Archive for the 'Web Tech' Category
Gmail security hole found and fixed
Saturday, 19th November 2005
A bug of Gmail has been found which, if being abused, could give you access to any account. The bug was discovered in 14 Oct, by Anelkaos of elhacker.net. Anelkaos reported it to Google, which then fixed the bug 4 days later.
I have a very quick look at the hacking procedure. If I understand […]
Firefox: to update or not, that is the question
Sunday, 6th November 2005
Mozilla have released Firefox 1.5 RC1 for interested parties to download. According to their roadmap, the stable version will be released within this year.
I would love to try this RC out. I didn’t, however, because I did not know which extensions that I have installed would be broken.
The release candidate is supposed to help […]
Filesystem for web app?
Wednesday, 2nd November 2005
Ajax is hot. Some people even claimed that web applications, or web apps, based on this technology will one day dominate the market. Many people retold Sun’s motto some years ago: "Network is the computer." And suddenly, Google, with its rich "lab" of web apps, becomes the most threatening enemy of Microsoft.
For security reason, browsers, […]
