Twitter Search is widely considered as the most exciting aspect of Twitter, and it’s about to get a whole lot more interesting.
Twitter to Crawl Tweeted Links
May 8th, 2009 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsTagged in: Search Social Web Twitter
Phishing Attack Hosted on UK Government Website
June 1st, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 2 CommentsA phishing attack has been discovered on the UK Government’s Home Office website, The Register reports. The attack, which targets poste.it, the website of Italian bank Poste Italiane, can be found here. The attack was detected by security researchers PrevX and used an RFI exploit via an SQL injection to serve the fraudulent [...]
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Netcraft Toolbar for Firefox 3 Released
May 20th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsNetcraft have released a Firefox 3 compatible version of their widely used anti-phishing toolbar. The new 1.2 version can be downloaded from addons.mozilla.org.
We named the Netcraft Toolbar as one of our Top Web Browsing Extensions and are delighted to be able to continue using it with the lastest version of our favourite web browser.
Thank [...]
XSS Vulnerability at PayPal could lead to Phishing
May 16th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | 5 CommentsA cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) has been found in online payment processing firm PayPal’s website. The vulnerability allows arbitrary code execution and could be used in a Phishing attack to gather data from unsuspecting users.
Digg Releases New Comment System
May 16th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsDigg, the quintessential Web 2.0 social news site has released an update to its comment system. This is a much needed update to a crumbling system. The previous incarnation use to kill my browser if their were more than a couple of hundred comments, the new system is faultless – even on the [...]
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Internet Growth: 50 Million Websites in 12 Months!
February 28th, 2008 | by Adam Pope | No CommentsInternet data mining firm Netcraft have released the results of their February Web Server Survey and it shows that the Internet is continuing its strong pattern of growth, adding 2.6 million hostnames (+1.7%) this month. The results also show a resurgence for Apache as they reclaim 0.3% of the web server market share from [...]
