Click here to listen/download 11:13). Jonathan Young, EarthLink’s VP of Security Software, Subscription and Services, talks about expanding anti-phishing protection services for its customers. We also hear from Diana Kelley, VP and Service Director, Burton Group, about the PCI Data Security Standard and how businesses are responding to this "cookbook" of ...

We’ve all suffered from lost time and lost connections because of false positives from necessary spam filters. Just this morning, board members of a non-profit I volunteer for were complaining to me that email to board members gets trapped as spam, and while working on this blog I nearly lost ...

I mentioned a new ONLamp feature in last week’s Linux Newsletter (and if you don’t get the newsletter, full of my sparkling wit and charm, as well as a summary of the articles and blogs for the week, why don’t you?). The ONLamp Ombudsman will work to resolve those ...

Less than nine months after SurfControl bought BlackSpider, it seems that Websense is buying SurfControl. Wow. Consolidation still rampant in the anti-spam market, eh? BlackSpider is an email- and Web-filtering service. Variously described as "managed", "hosted", "on demand", or "in the cloud", the service competes with the bigger fish such as MessageLabs, ...

After some of the interesting conversations we had about booth babes at a huge event like RSA, it was interesting to see one at Linuxfest Northwest this weekend.  The event is aimed at all levels of Linux user, but most of the people I’ve met aren’t business decision makers.   The ...

It was a good week at work. And as everyone knows, there’s no better way to relax and unwind after a nice full work week than to get Linux running on some bit of consumer hardware it was never meant to run on using a technique most people will tell ...

An 8 year old uses a bump key to open a cylinder lock. Read more at ivanr

And a Picture, Too! (Via 2 Cents Worth.) David Walick posted about a well writen movie review - credited to a 12th grade girl (including her full name and picture). David somewhat cryptically posted that this confused him “in about seven different ways.” The reaction I saw in the comments is ...