All web browsers are currently having a CSS history privacy leak which enables attackers to brute force a list of sites that the user visited on the Internet. The CSS leak makes use of a function in CSS that colors visited and not visited links differently. All the attacker needs to do is to display [...]
Download Websites With FireMirror
Internet users sometimes come upon information on websites that they want to preserve for the future. They might be inclined to bookmark the page but that is only useful for as long as the website exists. Another option would be to print the information or save the page to the local computer system. The Firefox [...]
Google Chrome Stable Updated
The Google Chrome developers have posted an update to the stable release of Google Chrome that fixes one minor security vulnerability and two other issues of which at least one should be welcome by many Chrome users. The developers have added an option to the Google Chrome settings to turn off the automatic translation suggestion [...]
Java JRE 6 Update 19 Security Update
Today seems to be the day of the security patch. The Java Runtime Environment has received an update to JRE 6 Update 19 which fixes several security vulnerabilities. Users who have Java installed on their computer systems are encouraged to update to the latest version immediately to fix the security issues. The changelog lists all [...]
Internet Explorer Patch Released: Update Now
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security patch for Internet Explorer which fixes a security vulnerability that has been actively exploited on the Internet. The patch has caused some confusion as reported by Ed Bott since the the security vulnerability that caused the emergency update to be released is only affecting Internet Explorer 6 or IE7. [...]
Recent Increase In Trackback Spam
Jojo just mailed me an interesting article about a blog that discovered that its trackbacks, the links pointing to their articles from other blogs, increased practically overnight to three or four times the standard amount. We to have seen an increase in trackbacks coming from totally unrelated Internet sites which is one of the main [...]
Firefox 3.0.19 and Firefox 3.5.9 Released
Mozilla has just released updates to the Firefox 3.0.x and Firefox 3.5.x branches that they still support up to this point even though Firefox 3.6.2 has been released a while ago. It is a little bit like Microsoft still supporting Internet Explorer 6 or 7 even though Internet Explorer 8 has been released. Firefox 3.0.19 [...]
Google Integrates Adobe Flash Into Chrome
One of the first things that many users do after installing a web browser is to install Adobe Flash as it is needed to display many websites and most of the hosted videos on the Internet. The Google Chrome developers have decided to include the Adobe Flash Player plugin into the latest dev version of [...]
Thunderbird 3.0.4 Released
Mozilla Messaging have published an update to their desktop email client Thunderbird. The update increases the version of the email software to 3.0.4 and is considered a security and stability upgrade which means Thunderbird users are recommended to update their version of the email program as soon as possible to fix the issues that have [...]