30th January 2010 Archive

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• Google moves to extend DNS protocol

  Geo loco revamp

  Google has teamed with DNS maven Neustar to propose an extension to the net's existing Domain Name System protocol, hoping to improve the way the protocol maps web users to particular data centers. The news comes little more than a month after the web giant cum world power sensationally entered the DNS resolution business with …

  Networks 30 Jan 01:25

• Firefox-based attack wreaks havoc on IRC users

  World's first inter-protocol exploit, but not the last

  Underscoring a little-known web vulnerability, hackers are exploiting a weakness in the Mozilla Firefox browser to wreak havoc on Freenode and other networks that cater to users of internet relay chat. Using a piece of javascript embedded into a web link, the hackers force users of the open-source browser to join IRC networks …

  Enterprise Security 30 Jan 01:41

• Mozilla's Firefox syncer Weaves out of beta

  Separate machines, same settings

  Mozilla has released the first official non-beta version of Weave, the open source "sync everything, everywhere" add-on for Firefox. The release is the culmination of the Mozilla Labs' Weave project's web-wide test flight, the last leg of which began with the synchronization utility's first beta release of version 1.0 last …

  Music and Media 30 Jan 06:54

• Adobe heats up iPad Flash bash

  Updated The web without pr0n? Unthinkable!

  The Flash mob over at Adobe has escalated its attack on Apple for Cupertino's refusal to allow Flash on the iPad. If one picture is worth a thousand words, one Flasher has just launched a 12,000-word volley of derision. On TheFlashBlog, Adobe platform evangelist Lee Brimelow's web site for all things Flashy, you can now find …

  Mobile 30 Jan 06:55

• Mozilla unfurls first mobile Firefox

  'Fennec' on Maemo

  Mozilla has officially released the first mobile Firefox, a condensed version of the popular open-source browser that runs on Nokia's Maemo platform. Codenamed 'Fennec,' Firefox 1.0 for Maemo was previously available only as a beta. Mozilla calls this the first mobile web browser to accomodate add-ons - long a staple of the …

  Mobile 30 Jan 07:32