Security

Security

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Get hacked, get charged, get offline

This is a fictitious story about a small Australian business owner, let’s say a Dentist. One day she decides to spend her marketing dollars on a website, …

A saphe Xmas

PayPal Christmas Bonus

The Xmas season is upon us, as evident by the Xmas trees appearing in shopping malls, and the Xmas promotions filling up our (e-)mailboxes. One such Xmas promo …

Australian Internet Censorship

My take on the “Clean Feed” filter, aka the “Rudd Filter”.

But first this.

A 2006 UQ study found that road accidents, more than 25,000 serious injury accidents …

2001, a browser's Odyssey: IE6 turns seven

2001, the year of 911 – Twin Towers, and IE 6.

IE 6 is seven years old today. Amazing how time flies. “2001, a browser’s Odyssey”. Where were you on …

DOM Scripting gotchas

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DOM scripting gotcha’s

Started working on a new project with a new colleague the other day, and we decided to use JSON to handle the data …

XSS/Phising with PDF

There’s currently a lot of chatter on the securityfocus mailing list about the pdf-javascript vulnerability
disclosed by Stefano Di Paola and Giorgio …

Policing the net

There is a thread running at the OpenDNS blog about handling cybersquatters, domain names which look like the real deal, typo’s by the user for example, …

OpenDNS

Switched to OpenDNS today. Really easy.
It should be faster (well, that is if you’re on mainland USA – I’m not), with a bigger cache.
It’s …

DOM scripting gotchas (1)

Started working on a new project with a new colleague the other day, and we decided to use JSON to handle the data client-side and standard W3C DOM scripting to …