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I decided to take a look at the statistics for InetDaemon.Com with an eye towards looking for mobile users to see if access to my site corresponded to trends I saw elsewhere.  I have a tool called AWSTATS installed which logs the basic TCP and HTTP transaction information for all accesses to the website.  This provides me a fairly comprehensive look at what sorts of computerized devices are accessing my website.

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Mobile phone use is exploding all over the planet. Mobile access to the web in North America was up more than 148% in 2009, according to Quantcast.  Asian and South American countries still lag behind but are growing. More than 50% of the mobile web users are on iPhones, according to Quantcast.

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How can you tell when an e-mail address isn’t correctly constructed or formatted?  What about a website address or URL?   Part of recognizing bad addresses and knowing how to address an e-mail correctly is understanding and knowing what the top level domains are, and how domain names are structured.

FULL ARTICLE: TOP LEVEL DOMAINS: What are they?

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Received an e-mail today from hackers trying to trick me into opening a file attached to the e-mail. The file was, of course, malware.  Below is a copy of the fake Facebook e-mail. These e-mails have been circulating since January 2010.

Full Story: Fake Facebook Password Notice

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