| Defense preaches good Netiquette
Those around when the Internet first flourished commercially might remember the term Netiquette. It sounds quaint today, but back in the day, when you first hopped online, you had to learn a set of rulesInternet etiquette so to speakto stay in the good graces of the Cyber Elite. These rules may have seemed arbitrary to the new users, particularly as they were flamed for not following such practices. Many prescriptions were supported by common sense though. For instance, one rule I remember (and still try to abide by) was to always send e-mail in plain text. This was smart. Certainly, e-mail clients such as Eudora could fancy up electronic missives with all manner of pretty fonts and colorful backgrounds. The resulting e-mails may have looked nice to the sender, but there was absolutely no guarantee that the recipient (or recipients, if you were on a mailing list) had software that could render these e-mails correctly.
Winners & losers in 2006
Editor's note: Oil prices, scandals and mergers all made news in 2006, but it was the ups and downs of the real estate market that hit American consumers where they live - literally. This is part of a series of business-related stories that cap one year and preview the next. Editor's Note: Oil prices, scandals and mergers all made news in 2006, but it was the ups and downs of the real estate market that hit American consumers where they live - literally. This is part of a series of business-related stories that cap one year and preview the next. Before 2006, if someone in the business world mentioned "backdated options," you'd be forgiven for thinking they were making a joke about Steve Jobs' necktie collection. But in 2006, the big losers were defined by the scandal that erupted over executives who received big paydays due to stock options backdated to low points in a company's stock price.
Apple fixes QuickTime spyware flaw
The latest security patch for Mac OS X fixes a QuickTime vulnerability that could let attackers capture images from a user's screen and upload them to a remote site. Apple said that the vulnerability does not affect Windows users or versions of Mac OS prior to 10.4. The vulnerability is not related to the QuickTime flaw that spread through social networking site MySpace last week. The new flaw involves QuickTime for Java, a component that lets Java applets display QuickTime movies, and Quartz Composer, a software tool used to render images in Mac OS. According to Apple, an attacker could place JavaScript code on a website that would use the QuickTime for Java component to obtain screen images and send them to a remote location, possibly allowing the attacker to obtain sensitive information displayed on the screen.
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