The new successor to the jpeg image format is called jxl, this allows much higher compression than Jpeg and would be awesome for websites with a lot of images. I found a nice resolution png image and I converted it to webp. This gave me a 55 kilobyte image, compressed from a 1.5 Megabyte png … Read more
There is an alternative to the Google Chrome browser if you are worried about the botnet reporting all of your usage statistics to Google. The Chromium browser will provide a good browsing experience with an open source architecture. The website is here: http://www.chromium.org/Home. This browser is available on Linux and Windows and gives the security … Read more
Why is the infrastructure of countries like Iran under attack, they have been infected with a computer virus that supposedly originated from Israel. This is part of the cyber-terrorism spectre that is looming over the Internet. Firstly they had the Stuxnet virus, that was programmed to attack centrifuges for refining uranium and now this new … Read more
The Google Chrome browser is reportedly logging all downloads to users computers. Google has added some new security functionality to Chrome. Every time that the user downloads a file, the browser will compare it against a white-list of known-good files and publishers. If the file is not in the white-list, its URL will be transmitted … Read more
The Debian distribution I am using is working very well compared to the Ubuntu and Linux Mint distributions that I was using before. I have installed a 3.3 kernel with the Debian kernel packaging commands and built a kernel tarball and a headers tarball that I was then able to install with the dpkg -i … Read more
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/google-fixes-serious-flaws-chrome-including-critical-safe-browsing-bug-012412. Google have repaired a number of flaws in the Google Chrome web browser, including a serious security flaw. But I would rather use the open source Chromium browser instead of the Chrome alternative, considering the security flaws that have been uncovered. I have written about this issue in the past, and I am not … Read more
http://www.precursorblog.com/content/google-chrome-we-dont-need-your-permission. Found this website discussing the Google Chrome web browser, the Google company are apparently using it to open a security hole in users machines, according to the blog. I am not sure about this, but Google Chrome is the most advertised web browser, you see the advertisements everywhere you look, out in the streets … Read more