How to Speed Up Windows Vista

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

SP1 may not give your system much more oomph, but there are other ways to speed Vista up. Spending a few minutes (or a few dollars) optimizing your Vista PC can help it get its groove on. Get flashy: If you have an extra USB flash drive that you don't use ...

Does IE 8 Equal Safer Surfing?

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Microsoft is promising that the upcoming IE (Internet Explorer) 8 will be the safest and most secure version of its Web browser yet. Of course, everyone has heard this song before. Still, with the addition of two significant new security features, it's hard to argue that the new release won't ...

Firefox Web Application Testing Tools

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Exploit-Me is a suite of Firefox web application security testing tools. Exploit-Me tools are designed to be lightweight and easy to use. Instead of using a proxy like many web application testing tools, Exploit-Me integrates directly with Firefox. It currently consists of two tools, one for XSS and one for ...

Apple Pushes Safari to iTunes and QuickTime Users

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

If you use QuickTime or iTunes on Windows you might have seen something like this lately from your Apple Software Updates applet:

Javascript Malware Source Code

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

This is how dangerous the web has become. Lately it is estimated that over 10K of websites fell victim to a large attack that included a remote Javascript file into the title tag of a web page. The JS malware exploits vulnerabilities in Windows, RealPlayer, and other applications to break ...