Posts filed under 'Security'

Firefox 2 was released for public use some time back. As millions of firefox users enjoyed the new mozilla firefox web browser release, it seems Firefox 1.5 is still around and they have released a Firefox 1.5.0.8 security and stability update. (more…)

Its an era of security breaches, online fraud, and phishing sites. Your password is the only barrier protecting your online security and privacy. I spotted this list of Top 10 Most Common Passwords. The list is a few months old and primarily focussed on UK users, but still worth a look. (more…)

Digg has recently emerged as the best way to drive enormous free targeted traffic to your site. Just post great content, Diggers like it, digg it, it gets on the Digg front page and that starts the cycle of thousands of Diggers headed your way, and many more waves of traffics by bloggers and other sites who wish to quote, comment and critique your story. The traffic can be enough to crash servers and hence the need to survive a Digging is essential. (more…)

CNET Labs recently compared the performance of top antivirus software and the results of the CNET 2007 antivirus performance test scores are out. The Editors’ Choice winner for antivirus protection is Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6 (more…)

Asa Dotzler, a community coordinator for several Mozilla projects confirms that Firefox 2 final version will be released to the public on Tuesday. But he is unhappy about many popular blogs and technology sites pointing to the firefox 2 final downloads on the mozilla FTP servers. He suggests 2 articles which explain why you should not suggest and link to direct FTP downloads before the official release. (more…)

Apple has shipped a few video ipods with a preloaded windows virus. Apple confirms this in an official release on their site which says that less than 1% of the Video iPods available for purchase after September 12, 2006, left the contract manufacturer carrying the Windows RavMonE.exe virus. (more…)

As per the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Service Pack support policy, the Windows XP SP1 (SP1a) support ended on October 10. If your computer is still running Windows XP SP1 / SP1a, then it is time to upgrade to Windows XP SP2 now. You can download the Windows XP Service Pack 2 for free. (more…)

The word is out that the official Google Blog was hacked and someone gained unauthorized access to their blogspot blog and made a fake post that Google has decided to discontinue with Google Click-to-call project. (more…)

Businessweek has featured their top story this time about Click Fraud, the dark side of online advertising. (more…)

Firefox extensions can truly power up your firefox web browser. But when you install an extension or click on an XPI file (for the extension), a confirmation dialog pops up with a short wait of a few seconds, preventing you from immediately confirming the install. Why is there this delay in installing firefox extensions, is it necessary and how to skip the delay… (more…)