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PHP 4 end of life

You probably already heard but just to make sure:
The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please […]

Hackers attack DNS root servers

Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
Experts said the unusually powerful attacks lasted as long as 12 hours but passed largely unnoticed by most computer users, a testament to the resiliency of the […]

EveryDns.net denial of service (DoS) attacks

From the EveryDns.net site:
EveryDNS suffered a large Denial of Service attack starting on Friday, December 1st. We have taken steps to mitigate the attack and service was restored within a few hours. There will be a more complete writeup posted on Monday, December 4th, 2006. This was our first major outage due to a DoS […]

Firefox 2.0 release

The new and shiny Firefox 2.0 will be available for download next tuesday on GetFirefox.com.
New features include:

Improved user interface
Anti-phishing features
Inline spell checking
New bookmarks and history system

What’s still missing in my opinion is resuming a failed download. With my big ass cable connection I tend to be so lazy that I download complete ISO’s with firefox. […]