Cybercrime, the harvesting and sale of credit card and other data for online fraud and theft, is a “shadow economy” that mimics the real business world in its practices and the mafia in its structure, according to a new report from security firm Finjan.

“The current cybercrime organizations bear an uncanny resemblance to organized crime organizations [...]

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In true Internet-foolery fashion, someone is having a little fun at Yahoo’s expense following its latest executive exodus.

By visiting the newly created site Yahoorezinr.com, current Yahoo employees can expedite their resignation to Yahoo Chief Jerry Yang with a host of Mad Libsstyle pulldown menus.

For example, the site reads: “It is with great ‘sadness/glee/self-interest’ that I [...]

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Which is the world’s fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn’t beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.

Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other [...]

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