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Blocking System Calls in KRoC/Linux
White Papers This paper describes an extension to Kent Retargetable occam Compiler (KRoC), which enables the execution of a blocking call, without blocking the occam-kernel. Blocking calls are implemented using Linux clones which communicate using shared memory...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking
News The Mozilla Foundation has developed a beta patch for the Firefox browser that it claims improves the blocking of pop-up ads. The popular open source browser already contains a pop-up blocker by default, but this does not handle pop-ups launched by...
[April 4, 2005, 17:40]
Rogue Detection and Blocking
White Papers This paper presents an overview of rogue devices, commonly used techniques in detecting and blocking rogues, comparison of various tools available in the market, and how WiFi Manager does the job cost effectively.
[June 13, 2006, 1:00]
Finjan plans applet blocking dominance
News Finjan's technology for inspecting and blocking malicious ActiveX and Java applets is quickly becoming a standard with Cisco recently joining Finjan's Java Security Alliance (JSA) and saying it will integrate Finjan code in its firewall product line.
[August 26, 1997, 10:29]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback As nobody is forcing me to use ad-blocking, which I use, it is quite OK. And if ad-blockin was inpossible then I would never read the ads anyway.
[June 23, 2005, 11:27]
Spam-blocking service lets good mail pass
News A start-up is offering a Web-based email service that aims to stop spam dead in its tracks without blocking potentially useful emails. But what makes ZoEmail different, according to the company, is that it can block unwanted email without blocking...
[February 6, 2004, 9:35]
Can you provide detail on the browser blocking?
Talkback But this does not mean *blocking* of analytics calls -- only detailed lifetime value (or longterm value) analyses. But the wording of the article implies that browsers and plug-ins are in fact blocking the calls.
[November 12, 2009, 16:39]
Telco censured for blocking VoIP
News A North Carolina telecommunications company accused of deliberately blocking Internet phone traffic has reached a deal with federal regulators to halt the controversial practice. The Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday that Madison...
[March 4, 2005, 9:15]
Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System
White Papers Three main methods of content blocking are used on the Internet: blocking routes to particular IP addresses, blocking specific URLs in a proxy cache or firewall, and providing invalid data for DNS lookups.
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Malicious Code Protector: A New Approach for Detecting and Blocking Buffer Over?ow Attacks
White Papers To solve this problem Check Point developed Malicious Code Protector, a patent-pending technology that provides a new approach for detecting and blocking buffer overflow attacks. While attack countermeasures have been developed to identify a buffer...
[March 2, 2005, 2:00]
NY Times blocking of British readers raises questions
Talkback Blocking it made me interested enough to find and read it. The full text is on the 'cryptome' website. Nothing particularly startling. I guess it's a reasonable compromise to have it available but not 'too availble' - this enusres that anyone who...
[August 31, 2006, 10:09]
Online ad-blocking attacked
News The end of free Internet content will come when Web browsers start blocking online advertisements by default, a DoubleClick executive has warned. Bennie Smith, the online advertising network's privacy chief, said the popularity of tools like...
[June 23, 2005, 10:05]
NY Times blocking of British readers raises questions
Talkback Like Myles said, blocking like the NY Times did will only stop the uninformed. The real message here is that there are still big hotshots out there that still believe that technology will allow them the control they invision while in reality it's...
[September 1, 2006, 23:05]
Yahoo! charged with blocking rivals
News So why are some of the business-to-business (B2B) and vertical-content sites playing unfairly by blocking access to their competitors' content and cutting exclusive deals? Dotcoms claim the Internet pie is big enough for all comers to get a piece.
[March 1, 2000, 14:36]
VeriSign launches spam-blocking service
News For blocking malicious mail, the service deploys three antivirus engines. VeriSign has announced a new email-security service designed to stop viruses and spam. The service uses custom blacklists, fingerprinting and heuristic tools, which calculate...
[June 29, 2004, 16:20]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback I don't mind ads -- as long as they are not OBNOXIOUS ads. I don't need ads flashing away or buzzing in my ear. Neither do I need ads that come sliding across or popping up over what I am trying to read.
[June 23, 2005, 12:54]
NY Times blocking of British readers raises questions
Talkback I use an american proxy if i need american things, canadian for canadian things and aussie for aussie things. There is nowhere in this world i cannot be without leaving my seat! i love the internet.
[September 1, 2006, 17:33]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback Internet ads cost the reader a lot in paying for the number of bytes. Typically 5KB of text becomes 150 or 200KB with ads added. This is a heavy load for dialup users.
[June 23, 2005, 13:49]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback Jon is right. I personally also don't mind ads if they are not flashing, floating over the text I'm reading. If ads on the internet would behave the same as ads in a newspaper then nobody would mind them I think, but the way that they make noice...
[June 23, 2005, 14:02]
Online ad-blocking attacked
Talkback " the 25c newspaper would cost $5," - but in a 25c newspaper, the ads do not pop up in front of the columns, flash, move, try to hijack my eyeballs, make the newspaper ten times as heavy, track what other newspapers I read or, frankly, annoy the...
[June 23, 2005, 15:17]
