Fix found for net security flaw! Computer experts have released software to tackle a security glitch in the internet’s addressing system. The flaw, discovered by accident, would allow criminals to redirect users to fake webpages, even if they typed the correct address into a browser.
Internet giants such as Microsoft are now distributing the security patch.

Security expert Dan Kaminsky said that the case was unprecedented, but added: “People should be concerned but they should not be panicking.”
“We have bought you as much time as possible to test and apply the patch,” he said. “Something of this scale has not happened before.”
Mr Kaminsky discovered the error in the workings of the Domain Name System (DNS) about six months ago.
DNS is used to convert web addresses written in words - such as www.bbc.com - into the numerical sequences used by computers to route internet traffic around the world. The flaw revolves around the way that the servers that translate words into numbers handle the requests they get. Unresolved the flaw would make it simple to operate “phishing” scams, in which users are directed to fake webpages supposedly for genuine banks or businesses and are tricked into disclosing credit card details or other personal data. Mr Kaminsky talked to Microsoft, Sun and Cisco and many others in March and has been part of a team engaged in secret research since then to develop the security patch which has now been released simultaneously. “This hasn’t been done before and it is a massive undertaking,” said Mr Kaminsky said. Read the rest of this entry »

According to the Mozilla foundation that released the new browser, the software was downloaded 8.3 million times in its first 24 hours of release starting Tuesday morning.

The downloads were so popular that they initially crashed the servers running the operation. At their busiest, the servers were handling more than 9,000 downloads per minute and within five hours had surpassed the initial daily download of 1.6 million set by Firefox 2.0 in October 2006. But the success was tempered by reports from a software security company that Firefox 3.0 contained a serious security flaw! Within five hours after the official release, security tool vendor TippingPoint noted a “critical vulnerability” affecting Firefox 3.0 and 2.0 and reported it to Mozilla. (remark by publisher: I’m not aware of security flaws being reported before on FF 2.0 - so they found that in just 2.0 just now???)

Mozilla on its security blog stated that, “There is no public exploit, the details are private, and so the current risk to users is minimal. We are investigating the issue. At Mozilla we appreciate any report of security issues because that is how we make the browser stronger and more secure. The best way to keep Firefox users safe is to report the issues directly to Mozilla as TippingPoint has chosen to, and to wait to release details until a fix is available. Read the rest of this entry »

WordPress is a so-called blogging program. Blogs are specially structured web sites, mainly by publishing new content that they chronologically list on the home page of the website.

An example is this site - powered by the WordPress engine. This baja website uses all the advantages WordPress as a blog, but also as a CMS = content management system. Although WordPress generally not perceived as CMS, but you can use it as such, because it allows so-called static pages. This means that important content on menus at the top or page.

WordPress has many advantages. It needs to use only a hosting account on an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL, conditions which are not to difficult to obtain.

WordPress itself as open source software and completely free. WordPress Blog is for CMS software and Web sites around the world very often, so that a single community, which in the development of its website. Read the rest of this entry »