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Leading anti-spam operation, Spamhaus is threatened with losing its domain name, which would effectively put it out of business. The challenge comes from a company that says that blacklisting by Spamhaus had caused it lost business and jobs.
In September an Illinois court awarded e360 Insight damages against Spamhaus to the tune of $11,715,000 and [...]

One of the hackers who demonstrated exploit code for a vulnerability in the way the Firefox browser handles JavaScript at a hacker conference in San Diego admitted yesterday that the presentation was meant to be a joke, according to the chief of security for Mozilla.

There are many reports, some of which are linked below which [...]

SAN DIEGO–The open-source Firefox Web browser is critically flawed in the way it handles JavaScript, two hackers said Saturday afternoon.
An attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference [...]

 
Link to Writer Zone: Introducing Windows Live Writer
I have been blogging with Google’s Blogger and Wordpress for some time now, and the two platforms have their strengths and weaknesses. Both however require some HTML knowhow to achieve the presentation I would like, and different approaches to get there.
I recently ”stumbled” however upon Windows Live Writer, which is essentially [...]

For a couple of months now we have been managing, tweaking and refining our steel search swicki, (the search box to the left of this posting).
The principal behind a swicki, is that the users refine the results to improve relevancy. Whilst in the early days the swicki gives the same general type of results that [...]

As described in his inimitable style over at the Tinbasher, Mr. Woodster has finally got his grubby, metal bashing mitts on his visa! In early September subject to his luggage being clear of bomb making paraphernalia, black pudding, and welding equipment he will be heading west to the land of the free. Quite what [...]

Spam comments and trackbacks are a “pain in the arse” for anyone who writes a blog or who maintains a publicly accessible message board. The “pond life” types that leave their shite all over the web, do so to create spurious links to their pathetic sites from which they hope to gain advertising revenue. Not [...]

There is a new blog on the block! Danny Schaeffler (President Engineering Quality Solutions, Inc.) has started a blog about sheet steel/aluminum and how they are used.
Entitled “The future is forming” I look forward to another opportunity to see discussion amongst steel users. I will add the link to our blogroll on the right.

If you are as “fed up” as me with annoying flash animations popping up all over the screen, and you use Firefox (If not why not?), then you can get a break from the annoying little buggers. Pop over here and download this nifty little extension and goodbye flash
Make sure you are running [...]

I have just installed a message board on our server. Whilst web logs are a great way to disseminate news and opinions, and do offer the facility for comments, message boards remain a more suitable vehicle for discussions.
For anyone not familiar with them, they provide a forum for individuals from around the world with the [...]