This comes as no surprise as most add-ons are written by third parties and considering the number of add-ons out there especially those for Firefox (the king of add-ons) which has a huge number to choose from that some would cause problems. Problems like slowing the browser and crashing the browser. If you run a [...]
Yahoo E-Mail accounts hacked in China. The attacks seemed to be coordinated and were against journalists, rights activists and academics. A Chinese human rights organization said that there web site was hit 5 days in a row. In at least one incident a hacked account had all there E-Mails forwarded to a mystery address. This [...]
Adobe Flash Player is the most widely used web browser plug-in. It enables a wide range of applications and content on the Internet, from games, to video, to enterprise apps. According to the Chromium Blog the player will be built into the Google Chrome browser soon. In fact the interjection of Flash has already begun [...]
So far so good for Windows 7. At this point in time Microsoft´s Windows 7 gets a big thumbs up. Arstechnica says Windows 7 adoption and satisfaction have both been exceptionally high from the start, according to two new reports from Forrester Research. The first report notes that the early adopters which drive the initial [...]
We all heard about Googles problems in China which ranged from there servers being hacked and there decision not to filter there search results anymore. Google China Pullout Deliberate Plot / Chinese Headache Coming On? Now because of privacy, problems GoDaddy and another company Network Solutions LLC have decided to stop selling and registering domain [...]
The GeForce GTX 480 lists for around 500 bucks US and is Nividia´s fastest single card offering. The chip is based on Nvidia´s Next-Gen Fermi Architecture If you have the bucks for this big bad boy and are a hard core gamer perhaps the 500 dollar price tag is worth it. The card delivers around [...]
Ding Yifan, a researcher working for China´s State Council wrote an article in the English-language China Daily regarding Google´s decision to pull out of China was a deliberate plot to promote the intrusive strategy of the U.S. government under the guise of supporting a free Internet. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last week that [...]
You probably remember this hacker, who used the internet name of Hacker Croll, who gained access to celebrity Twitter account holders including President Obama´s. This dude gained access to the accounts by hacking an e-mail account belonging to a Twitter Administrator. It is also believed by the cops that he was responsible for hacks against [...]
It seems a nasty backdoor Trojan that slipped into software used to monitor rechargeable versions of the product. Just what is going on here? As of this past Wednesday that sneaky ole Trojan was still being distributed in at least one outlet in Europe. This after the bunny fessed up to it´s existence two weeks [...]
According to the Mozilla Wiki Firefox 3.0.19 is the last security and stability update to Firefox 3.0.x. and should be released March 30. The move reflects a shift toward upgrading browsers more frequently, so as to free up resources spent maintaining older browsers and to reduce security risks associated with them. Google is even more [...]
This chip is due to hit store shelves in a few weeks, but Intel is using the Game Developers Conference currently being held in San Francisco to unveil the new Core i7-980X Extreme processor. Intel’s Extreme Edition processors have always been targeted at hard core gamers, so what better place to show off the fastest [...]
The Way this works is the scam exploits software flaws to piggyback on the computing resources of the colleges and universities in the UK. The spammers were pushing fake Viagra, Cialis and many other drugs. What would happen is code was injected into the college web sites, so when a person searched for the drugs [...]
Spanish authorities announced that they have arrested three dudes that allegedly ran one of the worlds largest botnets. What makes this really interesting is the fact that none of them were hackers. That´s right folks, it seems they subbed out the hacking part. The botnet name was Mariposa, translated to English means Butterfly which was [...]
Cryptome.org a whistle blower site that has pissed off three letter title government agency´s for quite sometime now by posting all kinds of sensitive and private documents that it could get it´s hands on including government and big business stuff. It seems Cryptome published a 22-page Microsoft document, and that pissed off Microsoft. So Network [...]
IE6 has been around now since Aug. 2001 and may finally this year be in it´s final death throes. At the present some designers have already stopped supporting IE6, some have stopped supporting it sometime ago. What might be the final nail in the coffin is Google-owned YouTube will end support for Internet Explorer 6 [...]
Microsoft and Yahoo are going to jump into bed together, well sort of. Microsoft´s plans to buy Yahoo´s internet search and search advertising businesses have been cleared by both European and US regulators. The BBC says, the European Commission ruled that the deal “would not significantly impede effective competition”. Under the deal, Yahoo´s website will [...]
