Blogs and tweets in a moving business trend part1
Avoid popularity if you would have peace – Abraham Lincoln
Mozilla started a blog back in 2008, after breaking the guiness world records for the most downloads in 24 hours.
Can anyone guess what blogging platform they are using? Yes you probably guessed it if you read the title of this post.
Mozilla stands out with a few [...]
Tiananmen Square continues to bleed hope for freedom of speech
“internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – EFF co-founder John Gilmore
2005, Yahoo provides information that helped Chinese officials convict a journalist accused of leaking state secrets. Apparently, Shi Tao, a 37-year-old writer for the Dangdai Shang Bao, released a “state secret” which contained a message to Shi’s newspaper warning journalists of the [...]
WordPress Install Files Security Risk
Jeff Starr over at Perishable Press has discovered a way to hack a WordPress blog in rare cases where the installation files have been left behind and the database is in accessible:
The other day, my server crashed and Perishable Press was unable to connect to the MySQL database. Normally, when WordPress encounters a database error…
The [...]
Twitter Web Worm Causes Havoc
Update: Apparently a bunch of variant worms are doing the rounds that circumvent Twitter’s recent patch to fix the problem. I’d be cautious using Twitter over the next couple weeks, see protection guidelines below or at this link.
Teen exploits Twitter
A 17 year-old has claimed credit for releasing a Cross Site Scripting worm that infected hundreds [...]
Facebook Faces Big Brother Monitoring
Millions of Britons who use social networking sites could be having their accounts “secretly” monitored in the near future.
Kelly was responding to a speech made by Home Office security minister Vernon Coaker on 18 March at a meeting of the House of Commons Fourth Delegated Legislation Committee. Coaker said the EU Data Retention Directive, which [...]
