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Filed under: Internet

Next Tuesday French lawmakers will vote on a bill dubbed ‘Loppsi 2′ that will give the authorities the power to force ISPs to block access to any web address.

The intention of the bill is to allow French authorities to block sites in order to prevent the distribution of child pornography, but ultimately [...]

Filed under: Security

I know, it’s the story that never ends — and really, don’t expect it to end any time soon — but here’s another angle: what about Chinese hardware?

We now know that either the Chinese government, or a very large privately-funded clandestine operation from Asia, has been hacking Western governments, intelligence agencies, and [...]

Filed under: Internet, Security, Google

Your world is about to be rocked.

If you’re not a hardened, tinfoil hat-wearing the-apocalypse-is-nigh conspiracy theorist, you soon will be. Wired has just published a stunning article detailing a really scary report from computer forensic firm Mandiant. The story brings to light some disturbing truths about the always-connected, always-on world we [...]

Filed under: News, Social Software

How do you determine what something is worth? Generally speaking, the answer is that something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it. This comes up when trying to evaluate the value of companies, but it can also come up when trying to evaluate the value of something that [...]

World Residential Countertops  Global demand to rise 3.3% per annum through 2013 Worldwide demand for countertops is projected to increase 3.3 percent annually to 341 million square meters in 2013. Advances will be aided by the recovery of new housing construction in the US and much of Western Europe from low 2008 bases. Additionally, countries such as [...]

Filed under: Microsoft, Browsers

If you’ve been following the fallout from the Google versus China cyber war, you’re probably aware that a weakness in Internet Explorer was exploited to hack into over 30 Silicon Valley businesses. It soon became clear that this critical weakness was exploitable in almost every version of Internet Explorer and under all [...]

Filed under: News, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Browsers

It’s finally official! Mere days after it hit Release Candidate 2, the finished version of Firefox 3.6 comes out tomorrow. It’s been confirmed over at Mozilla’s official blog, where there’s also an intro video from Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox. (Or, you can watch the video after the [...]

Filed under: Internet, Security

DNS hijacking and poisoning has been around since the dawn of time — it just didn’t enter the popular media until recent high-profile attacks on Twitter, Baidu, and the success of China’s Golden Shield Project. Basically, DNS in its current form is incredibly insecure when compared to corporate infrastructure. With DNS hacks [...]

Filed under: Security, E-mail

Despite the recent shenanigans overseas involving Google, China has at least taken steps to help cut down on the amount of spam in our inboxes.

Symantec’s Samir Patil reports that their company has observed a major drop in spam originating from .CN domains. Back in December, the CNNIC announced that they would be [...]

Filed under: Internet, Google

It’s the story that keeps getting crazier and crazier! First Google — a corporation! — sticks a finger up at an entire country (the largest in the world), then it comes to light that China has been operating a vast malware-distributing espionage botnet — and now the White House publicly comes out [...]