It has been 2 weeks since the much hyped FireFox 3 has been launched. Mozilla claims to have logged in excess of 20.3 million downloads until now. The browser saw 8 million downloads within the first 24-hours of its release. This download feat is considered as a the most downloaded file in a single day and is being considered for inclusion in the Guinness Book of Records. Amidst all the hype it has created, did the new version live up to everyone’s expectations or was it just old wine in a new bottle? Lets have a breakdown of what the new version offers! (more…)
Using CAPTCHA once was a good method to stop spam. Now that spam bots have gotten much more advanced some websites try to advance their CAPTCHA images to a point where they are unrecognizable.
Recently when trying to access a file on a popular file download site I came across this CAPTCHA:
Is it just me or do the cats look like dogs and the dogs look like cats? It took me 4 times to finally get the correct letter combination.
The fight again spam continues at SharkSpace! Last week we have reviewed SpamAssassin, a wonderful tool that can block the obvious spam and keep your inbox clean. However, preventing spam at the first place itself can cut off a major part of the spam that comes to your email address. You can achieve that by following some “anti-spam” practices which we will review in this blog. (more…)
Spam is annoying for everyone and lot of time is spent for finding the legitimate emails. Spammers find new ways to circumvent spam filters and hence an intelligent system for blocking spam is the need of the hour. Fortunately, there is an excellent weapon in the war against spam, one which is very popular and free, called SpamAssassin.
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Security is of utmost importance to SharkSpace and we have taken every step
to ensure the integrity of your data. However, the fact is that web servers
cannot be completely secured, particularly since it is always connected to
the Internet. The world of internet security is an evolving landscape, and
perfect security is nothing more than a pipe dream. There is always a “weak
link” in a networked system and it needs to be protected. The weakest link
in a web server is usually outdated scripts which have vulnerabilities or
files which have incorrect permissions/ownership that (more…)
