A user of the Free PC Help’s community has found a serious flaw in the LookC CCTV servers - some of which are installed in primary and secondary schools across the UK.

The vulnerability allows any unauthorized user to view live static images from inside buildings ranging from Schools, Office, Factories, and many more. The vulnerability has been tested 20+ LookC servers across the UK and all of them seem to have this flaw.

Apparently LookC’s attitude was disgraceful towards the Founder of the flaw, who informed LookC of the issue on Tuesday this week before publishing his findings on Friday. After days of LookC knowing, the simple issue has still not been fixed at the time of writing.

An article has been published on Free PC Help explaining the full story and the vulnerability, which is viewable here.

With over 50 thousand UK users pledged to download Firefox 3 within the 24 hour time limit for the world record attempt - and hundreds of thousands more outside the UK - things are not looking good so far.

Reportedly, 14 minuets after the launch Mozilla’s servers where down. The main Mozilla website and GetFirefox website are returning a Http/1.1 Service Unavailableerror. One possibility is the Mozilla’s servers over overloaded and inundated with hundreds of thousands of users trying to download Firefox 3. Another possibility an update to the website has gone wrong, or even they could be refusing connections to the server.

I’m sure Mozilla will tell us what is going on in their own time, but for now we have to sit tight and keep trying!

Firefox 3 will finally be officially launched later today. After five beta tests and three release candidates more than 15,000 improvements have been made and firefox 3 is faster, safer and smarter than before. Over 1.5 million people have pledged to download the improved browser which will form part of a Mozilla World Record attempt for the most downloads within a 24-hour period. There is currently no existing record to break, however Mozilla are keen to smash through the number of Firefox 2 downloads.

This is the first record attempt of its kind so there is no set number. We’d really like to outdo the number of Firefox 2 downloads on its launch day, which was 1.6 million. Let’s shoot for 5 million–the sky is the limit!

Firefox 2 was heavily criticised as a memory hog, for having memory leaks. But over the months a lot of work on Firefox 3 has been completed, especially on the memory footprint, and it seems people are much happier.

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The Wall Street Journal recently published an article stating that Dell were to phase out their XPS range of PC’s in favour of the Alienware brand.

The WSJ went on to say that having both the XPS range and the Alienware brands in the same stable would somehow, to pardon a pun, alienate the Alienware range of products.

Dell countered by stating that they had no idea where the WSJ got such information.

Dell spokesperson Anne Camden stated; “XPS remains an important Dell brand with its heritage of premium performance, look at the XPS One, our first entry into the all-in-one market, the XPS M1330, an industry leading ultraportable or the XPS 420 desktop, designed for multi-media activities”.

Camden went further to state; “We don’t plan an early phase-out of these systems as the WSJ incorrectly stated, and in fact will continue to refresh them to keep them on the front edge of gaming”.

Dell will still have a finger in the Alienware Pie however as these events will have no impact on the company’s upcoming AMD-based Alienware system which will be priced at $1,700.

Source: Daily Tech

The popular free social networking and micro-blogging service twitter seems to be having massive problems this evening. With the majority of the site inaccessible and the server just not responding, users are speculating that it could be overload from the China earthquake. Twitter has told users this;

“Part of our caching service required an unscheduled restart. That means a slow rebuilding of data. You may notice some of the normal browsing related features (such as pagination) are missing while we repopulate the caching service. This is so we can get it done quicker.”

Whilst we love Twitter ourselves, one has to ask why they experience frequent problems. In January they announced they had “finished a major infrastructure project”, “which we’ve been working on for months and that we think is going to help a lot” however it is hard to see how this work has paid off…

Source: Twitter

Rumors have sprung up that Ask.com is to buy Lexico Publishing Group, the owners of sites such as Dictionary.com and Reference.com after only 3 months since it announced it was to layoff 8% of it’s workforce.

Acquiring Lexico’s visitor’s traffic will increase Ask.com’s monthly visits by 11 percent according to ComScore statistics, which certantly wont go a miss as Ask.com only had a 4.17 percent share in U.S searches in April.

Source: News.com

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