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• February 18, 2011

  16:38:41 +0000

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  Google Gmail (2011) – Review

  Much like its browser cousin, Chrome, Google’s Gmail e-mail service has changed its product category. Gmail joined the webmail fray in 2004 and kept its public beta designation for an incredible five years. The service’s innovative conversation view, minimization of spam, and fluid interaction with other Web sites has gained it many devotees as the cool e-mail to use. But it suffers from an unlovely text- and link-heavy interface, and it lacks many social and other tools available in the recently updated Windows Live Hotmail (Free, 4.5 stars) and Yahoo Mail (Free, 4.0 stars) Web apps. Perhaps this is why Gmail is still far behind those two in U.S. and worldwide usage, according to numbers from Compete and Hitwise.

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  Tags: Email Client, Gmail, Google
• February 18, 2011

  16:25:40 +0000

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  Oracle gives 21 (new) reasons to uninstall Java

  Oracle this week pushed an updated version of its Java runtime environment that fixes 21 security vulnerabilities, 19 of which allow attackers to remotely install malicious software on end-user machines.

  The company recommends users install Java 6 Update 24 as soon as possible, but before readers follow though, allow us to offer this modest proposal: Try uninstalling Java altogether. This will dramatically shrink the attack surface of your machine, and unless you use a handful of specific applications, you’ll never notice the difference.

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  Tags: Java, Oracle, Security
• February 17, 2011

  15:58:17 +0000

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  Bad things will happen when we run out of IPv4 addresses, and it’s coming sooner than you think

  You might have read about how the long-warned end of available IPv4 address space is a bit more imminent than it was, as the IANA, which governs IP address allocations on the Internet, has run out of IPv4 addresses to allocate. Simply stated: The IPocalypse is coming! It’s not going to be the end of civilization, or even just the Internet, as we know it, but there will be some big problems. We’re not prepared for them and we’re not even working all that hard on preparing.

  Here’s what we know will happen in the short term: There are 5 RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) for different parts of the world — AfriNIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, and the RIPE NCC. These organizations get address blocks from the IANA and dole them out to ISPs and other entities in their regions based on their own policies.

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  Tags: Internet, IP, IPv4
• February 09, 2011

  20:05:43 +0000

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  Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun

  After a decade of abuse, Autorun is finally being retired in older versions of Windows.

  On Tuesday, Microsoft began pushing an update that changes the way Windows Server 2008 and earlier versions of the OS respond when USB thumb drives and other portable media are plugged in. Until now, those versions dutifully executed code embedded in autorun.inf files without first prompting the user. The default behavior provided a convenient way to propagate malware such as Conficker, which hijacked the feature to spread itself each time an infected drive was inserted.

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  Tags: Autorun, Microsoft, Windows
• February 08, 2011

  10:00:48 +0000

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  WordPress 3.0.5

  From WordPress’ Blog:

  WordPress 3.0.5 is now available and is a security hardening update for all previous WordPress versions.

  This security release is required if you have any untrusted user accounts, but it also comes with important security enhancements and hardening. All WordPress users are strongly encouraged to update.

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  Tags: Vulnerability, WordPress

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