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A firewall is an application which controls network traffic to and from a computer, permitting or denying communications based on a security policy. A personal firewall differs from a conventional firewall in terms of scale. Personal firewalls are typically designed for use by end-users. As a result, a personal firewall will usually protect only the…
Charities fight for piece of $5 million prize on Facebook
(CNN) — This week, 100 charities are battling for votes on Facebook to win $1 million. The competition is a new approach to philanthropic giving and is led by JPMorgan Chase, which throughout the competition will donate a total of $5 million to 100 charities chosen by Facebook users. Traditionally, organizations would go through a…
Gates spends entire first day back in office trying to install Windows 8.1
REDMOND, WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Bill Gates’s first day at work in the newly created role of technology adviser got off to a rocky start yesterday as the Microsoft founder struggled for hours to install the Windows 8.1 upgrade. The installation hit a snag early on, sources said, when Mr. Gates repeatedly received an error message…
Privacy concerns over popular ShowIP Firefox add-on
Cross-posted from SophosLabs: A popular Firefox add-on appears to have started leaking private information about every website that users visit to a third-party server, including sensitive data which could identify individuals or reduce their security. Naked Security reader Rob Sanders alerted us to the activities of the recently updated ShowIP add-on for the Firefox browser….
Distributed Systems Design: Patterns and Practices
In today’s world of massive-scale applications and services, distributed systems have become the backbone of modern computing. They enable applications to handle vast amounts of data, remain resilient in the face of failures, and deliver high performance across the globe. However, designing these systems is not a trivial task. It involves understanding complex principles and…
Contraband Imports
One of the issues malware writers deal with is having their programs load and execute on a victim’s computer. An unwary victim may click on an email attachment and have the malware run once. But in order to continue to be of value to the author, that piece of malware has to arrange for itself…
