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Firefox says: I can take you where you want to go.

Internet Explorer says: I can take you where you want to go. I’m not sure what I’m doing, would you like to navigate to ‘http://3639557480.com’ instead?

Google Chrome says: I can take you where you want to go. I know the internet.

For those of you who [...]

Google homepage now also reads “”New! Download Chrome (BETA) - the new browser from Google”

The web browser with no chrome is Google’s fresh take on the browser. It does however have a chrome, but it doesn’t try to stand out and get in your way.
This browser has been built from scratch; the Google Chrome comic [...]

Earlier this week Microsoft IIS team released its URLScan 3.0 (beta) to help fight SQL injection attacks at the Web Server, now Microsoft has put
out another tool, this time in the form of a Code Analyzer. Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection should help out to quickly analyze and secure any existing ASP
code.
Microsoft Source [...]

 
Firefox Download Day is here. Download Firefox 3 today! Help set a World Record and make history!

The Firefox team is trying to set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours with the upcoming Firefox 3 release. If you want to help out with this effort visit the Firefox Download Day 2008 Website and make a pledge.

I switched to Firefox 3 from Firefox 2 since the initial beta releases [...]

What’s wrong in the email that I got below? Well for one thing, I didn’t try to reset my password, and the email doesn’t tell me what to do if I was not the one who initiated this password reset process.

Someone had recently attempted to reset my Google Account password. I’m not sure if [...]

The month of May seems to be a time for many SQL injection attacks around the world. Unfortunately one of the sites affected by these attacks happens to be one that is administrated by a friend of mine. As it so happens the site was also developed by a friend and I’m sure we can have [...]

The Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) website www.slt.lk has been infected with a Trojan Virus Trojan.Maliframe!html. If you don’t believe that the telecoms giant is compromised, here is a screen-shot showing the Trojan virus infected web page.
The risk level of this particular virus has been rated as a very low by Symantec, however considering the number of Internet users in [...]

… I promise to store them correctly.
Would you enter your Gmail (Yahoo!, MSN, etc) password in facebook for it to import your contacts or for any other reason? If we take a look at the numerous web sites that ask for our passwords of other services it looks like most of us do. I’m convinced [...]

Some of us got blown away by twitter, some of us just got annoyed that it didnt work with Google Talk for Google Apps. But surely it should work right?
For GTalk to talk with Twitter you only need to add/invite twitter@twitter.com to your Google Talk contacts. It will instantly accept the invitation and you’re only your way. It’s that simple. [...]