workshops' are part of the campaign to highlight the risks of internet use, and coincide with today's European Safer Internet Day.
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by Graham Charlton
06 February 2007 12:53pm
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A poll conducted by RSA, the security division of EMC, suggests that online banking customers are becoming more concerned about security issues, and would like banks to take more steps to combat fraud.
RSA's Financial Institution Consumer Online Fraud Survey was conducted in December and polled 1,678 adults from the US, UK, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Singapore and India.
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by Graham Charlton
26 January 2007 13:13pm
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