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November 10th, 2008

Frequent Phishing Scam Using Microsoft

Image: Screen capture of email message in Gmail
I’ve been getting a number of spam email messages that are using Microsoft as their "trusted" name to let people feel safer about an email and feel that it’s a legitimate message they need to be paying attention to in their Inbox.
As you can see from the screen […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

May 29th, 2008

Microsoft Live Labs: Deepfish

I was hanging out with a friend last night and he had a new mobile browser on his phone called Skyfire. It looked very similar to the functionality of the iPhone browser in allowing you to select an area on the page and then zoom into it as needed. That was in beta and […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

August 15th, 2006

Microsoft’s Phish Detector

Part of the install that comes with the Windows Live Writer is the Windows Live Toolbar. Part of the Windows Live Toolbar is the Microsoft Phishing Detector. Part of the Microsoft Phishing Detector is my concern over this statement on their website:
About Phish Detective
The Microsoft Phishing Filter is a data collection system that sends the […]

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June 2nd, 2006

OneCare Faces Some Competition

Did anyone doubt that Microsoft would face some competition in the anti-virus security space with the release of OneCare? Is this really news?
Symantec’s Norton 360 and McAfee’s Falcon both will offer services similar to OneCare, which launched on Wednesday, promising protection against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software as well as help with improving PC […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments