PHP Programming

Computing with Secrets, but Keeping them Safe

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:20:20 +0000

A cryptographic method could see cloud services work with sensitive data without ever decrypting it. By Tom Simonite

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25537

A novel technique could see future Web services work with sensitive data without ever being able to read it. Several implementations of a mathematical proof unveiled just last year will allow cryptographers to start [...]

Will Apple’s Latest Browser Hurt Publishers?

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:26:07 +0000

Removing ads from Web pages may be an attempt to push content creators toward the iPad and iPhone. By Stephen Cas

The latest version of Apple’s Web browser, Safari 5, sports a feature called “Reader” that concatenates the multi-page articles seen on most news sites (including Technology Review‘s) into a single scrollable window. [...]

Security Breach Exposes 114,000 iPad Owners

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:06:58 +0000

An AT&T security breach has exposed the email addresses of thousands of elite iPad customers including the White Chief of Staff.

According to ValleyWag, the breach, which comes just weeks after an Apple employee lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, exposed the most exclusive email list on the planet, a collection [...]

iPad Set on Fire By Four Blowtorches

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 10:06:09 +0000

Project Green Apple has set an iPad on fire to draw attention to the N-Hexane poisonings at Wintek.

A Flying Robot that Perches, Flips and Dives

admin — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0000

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/tags/surveillance/

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could help the military carry out surveillance in unknown territory or first responders look for survivors after a disaster. The trick is making them agile enough to pull off daredevil aerobatic maneuvers.

Daniel Mellinger, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Laboratory have [...]

PHP Remains Strong Despite Security Flaws

admin — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:47:39 +0000

Over the course of May, the PHP community was hit with a barrage of more than 60 security issues. The security assault was all part of the Month of PHP Security (MOPS) effort, which disclosed the flaws.

But even after so many identified security issues in MOPS, PHP experts argue that the language [...]

Keystroke Recorder and Monitor for Mac OS X

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:06:36 +0000

http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=9756 Wednesday, 2nd June 2010, 08:06 am ProteMac has announced the release and immediate availability of ProteMac KeyBag 2.2. ProteMac KeyBag is a stealth keystroke monitor and recorder for your Mac computer. KeyBag runs in the background, completely undetectable by the user so it won’t interfere with way you work on [...]

Google ditches Windows on security concerns

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:26:59 +0000

By David Gelles and Richard Waters in San Francisco Published: May 31 2010 23:26 | Last updated: May 31 2010 23:26

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2f3f04e-6ccf-11df-91c8-00144feab49a.html

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Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous [...]

.htaccess tips and tricks

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:12:05 +0000

<ifModule> clever stuff here</ifModule> Introduction to .htaccess..

This work in constant progress is some collected wisdom, stuff I’ve learned on the topic of .htaccess hacking, commands I’ve used successfully in the past, on a variety of server setups, and in most cases still do. You may have to tweak the examples some to get the desired result, [...]

Engraved Bricks & Laser Impressions Brick Campaigns

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:38:13 +0000

With over 30 years of Experience Engravedbricks.com is run and operated by Laser Impressions, Inc. Laser Impressions Inc. is the most experienced laser engraving company in the US and a pioneer of advanced laser engraving technologies and applications. Their slogan is “If you can make it, we can mark it!”

Engraved Bricks requested new websites [...]