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Kayodeok's Headlines for Thursday 20 January 2005

Thursday 20 January 2005

Security

• How Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) identifies a program as a spyware threat
• Safe E-Mailing for Dummies
• 'Evil twin' hotspots are a new menace for Internet users
• Trojans masquerade as Microsoft AntiSpyware
• What Hope for Federal Anti-Spyware Legislation?
• Microsoft Reverses Plan, Will Patch Media Player
• German court rules email blocking 'illegal'

Web Development

• CSS: Redundancy vs. Dependency
• Accessibility From The Ground Up: A Primer for the Web designer
• PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Released With New Windows Port
• PostgreSQL Gotchas via delicious
• MySQL Gotchas via delicious
• Preventing comment spam with rel="nofollow"
• nofollow, no love: Google admits they are losing to spammers via Anne Van Kesteren
• Is rel = "nofollow" really as !important as that?
• Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow
• A nice way to visualize which links use the new "nofollow" relation is to include a special user-stylesheet into Firefox
• The perils of using XHTML properly
• Accessibility: The Firefox browser and JAWS - at last!
• Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Step-by-Step, Part 1

Commentaries

• The State of Windows Security

Tips

• Using a Least-Privileged User Account
• Browsing the Web and Reading E-mail Safely as an Administrator, Part 2
• How To Surf Securely using WiFi: Securing Your Starbucks Experience
• Getting practical about wireless security, Part 1: Building a wireless sniffer with Perl

Gadgets

• Toshiba Connects Cell Phones with PCs
• HOW-TO: Use your CDMA cellphone as a USB modem