Date: 02/23/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

E-mail warns recipients that the government has monitored their Internet use and that they have "accessed illegal Web sites."

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Virus+arrives+in+e-mail+allegedly+sent+by+FBI/2100-1009_22-5587012.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

Vulnerabilities plague self-publishing Web tools, security experts warn, exposing users to attacks.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Spyware+infiltrates+blogs/2100-1009_22-5587710.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, virus, web

British government creates a Web site with virus alerts and security advice for home PC users and small businesses.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/U.K.+to+issue+public+virus+alerts/2100-1009_22-5588756.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, web, spyware, microsoft

A Dutch Web site has accepted an apology from Microsoft after it was blacklisted by the software giant's anti-spyware tool.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+says+sorry+for+AntiSpyware+error/2100-1009_22-5589000.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/25/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

The update fixes vulnerabilities that could enable an attacker to create a fake Web site for a phishing scam.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Mozilla+releases+Firefox+security+update/2100-1009_22-5589693.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/25/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

The update fixes a vulnerability that could enable an attacker to create a fake Web site for a phishing scam.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Firefox+fix+plugs+security+holes/2100-1009_22-5589693.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/26/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

Flaw in PayMaxx Web site exposed the financial information of customers' workers, the payroll-services firm acknowledges.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Payroll+hole+exposes+dozens+of+companies/2100-1009_22-5591029.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 02/28/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

At SES conference, data lovers confirm which search engines are the most popular and find out how fickle Web surfers are: very.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/On+the+lookout+for+the+next+search+winner/2100-9588_22-5593058.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, yahoo

Co-founder Jerry Yang will announce that Yahoo search network will embrace Web services. Also: Company sheds Overture name.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Yahoo+opens+up+its+search+toolbox+to+developers/2100-9588_22-5593301.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, web

The variant, BagleDl-L, is said to hurt security applications and attempts to connect with a number of Web sites.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/New+Bagle+damages+security+software/2100-1009_22-5594201.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, google

Too bad their sample request url's do not work! Their width of services is more than google - image, news and video search capability in addition to standard web search. They seem to think that location based search is a separate category.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AngsumansBlogOnJavaAndWebTechnologies?m=171

Date: 03/01/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: web

As a professional journalist, I find it frustrating when my brethren repeat press releases verbatim, without looking inside them. Such is the case with recent "reporting" on Firefox. Firefox Gains Share At Slower Pace, says MacWorld. This is based on data from WebSideStory, which provided the headline. But think, ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=170

Date: 03/01/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, web

The No Software Patents website has a report on the latest in the software patent saga. Long story short: The European Commission is thumbing its nose (figuratively, of course) at the European Parliament's request to restart the legislative process. As Foundation for a Free Information ...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/index.php?p=169

Date: 03/02/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, google

Hey,

So I made this AIM bot using the PHP:TOC class that plays a word game. See, you give it a word, let's say "cow" and he replies with another 3 letter word that's different from your word by a letter, like "how". It gets its words from a list I found on the internet, about 26,870 words.

Here's the thing: I wanna get it to learn new words. Let's say someone says "mow" after "cow" but it's not in the listing. Right now, it'll say that "mow" isn't a real word, but I want some way of verifying if in fact it is a real word, and adding it to the list. Is there some web API for dictionary.com or something similar I could talk to with PHP?

I'm think Google API might do it, but I haven't gotten to poke around with it yet. Anyone familiar with that API? How easy is it to use with PHP5?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/268380.html

Date: 03/02/05 (Security)    Keywords: web

PayMaxx shuttered additional online services this week, after a Web programmer continued to find holes in the system.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Payroll+firm+pulls+Web+services%2C+citing+data+leak/2100-1009_22-5595316.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 03/01/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, yahoo, google

Too bad their sample request url's do not work! Their width of services is more than google - image, news and video search capability in addition to standard web search. They seem to think that location based search is a separate category. It does offer choice to web services based service providers. However for Yahoo I think [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/finally-yahoo-joins-the-web-services-posse/

Date: 02/19/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

If this works out then no more forgotten passwords for me! Keyloggers will still work. Not only that you can now trick anyone to type on your computer anything and analyse the pattern to figure out his password. Or you could watch over a telnet session, his web access, how he fills an web form etc [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/researchers-claim-that-your-typing-style-can-be-used-for-authentication-security-pipeline/

Date: 02/17/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: database, web

It is a very strong capability to be able to post dynamic content in your blog. You can use this to integrate contents from other websites, fetch data from your database etc. It enables whole plethora of functionalities to your blog posting to make it more lively. A plugin developed by Mark allows you to [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-post-dynamic-content-using-php-on-wordpress-blogs-know-your-ip-address/

Date: 02/15/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

Apple's move to issue subpoenas to PowerPage and Apple Insider brings up the thorny issue of applying the first amendment right to online publications aka blogs. Either way this will be a ground-breaking ruling to look forward to. Happily the subpoenas have already been challenged. Apple's subpoenas challenged in court | CNET News.com Lawyers for news Web [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apple-move-against-insider-news-bloggers-challenged-in-court/

Date: 02/11/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, hosting

I had tried several web hosting providers before settling down. Recently I was checking to see if something better have come up. This post is a summarization of my quest to find the best value for features in web hosting providers. The focus of the review is to identify the key features to look for in [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/web-hosting-recommendations-for-power-users/