MS KB951748 breaks ZoneAlarm

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Windows update KB951748 should not be installed. It will break your Internet connection. If you have it already installed, uninstalling it fixes the problem. I have spent the day troubleshooting over 20 PCs and have found all installations to have the install date of 9 July 2008, which in my part ...

Gmail becomes safer

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Google has decided to step up the safety of Gmail by adding some small new features available to every user. The footer of your session will now contain information such as your last log in, activity, and IP address that the session was accessed from.In addition to above, users will ...

Opera Arioso!

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I'm pretty excited by Opera's Userscripts that allow you to write Javascript files that are far richer than greasemonkey Userscripts -which is also supported by Opera- I've written a security plugin for Opera last night, that attempts to mitigate various Javascript attack vectors. But, one problem for writing a security ...

Behind the Scenes of a Google Query

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

A lot of people have used Google but few have any idea as to the complexity and computer power necessary to return billions of queries with millions of results all in under a second. This isn’t by accident, an oversight by Google or even due to security concerns, Google believes ...

AVG fixes antivirus software skewing Web site statistics

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Security company AVG is upgrading a component of its antivirus software so as not to place an undue traffic load on the Web sites it scans.The company has already released a patch for LinkScanner, part of its Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0, and will release a patch for the paid versions ...