Thursday, February 12th, 2009
The Partial GET Request (HTTP 206 Status Code) of a WAV file results in a Denial of Service of the application.
Last HTTP packet from Firefox before the DoS is listed below in RAW format:
GET /fpaudio/footprints_waves.wav HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
User-Agent: NSPlayer/11.0.6001.7001 WMFSDK/11.0
UA-CPU: x86
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Range: bytes=34848-
Unless-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:44:57 GMT
If-Range: "4f0018-440f2-434d403204440"
Host: ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Firefox 3.0.6 fixes several issues found in Firefox 3.0.5:
Fixed several security issues.
Fixed several stability issues.
In previous versions of Firefox, some users experienced a problem where parts of ...
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
IE8 and Google Chrome both have a great feature that helps users detect phishing websites by highlighting the root domain when you browse to a page. You can get this functionality in Firefox with an add-on called Locationbar that is available here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4014
Screenshot:
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | 3 Comments
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Facebook Beacon is part of Facebook’s advertising efforts. It is basically a cooperation with 44 partner sites who execute JavaScript code on their website sending specific user information to Facebook. Examples would be the popular gaming portal Kongegrate which send information about played games to Facebook, movie reviews published at ...
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
By tweaking the way Firefox handles some caching functions, you can dramatically improve page load speed and even prevent Firefox from hogging your system resources while minimized. If you don’t currently have any experience playing with your configuration file, don’t be scared. Just follow the simple instructions, take your time ...
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