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Strong passwords are important protections to help you have safer online transactions. Keys to password strength: length and complexity An ideal password is long and has letters, punctuation, symbols, and numbers. Whenever possible, use at least 14 characters or more. The greater the variety of characters in your password, the better. Use the entire keyboard,…
Twitter to developers: enough with the third-party apps
Twitter has issued a statement to its mailing list encouraging third-party developers to cease creating applications that use the Twitter API solely to duplicate the functionality offered by Twitter’s own official clients. Citing an effort to improve consistency of the Twitter user experience, the social networking behemoth is exercising more control over how its service…
Arrests on the Rise
Lots of little newsworthy updates recently . . . they’ve been well-covered elsewhere, but we wanted to make sure our readers saw them as well. Russia: Safe Haven no more? One of the constant complaints that we hear is “the criminal is probably in Russia”, as an excuse for why a case is not worth…
Google Drive Will Support Third Party Apps
Google Operation System Blog: Back in November 2010, a comment from the Google Docs source code revealed some new features that will be available: third party apps, Cloud Print integration and sync. It turns out that the upcoming Google Drive release will add support for third party apps and Google will also include a SDK…
Optimizing Angular Applications with Web Workers and OffscreenCanvas
In today’s web development landscape, performance is king. Users expect fast, responsive applications that perform smoothly even under heavy loads. This expectation places a significant burden on developers, especially those working with complex front-end frameworks like Angular. One effective strategy for enhancing the performance of Angular applications is to leverage Web Workers and OffscreenCanvas. In…
German spammers broaden their repertoire
Last week we received a mass mailing that at first glance appeared no different from the usual mailbox clutter. The messages were in German and advertised an online casino. Nothing out of the ordinary there – after all, gambling-themed spam is one of the most popular in the German-speaking realms of cyberspace. But after a…
