Monthly Archives: April 2010
Firefox claims 30 percent market share
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April 2, 2010
Mozilla.org has made public a report that says its Firefox browser has 30 percent market share worldwide. Assuming it’s true, that is a six percent increase since a news story last November.The Mozilla Metrics report 1Q2010 says the browser has …
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Eliminate two thirds of comp security risk!
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Don’t run your PC with admin privileges Sometimes in life you know something is a risk, but you don’t know how BIG a risk it is until somebody actually checks it out. There was a German scientist in Russia who …
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Dead Zango installers haunt Download.com
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April 1, 2010
This is an interesting historical quirk, more than anything else – but I thought it merited a blog post. If you’ve seen me rattling around the Internet pre-Sunbelt, you might be aware I have a bit of a sparring history …
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Spam web sites moving from .cn to .ru
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Scum on the run Security blogger Brian Krebs is reporting some good numbers that show spammers are no longer registering their domains in China (.cn) since that country started requiring actual on-paper registrations and business licenses, which precludes anonymous registration. …
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Will fuzzing save civilization as we know it?
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Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group, was extensively quoted in news stories today as he described how his group found 1,800 software flaws in Office 2010 by running millions of “fuzzing” tests. According to ComputerWorld, …
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