While Adobe Flash offers many exciting possibilities to web developers and users alike it also introduces several additional security risks to computer systems. We already discussed the impact of so called Flash Cookies which are able to track a user even if he deletes the normal cookies regularly across multiple web browsers. The HP Security [...]
Open XML Docx Viewer
The introduction of the new Microsoft Office XML formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) have caused some confusion by users of previous Microsoft Office releases as their versions were not able to open the new document formats by default. The same was true for users without access to any version of Microsoft Office 2007. Several ways to [...]
Easy Debian Wireless Connections with Wifi-Wiz
One of these glorious days the PC industry will standardize hardware. When that day comes the Linux community will rejoice because there will be no need for the many, varied applications used to configure different systems on Linux. For example: I have two laptops. One one laptop I have to use nm-applet to get wireless [...]
Latest Firefox Web Browser Vulnerable to 0-Day Exploit
Dante send me a tip about a 0-day exploit that is affecting the latest versions of the popular Firefox web browser. The exploit is described as a remote memory-corruption vulnerability that is affecting Firefox running on all supported operating systems. A proof of concept has been published by the security researcher and the Mozilla team [...]
Outlook 2007 SP1
Microsoft has – rather quietly – released an preliminary update for Microsoft Outlook 2007 that will also be included in the soon to be coming Microsoft Office Service Pack 2. The Outlook 2007 update increases the performance and responsiveness of Microsoft’s desktop email client noticeably. Four key areas are improved by the patch including startup, [...]
Using Content Copying Websites To Your Advantage
Every webmaster operating a blog will sooner or later notice that there are some websites out there that do nothing else than to copy contents of other websites and post them on their own. This is usually an automated process done with the use of a script and RSS news feeds. The script will check [...]
Home FTP Server
FTP is one of those protocols that is largely ignored by the majority of today’s Internet users. Back in the early days of the Internet it was common to download drivers, patches and all sorts of files from ftp servers directly. Home FTP Server is a lightweight application for the Windows operating system that installs [...]
MySpace Music Download Software
Here is a quick lightweight software program for downloading music from MySpace. The software MySpace Grab makes it easy to listen to and download any song that is listed on MySpace. To do so only the url of the band page or page on MySpace is needed. The software program scans the url by opening [...]
Build a Quick and Reliable Firewall with fwbuilder
Network security is tantamount to retaining your sanity. Be it at home or at your place of business, a firewall is often a necessity (especially when you have Windows machines on your network.) With the Linux operating system there are a number of ways to build a firewall. Back in the day I used to [...]