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10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:

Dealzmodo Hack: Making iTunes Work For You


There was a time in the distant past when iTunes was a nice basic music manager for devices made by Creative and others, when DRM-laced music and video was just a dream in some lawyer's eye. Now, after the explosion of iPhones and iPods and the proliferation of legal media downloading, iTunes has become a necessary choice for music and video organizing. But as much as the player has improved since 2001, it's still annoyingly limited, throwing up barriers for enthusiasts and casual users alike. Lucky for us (and despite Apple's lack of cooperation), plenty of hacks, tweaks and add-ons can help fill the gaps—for both Mac OS and Windows. Here are some of the best:

FT.com / Video & Audio / Interactive graphics – Quantitative easing explained


As the world suffers its worst recession since the second world war, policy makers are searching for the best tools to limit the downturn. Central banks have rapidly lowered interest rates in order to reduce the cost of borrowing. The hope is to stimulate spending in the economy now.

So far, it has been to no avail. Confidence disappeared from banks, companies and households in the autumn of 2008 and unemployment is rising fast in 2009. Without an obvious source of fresh demand, central banks are moving to open the way to more unorthodox approaches to address the crisis.

One of those is quantitative easing. Our interactive feature explains how quantitative easing works and how this policy may stimulate the economy.

Bet Your Bottom Dollar on 99 Cents – NYTimes.com


Academics have offered a variety of psychological explanations. One study, by Robert M. Schindler, a professor of marketing at the Rutgers School of Business, found that consumers “perceive a 9-ending price as a round-number price with a small amount given back.” Researchers have also found that prices ending in .99 communicate “low price” to consumers.

Can a person be scared to death?: Scientific American


A Charlotte, N.C., man was charged with first-degree murder of a 79-year-old woman whom police said he scared to death. In an attempt to elude cops after a botched bank robbery, the Associated Press reports that 20-year-old Larry Whitfield broke into and hid out in the home of Mary Parnell. Police say he didn't touch Parnell but that she died after suffering a heart attack that was triggered by terror. Can the fugitive be held responsible for the woman's death? Prosecutors said that he can under the state's so-called felony murder rule, which allows someone to be charged with murder if he or she causes another person's death while committing or fleeing from a felony crime such as robbery—even if it's unintentional.

7 Essential SEO Cheat Sheets


You can’t remember everything especially with that huge amount of new information we consume daily. It is always great to have a few sheets that list most essential data we often need to deal with. Below I am listing a few cool cheat sheets most SEOs will find useful:

The Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF/XSRF) FAQ


Cross Site Request Forgery works by exploiting the trust that a site has for the user. Site tasks are usually linked to specific urls (Example: http://site/stocks?buy=100&stock=ebay) allowing specific actions to be performed when requested. If a user is logged into the site and an attacker tricks their browser into making a request to one of these task urls, then the task is performed and logged as the logged in user. Typically an attacker will embed malicious HTML or JavaScript code into an email or website to request a specific 'task url' which executes without the users knowledge, either directly or by utilizing a Cross-site Scripting Flaw. Injection via light markup languages such as BBCode is also entirely possible. These sorts of attacks are fairly difficult to detect potentially leaving a user debating with the website/company as to whether or not the stocks bought the day before was initiated by the user after the price plummeted.

Mind – Interruption Can Make an Experience Better – NYTimes.com


Maybe they don’t. In two new studies, researchers who study consumer behavior argue that interrupting an experience, whether dreary or pleasant, can make it significantly more intense.

“The punch line is that commercials make TV programs more enjoyable to watch. Even bad commercials,” said Leif Nelson, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of California, San Diego, and a co-author of the new research. “When I tell people this, they just kind of stare at me, in disbelief. The findings are simultaneously implausible and empirically coherent.”

The Economic Value of Popularity – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com


They find that each extra close friend in high school is associated with earnings that are 2 percent higher later in life after controlling for other factors. While not a huge effect, it does suggest that either that a) the same factors that make you popular in high school help you in a job setting, or b) that high-school friends can do you favors later in life that will earn you higher wages.

WP Framework: A blank WordPress Theme Framework


WP Framework is a blank WordPress Theme Framework that’s everything you need, nothing you don’t. Download it now, visit the support forums, or learn more!

Thematic Version 0.9—The Best Version Yet


Thematic version 0.9 represents a major change in Thematic. Actually, this release represents everything I’ve learned from the Thematic user community and my continual efforts in studying how most WordPress themes are actually used.

Thematic is all about you: what you want to do with it, how you’re using WordPress, and how you’re going to use it to meet your online goals.

Head to the Thematic download page and get it now or keep reading and find out what the story is with the best version yet of your favorite WordPress Theme Framework.

5 Plugins to Keep WordPress Secure


Some days ago a reader asked Daniel for advice when his blog got hacked. Daniel recommended some good security measures to keep WordPress safe. In case you missed it, read the post here: What if my WordPress Blog Got Hacked with the Google Redirect?

I applied the security measures that Daniel suggested and also searched for plugins that could help.

15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress | How-To | Smashing Magazine


Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to create what most people would call a social media revolution. By the very nature of the short messages it hosts, Twitter is a wonderful marketing and promotion tool that no serious blogger can ignore.

In this article, we have compiled 15 most useful Twitter plug-ins, hacks and tips for WordPress to help you get the most out of Twitter in your WordPress blog.

StepTree


StepTree is a 3D file system visualizer. It draws on ideas from the last 15 or so years of research on a type of space filling visualization called Tree-Maps (first introduced in the early nineties by Ben Shneiderman). StepTree is basically a Tree-Map extended into three dimensions where the size of files and directories is mapped to area in the visualization. Thus the area of a directory in the visualization is an aggregate of the sizes of all its descendants (subdirectories and files).

One analogy is that of boxes stacked on top of each other on a warehouse floor. You might think of it as a hierarchical pile of boxes where the area of boxes at the top of a pile (lowest in the hierarchy) adds to the base area of the entire pile. The height of the boxes on each level is fixed (as this makes it easier to discriminate between levels in the hierarchy).

Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe.


A lot of cities look at Silicon Valley and ask "How could we make something like that happen here?" The organic way to do it is to establish a first-rate university in a place where rich people want to live. That's how Silicon Valley happened. But could you shortcut the process by funding startups?

Possibly. Let's consider what it would take.

The first thing to understand is that encouraging startups is a different problem from encouraging startups in a particular city. The latter is much more expensive.

Can hackers be created? :: Based on our suggested required attributes – Defcon Forums


Based on our discussion of suggested required attributes for people to have in order to become hackers, is it possible for hackers to be created? Are there cases where a middle-ground of people that are not (yet) hackers can become hackers, and if so, how many people could become hackers? Is it possible with sufficient education for anyone to become a hacker?

Syn: USB Enumerator vs USB Hacksaw


Recently a mate at work commented that he got a bit stuck with the whole U3 hacksaw / switchblade kurfuffle. Well I still had original my U3 set up from a couple of years ago after watching the Hak.5 show (Series 2 if your interested), but I thought it needed a bit of a refresh.

Being inspired by DarkOperators Metasploit scripts for enumeration I decided to set up the U3 to use what god gave us, okay what Microsoft gave us, built in tools. But more specifically, built in tools for computer & network enumeration.

So what's the point to this I hear you ask, well after using my Hacksaw here and there and seeing it detected by AV now and then I figured that for it to be as stealthy as possible a few modifications were in order.

Online Extra: How Harvard Gets its Best and Brightest


THREE-PART PLAN. Certainly Harvard's results are the envy of higher education. For the class of 2010, which will start in September, Harvard received a near-record 23,000 applications. Of these, it accepted a mere 2,100—or just 9%—ranking it as the nation's most selective college. Even more impressive, some 80% of the chosen ultimately decided to attend Harvard—a yield rate that is easily the highest among colleges and universities. By contrast, a handful of other elites—including Yale and Stanford—have yield rates around 70%. But even such well-known schools as Williams, Duke, and Dartmouth have yields of 50% or less.

mental_floss Blog » 9 Bizarre Moments in Economic History


In the last 2,000 years, commodity shortages, financial speculation, wars, famines, and outright manias have created some pretty strange economic behavior throughout the world. Here are nine examples.

Alex Payne — al3x's Rules for Computing Happiness


danieltenner.com — College vs Start-up


My opinion on the subject is simple: if you have a thirst for learning, and you don’t have to enter the workforce immediately (i.e. you can afford, somehow, a degree, without being financially irresponsible), then you absolutely should go to university, even if you have a start-up that you could work on right away. This is not because you need the degree for your future career, but because it’s a great thing to spend your next 4 years on.

Here’s a breakdown of reasons why you should go to university rather than work on your start-up

Genchi Genbutsu: Do You Really Understand It? | Lean Six Sigma Academy


In chapter 12 of Jeffrey Liker’s must read book The Toyota Way we meet Yuji Yokoya who was the chief engineer for the 2004 Toyota Sienna redesign.

Since Mr. Yokoya had never worked on a vehicle destined for the North American and parts of the South American market he asked his superiors if he could go to gemba to learn.

They approved… and boy did he ever go!

You see, Mr. Yokoya set off to drive a Sienna in all 50 American states as well as all 13 provinces in Canada. He also spent some time on the streets of Mexico.

Computer Stupidities: Stupid Tech Support


By no means is tech support immune to exhibiting computer stupidity of their own. This page consists of stories of customers that just can't get the help they need.

How to Design a Security Strategy (and Why You Must) – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership


Approaching senior executives and the board with a sound business plan and project roadmap for security significantly increases the odds of getting funding—and eliminating the frustration that comes with allocating money to ad hoc security efforts and achieving the predictable, lackluster results.

10 Worst Things to Say in the Workplace – Careers Articles


"It's a social environment as well as a work environment. However, you must remember: While you can be friendly and develop a good rapport, business is business and friendship is friendship."

These days, your job security is unstable enough as it is. The last thing you need is to make an off-the-cuff remark that gets you fired (or shunned from the likes of your co-workers). To help keep your career on track, here are 10 things you should never say or discuss in the workplace:

How To: Rip Blu-ray Discs


Included digital copies are still the exception rather than the norm in the Blu-ray world. Lame. You'd like to rip those discs for playback elsewhere, right? But there is something you should know first.

And that is this: Ripping Blu-ray discs sucks. Hard. It takes forever, eats up a ton of hard drive space, and for all practical purposes requires software that isn't free. It's like trying to rip a DVD in 1999: computers still have a long way to go before this is easy.

But just because it's hard doesn't mean it's impossible, and once your system is set up it's something you can start before you go to bed and have finished for you in the morning. Here we've outlined exactly what you need to rip your 1080p Blu-ray discs (the ones you own, of course) and then convert the video into a more manageable file size for watching on a computer, phone, game console or PMP. Because hey, you own this movie, and you should be able to watch it on whatever device you want.

13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer – Opensource, Free and Useful Online Resources for Designers and Developers


n the search of free resources, We always works really hard to bring all those stuffs that could help others. We mainly focuses that all the resource should be attractive and useful for everyone in anyway. There are countless free stuffs available for designers which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 13 Most Desirable Collection Of Free Resources For Every Designer.

Examples of Malaysian Companies and Brands Using Social Media | GreyReview


From GreyReview’s Social Media Malaysia Observatory: 177 (and counting) Malaysian companies / brands spotted in the social media universe.

Installing and Running Rootkit Hunter in Linux – Computer and Network Security, Mamak Style


Yesterday I received a phone call from a friend and he said his server has been attacked. He mentioned that the server is generating 50Mbps of outgoing traffic and would like me to perform a root cause analysis.

In fact, within few minutes I am able to find the root cause to this incident. I had successfully bring the server into a clean state. The exploit to this incident is because of an un-patch Apache 2.0.59. However, I would like to introduce the Rootkit Hunter 1.3.4 scanning tool here which I used to scan the server.

» The Top 75 Blog Posts on using Twitter in Marketing / Social Media Spotlight Ideas


For both beginners, and seasoned users, of Twitter, and for users in general who would like to plan or improve their social media / marketing strategy using Twitter.

Work in progress – will be updating as the best blog posts on Twitter are published (entries added to the original 75 list will be marked with a “+“)

13 Unsolved scientific puzzles – Times Online


Author Michael Books has investigated some of the most puzzling anomalies of modern science, those intractrable problems that refuse to conform to the theories. Here he counts down the 13 strangest.

Silverknife – Technology and Making: Cloud Computing for Beginners, Part 1: Introduction


Cloud computing has actually been possible since the development of the first modem. In fact, early networked computer systems were closer to cloud computing than our modern day desktop setup. Data and applications were stored and run centrally on huge mainframe computers, and users connected to them with a very simple "dumb terminal" which was too low-powered to run programs by itself, and merely took keyboard input from the user to the mainframe and brought back text to display on its screen. The terminal might be connected directly to the mainframe, or over a phone line using a modem.

A better Disqus integration with FriendFeed – WinExtra


I am an avid user of FriendFeed and I use Disqus here on WinExtra and on an off I would use FriendFeed’s import feature to add comments made on any posts into my FriendFeed stream. The only thing was that the implementation irritated the shit out of me. It wasn’t anything that Disqus was doing or the FriendFeed was doing but when I used that option I always had the feeling that the imported comments were out of place.

Sex in the Syllabus – TIME


With classwork like this, who needs to play? Undergraduates taking Cyberporn and Society at the State University of New York at Buffalo survey Internet porn sites. At New York University, assignments for Anthropology of the Unconscious include discussing X-rated Japanese comic books. And in Cinema and the Sex Act at the University of California, Berkeley, undergrads are required to view clips from Hollywood NC-17 releases like Showgirls and underground stag reels.

mental_floss Blog » X-Rays in the News


How far can cameras go to make the personal into the public? Pretty far, considering how many news stories I’ve seen in the past year illustrated with x-rays, MRIs, and medical tomography. The idea of seeing inside the human body is strange enough, without seeing the weird things that can happen inside the body of someone on the other side of the world. Some of the images in this story may be disturbing to some people.

Manager's Toolbox: Mind of an Innovator


May provides methods to avoid 7 deadly sins of traditional thinking and to train our brains to think differently, allowing our inner innovator to flourish. First he’ll identify them, then provide a means by which they can be neutralized…for every problem, innovation, or challenge. They can be tamed!

Windows Incident Response: Looking for "Bad Stuff", part I


Searching for unknown issues within a Windows image is always a tough thing…a great deal of the incident response and forensic analysis that I do is preceded by a triage worksheet, interviews of key personnel, etc. Sometimes, I will even ThunderDome two people who give me disparate information, simply because it's a good interro…I mean, interview technique. Anyway, the purpose of all this is to narrow down the issue as much as possible to help me identify what an issue, what the source might be, etc.

Digital Domain – Everyone Loves Google, Until It’s Too Big – NYTimes.com


Mr. Sullivan, who has been studying search engines since 1995, said that similar surveys have been done for many years — and that they always fail to reflect that most people have a primary attachment to a single search engine. When users try an alternative, he said, they “don’t go into active taste-testing mode”; afterward, they revert to their favorite. “Google is a habit,” he said, “and habits are very hard to break.”

SNOsoft Research Team: Facebook from the hackers perspective.


For the past few years we've (Netragard) been using internet based Social Networking tools to hack into our customer's IT Infrastructures. This method of attack has been used by hackers since the conception of Social Networking Websites, but only recently has it caught the attention of the media. As a result of this new exposure we've decided to give people a rare glimpse into Facebook from a hackers perspective.

Bank details uncovered – PandaLabs


Among other things, you can find information about how they enter computers and how they steal information. One of the most remarkable data is the complex structure that is behind this lucrative criminal business. You may think that the creators of banker Trojans are the same individuals that actually steal money. However, it isn't as simple as this as you can see in the image below:

Hacker pokes new hole in secure sockets layer • The Register


Unveiled Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference in Washington, SSLstrip works on public Wi-Fi networks, onion-routing systems, and anywhere else a man-in-the-middle attack is practical. It converts pages that normally would be protected by the secure sockets layer protocol into their unencrypted versions. It does this while continuing to fool both the website and the user into believing the security measure is still in place.

Career Couch – Don’t Neglect to Send a Cover Letter When Applying for a Job – Interview – NYTimes.com


Q. You are getting ready to apply for a job electronically, and your résumé is ready to go. Do you need to prepare a cover letter? Are they necessary in this day and age?

Linux comes to Windows users' rescue – Computerworld Blogs


I recently got a note out of the blue from another technology journalist. He wrote, "I know I'm often critical of Linux, but I'm SOOOOO GLAD I installed Ubuntu on my laptop. I installed some patches to Vista and now Vista won't boot, not even in Safe mode. Uggh!"

He continued, "So now I've booted the computer up to Ubuntu and can start figuring out what's wrong. Meanwhile, I discovered a great tool called Unison and I've mounted my Windows drive and I am using Unison to back up everything to a 300-gig external hard drive before I start tearing Windows apart… just in case. I guess I have my afternoon's plans made."

Delicious Toolbox: 80+ Updated Tools and Resources


Delicious, a powerful social bookmarking tool, has been around for what seems like forever, and while it may not get as much press as Digg, it still has an extremely active and loyal group of users. There are a number of tools out there that cater to these users, some of which still even stick by the old del.icio.us moniker.

Here are over 80 tools for everything from your mobile device to your blog, and more, that can help you view your bookmarks in new and unique ways, backup your bookmarks in a secure location, take your bookmarks with you on the go, blog about your most recent saves, and then some.

Satellite Feed Hacking – Your Data Isn’t Private! | Darknet – The Darkside


Hardware hacking is an interesting area and something not too many people get into as the soldering irons, capacitors and chipsets seem daunting. I did have a play around with cable boxes and satellite feeds in my earlier years and was surprised to find how insecure they were.

Most traffic is transmitted unencrypted, the stuff that is encrypted generally uses very weak algorithms or isn’t even encrypted – it’s just encoded (BASE64 etc).

How To: Jump to a New Career with a Killer Resume and Plan


Whether you're suddenly unemployed or just looking to change up, starting out in a new career is daunting. Take our advice on how to write—and plan—your way into a new field.

Obama's BlackBerry brings personal safety risks | Surveillance State – CNET News


When the mainstream media first announced Barack Obama's "victory" in keeping his BlackBerry, the focus was on the security of the device, and keeping the U.S. president's e-mail communications private from spies and hackers.

The news coverage and analysis by armchair security experts thus far has failed to focus on the real threat: attacks against President Obama's location privacy, and the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president's real-time physical location.

How to Find Your Next CEO | BNET


Almost 1,500 CEOs quit or were fired last year – about six per day on average. Marquee names in the last year included Jerry Yang of Yahoo, Aylwin Lewis of Sears, Steve Jobs of Apple, and Dick Bond of Tyson Foods.

Small wonder, then, why finding a new CEO ranks as a top concern for corporate boards — yet only half of them have a plan in place to find a back-up boss. “This is the single-hardest job a board faces, but it’s the one they fail at the most,” says Nell Minow of The Corporate Library, a research firm focused on corporate governance. Your board doesn’t have to be among those that fail to plan for a smooth transition at the top. Here are the steps your directors can take to create a succession plan that works.

Microsoft releases beta tool for fighting DoS attacks – Ars Technica


Microsoft has released The Dynamic IP Restrictions Extension beta for IIS 7.0 to help IT Professionals and Hosters mitigate/block DoS Attacks or cracking of passwords through brute-force.

IpodMe: Ipod video converter that is reliable, portable, and lightweight | freewaregenius.com


Description: iPodMe is a free, open source program that can convert video into MP4 format suitable for iPod or iPhone playback. It is a portable, single executable which contains all the filters and codecs needed for it to do its job.

Want to convert your videos so you could play them on your Ipod or Iphone? iPodMe is a handy little program that can do this for you. iPodME is built around a handful of pre-determined conversion "profiles" designed to make it easy for users to decide on what kind of conversion they want based on 3 parameters: the desired speed of conversion (slow/fast/turbo), and whether to optimize for video quality or for optimal video size. It also offers a "custom" profile for user who, like me, prefer to have more control over what the conversion parameters are.

Note: if you want a simple, short guide for how to make quick, good conversions with iPodMe see my "Recommended conversions" section below.

Thwarting an Internal Hacker – WSJ.com


Replacing trusted people with computers doesn't make the problem go away; it just moves it around and makes it even more complex. The computer, software, and network designers, implementers, coders, installers, maintainers, etc. are all trusted people. See any analysis of the security of electronic voting machines, or some of the frauds perpetrated against computerized gambling machines, for some graphic examples of the risks inherent in replacing people with computers.

Of course, this problem is much, much older than computers. And the solutions haven't changed much throughout history, either. There are five basic techniques to deal with trusted people:

<–InGuardians –> Defensive Intelligence <Main>


Ed Skoudis releases 3 new cheat sheets for the most useful Windows command-line tools, Netcat, and other useful attack tools (Metasploit, Fgdump, and Hping). Get 'em while their hot!

Non-Hierarchical Management (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)


The word manager makes many people uncomfortable. It calls up the image of a bossman telling you what to do and forcing you to slave away at doing it. That is not effective management.

A better way to think of a manager is as a servant, like an editor or a personal assistant. Everyone wants to be effective; a manager’s job is to do everything they can to make that happen. The ideal manager is someone everyone would want to have.

Instead of the standard “org chart” with a CEO at the top and employees growing down like roots, turn the whole thing upside down. Employees are at the top — they’re the ones who actually get stuff done — and managers are underneath them, helping them to be more effective. (The CEO, who really does nothing, is of course at the bottom.)

Most guides on management are written for big bosses at big companies, not people starting something new who want their team to be as effective as possible. (Hi, startup founders!)

mental_floss Blog » What’s a Ponzi Scheme? (And Who Is This Ponzi Character?)


Investigators are trying to figure out whether the financial fraud allegedly perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff was, in fact, the largest Ponzi scheme in history. The alleged scam, which cost investors $50 billion, sounds like a classic Ponzi racket. But what is a Ponzi scheme? And why does it bear this name? First, you need to know a little bit about its namesake, Charles Ponzi (pictured).

Anyone can work a simple swindle, but you have to be a special kind of con man to have your name become synonymous with “fraud.” Ponzi pulled it off, though. After arriving in the U.S. from Italy in 1903, Ponzi knocked around in a variety of unskilled jobs that usually ended when he got into trouble for theft or cheating customers. A few years later, he moved to Canada, where he spent a hitch in prison for passing a forged check. When he eventually drifted back down to the U.S., he needed a way to make some quick cash.

Tech Insight: How Attackers Use Your Metadata Against You – Security vulnerabilities/Vulnerabilities – DarkReading


To steal your identity, a cybercriminal doesn't have to have direct access to your bank account or other personal information. Often, he collects information about you from a variety of seemingly innocuous sources, then uses that data to map out a strategy to crack your online defenses and drain your accounts.

Such methods are well-known to security professionals. But what those same professionals often overlook is this approach also can be used to crack the defenses of sensitive business files, as well. Rather than trying to gain access to your data, itself, the bad guys are analyzing the so-called harmless information about your files — collectively known as metadata — and using it to develop attacks that can drain your business of its most sensitive information.

Mysterious number 6174


In 1949 the mathematician D. R. Kaprekar from Devlali, India, devised a process now known as Kaprekar's operation. First choose a four digit number where the digits are not all the same (that is not 1111, 2222,…). Then rearrange the digits to get the largest and smallest numbers these digits can make. Finally, subtract the smallest number from the largest to get a new number, and carry on repeating the operation for each new number.

50 Must-Have Firefox Extensions for e-Learning & Researching | The .Edu Toolbox


Are you an e-Learner or a researcher? No matter if you are learning or working online or on campus, the following Firefox extensions can make your life easier. From organization to collaboration and from citation tools to complete research toolboxes, Firefox is equipped to handle your studies.

The following list of 50 Firefox extensions for e-Learning and researching are categorized. The categories are in alphabetical order and each list under those categories are listed alphabetically. We do not value one extension over another. Finally, each extension should be the most up-to-date modification that will engage with the latest version of Firefox 3.0.

Darik's Boot And Nuke | Hard Drive Disk Wipe


Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Firefox: 55 Add-Ons To Increase Your Security And Privacy


One of the greatest strengths of the Firefox web browser is its extensibility. This does not only include new features but also security enhancements that make the web browser more secure and less prone for attacks and privacy breaches.

The following list will contain Firefox add-ons that protect the user from various threats on the Internet. They have been divided into the categories Browsing, Cache, Cookies, Identity & Privacy, Passwords and Misc. Each link will lead to the Mozilla homepage that contains additional information and download possibilities.

All but one add-on should be compatible with the latest version of Firefox 3. Some of them are experimental add-ons that require an account at the Mozilla website before they can be downloaded and installed.