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POPSWordpress.com is accessible again in Turkey The ban was lifted and Wordpress.com blogs are accesible from Turkey, via Telekom's DNS servers. Still there is not an official statement and all I could find was this comment on Matt's (Wordpress.com founder) blog, posted by a Turkish user. According to rumours, an officer from the Army was spreading critical information using his blog on Wordpress.com and "some inexperienced technical employee" at Turk Telekom blocked the whole Wordpress domain, "instead of just banning that blog", when the court's written order arrived. Let's wait for monday, for further explanations.
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POPSRemove Firefox Addons, Improve Security “Users are vulnerable and are at risk of an attacker silently installing malicious software on their computers. This possibility exists whenever the user cannot trust their domain name server (DNS) or network connection. Examples of this include public wireless networks, and users connected to compromised home routers,” says Soghoian on his slight paranoia blogspot.
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POPSMac Trojan - It's Finally Happened Unlike many Windows-based attacks, the Trojan doesn't exploit a hole in Apple's software, and it can't install itself. Instead, it relies on social engineering, tricking users into downloading the codec, and requiring that they type in the administrator password to install it.
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POPSOpenDNS for the non-technically inclined When I mistype a URL in the location bar, Verizon hijacks my request and sends me to a B.S. "search results" page (full of ads and spam). This post is a little starter for how to circumvent your ISP's DNS server with OpenDNS.
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POPSInternet Design Flaw Makes Email Vulnerable, Too While some details leaked out early — security researchers accurately guessed parts of Kaminsky’s discovery — he was able to keep a few juicy bits secret until the talk. One of those was the susceptibility of many e-mail servers to the DNS vulnerability, an opening that gives criminals a way to plant themselves in the middle of the transmission from the sender to the recipient and redirect messages to their own servers, Kaminsky said. The result: criminals have a way not only to comb through the contents of those messages, but also to gain access to other password-protected Web sites the victims belong to. That’s because most sites have a feature that allows members to retrieve their passwords by e-mail if they’ve forgotten them. If a criminal has access to the account where that message is sent, he can then begin snooping on the contents of that account, from e-mail, to banking, to retailer sites.
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POPSSecure Anonymous Browsing FindNot.com is an anonymous internet service. It enables you to use the same internet provider you currently have and at the same time you remain anonymous in all your internet activities.
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POPSGoogle Unleashes Its Own Public DNS Be very afraid. Just kidding. Well, half kidding. It could very well be the standard from the get-go, due to Google brand name backing and the easy to remember 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 addresses. Do you want Google to know every single web site and page you have visited? Some people may not care, but some people concerned with privacy may disagree. If you're already a huge Google fan and first-mover, then you probably don't really care that they can read your email, office documents, calendar, voice mail, health records, and have a picture of your house.
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POPSIt Happened to Me and It Could Happen to You there are 3 work arounds as noted in the last 3 sentences clipped. You'll have to visit the article to get the full details of each of the 3 workarounds. I opted for "uninstall the hotfix" until they get it right. ;)
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POPSThis Is Scary (Hi Google!) So in addition to storing my searches and my site traffic and my street address and my GPS location ...
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POPSThe Coral Content Distribution Network Coral is peer-to-peer content distribution network, comprised of a world-wide network of web proxies and nameservers. It allows a user to run a web site that offers high performance and meets huge demand.
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