Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 anti-virus, email, word
Two eye opening reports have been published recently. Both deal with what has been termed Ghostnet which has been discovered in tracking the infiltration of Tibetan computer networks. The two reports are: ‘Tracking GhostNet’ (University of Toronto’s Munk Centre for International Studies and The SecDev Group) and ‘The Snooping Dragon: social-malware surveillance of the Tibetan [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 2 browsers, firefox, Internet
Due to it’s open source and collaborative origins as well as its standards compliance, the Firefox Internet browser is very easily extensible. This is hugely beneficial for users of Firefox as the already powerful core Firefox application can be extended to perform all sorts of additional functions. As the creators of Firefox extensions have substantial [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 google, Internet, ITIL, live, search, toc, yahoo
Google is an awesome search engine and leaves Yahoo and Live far behind. Today Google is even better with the introduction of even better search. Google has, in the past few hours, introduced new search capability in that the search term, or terms, is searched within the entire content of a web page and related [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 blogs, sharing, streaming, twitter, youtube
YouTube is extremely popular. YouTube (and other streaming video sites such as Flickr, Dailymotion etc.) provides a sharing platform for all sorts of video whether that be video blogging, TV clips, movie previews or any other video. A common criticism of YouTube and other video sharing sites is that the videos can be longer in [...]
Gary Eckstein Social Media 0 blog, bookmarking, digg, mixx, sharing
A blog, fushnchups.co.nz, has received the equivalent of the digg Effect. Various newspaper and online articles have named the controversial content of the blog in the past few days. This has led to fushnchups.co.nz being unavailable (at the time of this articles writing). The ‘digg Effect’ is a reference to articles in digg becoming so [...]
