Posts Tagged ‘email’
VIDEO: Notes for Later – Review
Ever needed to bookmark something, yet access it at a later time at a different computer? Notes for Later makes it easy to do just that. By supplying a simple email address as registration, you can “bookmark” any website for follow-up at a later time. You do this by checking your email. Check out my video review of the simple, free service Notes for Later.
You can view the video in a bigger, higher quality here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPhFsLQi7Y0
Your Email Can Say Something About You
Almost everyone on the Internet has an email address, right? The Oatmeal came up with this graphic that tells you want your email address means.
What does YOUR email say about you? Reply in the comments.
By the way…my email is contact@TYLERSMILLER.com —see own domain! 
Source: The Oatmeal
United States Treasury Website Serves Malware
In a post from The Register, the US Treasury website has been redirecting users to malware sites for sometime.
Credit: www.noloadfunds.com
The Register reports:
The infection buries an invisible iframe in bep.treas.gov, moneyfactory.gov, and bep.gov that invokes malicious scripts from grepad.com, Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG Technologies, told The Register. The code was discovered late Sunday night and was active at time of writing, about 12 hours later. To cover their tracks, the miscreants behind the compromise tailored it so it attacks only IP addresses that haven’t already visited the Treasury websites. That makes it harder for white hat-hackers and law enforcement agents to track the exploit. Indeed, Thompson initially reported that the problem had been fixed until he discovered the sites were merely skipping over laboratory PCs that had already encountered the attack. The attack is most likely related to mass infections that two weeks ago hit hundreds of sites hosted by Network Solutions and GoDaddy, said Dean De Beer, founder and CTO of security consultancy zero(day)solutions.
Great…I’ve said it many times before, and will say it again in rant form. <rant> We see almost every day the defacement or hacking of websites that the government owns. It’s either Sarah Palin, a senator’s website, or some other government run website is hacked. Even though the websites may not contain sensitive information, they still need to be protected to their full extent. That means long, secure passwords. Access to the FTP or backend from single locations, and implementing SSL for what it’s worth. The government is trying to make us go to an all Internet based system of everything. Banking, voting, medical records…yet, the websites for simple government services are not protected. So what makes you think that they can thwart off attacks that are going to be cast upon more secure sectors of the government. Here goes our Social Security Numbers, banking information, credit card info, addresses, names, etc, etc. Protect every aspect of your online identity, or quit altogether. </rant>
Gmail Adds Drag and Drop Attachments
Its official…see: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/drag-and-drop-attachments-onto-messages.html
Straight from the Official Gmail Blog….Software Engineer Adam de Boor reports the following:
I’m always looking for ways to save time. Suppose I want to attach some files to an email, and I already have a folder open containing those files. I used to have to click “Attach a file,” find the photos, click them, etc. Starting today, if I’m using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox 3.6, I can just drag and drop the files to attach them — easy as pie.
Yes! Easy as pie! It should have been easy as pie earlier than this, but major kudos to Google for making this feature happen. If you are using Firefox or Chrome, you can now drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages.
Credit: Google
Go try it out! Should make attaching attachments a lot simpler. No more browsing to Computer > Documents > subfolder > another subfolder…etc. Thanks Google and the Gmail team!