Posts Tagged with ‘anti-phishing’

Finally someone is ready to combat those endless winning notifications that we all get in dozens in our email inboxes (most often sorted out as spam with some still pretending to be valid emails). For quite a while I myself hoped that at least one of these notification of yet another million dollars I win in a lottery organized by Yahoo Mail (most often) or some other organization will actually be real but now that I know I should not [...]

Today there’s a very interesting story on The New Your Times blog that grabbed my attention because of its title - “Rumor Control: Why I Can’t Put “Tibet” in My Hotmail Address”. In the article David Gallagher references a reader who attempted to register an email address containing the word “Tibet” in it (it has something to do with his book about Tibet) on Hotmail but failed because the ID chosen contained “a word or phrase that is not allowed”.
The [...]

If you are anything like me, you are a member of numerous community sites, have more than one blog, and have a folder in your Gmail account assigned to hold all your site registration information. At least once a week, you forget which password and userid goes with which site, and you are forced to click on the dreaded “Forgot your password?” link on one of your favorite sites.
Click that link no more; PassPack has the solution for you. PassPack provides one [...]