Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, a linux PC/laptop and a twitter account. And you are set for real time updates through twitter ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The MSRC released an advisory today that discusses the recent SQL injection attacks and announces three new tools to help identify and block these types of vulnerabilities. The advisory discusses the new tools, the purpose of each, and the way each complements the others. The goal of this blog post is ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Adobe has shipped a critical update to patch a code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of its Reader and Acrobat products.
According to Adobe’s advisory, the flaw “could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”
If you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed on your machine, this update ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging, client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for allowing third party components or gadgets embedded in a ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Everyone knows that there's no such thing as 100% security, but it's unlikely that most businesses realize how insecure they really are. New research on endpoint security shows just how vulnerable corporate networks are.
Eighty-one percent of corporate endpoints probed by IT security and control product vendor Sophos failed basic security ...
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