It never ceases to surprise me when doing software development, how quickly you can get into territory that very few people seem to have explored, making it difficult to troubleshoot problems. I’ve wasted the best part of a day on an SSL problem. I need to make requests from a web server that insists...
I’ve had a miserable experience with RSS feeds in Outlook. There are feeds (suc as those from teh Stack Overflow Trilogy sites) that I just know should update at least every few minutes, yet Outlook often takes an hour or more to show any changes. Today after an email exchange with Jeff Atwood (@CodingHorror...
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This amazing free report by Imperva presents an analysis of over 32 million compromised user passwords, obtained in the Rockyou.com breach . The report lists the top 20 passwords used, and here they are: Is your password in the list? If so, I’d consider changing it PDQ. Share this post: | | |
LinkedIn has a handy profile widget that enables pop-up LinkedIn profiles to be inserted in blogs and other web content. Example: Tim Long I got this working in my Community Server blog without directly modifying and HTML content, as follows. First, go to your blog’s control panel, select the Configure...
In a recent article I described how Windows can prevent certain types of files from being launched, particularly Help (.chm) files which are essentially HTML and therefore can contain script and so are potentially harmful. Several people have commented to me that they either don’t see or can’t find the...
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Kudos to the BBC this week for (in my opinion) the best episode ever of Click , the BBC’s technology magazine programme. In this special edition of the programme, Spencer Kelly presents the results of a six month investigation into hacking and cyber crime. The programme demonstrates, for the first...
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Is your ISP patched against the DNS cache poisoning ( US CERT advisory ) exploit? There are confirmed attacks in the wild . My ISP is patched. I asked them, and actually got an intelligent response. They escalated my ticket and a day later came the response: “Thank you for contacting us And again thanks...
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