by Joseph Forbes | Jan 19, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technicals
A week ago TorrentFreak had the honor to reveal the full details of Verizon’s implementation of the upcoming “copyright alerts” system. In short, the Internet provider will notify customers whose accounts are caught sharing pirated movies and music, and after four...
by Joseph Forbes | Jan 2, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY
The hole trick How Skype & Co. get round firewalls Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator’s nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, SECURITY, Technical Support
As an official patch is yet to become available, Microsoft has released a temporary Fix-it tool to close a critical security hole in its Internet Explorer web browser. According to a blog post by Yunsun Wee, Trustworthy Computing Director at Microsoft, the company...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog Entry, INTERNET
Stopping Spambots with hashes and honeypots Spam sucks. Any site which allows unauthenticated users to submit forms will have a problem with spamming software (spambots) submitting junk content. A common technique to prevent spambots is CAPTCHA, which requires people...
by Joseph Forbes | Dec 30, 2012 | Blog Entry, HACKING, INTERNET, SECURITY
Critical zero-day hole in Internet Explorer – Update While analysing a compromised web page, security experts from FireEye discovered malware that exploits a previously unknown security hole in Internet Explorer. The hole allows attackers to inject malicious...
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by Joseph Forbes | Oct 29, 2011 | Data Recovery, INTERNET
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