Tag Archives: IT
Firefox 3 Beta 4
I’ve been testing the latest betas of Firefox for awhile now and Firefox 3 is shaping up to be very nice in my opinion. The biggest thing is the Mozilla team seem to have started plugging some of the memory … Continue reading
Important VMWare Security Exploit
Core Security has the full report but if your using VMWare Workstation, Player, or ACE on Windows there is a security exploit in the shared folders feature that allows a traversing of folders not being shared. According to VMWare until … Continue reading
Network Solutions Class Action Suit
Shady business practices abound at Network Solutions. The domain registrar is being accused of ‘front-running’. What happens is when someone goes to the Network Solutions site and searches for the availability of a domain name Network Solutions immediately registered the name for itself. Then the company forces the user to pay outrageous fees to buy the name from them. One client in the suit said $34.99 when the same domain elsewhere would have been $9.99. For anyone who’s been burned by this practice this is welcome news. Continue reading
Posted in tech
Tagged business, icann, IT, network solutions
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Disk Encryption Defeated
It appears that the disk encryption schemes used by different operating systems can be easily circumvented. Princeton Researchers have disproved a common misconception of one of the key components of a computer, that the system’s RAM loses all information stored … Continue reading
Posted in security
Tagged Edward W. Felten, encryption, IT, memory, ram, science
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High Performance Enabled SSH
For those who don’t know SSH – Secure SHell – is a secure way of remote administration of a server through the command line. This was first used in Unix servers but has made it’s way to Linux and Windows, … Continue reading
Posted in Linux
Tagged encryption, HPN-SSH, improvement, IT, Linux, SCP, server, SSH, Unix
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