The gang at Mozilla are looking for beta testers for Firefox 4. It looks like there is a lot of great new stuff in 4. The tabs have been moved above what Mozilla is calling ´The Awesome Bar´, (the same place Chrome has them). A new button on the top left side of the browser [...]
Some of the pro WikiLeaks gang have used Twitter´s API (application programming interface) to carry out attacks that have led to crippling slowdowns at MasterCard.com, Visa.com and other websites that cut off funding to the WikiLeaks. A Java-based version Low Orbit Ion Cannon allows users to use a master Twitter ID to direct thousands of [...]
The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said he is seeking asylum because of increasing pressure he and his group is coming under since releasing hundreds of thousands of secret U.S. military documents. Sweden denied giving Assange asylum back in October and Swedish authorities are investigating rape and sexual molestation allegations against Assange by two Swedish [...]
Net Neutrality Equals Free Speech! Major corporations are about to launch an all-out attack on net neutrality. The lobbyists are circling Congress now. Giving Verizon, Time Warner or Google the right to slow the Internet traffic they choose, maybe deliver your e-mail tomorrow instead of today, is not a good idea. I have 150 channels [...]
In one case only 367 out of more than 2,000 victims disputed the charge with either their banks or scammers. Payments in this mid-April campaign were made to either Browsing Solutions, Moscow, or EBD-Software.com. A second campaign pulled in 1,600 marks, only one in 10 of whom challenged charges says security blogger Brian Kreb. Worthless [...]
Since 2008 officials in the Illinois attorney general’s office have counted more than 200,000 sex ads in the Chicago section of Craigslist alone. Last week, federal prosecutors accused members of the notorious Gambino crime family of using Craigslist to sell the sexual services of girls as young as 15 years old. Craigslist is expected to [...]
If you use Google Chrome you are familiar with the new tab page which shows thumbs of your recent page visits. Then as extensions became available for the regular releases instead of just on the Dev. channel here comes Speed Dial which has been available for Firefox for quite sometime now. Speed Dial for Chrome [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
That´s right folks, in an article posted February 5, CNET reports the FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited. The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography [...]
In a move that could hurt Google users in China, the worlds largest search engine executives said that they will no longer censor content for there Chinese operations and probably will pull out of the market if the government does not agree with this decision. Google has been struggling about there operations there for a [...]
