The Weekly Geek

It was bound to happen: on-demand, web-based fraud that mirrors the efficiency, sophistication, and universality of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
In his recent white paper, entitled “Fraud Trends in 2010,” Rick Van Luvender, Director of First Data’s InfoSec Incident Response Center, has forever characterized this thriving underground economy as Fraud-as-a-Service, or FaaS.

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I have written about internet cookies and my feelings on them. Michael Kassner has written an interesting article at Tech Republic about a type I really knew nothing about until tonight. It is a good read for the geeky and knowledge seeker alike.
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2299&tag=nl.e019

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Now that I have played with IE 8 for a while, I can feel reasonably safe in recommending that you install it. However, as with anything there is the caveat of taking the default settings.
When the program begins its installation, the first screen will ask if you want to “… improve Internet Explorer” I suggest [...]

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This post is primarily for those of you still on Dial-up or with cheapest “high speed” internet money can buy.
We can speed up your surfing of some web sites by attempting to stop the animations that play. Now, web developers use different ways to create animations, this is just one way to stop some of [...]

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Have you ever had an unexpected out of drive space message appear out of the blue or when you are attempting to install a new or updated program. If you have viewed the amount of space available on your hard drive and noticed that your disk space has disappeared, and wondered where it went there’s [...]

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