The ultimate Web designer contest is happening February 24 as a part of the Web97 conference in San Francisco. The competition will attempt to create rivalry between California's Silicon Valley and New York's Silicon Alley. One team representing each geographic hotbed will have eight hours in which to create a work of wonder. The contest can be tracked via the official Web97 Web site, and the sites are being created pro bono for charity. Online Crime Security is always a top issue in today's online news, as demonstrated in this week's issue.
Security breaches can occur at many different levels to achieve vastly different results.
Perhaps the most common form of breached security is email forgery. Whether flaming, spamming or spoofing, the use of forged email can be quite damaging. The best way to protect yourself is by using complex, meaningless passwords, and changing them frequently. Also remember never to give out passwords, social security number or credit cards numbers to unknown or unsecure parties online. Another reason to take a closer look at current password protection is to protect against industrial espionage, an all too common and relatively unreported phenomenon in today's Internet society.