Amazon France – Adieu, not Au Revoir

You know how it goes: you discover a company that pleases you and can’t stop raving about it to friends and family. I’ve been like that regarding Amazon for some years. These days I mainly used Amazon France: books, toys, cameras, you name it. In the last couple of years I’ve spent more than 2000 […]

Sockstress mitigation on Linux using Shorewall

This week’s hot security issue in the networking world is sockstress.

Nasty little vulnerability, found in all known TCP implementations. Given the right circumstances (read up on it) it allows a very neat DoS attack to be mounted on a large destination with minimal attacking resource. And the really elegant part is that it exploits […]

Chrome really is nearly there!

Yesterday I realised Chrome is going to be successful.

Chrome is Google’s web browser. It first appeared just over a year ago. For much of that period I’ve been pretty lukewarm about it. Thought it was more of a symbolic gesture than a serious attempt at muscling in on the browser market.

To a technical […]