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Jul

25

DNS flaw out in the open

By Jason Ashdown

Apparently a new hacking tool exploiting the new DNS flaw has been released to the public. The DNS flaw was only published on the web last week by accident.

It is suggested that if administer your own webserver that you patch against this vulnerability ASAP. Otherwise you don’t know what might happen…

Jul

23

IE Blog publishes interesting article on embedding Fonts

By Jason Ashdown

Link to IE Blog: Font Embedding on the Web

The IE Team talks about how you can embed any type of font you want into your web pages. This has been a highly desirable feature for years but has been a tough one to implement. Read more »

Jul

18

CL Auth reaches maturity with v0.2

By Jason Ashdown

CL Auth is finally in round 2 of BETA testing. BETA v0.2 offers better optimisation, new functions, better documentation and easier customisation. It also quashes some known bugs from the previous BETA.

Download or view the Documentation online.

Jul

4

Yahoo Small Business hikes Domain Renewal prices

By Jason Ashdown

24 hours ago I received an email from Yahoo! Small Business stating my domain renewal quote. To my shock and horror there was an “important notice” stating that they were increasing the renewal price to $34.95!

Thats a whopping increase from $9.95 last year to $34.95. A dramatic 350% increase!

This is the contacts of the email they sent me: Read more »