Awareness is our biggest challenge, but we've been doing a lot to make this happen. At this point the consumers that are walking into these rediculous schemes need to accept that they are, to some extent, the authors of their own misfortune. I like this...

The Payment Card Industry (credit-card issuers) have created their own set of regulations that e-commerce sites must follow if they're to continue processing credit card payments. The regs are pretty good -- a 12-point checklist of areas that need to...

More progress being made on the anti-spyware front: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1788844,00.asp . Industry players are banding together to try and define this. I'm not sure that this is a good idea -- while I agree that the term "spyware" has...

This is one of those times that I love this company -- building a tracking system to fight kiddie porn, and giving it away to police departments worldwide. Link.

TechWeb just posted an article on DNS cache poisoning continuing. The Microsoft KB article can be found here . The problem: cache protection (in Windows 2000 SP3 and above) only applies when the DNS server is a master. If it is forwarding all requests...