A French web analytics
institute, XiTi Monitor, has published its browser barometer for July ’07 and it shows Internet Explorer continues to lose ground.
The ascension of Firefox continues…
Nearly 28% average use rate in Europe in the beginning of July 2007, with a progression in the totality of the 32 European countries studied.
Firefox use has increased in all European countries and actually also in all continents. Good news for webdesigners worldwide and also s win for the free software movement. Although it won’t force Microsoft to fix Internet Explorer, it will make web developers think twice about the IE-only designs that still exist. Hopefully some short-sighted companies will realize the size of the population they’re ignoring.
Having had my share of harddisk disasters, I wanted to find a backup method for my server, as well as my macbook and desktop pc.
I have been backing up my entire server to a secondary internal harddisk with rsnapshot, which is a very space efficient backup script for Linux/Unix systems. It works great and is easy to setup, but I didn’t feel very safe however, since all backups were done to an old local drive, that could fail just as easily as the main drive. Also, there was no protection against fire or theft. The same goes for my macbook and my desktop, which were not backupped at all.
Read on for the cheap and secure solution I found…
Not a word… :-)
(from the Game Boy around the world series by cybjorg)
A few months ago I noticed the amounts of spam my server was receiving kept increasing. It wasn’t exactly a lot, as it’s a private server, and dspam filtered most of it. However, the mailserver was spending most of it’s time doing stupid things, so I tried some tweaks to the Postfix server and learned a lot in the process. Read the full article for the story…
An interesting experiment in a recent security audit at a credit union reveals how vulnerable companies are because of their networks.
The companies’ employees had apparently been tipped of that there was going to be a security audit, including use of Social Engineering techniques, so the auditors knew the regular tactics of chatting people up wouldn’t work. They tried a simpler, more risk-free method that appeared to work very well.
They collected 20 old USB thumbdrives, and wrote a trojan that would collect data and send it to the auditors. The usb-sticks were filled with some images and the trojan, and strewn around the building. Within hours 15 of them had been plugged into the corporate network and were sending passwords and other data.
Of course, this is nothing new, it could have been floppy disks as well, but what surprised me was the high succes rate. The most interresting thing was that this method required a lot less work and risk (of being arrested, etc.) than the regular methods.
I like having direct internet acces at my workplace, but this makes you wonder how long we’re going to be enjoying that privilege. Companies will surely become more paranoid in the future.
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