An examination of how Google's tool reports data back to Google, and the implications of sending SSL info via clear text. Apparently, shutting off "Advanced features" solves this issue.

A program from eBay, offered as an in-house alternative to Andale, Terapeak, etc..

The Internet Stock Blog is looking at the investment value fo domains and the underlying pay-per-clicj business model, and what it might say about the Google-Yahoo advertising battle. This is one of the first times I've seen the domain business analyzed from a stock perspective.

Good explainer on the domaining business, with reporting from the Traffic conference in Delray Beach.

Trend Micro illustrates how worms and feed hijacking may bedevli RSS once it's baked into Vista.

An example of potential abuse of RSS

More complaints about Typepad. Also these URLs: TypePad is Dead Democracy a san SLA Policy

Finance Tech writeup

In April 2004, moments after logging on to his online account at work, Lopez spotted an entry revealing that someone had executed an electronic transfer of $90,348.65 to Parex Bank in Riga, Latvia. Lopez knew no one in Latvia. "I thought I was going to vomit," he recalls. The next day, according to bank records, a mysterious figure named Yanson Arnold withdrew $20,000 in cash from Parex Bank, leaving $70,348.65 behind. Arnold has not been heard from since. Secret Service investigators later discovered someone had slipped a Trojan %u2014 a small bit of malicious code %u2014 past the firewall and anti-virus software Lopez assumed kept his computer protected. The Trojan, called Coreflood, had captured and transmitted Lopez's user name and password to a data thief, who probably sold it to Arnold or his associates. Bank of America disavowed responsibility, prompting Lopez to sue the bank in federal court in Miami to get his money back. "We fully investigated his claims and determined that all of our internal protocols and security measures were in place," says Shirley Norton, a Bank of America spokeswoman. In its defense, the bank has invoked an obscure section of the Uniform Commercial Code, state laws governing commercial contracts, which banks helped draft. It limits liability in delivering online services to businesses if certain safeguards are in place. Norton says the bank considers Lopez a business customer doing commercial transactions, not a consumer doing household banking. Consumers are protected by federal laws that limit their fraud losses in most cases to $50. They must report discrepancies promptly and generally be able to show wrongdoing. "It's a bank's way of saying, 'It's the customers' fault,' " says Gail Hillebrand, a senior attorney at Consumers Union. Legal experts say BofA's stance makes sense. It is refusing to expose itself to liability arising from the countless malicious programs that infest PCs used by small companies, over which the bank has no control. Such exposure could force financial institutions to curtail online services being pitched to small firms, a promising growth area. No trial date has been set for the case. If BofA prevails, it will reinforce the Uniform Commercial Code as a legal rampart financial institutions can use to fend off similar lawsuits. "Making Lopez whole could open BofA to settling lots of other breaches, and that adds up to a lot of money," says Mark Budnitz, a law professor at Georgia State.

Tips from Darren Rowe on running a newsletter with your blog

San Jose Biz Journal notes the Equinix and AT&T deals

Susan Crawford looks at the prospect that the megamergers between Verizon-MCI and AT&T-SBC could set the table for depeering, as "megapeers" swap free peering traffic for paid transit traffic.

Tips on using MultiBlog with MT to include modules from other blogs onn the same install.

Subtitle: Explaining Spyware to GrandMA. A good primer on malware for non-geeks.

Looks like UltraDNS is partnering with AOL, Earthlink, Verio and others to cache secure copies of their DNS databases.

Quoted in this story, which comments on Netcraft October data.

A good explanation of peering and the issues for network providers

Thoughts from Eric Rescorla on the OpenSSL issue with forced rollbacks to SSL 2.

Quoted in eMarketer, picking up the BBC piece

The deal will introduce two-factor authentication for 1 million Paypal users.