2013 Software Bookmarks (by date)

05-Apr-2013

• From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology | Ars Technica
• Apple’s iMessage crypto stymies federal eavesdropping of drug suspect | Ars Technica
• System76 - Mfr. of Ubuntu-based computers (in Denver) - [@Wikipedia]

03-Apr-2013

• Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites | Ars Technica
• Rather than recreate Google Drive, Yahoo integrates Dropbox into Mail | Ars Technica
• Build-your-own-Dropbox service AeroFS now open to the masses | Ars Technica
• Firefox turns 20—version 20, that is | Ars Technica
• Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine | Ars Technica

02-Apr-2013

• Appeals court upholds legality of Aereo’s “tiny antennas” scheme | Ars Technica
• 2013 March browser Usage: IE 10 almost doubles its users thanks to Windows 7 release | Ars Technica

31-Mar-2013

• Sent Emails being Blocked [Waytron's response] - CNET E-mail, chat, & VoIP Forums
• Andrew Weissmann: FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power. / @ Slate blogs
• 12 hard truths about cloud computing | Cloud Computing - InfoWorld
• Amazon S3 storage buckets set to 'public' are ripe for data-plundering | Cloud security - InfoWorld

29-Mar-2013

• Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” for smartphones - [Good One!] | Ars Technica
• JSON - [JavaScript Object Notation, std. RFC-4627] - [@Wikipedia]
• RFC 4627 - The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• LibreOffice adoption soaring, but OpenOffice still open source king | Ars Technica
• Apache OpenOffice Downloads [143-MB] - Official Site
• LibreOffice Productivity Suite Download [176-MB] » LibreOffice
• Spamhaus DDoS grows to Internet-threatening size | Ars Technica
• Free Website Builder | Create a Free Website | WIX
• How Spamhaus’ attackers turned DNS into a weapon of mass destruction | Ars Technica

27-Mar-2013

• How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways • The Register
• Microsoft accused of locking out Linux in EU antitrust complaint - [UEFI, again] | Ars Technica

25-Mar-2013

• Schneier on Security: Changes to the Blog - [frustrating the trackers]

24-Mar-2013

• “Stop the Cyborgs” launches public campaign against Google Glass | Ars Technica
• How I became a password cracker - [Good Intro] | Ars Technica

22-Mar-2013

• You Only Click Twice: FinFisher’s Global Proliferation - Citizen LabThe Citizen Lab
• Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software [FinFisher] - NYTimes.com
• FinFisher - [@Wikipedia]
• Open source, Web-based office suite [OX Text, OX Documents by Open-Xchange] takes on Google Docs, LibreOffice | Ars Technica
• How whitehats stopped the DDoS attack that knocked Spamhaus offline | Ars Technica

17-Mar-2013

• Understanding user-agent strings (Internet Explorer)
• Don’t fret: There’s another mobile RSS reader for you out there yet | Ars Technica
• You're just another carriage return line feed in the wall [+ big Endian vs. little Endian] - Scott Hanselman
• Git (software) [revision control / source-code mgmt] - @Wikipedia

15-Mar-2013

• Puzzle box: The quest to crack the world’s most mysterious malware warhead | Ars Technica
• Two new attacks on SSL decrypt authentication cookies | Ars Technica
• Google Reader may very well rise again… as part of Google+ | Ars Technica
• NIST's National Vulnerability Database taken down by vulnerability-exploiting hack | Ars Technica
• Most PC security problems come from unpatched third-party Windows apps | Ars Technica
• Dropbox acquires Mailbox to help grow the Gmail app for iOS quickly | Ars Technica
• Dropbox

13-Mar-2013

• Dropbox 2.0 brings functional drop-down menus to Mac and Windows | Ars Technica
• Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-027 - Important : Vulnerabilities in Kernel-Mode Drivers Could Allow Elevation Of Privilege (2807986)

11-Mar-2013

• [Hoax Alert] To all my FB friends…I want to stay PRIVATELY connected…mouse over my name | facecrooks.com

10-Mar-2013

• Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems [2nd ed.] by Ross Anderson - [Free Book!]
• How to name a variable when the word is both a noun and a verb? | Ars Technica

• An Introduction To The SQLite C/C++ Interface
• SQLite C-lang Interface - Introduction
• An introduction to SQLite, an open source embeddable database - [ shows some DB-admin funcs ;-)]

07-Mar-2013

• Lync 2013 is everything that Skype should be. Why do they both exist? | Ars Technica
• YahooXtra: What actually happened? :: IITP Newsline
• How SSD power faults scramble your data | ZDNet
• Test your SSDs or risk massive data loss, researchers warn | Solid state drives - InfoWorld
• Browser Security Case Study: Appearances Can Be Deceiving - ACM Queue
• The Web Won't Be Safe or Secure until We Break It - ACM Queue

05-Mar-2013

• Ubuntu dumps X window system, creates replacement for PC and mobile | Ars Technica

03-Mar-2013

• Find [Flash] version
• Short algorithm, long-range consequences - MIT News Office
• Browser Stats [Feb-2013] - Chrome hits 17-month low, Windows 8 still only creeping upward | Ars Technica
• Why does automated testing keep failing at my company? | Ars Technica
• How Ars slayed the moonshark: On building and running liveblogs | Ars Technica

28-Feb-2013

• Exploit lets websites bombard visitors’ PCs with gigabytes of data | Ars Technica
• Introducing the HTML5 Hard Disk Filler™ API » Feross.org
• feross/filldisk.js · GitHub

27-Feb-2013

• “There’s a Web for that”—will Firefox OS bring about the end of the app? | Ars Technica
• Linus Torvalds: I will not change Linux to “deep-throat Microsoft” | Ars Technica
• Adobe releases third security update this month for Flash Player | Ars Technica
• PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor -- Oficial Site !
• PHP: A simple tutorial - Manual

25-Feb-2013

• Wireless Broadband Router (GigE) - MI424WR (GigE) - Actiontec
• AT&T-Mozilla “WebPhone” gives a glimpse of the dumb pipe future | Ars Technica
• Why Java APIs aren't the same [copywritable] as a Harry Potter novel | Application development - InfoWorld
• Microsoft seeks patent for spy tech for Skype - Computerworld
• Former Obama advisor argues Comcast is a threat to the open Internet | Ars Technica

20-Feb-2013

• Unusually detailed report links Chinese military to hacks against US | Ars Technica
• Firefox 19 gets a PDF viewer and a couple of bug fixes | Ars Technica
• How Anonymous accidentally helped expose two Chinese hackers | Ars Technica

19-Feb-2013

• Web Served 7: Wiki wiki wiki! | Ars Technica

16-Feb-2013

• Free PDF Reader - Sumatra PDF
• Best PDF Reader - [ Foxit ]
• Foxit Reader for Desktop Linux - Overview
• Evince – Simply a document viewer
• Evince/Downloads - GNOME Live!
• Okular - more than a reader
• Okular - more than a reader - Download
• PDF Readers for Linux: Okular and Evince
• Top 5 PDF Readers for Linux | TechSource
• PDF Readers

• Why Microsoft’s new Office 2013 license may send users to Google Docs | Ars Technica

14-Feb-2013

• Hey Presto, Opera switches to WebKit | Ars Technica
• Thanks, Adobe. Protection for critical zero-day exploit not on by default | Ars Technica
• Adobe - Adobe Reader, free PDF viewer download
• How Facebook Connect took down the Web | App. development - InfoWorld
• Security Engineering - A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems -- [2nd ed. book by Ross Anderson]
• Who needs HP and Dell? Facebook now designs all its own servers | Ars Technica

12-Feb-2013

• How a security ninja cracked the password guarding his most valued assets | Ars Technica
• At Facebook, zero-day exploits, backdoor code bring war games drill to life | Ars Technica
• Linux Foundation ships UEFI Secure Boot workaround -- The Register
• Linux Foundation Secure Boot System Released | James Bottomley's random Pages
• Locking the bad guys out with asymmetric encryption - [Good One!] | Ars Technica

09-Feb-2013

• Adobe issues emergency Flash update for attacks on Windows, Mac users | Ars Technica
• Adobe - Flash Player - Check Current/Latest Version numbers
• Adobe - Install Adobe Flash Player - [Download Latest Version]

• LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks -- The Register
• LibreOffice 4 is here!
• LibreOffice Productivity Suite Download » LibreOffice

• tnef(1) - Linux man page

07-Feb-2013

• Mobile app security: Always keep the back door locked | Ars Technica
• LibreOffice goes for “cleaner and leaner code base” with major update | Ars Technica

05-Feb-2013

• Securing your website: A tough job, but someone’s got to do it | Ars Technica
• “Lucky Thirteen” attack snarfs cookies protected by SSL encryption | Ars Technica
• Adobe - Install Adobe Flash Player
• Twitter looks to add two-factor authentication to stop password hacks | Ars Technica

03-Feb-2013

• Schneier on Security: The Eavesdropping System in Your Computer
• Browser Stats. 2013.01: IE still growing as Windows 7 starts its decline | Ars Technica
• Unpatched Wordpress Instance on Yahoo Blog Leads to Cookie Theft | Bitdefender Labs
• Filthy! old! blog! bug! blamed! for! Yahoo! webmail! hijacks! -- The Register
• Linux boot doesn't smash Samsung laptops any more -- The Register
• How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it -- The Register
• SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics - [@Wikipedia]
• Walls Cave Survey Program Software Texas Speleological Survey TSS Cave Records Publications National Speleological Society Study Group
• Web Served, part 6 [of 7?]: Form the forum | Ars Technica

01-Feb-2013

• How Yahoo allowed hackers to hijack my neighbor’s e-mail account | Ars Technica
• Microsoft continues HTML5 push with “modern.ie” compatibility initiative | Ars Technica
• New map shows how the Internet will travel underwater in 2013 | Ars Technica
• Viruses, Trojans, and worms, oh my: The basics on malware - [Part 2 (of ?)] | Ars Technica
• Booting Linux instead of Windows 8 bricks some Samsung laptops | Ars Technica - [w/ UEFI secure boot mechanism]

30-Jan-2013

• To prevent hacking, disable Universal Plug and Play now | Ars Technica
• Keep it secret, keep it safe: A beginner’s guide to Web safety - [Part 1 of 5] | Ars Technica

26-Jan-2013

• Android app party: Six services to get your files from anywhere | Ars Technica

22-Jan-2013

• How Java dumps useless add-ons and toolbars on PC users | Ars Technica
• The Ed Bott Report | ZDNet
• Ed Bott - [personal blog]
• Disabling Java in Internet Explorer: No easy task | Web browsers - InfoWorld
• MP3 files written as DNA with storage density of 2.2 petabytes per gram | Ars Technica

20-Jan-2013

• The FBI Needs Hackers, Not Backdoors | Wired Opinion | Wired.com

17-Jan-2013

• Red October relied on Java exploit to infect PCs | Ars Technica
• SchoolFeed: The Facebook app everyone needs to avoid [Updated with SchoolFeed's response] | Digital Trends
• $5,000 will buy you access to another, new critical Java vulnerability (Updated) | Ars Technica
• Why Red October malware is the Swiss Army knife of espionage | Ars Technica

14-Jan-2013

• Oracle Ships Critical Security Update for Java — Krebs on Security
• Massive espionage malware [Red October] targeting governments undetected for 5 years | Ars Technica

12-Jan-2013

• Ask Ars: Does Facebook auto-delete content after a certain period of time? | Ars Technica
• java.com: Java + You -- [And, test whether you have Java]
• What You Need to Know About the Java Exploit — Krebs on Security

09-Jan-2013

• A List Apart: Articles: CSS Positioning 101 | CSS Floats 101
• Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites | Ars Technica

04-Jan-2013

• Browser Stats - Dec 2012 - IE ends the year on a high, Windows 8 slow to get noticed | Ars Technica
• Examining Sony’s Internet-free method for blocking used game sales | Ars Technica
• IPv6 takes one step forward, IPv4 two steps back in 2012 | Ars Technica

02-Jan-2013

• What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks -- The Register
• NoSQL's CAP theorem busters: We don't drop ACID -- The Register

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