Case in point — you have an important web-based form and a visitor has spent 30 minutes filling it out.  The visitor presses the “submit form” button and the form post fails (because the visitor has lost Internet connectivity or for any number of other reasons).  The visitor gets some error screen, gets very annoyed, and quits.  Form post lost, data lost, customer feedback, potential sale … lost.

This situation can be prevented and these important form posts saved by using some JavaScript (AJAX) techniques in your web form page.

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SSL v3 and TLS v1 are subject to a serious exploit, according to a recently published attack mechanism (called BEAST).  This sounds foundation-shattering and kind of scary. When people see this, as when we did, the first panicky questions that arise are:

• What is really affected?
• How serious is it?
• What can I do to protect myself?
• How does the BEAST attack actually work?

After researching this issue, we have digested what we have found and produced this article to answer all of these questions for you.

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Many web site forms and comment forms are plagued by “web form spam”.   Automated programs crawl the Internet looking for web forms.  When found, they start submitting spam advertisements through the forms in the hopes that some of the recipients of these form submissions will see the ads and act on them.  Almost nobody does … but the spam still comes and gets worse and worse over time.

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LuxSci has added plug-ins to its WebMail application in version 10.10 of LuxSci’s software which includes two JAVA applets.  So, were we hesitant to add JAVA applets, FLASH, ActiveX, and other plugins in the first place?  And why the sudden change of heart?  What does this mean for our customers who are concerned about security or who do not want or cannot use JAVA applets?

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LuxSci has completed updates to its "Xpress" WebMail portal that enable it to look and perform well on mobile devices, like the iPhone, Blackberry and other PDAs and smart phones.  With this release, all of the the most used features of the Xpress interface are mobile accessible; the remaining pages (like personal preferences) will be revised in the coming months.

Login to our Xpress mobile portal directly by going to: http://luxsci.mobi

Mobile users can generally also use POP or IMAP for checking their LuxSci email and SMTP for sending email.  The Xpress portal provides a additional mobile-compatible web-based interface.

The significant updates to the Xpress mobile WebMail portal include:

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