If you have not upgraded to Firefox 2.0.0.5 and you use Internet Explorer together with firefox, Please upgrade ASAP. There is a lot of finger pointing going on, but one thing is clear: I.E allows executing other programs with un-escaped url thus permitting malicious code execution in other applications, including Read more…
After a wave of “greeting cards”, I started receiving a new mailing worm letters in my mailboxes, claiming that my mailbox is infected and only a “patch” would help. If you will receive similar letters, DO NOT open the link in them! It will infect your PC! Dear Customer, Our Read more…
When you purchase a network device, you wish it could work out of the box. No tweeking, no custom parameters – just plug in it and use it. This is now the case with most of the hardware, however it has a small cost. Anyone can access your hardware parameters Read more…
After the mis-happenings with newscloud platform, I have decided to take a look into Pligg. It is based purely on digg and has customisable interface and supports multiple skins. I was really impressed. Although there are not too much modules, the system is quite capable, interface is nice. After looking Read more…
Google released an safebrowsing api to check the site against blacklisted sites. The listed pages are suspected to be related to phishing, viruses or malware distribution attempts. Each of the sites are already checked for parasites for a while, and the blacklist is updated constantly. During the may, google reported Read more…
As many of you may know that there is a multitude of seemingly invisible threats to anyone browsing the Web. Spyware, Trojans, malware and other parasites can infect your precious computer very easily. In this post, I’ll write about one of the categories of these threats that may damage your Read more…
I have read this article about google behavioral analysis, but had no time to post my thoughts. To sumarise, results of experiments are discussed with 2 implications: a) google uses click on SERP’s analysis to change placements for the results ( It is discussed in the google patent as well) Read more…
I am trying to keep current with state of the art design practices, although I have not coded anything major for 2 years already. I have a feeling that I need to get in touch with current design practices from within, not only by theory. This is a must for Read more…
Recently I looked for advanced social bookmarking script for one project of ours. One of my picks for this tasks was newscloud . The site looks really nice and it looks fully featured script for social bookmarking niche. However, there are lots of problems with the script itself. The upsides Read more…
Sometimes one hand does not know what does another. For example, what you think about adult oriented ads distributed in pages for kids? Guess what, Warner bro’s have had such page last year with the Zango/180Solutions adware. This adware has long history of being distributed silently and providing dubious, adult Read more…