The Swedish service provider Netnod, appears to have resolved a problem that was causing some Internet sites to be inadvertently censored by a system set up in the People’s Republic of China. China uses the DNS protocol to enforce censorship on its so-called Great Firewall of China. That’s why several ISP (Internet Service Providers) from Chile and US, were providing faulty DNS information. So ISP [...]
A few days ago FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) launched www.bandittrackernortheast.com. The new website features color photos and descriptions of bank robbers and allows people to see all the bank robbers who are being sought throughout the 13 counties covered by the FBI’s New York office and the 18 counties covered by the FBI’s New Jersey office. Also, the site features a map [...]
Mozilla has released Monday Evening an update for Firefox to plug a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected system. Security researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported that the WOFF decoder contains an integer overflow in a font decompression routine. This flaw could result in too small a memory buffer being [...]
firefox 3.6 Mozzila has announced that Firefox Version 3.0 is coming to the end of the road . According to the Mozilla developer’s weekly meeting notes, there will be no more updates for Firefox 3.0.x following the release of version 3.0.19, the last security and stability update to the 3.0.x branch. The plan were to close Firefox 3.0 at the [...]
If you are using Facebook for sure you have seen the who is stalking me application at work : it automatically Tags a photo with your name and also adds a Comment to the photo with a “masked” link … “The application itself is designed to look convincing enough, but none of the many ‘Continue’ buttons it offers will activate some [...]
Reporters without borders have created a top of “Enemies of the Internet ” : a list of countries that restrict internet freedom . The “winners” of this top are China and Iran but we can see democratic countries in the top too . Australia is only one example of democratic countries “gone bad”. Reporters Without Borders call this countries “the [...]
IDG News Service It seems that last year was a great one for cybercrime: according to data released Friday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), victims reported total losses of US$559.7 million in 2009, more than double the tally for 2008. Call it funny or not but the most frequently reported scam was one [...]
The Windows Skype client implements two URI handlers, Skype: and Skype-Plugin. Both handlers allow for easy browser integration and are supported by all modern browsers. When a Skype link is clicked, the Skype.exe process is spawned with the /URI: command argument, followed by the user specified phone number or contact name. For example, clicking the link: Skype:PaulCraig will spawn the [...]
Google China – copyright AFP Google announced on Thursday ongoing talks with China regarding the future of Google in the Asian nation , after the company was decided to leave because of cyberattacks and state web censorship. “We are indeed in active discussions with the Chinese government but we are not going to engage in a running commentary about those [...]
