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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
Some new statistics just came out regarding Browser Security, this is more in terms of which users are most likely to apply patches and be using the most secure version.I would have thought Firefox would have been pretty high since the newer series prompt automatically new patches. My only guess ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
Traditionally, a web spider system is tasked with connecting to a server, pulling down the HTML document, scanning the document for anchor links to other HTTP URLs and repeating the same process on all of the discovered URLs. Each URL represents a different state of the traditional web site. In ...
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