Security

Yahoo! and some of it’s “partners”, such as AltaVista use what Yahoo! calls “Web Beacons”, more commonly known as Web bugs. On it’s privacy page about “Web Beacons”, Yahoo! provides a link for you to Opt-out of having Yahoo! use this information for their research. This of course does not stop the web […]

A post over at NewOrder.box.sk entitled The web has never been more insecure: Google code search makes a great point about Google’s new source code search, it’ll make it easier for attackers to find exploitable flaws in open source projects. It’s kind of scary… but on the other hand lets hope some of the […]

“But for a truly secure Internet browser with more features, we still recommend Mozilla Firefox.” — C|net review of IE7

It’s an unfortunate fact that there are a lot of programs out there that pretend to be reputable anti-spyware programs but in reality are themselves malware. Some of them simply give you false-positives and/or inflated estimates of the threats they “found” in your computer and then try to pressure you to buy their product […]