Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Monday, March 14, 2005

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Do You Speak Tech? "When vendors gather to show off the latest innovations in their repertoire, they forget that regular people who might use the stuff may not speak their language. The CeBIT tech fair sports plenty of acronyms." [Wired News]


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Identity Theft and Pharming: "A new class of virus activity - "pharming" - has emerged which fakes not only the correct URL, but does not even arrive by email. Instead, it takes the form of a trojan virus which sits on your machine waiting for you to log into your bank, provides a genuine bank web address and genuine looking bank page - and captures your log in security details as you type them in. These are then sold to Identity Thieves."