It feels like I’m patching computer systems all day long in the last two days. First the monthly Windows Update, then Adobe with its patches and now Oracle and Java. This is madness and unfortunately a necessary evil. Oracle has just released a security advisory that details a critical security vulnerability in the JDK and [...]
Firefox 4 Changes: Do Not Track, Link Urls Moved Down
Firefox 4 Beta 11 is now available for download at the official Mozilla website. The release is mainly a bug fixing release with the exception of one feature addition. The do not track feature that Mozilla announced earlier this year is now included in the browser. The Tell Web sites I Do Not Want To [...]
Microsoft Windows Autorun Updates Restricts Functionality
One of the updates of yesterday’s patch day slipped through my grasps, mainly because I’m running Windows 7 and the update was not for that operating system. Ghacks reader Ilev let me know about it in the comments of my patch day overview guide Microsoft Security Bulletin Overview February 2011. Autorun has been a problematic [...]
Microsoft Outlook Add-In Text Lightning
Text Lightning is a free Microsoft Outlook add-in that integrates seamlessly into the desktop email client. The add-in offers a host of features that improve productivity, from one-click insertion of text, images and files to customizing text templates, one click searching and message archiving with a single click. Installation of the Microsoft Outlook add-on should [...]
Adobe Security Bulletin Summary Feburary 2011
Adobe Software yesterday released updates for some of its popular software applications, including updates for Adobe Reader, Acrobat and the Adobe Flash Player. The updates address critical security issues in the products making them mandatory updates for all users of said products. The security update for Adobe Flash Player fixes several critical vulnerability in Flash [...]
Microsoft Security Bulletin Overview February 2011
Microsoft has just enabled downloads for today’s security patches on Windows Update. Today’s Patch Day brings 12 security bulletins that fix vulnerabilities of various severity affecting the Microsoft Windows operating system, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office. Three of the vulnerabilities have a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest possible rating. The remaining 11 have [...]
BoxCryptor, Dropbox Realtime Encryption
Some Dropbox users encrypt part of the data to make sure it is protected from unauthorized access. Dropping an encrypted TrueCrypt container into the Dropbox folder is probably the most used solution. Its main advantage is its multi-platform support, its disadvantages the complicated setup and resizing issues (see Resize TrueCrypt Volumes With Extcv, Increase Size [...]
Only One More To Go: Firefox 4 Beta 11 Is Out
I’m monitoring the Firefox release ftp server actively for new releases. The long awaited Firefox 4 Beta 11 has just been uploaded to the release server. It means that the Mozilla Firefox development team has finished one of the two remaining beta releases of the Firefox 4 web browser. Experience has shown that it takes [...]
ZX Spectrum to be Reborn as Bluetooth Keyboard
The inimitable Sinclair ZX Spectrum is to be reborn for its 30th birthday with an interesting twist. Games company Elite, which wrote many of the best-selling titles for the original home computer, is planning to relaunch the Speccy as a Bluetooth keyboard for mobile phones according to the Telegraph. Why? They’ve noticed the upsurge in [...]