by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, KnowledgeBase (KB), SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
The Distributed Computing & Security research team at the University of Hanover in Germany has implemented a browser encryption test page that analyses the way in which an HTTPS connection is established. One of the things it demonstrates is the accessing...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HACKING, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
from the what’s-to-blame dept. Despite the headlines, the big denial of service attack may not have slowed the Internet after all. The argument against the original claim include the fact that reports of Internet users seeing slowdowns came not from service...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 29, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technicals, TECHNOLOGY
More than two years after LibreOffice came into being, it’s hard to call the open source office software anything but a success. There are possibly tens of millions of people who use it—or at least have it installed on their computers. But how close is...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Blog Entry, HACKING, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Internet Scam Notices
The security presentation had a provocative title Source: Uli Ries At the Black Hat Europe conference that is currently in progress, Russian security expert Nikita Tarakanov has presented the results of his analysis of the driver software that Huawei ships with its...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 28, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, INTERNET, NERD NEWS
Yes, Google Reader is going away, and yes, there are great alternatives. However, if you’re tired of web services shutting down on you, why not take matters into your own hands? Tiny Tiny RSS is a free, open-source syncing RSS platform with more features than...
by Joseph Forbes | Mar 27, 2013 | Blog Entry, DATA, HARDWARE, INTERNET, TECHNOLOGY
from the meanwhile-my-att-dsl-crawls-along-poorly dept. The TCP protocol is closely coupled with the underlying IP protocol. Once a TCP connection has been established through one IP address, the other packets of the connection must be sent from this address. This...
