Fighting Security Certificates in Firefox
October 4, 2009 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I’ve been fighting with security certificates all day today with my browser, Mozilla Firefox, and it’s driving me crazy. Before today I had an ongoing problem with the Razorplanet domain hosting.
I eventually decided to try and delete all the certificates on my system first. I thought this might cause everything to refresh and as I hit more sites that required a certificate I would approve each request one at a time and see if I could track down the issue.
I keep approving them for sites I trust but they continue to show-up and annoy me.
My overall desire would be to …read more
Serious Security Flaw Exposed in IE Internet Explorer
December 16, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
There’s a new risk on the Internet right now if you’re using just about any version of Microsoft’s web-browser Internet Explorer.
Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the "underlying vulnerability" was present in all versions of the browser.
I don’t use IE7 that much right now, mainly just to review some sites and applications I’ve developed where the clients using them are completely contained in an IE7 user environment.
Many "experts" are suggesting that users find an alternate browser to use instead of Internet Explorer, at least until Microsoft gets the patch available. Microsoft people are saying …read more




