16 posts tagged with security
OpenDNS
For the past few months, my online experience has been interrupted by web sites not loading the first time around. Or to put it more technically, the DNS servers of my ISP weren’t resolving the IP address of the host name (or at least I think that’s what was happening). So I’d have to hit reload a couple of … view full post
State of South African political websites
With the 2006 Municipal Elections coming up soon (Election Day is March 1st), I found myself visiting a number of election-related and individual political party websites, firstly to find out if I still have time to register (oops, missed it by a day!), and then just out of interest.
South Africa has a … view full post
Firefox on the rise
I’m seeing an increasing number of web sites and individuals advocating the switch from Internet Explorer to an alternative, modern and more secure web browser – primarily Firefox.
Time to Dump Internet Explorer – SecurityFocus
Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer – Lockergnome
Three reasons to switch web browsers today – Joel on Software
Why You … view full post
Firebird becomes Firefox
The Mozilla Foundation announced yesterday the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser: Mozilla Firefox – … view full post
Big Brother Britain, 2004
Big Brother Britain, 2004
More than four million surveillance cameras monitor our every move, making Britain the most-watched nation in the world, research has revealed. [... snip...] The use of cameras to film people in the street is banned in Germany, Canada and several other countries. But it is accepted practice in Britain, which is alone in not
New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
Another reason to discard your Microsoft bugware for *superior alternatives: New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger
Known as Jitux, the worm is self-propagating and contains a link to a Web site that automatically downloads an executable file named “jituxramon.exe” to the PC. Once the file runs, the worm begins sending out copies of itself
eBay phishing e-mail
Big congrats to n@ on her 21st birthday – rockit!
I received an e-mail scam yesterday, the hoaxer pretending to be associated with online bidding giant eBay. Their e-mail claimed that during their supposed regular account updates, they couldn’t verify my information. As a result, access to my supposed eBay … view full post
Windows security issues
Just an observation – at the time of writing this post, the Microsoft Corporation website contains the following references relating to security issues affecting their software:
“What to do about the Blaster worm and its variants” … in home & entertainment
“Protect your system from Internet attacks”, “Urgent security alert: Patch available for the Blaster worm” and “Locate host computers that … view full post
How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks
I was ranting about Blogger’s permalink URIs a while ago. Relating to that, I just picked up on this post: ‘How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks’ over at mpt, which in turn is inspired by Julian Missig. But as always, nobody says is better than the Mozilla UI man himself. Worth reading if … view full post
User agent virus
A comment on /. in response to their poll “The Browser I use Most Often…”:
you know, it’s just occured to me that some enterprising virus coder could actually do the world a favour by writing a virus that causes IE running under Windows to chane it’s agent string to Mozilla, Konqueror, Safari,