Search and advertising giant Google is phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in its cloud services, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites, from 1 March.
Google announced in a blog post on Friday that from the beginning of March, certain key functionality in Google Docs and Google Sites “would not work properly” with IE6 and older versions of other browsers.
“Please take the time to switch your organisation to the most… read more »
February 1st, 2010 in
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Google and Neustar UltraDNS have proposed a extension to try to build some geographic awareness into the Domain Name System.
The proposed extension, called Client IP information in DNS requests, would send along the first three quarters of a user’s IP address along with an DNS request. The last quarter would be cut off to preserve some privacy, but the first part should be enough to geographically target the answer in some cases, Google sai… read more »
February 1st, 2010 in
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NTT DoCoMo is to demonstrate a prototype handset based on the high-speed wireless data technology LTE later this month, according to the Japanese mobile operator’s handset partner, NEC.
NEC said on Monday that NTT will demonstrate the handset receiving streaming high-resolution video across an LTE network at Mobile World Congress, which kicks off on 15 February in Barcelona. According to NEC, the handset uses an LTE chipset that was develop… read more »
February 1st, 2010 in
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One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developers to customize web pages using simple JavaScript and it was the inspiration for some important parts of our extension system.
Ever since the beginning of the Chromium project, friends and coworkers … read more »
February 1st, 2010 in
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It is a disgrace that humans havenât still got the hang of setting passwords. It seems as though that most internet users have inextricably tethered themselves to a promise of not setting strong-enough passwords, which may force hackers to reconsider their choice of profession for its grueling nature. As you devour more of this story, you will begin to envy hackers for having it stroll-in-the-park easy.
A new study has revealed â rather… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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This week could be âhectic’ with Microsoft offering a critical patch for Internet Explorer.
Alan Bentley, regional VP EMEA of Lumension, said even though there are only two critical patches being issued tomorrow, it could still be a hectic week as the most critical patch this month is the IE bulletin requiring a reboot of all XP and Vista machines in the organisation running IE 7.
Bentley said: âLarge-scale reboots of all desktop… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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A new Valentine’s Day spam email has been detected by Websense as containing a Waledac variant. Websense Security Labs has reported to have seen several fake Valentine’s Day sites serving up malware recently, with an increase in adult dating and âhealthcare’ related email spam released to mark the occasion. Carl Leonard, Websense threat research manager, claimed that it works by the user opening the URL in the spammed messa… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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The websites of two major providers of security products have been hit by hackers.
The website of Russian IT security provider Kaspersky Lab was hit at the weekend by a Romanian âwhite-hat’ hacker.
A group calling itself âthe Romanian Security Team’ claimed that the hackers achieved full access to the database supporting the websites â which includes customer data â by simply altering a parameter in the URLs. They … read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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February 16, 2009 (Computerworld) A Kaspersky Lab technical support site was hacked late last month, exposing private customer information for 11 days, the Moscow-based security company admitted last week. The company learned of and closed the breach on Feb. 7 after it was notified by the Romanian hackers.
“This is not good for any company, especially for a company dealing with security,” acknowledged Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antiv… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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TC TrustCenter has been mandated to implement certification for the CI Plus standard in Europe.
It is to provide certification to protect premium digital TV content against piracy with the new CI Plus Common Interface Standard. TC TrustCenter will provide certificate issuance and management services and the necessary registration for all manufacturers of TV devices, digital recorders and conditional access modules that want to license the CI Plus… read more »
January 16th, 2009 in
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