The Microsoft Security Response Center announced earlier today via their TechNet blog a change in the practice of disclosing vulnerabilities. Responsible disclosure being the hot topic for last month shows its cause-effect relationship with today's announcement being the 'effect' part. Microsoft is sticking to its guns and holds fast "that coordination and collaboration are … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2010
YouTube’s Life In A Day Project
Google has a huge project coming up on YouTube on July 24th that requires your involvement and the YouTube logo has been helpfully reminding us about. From the YouTube Life In A Day site: One world. 24 hours. 6 billion perspectives. Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create a user-generated feature film, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 … [Read more...]
Resolve Internet Explorer Slowly Opening New Tabs
Internet Explorer introduced tabs with version 7 but one of the many reasons I prefer Firefox and increasingly Chrome is that they handle tabs better. To open a new tab, you can hit the key combo Ctrl+T or click the button near the current tab in any of those browsers. The problem with Internet Explorer, both version 7 and 8, is that it takes a noticeable amount of time for the … [Read more...]
Bing’s Webmaster Tools
Bing has announced on the Bing blog (and it's corroborated on the Yahoo! Search blog yesterday) today that the testing with Yahoo! implementing Bing search results is underway. Of greater importance to webmasters and SEO experts, Bing is warning/encouraging webmasters to investigate how their site is showing up in search results using the newly updated Bing Webmaster Tools, … [Read more...]
Ensuring Consent and Revocation When Your Info is Their Business
Ignorance is bliss and a world you'll never again be able to enter once you have the blinders removed to your privacy and personal information being left behind and sold whenever it can be. This goes beyond the social networks where you volunteer that personal information and also includes instances where the alumni association of the University you attend starts sending … [Read more...]