In October 2007 Electric News reported that a vulnerability had been discovered with Eircom supplied DSL modem/routers. This was based on some clever investigative work by Kevin Devine in September of that year. It allowed an attacker to deduce the…

Time to revisit this post-Lisbon… Did you know: Eurolinux collected over 400,000 signatures supporting a petition for a software patent-free Europe That petition has now expired and they need your support Our own EU-Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy, is completely misinformed about…

In April 2009, Oracle announced that it had agreed to acquire Sun. Since Sun had acquired MySQL the previous year, this would mean that Oracle, the market leader for closed source databases, would get to own MySQL, the most popular…

…or watch out for the Muppets… Again and again get a very similar request: Can you move/fix/migrate/upgrade our web site please? … and every time I get a similar reason for the request: There was a bloke who used to…

Recently we were asked by a client to migrate a web site from one server to another. The web site in question was built on a Content Management System (CMS) called Joomla – a CMS written in PHP and using…

A long overdue of SeeITs’ website. My colleague Simon Stewart in CIC made the very valid point that a web programmer should show something more on his website than a page of largely static text and a broken contact form.…