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Web browser choice matters – Mozilla Links

Georg | 2010/03/18 | 0 Comments

By Percy Cabello Our lives are full of choices. Where to eat? What to read? Who to spend time with? The choices we make determine the quality of our life, and how we see the world. So many of these choices we take quite seriously, weighing the consequences, thinking about the implications, and choosing carefully [...]

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Firefox Browser | Upgrade to the latest version of Firefox | Free Download

Georg | 2010/01/21 | 0 Comments

One Size Doesn’t Fit All Everybody uses the Web differently, so why should your browser be exactly like the next person’s? Firefox has more than 6,000 add-ons to help you customize it to your exact needs, plus thousands of Personas to instantly change the way it looks. View all personalization features. Learn more about Firefox [...]

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French government also warns Internet Explorer users – Mozilla Links

Georg | 2010/01/21 | 0 Comments

Just like the German government did last week, the French government via the National Information Systems Security Agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information) has also issued an alert, recommending users to switch to another web browser regarding an Internet Explorer’s vulnerability that was exploited to hack Google servers in China. Here’s a [...]

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Google threatens to hacker attack with withdrawal from China – Internet – krone.at

Georg | 2010/01/20 | 0 Comments

After repeated cyber-attacks on Gmail accounts by Chinese human rights activists, Google has announced on Tuesday evening in San Francisco to filter no longer in the future results of its search engine to meet the authorities of regulations in China. The Internet Group also threatened to cease its activities in the People’s Republic. “We have [...]

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IE: Update for critical vulnerability announced – Browsers – derStandard.at> Web

Georg | 2010/01/20 | 0 Comments

Microsoft will offer an “out-of-cycle” security update – but it first had to be well balanced “Regrettably, we must note that one of our products has been used for criminal activities. Therefore we cooperate with Google, other partners in the software industry and international agencies to educate the facts, ” said Microsoft in a press [...]

German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer

Georg | 2010/01/19 | 0 Comments

674ShareemailshareIn a statement issued today, the German Federal Office for Security in Information Technology known as BSI recommends that all Internet Explorer users switch to an alternative browser. They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google.If you [...]

Autocomplete Me is a gallery of Google users’ bizarre searches

Georg | 2009/11/18 | 1 Comments

Google’s autocomplete feature for searches can be pretty useful when you’re looking for a common search term. Hey, neat! You don’t have to type the whole thing! Sometimes, though, Google’s suggestions take a turn for the hilarious or just plain weird. A site called Autocomplete Me collects some of the strangest ones for your amusement. [...]

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Feds Crack Down On Gift Card Trickery – But your ISP cash back rebate card won’t be included… – dslreports.com

Georg | 2009/11/18 | 2 Comments

For many years now companies (including some of the biggest broadband ISPs) have been issuing gift cards instead of cash as rebates. Why? Companies can impose a number of restrictions on the cards that statistically reduce the amount of actual cash companies have to pay out. Many companies make it so the cards aren’t redeemable [...]

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StopBadware.org – ISPs and the fight against bots

Georg | 2009/11/18 | 1 Comments

For the last several months, some of the folks at Comcast have been working on a draft IETF document to inform ISPs about the role they can play in remediating bots on their customers’ computers. This is a tricky challenge: on one hand, ISPs are in a great position to detect bot activity, notify their [...]

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Social networks commit themselves to more privacy – Internet – krone.at

Georg | 2009/11/18 | 0 Comments

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5 years of Firefox at hacks.mozilla.org

Georg | 2009/11/10 | 1 Comments

Firefox is five years old. We thought that we would celebrate that by talking about how the web has changed over the last five years and Firefox’s role in those changes. Where We’re At2009 has been an interesting year. We’re at a crossroads for the Internet. In the next 12 months or so we’re likely [...]

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Windows 7 vulnerable to 8 out of 10 viruses | Chester Wisniewski’s Blog

Georg | 2009/11/10 | 1 Comments

Now that we in the northern hemisphere have had some time to digest the Windows 7 hype and settle in for the coming winter, we thought we would get some more hard data regarding Windows 7 security. On October 22nd, we settled in at SophosLabs and loaded a full release copy of Windows 7 on [...]

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Internet privacy jeopardized – Internet – krone.at

Georg | 2009/11/10 | 0 Comments

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Google reveals a part of their stored user information – Internet – krone.at

Georg | 2009/11/10 | 0 Comments

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