China accuses Google of spreading pornography

BEIJING — China accused Google Inc. on Thursday of spreading pornography after Chinese users were unable to connect to the search giant's Web site, while Washington called on Beijing to scrap its order for personal computers to be equipped with Internet-filtering software.

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) is suffering from rendering issue or scripting error on some web pages you visit. What better can you do except to send an email to Steve Ballmer asking for a solution. lol. If not exactly that now you can take on your complain about IE web browser to Microsoft. The company would be providing a Report a Webpage Problem Internet Explorer Add-on. The new addition will allow the users to submit their report to Microsoft for webpages that have rendering problems, scripting errors, or any other type of problems in IE8. However, the add-on might be removed from the Microsoft Download Center at any time.

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Today, the goodwill of internet is severely affected by intrusions, hacking and phishing stuffs. So, being a network administrator the ultimate headache is to maintain a fool proof network where no one can access without proper authorization. Software & hardware Firewall (preferably with DMZ) can protect your internal network from outside hackers. But how about inside jobs?

Often an apparently secured network can be easily compromised by insiders. To protect against attacks from inside we need to restrict access to internal resources on a as need basis and on the basis of proper authorization.

We need a way to scan our network for open ports, find out shared resources which and in general find out vulnerabilities in our network before the hackers do. So, a network scanner is essentially the order of the day.

Today, I am going to introduce you to a not-so-well-known but a quality network scanner - SoftPerfect Network Scanner Full article (528 words) »