This week, arbitrary amounts of web traffic slowed or failed outright – including eBay in the UK – due to a long-known limitation on the number of addresses supported by older routers. Within these traffic-handling devices, a phone-book-like lookup technique known as the Border Gateway Protocol matches web page address requests to IP addresses: older routers…
Weighing the importance of software features The following ILTA KM publication describes principles that apply to all sorts of product-selection projects, not just to search. Clarify has the definitions that Cersys uses. In addition to impact ranking, it is helpful to consider when the feature will be needed. Something might be business-critical in the long run,…
Microsoft has now fixed Internet Explorer’s very serious security problem, discovered April 26. Microsoft has provided the corrected versions even for those Internet Explorer versions which run only on their unsupported OS, Windows XP. As we posted here on Tuesday, Microsoft acknowledged that all versions of Internet Explorer contained the flaw, which was already known and exploited by…
Stop using Internet Explorer, immediately. Unfortunately, this is no April Fools prank. A devastating security flaw – already being exploited in US industries – has been discovered and is not yet repaired. It is so serious that the US Department of Homeland Security has moved “to urge users to consider alternative Web browsers until a…