Preventing spamBots From Harvesting or Scraping Email Addresses From Web Pages

Spam has become a worldwide epidemic, and prevention is the current focus. A day will come when a cure is sought more aggressively than a bandage, but for now companies are making tons of money selling us filters and spam prevention kits. Our approach at the PHP Kemist is to byte back with encrypted or [...]

What Is A “favicon” (.ico) File?

ICO Image Files

ICO file extensions are used for Icon File Formats. Originally intended for icons in Microsoft Windows. This file format is identical to the CUR cursor file format for Windows, differing only in the header byte tag that declares it a cursor or an icon. This article gives an overview of the ICO [...]

Simple Office Security Tips: Data And Network Security

As a business owner, risks are a given. Operational risks. Management risks. Privacy risks. All of these risks are intensified when you leave the office, says Victoria Fodale, Program Manager/Analyst, for Scottsdale, Ariz.-based research firm In-Stat. “The small business owner is mobile a lot of the time. They probably carry a PDA or a smart [...]

Defend Your Business With A Firewall

Broadband services and the ability to work remotely may have huge benefits when it comes to productivity. But without proper protection they leave you and your network exposed to a variety of incursions. Denial of Service attacks, for example, can deprive you of access to a resource such as your network, e-mail or your website [...]

Encrypted Laptop Poses Legal Dilemma

BURLINGTON, Vt. – When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography.

But when they tried to examine the images after his arrest, authorities were stymied by a password-protected encryption program.

Now Boucher is caught in a cyber-age quandary: The government wants him to give up [...]