Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords (news.com)
Malware attacks IE users via pop-ups (the Register)
Enough is enough. You owe it to everyone you know to tell them to install Firefox — and to install it for them, if they don’t know how.
The Realtime Death Counter is a Javascript program that tabulates deaths worldwide, catagorised by 69 different causes, second by second.
Apart from a sobering reminder of human mortality, the counter highlights the proportion of deaths due to preventable causes.
CERT recommends anything but IE
US CERT (the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team), is advising people to ditch Internet Explorer and use a different browser after the latest security vulnerability in the software was exposed.
Update Not unusually, The Register report is inaccurate — the advice to avoid Internet Explorer came from The Internet Storm Center, run by the SANS Institute. It’s still sound advice, though.
Update In fact, CERT does give the same advice:
There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating to the IE domain/zone security model, the DHTML object model, MIME type determination, and ActiveX. It is possible to reduce exposure to these vulnerabilities by using a different web browser, especially when browsing untrusted sites.
On the day that a million flags of St. George mysteriously disappeared from England’s streets, Roger McGough pens an “Auden-esque dirge” to our team’s untimely exit from Euro 2004:
Paint the goalposts black
Lower the corner flag
Fly them at halfmast
Our lads defeated, but not outclassed
Rooney in pain
No Wayne, no game
Supporters openly break down and weep
Football heroes long dead
Stir in their sleep
Wipe the cross of St. George off the face of the moon
Blow the final whistle
Play the last post
Then raise your glass
And drink a toast to England
by a grocer from Zurich. Still, it’s only a game.
In England, football is the new religion (via Dan on Everything)
An Austrian company has a solution to public opposition to phone masts — by disguising them as trees, chimneys or church-top crucifixes “The churches actually don’t like it so much,” said Susanne Satzer-Spree, a Vodafone spokeswoman.
. No wonder, from the picture at the top of the article.
Our Friend, the Meter, a list of web sites that state incorrect values for converting metres to inches — including, rather alarmingly, a number of government and scientific sites.
For the record, 1 inch is by definition, both in the UK and the US 25.4 millimeters, making 1 metre equal to 39.37 inches to 2 decimal places.