by jnelson | May 22, 2014 | News, Security
The news of the latest zero-day (or previously unknown and unpatched) exploit for Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer 8, being fixed is still fresh. But another has been announced. This one, however, has not been fixed. Even worse, Microsoft’s known...
by jnelson | Apr 29, 2014 | Security, Warnings
UPDATE: As of Thursday, May 1, Microsoft has issued a patch for Internet Explorer. It’s available through Windows Updates, and the good news is they’ve included Windowx XP in the fix. Please note, however, that XP is still otherwise unsupported, and an...
by jnelson | Apr 24, 2014 | Events, News, Warnings
One of the key principles determining how the Internet operates is in danger. And it may disappear altogether if big corporations and the Federal Communications Commission have their way. The result could turn the information superhighway into a toll road, where...
by Mark Costlow | Apr 9, 2014 | News, Security
The online world is buzzing with concern over the latest big security scare – the Heartbleed bug. The problem is in a piece of critical, and widely used, encryption software called OpenSSL. The bug allows an attacker to sift through the short-term memory of a...
by jnelson | Mar 12, 2014 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
Along with Southwest Cyberport’s Twentieth Anniversary, there’s another important one this March, one which made our birthday and so much else possible: that of the Web itself. The World Wide Web was first proposed in March of 1989. Tim Berners-Lee, a...
