Yahoo's Sign-in Seal Prevents Phishing

When you check your email in Yahoo!Mail, you sometimes get "phishing" scams, where people try to trick you into clicking on a link, then they take you to a fake Yahoo sign-in page. Sometimes, they do a really good job of imitating Yahoo. The idea is to dupe you into submitting your username and password, so they can go and do some evil with your account.

So Yahoo's just launched a new security measure that's pretty creative. It lets you upload a picture (whatever you want) as a "Sign-in Seal" for your login page. If you don't see your unique sign-in seal, you'll know it's a fake. Here are some details.

Pretty neat idea. Wonder if financial institutions will start using this tactic too. Has anyone clicked on any links from any emails from any bank lately? Do they even bother sending emails anymore?

DEATH TO CAPS LOCK!

Come to think of it, I guess the CAPS LOCK button really is kinda useless now. Wired writes about one man's efforts to have the key completely eradicated.

It's PunchyTime

It's been a busy few weeks here at the lab. Dan's finally married (woo-hoo) and things are back in full swing. We're only days away from launching our PunchyTime product. All the credit card processing stuff is in place, crons are running, and we're in final QA.

For our clients who don't know, PunchyTime is how we've always tracked our time on your projects (since around 2002 or so). All those time sheets we've sent you were from PunchyTime. It was just an internal tool, but some friends saw it and liked it, and suggested we open it up to the public. The idea behind PunchyTime is that it's built to make time tracking quick and easy. Instead of waiting till the end of the month to enter all your time into a huge spreadsheet (urge to kill...rising) PunchyTime lets you plug time in as you work. That way, we don't lose any billable hours, and we can see in real time if projects are on track or not.

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