Email and Financial Companies Take on Phishing Threat
Author: John Duckgeischel
on January 31, 2012 - 8:19 AM
The threat of phishing emails,
designed to trick recipients into disclosing their ID and passwords, is being
tackled by some of the industry’s
largest email service providers along with leading financial companies. Yahoo, AOL, Google and Microsoft have joined
together to put new levels of protection against phishing emails. The phishing scheme typically involves
counterfeit emails which impersonate legitimate well known companies such as a
banks or email providers to entice users to provide sensitive information or to
click on malicious links. After a two
year testing period, DMARC ((Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting
& Conformance) initiative is being put forth to set arbitrary policy guidelines
that helps companies distinguish between real and counterfeit emails. Joining the effort are eBay’s PayPal,
Fidelity Investments and Bank of America to help provide a more secure email
environment for their companies.
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Google Explores Ways to a Faster Internet
Author: John Duckgeischel
on January 24, 2012 - 10:19 PM
Google’s
engineers and technicians believe that by transforming the Web TCP
(Transmission Control Protocol) transport layer as well trying new ways to
minimize latency there can be real gains in improving the speed of the
Internet. In fact Google has
established a “Make the Web Faster” team which following through on
recommendations to maximize TCP speed through various means including
optimizing the initial congestion window.
In a team blog, Yuchung Cheng called TCP "the workhorse of the
Internet," because it delivers Web
content and is designed to work of a wide range of network types. Currently Web browsers often open parallel
TCP connections prior to making their requests, which solves the TCP connection
limitation problem, but creates challenges because of high latency and its lack
of scalability. "Our research
shows that the key to reducing latency is saving round trips. We're
experimenting with several improvements to TCP", Cheng said.
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