November 11, 2010
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Firesheep can certainly be mis-used as a hacking tool. It was meant, however, to serve up as a wake-up call to everyone that Web site managers were doing a lousy job of securing their Web sites. How has that worked … Continue reading
November 9, 2010
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Thanks to the Firefox plug-in Firesheep, anyone today can snoop on anyone else on the same network. Worst still, Firesheep enables any user to seamlessly hijack another user’s Web session. Programs are beginning to show up that will block Firesheep … Continue reading
October 25, 2010
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is one of those technologies that sounds like it makes sense, but then if you really think about using it in real life…. well then it doesn’t sound so great. The idea is simple. There are two ways you can … Continue reading
October 21, 2010
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Misery is when you head to one of your usual Web site hangouts and find yourself somewhere nasty instead because of Domain Name System (DNS) poisoning. DNS cache poisoning doesn’t happen often, but when it does happen, it can make … Continue reading
October 20, 2010
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The Internet’s IPv4 dashboard gas gauge is blinking empty at only 5% left in the tank, isn’t it nice that Windows 7 supports IPv6? Well, sort of, supports it. Actually, Windows 7 does a decent job of supporting IPv6. It … Continue reading
October 14, 2010
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It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn’t. In 1981, IPv4’s 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than enough addresses for the ARPANet/Internet. That was … Continue reading