Category: Network Security
Free Long Distance Phone calls
Free Long Distance Calls Capped: Microsoft has begun curtailing its free net-based long distance service, unveiled during the height of the dot-com frenzy, when gaining marketshare was deemed more important than, oh, having a viable business model. The MSN Messenger 3.0 now allows free long distance calls to...
Introduction
802.11b has gained wide acclaim as the most popular wireless local area networking standard in the corporate world. It is also the standard in the Macintosh world, where it is called AirPort. However, in our tests, and in discussions with others, we've uncovered what can best be called its dirty little secret: the limited range of the...
Introduction
Apple's Airport wireless system is based on the 802.11b standard. So are many popular PC wireless cards. In this report, we'll look at how to use this wireless networking standard to bridge the two systems.
Windows
We've tested a wide variety of 802.11b-compatible wireless cards and access points from a number of vendors, including...
Introduction
IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire or by Sony's trademark name i.LINK, is best known as a high-speed serial data transmission protocol for connecting devices such as digital video cameras or storage devices to a PC or Mac. However, recent versions of Windows have added another dimension to its bag of tricks: two or more PCs equipped...
Product: ADSL service
From: Telus and other regional ISPs (www.telus.net/highspeed)
Prices: starting at $21.95/month
Service Options available: Business service: Static IP addresses suitable for configuring web servers or email systems. Telus provides dial-up and (5) email accounts.
Home service: Self-installed or Telus-installed "consumer...
By the end of 2002, the DSL market was under duress in the U.S., as DirecTV, a subsidiary of the giant Hughes Corporation (itself owned by General Motors), announced in Dec. the discontinuation of its DIRECTV Broadband service within 60 to 90 days. The company, in a press release, vowed to work to transition its roughly 160,000 customers to...
Have you ever wanted to set a computer up in one location so that you could access it via the Internet from another -- and without having to buy any additional software or install a web server or FTP server or anything like that. For example, you might want to share a directory containing documents you and your coworkers are working on, or...
Certainly, one of the keys to growing smart card acceptance - and the success of e-commerce and online security - will be the ease with which smart card adapters can be used with personal computers.
SmartDisk Corporation has announced a new version of its Smarty smart card reader/writer. The Smarty is unique among smart card adapters because...
Nice Bear, But...
Panda Antivirus is a good example of what some people might call too damn much virus protection. But these days, can you be too careful? The program greatly reduced the speed at which files could be renamed, presumably checking to see if this, like other file-writing operations, might be the work of a malicious intruder. At...
Q: I have a problem that I'm trying to solve, and I thought you might have an answer, or you might want to do an article on this. I have been helping my neighbor try and solve a problem she is having with her son. He has been spending so much time on the computer...surf'n on the internet, installing and playing games etc, etc, etc, that his grades...
Canada's Tough New Privacy Rules
Newsbytes notes that the tough new Canadian online privacy law known as Bill C-6 will impact American and foreign firms doing business in Canada. The first phase of C-6 came into effect on Jan. 1st of 2001, and establishes rules affecting businesses in federally regulated industries (telecom, financial services,...
Piracy, according to The Business Software Alliance and the Software Publishers Association, is costing U.S. software publishers $11.4 billion dollars worldwide in lost revenue. Worldwide, the BSA and SPA said they found that almost half of all newly installed business programs were pirated -- in North America, that works out to about one-quarter...
Do you need a Firewall? Well, the long answer starts with the words "it depends....", but I'll try to make it simple.
Fact: If you have a router (note: NOT a simple Hub), your IP addresses are hidden by the router, so it is acting as an "incoming block" firewall.
Fact: You are allowing certain traffic through that router, when...
Introduction
There's a whole class of software that we'll call "Annoyanceware" for the purposes of this article. It includes so-called "spyware" titles that surreptitiously send data on your browsing habits (and/or other personal details) to others; there's also a wide variety of advertisement-ware that produces unwanted pop-...
Intel offers a product it calls the AnyPoint Home Network, which allows users to connect PCs by plugging them into a home's existing phone jacks. And, says Intel, you can still make and receive phone calls while printing, accessing files, or playing multi-player games across the AnyPoint Home Network. Originally released in 1Mbps versions designed...