Gmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
Tag Archive for 'bugs'
Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 8 CommentsUbuntu’s Buggy Support for non-ext3fs Partitions
Published by January 28th, 2008 in Linux, Software 10 CommentsFor the past several months, our support forums have been plagued on and off with a number of weird and inexplicable failed attempts at installing Ubuntu by many users. We’ve finally pinned down the cause of the problem, and it isn’t pretty. Ubuntu (ever since version 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog) will not install properly on a [...]
Vista’s Purple Screen of Death
Published by December 3rd, 2007 in Design, Software, Windows 21 CommentsWe’ve all heard of (and, quite unfortunately, experienced) the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Some of us who tested the earlier Windows Vista beta builds had the unique experience of trying out the Red of Screen Death, which occurred when the bootloader experienced an un-handled exception (we experienced more than our fair share of these [...]
1&1, popular website hosting service and domain name registrar, have a very serious problem with their nameserver configuration web interface.
We’re hosting our own domains with 1and1 (pointing to our dedicated servers hosted with the excellent and much-recommended Lunarpages), and were attempting to reconfigure our nameservers to point to a different IP address. We went into [...]
eAccelerator PHP Extension Isn’t Thread-Safe…
Published by September 10th, 2007 in Programming, Software, Windows 5 CommentsFor all the Windows-bound PHP users out there, consider yourselves warned: even if you’re running the (supposedly) thread-safe PHP Win32 binary redistribution, you’re still susceptible to PHP Access Violation Errors, race problems, heap corruption, and much worse if you use the popular eAccelerator opcode-caching extension.
We did our testing with the binaries compiled by SiteBuddy using the [...]
Windows Vista has a new color-management/profiling format called Windows Color Systems. It purports to offer advanced color management and better results than the age-old (and forever dying) ICC/ICM color system. ICC has been buggy the whole way, with both political and technical issues plaguing its colorful history.
Windows Color Systems is a step in the right [...]
Windows XP’s Repulsive “Hidden ToolTip” Bug… Fixed!
Published by June 26th, 2007 in NeoSmart Technologies, Software, Windows 30 Comments(UPDATE: ToolTipFixer 1.0.1 released with fixes for some bugs)
Press Start | Programs; and right-click on “Accessories,” then press “Open.” Close the window that opens up, then go to your taskbar (next to the system clock) and hover over an icon, what do you see?
Ever since Microsoft invented the Windows Shell with explorer.exe back in the [...]
SetPoint 4.00 and Vista USBPort.sys BSODs
Published by June 12th, 2007 in Hardware, Software, Windows 7 CommentsThese driver problems with Windows Vista and various manufacturers just keep going from bad to worse. Whether it’s a graphics card, printer, or mouse; Vista seems to BSOD right, left, and center at the slightest provocation.
If you’re using Windows Vista and you’ve been getting a ton of blank blue screens (more on that later), and [...]
SharpDevelop “invalid EventMemberSpecifier” Error & Solution
Published by June 3rd, 2007 in Guides, Programming 5 CommentsThe Problem
SharpDevelop, for those of you that haven’t heard of it, is a very light-weight open source alternative to Visual Studio 2005. It doesn’t have all the frills and features that Microsoft’s professional IDE does, but in exchange it gives you much less bloat, faster speeds, and quite a few nifty built-in tools like SVN [...]
Apparently Windows Vista saw our last post - it’s trying to get even! What kind of crazy sociapath of an operating system is this!?!
Not even minutes after we blogged about WGA giving us trouble, explorer.exe crashed. After some CPR, a bit of mouth-to-mouth (it was disgusting!), and plenty of swearing, explorer.exe was successfully revived… Until [...]
