Tag: ECARDS

Share Over the holidays, several government employees and contractors received a Christmas e-card that purported to be from The White House, but actually contained document-swiping malware. According to Krebs on Security, when a recipient opened the file, or clicked on either of the included links, a trojan stole PDF, Word and Excel documents, and then uploaded them to a server in Belarus. ...

Forget thumbing through racks of paper greeting cards. Some card companies are now offering a video alternative on cell phones. According to The New York Times, American Greetings has taken the lead, and is now offering short video messages that are selected from a Web site and sent to a phone. Best of all, these e-cards are available to customers of all the major service providers. You don't ...

Apparently this year, the e-card business, those obnoxious animated things sent by distant family members and formerly tech-savvy friends who stopped learning about new technology in 1997, is taking a massive financial beating. Apparently no one is sending them (someone should tell our inbox, we're still getting quite a few), no one is reading them (guilty as charged), and no one is willing to ...

E-Cards, another name for Web-based greeting cards, are among the most annoying phenomena to plague Internet users. When you receive one, you are not only reminded that your friend is too lazy to buy a real card, but the card itself is usually a poorly-designed page of Web barf that slows your computer down with animated penguins and flashing ads. Enter someecards.com, the funniest E-Cards ...