Early releases of version seven show some updates that have already been incorporated into Firefox and other less popular browsers, like the ability to open multiple Web sites in the same window.

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Gawker has written a pretty big check here, compromising the FTP accounts given to them by other companies, as well as any of their users who use the same password on multiple web sites.

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For example, I emailed the company several weeks ago asking why it was still doing business with Light Impressions, a supplier of archival framing and storage materials which has a consumer warning from the Better Business Bureau and is the subject of multiple complaints on various photography Web sites.

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Known as distributed denial of service, the attacks employ multiple computers to flood networks with millions of simultaneous requests, overwhelming servers and crippling Web sites.

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That is the key to managing your reputation online: Create your own domain, establish a clear, fleshed-out presence on multiple social networking sites, post to each of them at least once a month and keep monitoring the web for unflattering photos or mentions.

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