Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
US-CERT and other security experts have warned of a critical design problem affecting all DNS implementations. The Domain Name Service is responsible for converting readable names like www.heise-online.co.uk into the IP addresses that computers can handle, such as 193.99.144.85. DNS is thus the internet equivalent to a phonebook and without ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
The development team behind Joomla! has released version 1.5.4 of its content management system. This includes fixes for security problems, as well as numerous improvements and bug fixes. These include a patch for a problem with LDAP which allowed unauthorised access to Joomla! administration pages. The developers have also fixed ...
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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 ...
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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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