TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Web of Trust (WOT), the popular online security community and site rating add-on, has just announced that their extension for Safari is now officially available, thanks to the new Safari 5 supporting extensions. WOT for Safari Due to the gray color scheme of the Safari toolbars, the extension is slightly different than it is on other browsers. The colored icon fades after a few seconds. When you visit... 

SugarSync’s referral terms have been updated allowing users to keep their referral bonus for the life of their account. Read more about this here. Hooray! Remember our recent First Class Flyer comparison between file syncing utilities and how I mentioned that Dropbox and SugarSync both gave 250 MB bonus space per referral? Well, thanks to information by commenter Skeezicks, it turns out SugarSync... 

“In order to access certain Services, you may be required to provide information about yourself (such as identification or contact details) as part of the registration process for the Service, or as part of your continued use of the Services. You agree that any registration information you give will always be accurate, correct and up to date. After reading a 12 page Terms of Service, you'll... 

Plugins are a major cause of browser security problems due to vulnerabilities especially with older versions. Just recently, a critical security vulnerability has been uncovered in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin, a component of Java. The vulnerability is caused due to an input sanitation error in the Java Deployment Toolkit browser plugin. This can be exploited to pass arbitrary arguments... 

Do you want to browse the web without a trace? Easy! Just use your browser’s Private Browsing Mode! Wrong! So “private” mode isn’t really “private”? Well, in a way, no, it’s not. Even in Private Mode, you’re still leaving traces behind. Isn’t Clearing the Browser ‘Private Data’ Enough? Modern browsers contain a feature known as ‘Clear... 

How many unique online passwords do you have? If your answer is one or two, you either need to get out on the web more, or the more likely answer, you are using the same password for everything, a very poor but popular security practice. Users, myself included, often use the same password for everything because they are afraid of forgetting them. That’s when password managers come in. Most modern... 

URL shortening services such as bit.ly and TinyURL are becoming more and more popular these days for Twitter links… and for spreading malware. What’s that? Malware? These services have gained popularity on Twitter where users have to send links in less than 140 characters combined with their message. The problem is that users have no idea whats actaully behind the links. The message could... 

WordPress uses a configuration file named wp-config.php, which contains your database name and password in it, as well as other data such as your table prefix and your secret auth keys (as of WordPress 2.6). Normally when a user attempts to load wp-config.php directly, they will be faced with a blank page. However, what happens if there is a server problem with PHP which can happen and has happened...