I spoke to a friend recently who had a nightmare story in osCommerce, where when a new customer signs up, another customers details appeared in their address book. What had happened was the store was copied from another live store, and had the database erased, however entries in the address book table were left. As [...]
Nick Minchin – Look, up in the sky! There’s an ugly downside to Labor’s broadband project http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/look-up-in-the-sky-theres-an-ugly-downside-to-labors-broadband-project-20090705-d93w.html Senator Nick Minchin, Opposition Minister for communications and the digital economy, writes a report for the SMH R.E. the national broadband plan and some already apparent problems. Despite planning to spend $43 billion on its half-baked “Ruddnet” plan, [...]
A serious Internet Explorer 8 exploit has been revealed without a patch yet, described in this article: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx. Anyone who use IE should follow the steps in the article, or better yet take it as one more reason that IE has been and will continue to be the worst choice in web browser.