Archive for July 19th, 2009

Diggbar links now land on Digg instead of original sources

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 0 views

Digg users recently noticed some interesting new behavior related to Digg’s shortURL service, the Diggbar: instead of shortlinks going directly to their destinations, logged-out users who click them will now land on the corresponding Digg.com page. Sure, that’s a lot of new traffic for Digg, but it’s problematic because the change was never announced, and users who generate Digg links might not know where they’re pointing. Some folks are reasonably upset about the change, including Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, who posted the headline, ” Digg Just Hijacked Your Twitter Links. ” Mashable got confirmation from a Digg representative that the change wasn’t a glitch, but was working as intended. After the Mashable post went up, though, Digg’s Kevin Rose posted on Twitter that he had been on vacation and was not aware of the change . This story is still developing, but I suspect it will end with Digg going back to its old way of handling short links. Original source: www.pheedcontent.com , delivered by rss-farm.ru

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Firefox security questioned again as another exploit surfaces

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 0 views

What’s going on here, Mozilla? It’s only been a couple days since the Firefox 3.5.1 update was released to address a critical vulnerability in the Javascript JIT compiler and there’s already a new exploit causing quite a ruckus . You can actually hear the chuckles coming from Redmond if you listen closely. It would be unreasonable to assume that the first patch for Firefox 3.5 would make it bulletproof. Still, after the long delays that proceeded its release the rapid discovery of two such vulnerabilities is a bit surprising. Past releases of the browser have had their share of security issues as well, but as Firefox becomes more popular its security shortcomings are going to be much more publicly exhibited. It’s interesting to note that Secunia has still yet to post a single exploit for Chrome 3 . If you’re security minded, now might be a good time to take it for a test drive.

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