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From about 11.30 today on Google's Gmail service is down showing an error "502 - Bad Gateway" as shown below.

Gmail - 502 Bad Gateway

Possible that a giant like Google (which has all my respect) let down for almost 2 hours a service such as Gmail and at the level of use is immediately after the search engine?

Another human error ?

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Relates to Article on Firefox plugin useful to point out that other addons developed by Chris Pederick, the same developer tools WebDeveloper .

As the name suggests the 'User Agent Switcher is a handy tool that allows you to select from a list that we want to use the User Agent to navigate a site. This parameter gives some information about our browsers, the OS and the presence of other software allowing you to make statistics and controls on the origin of the visitor. For more information consult the board of Wikipedia .

Having the opportunity to change this parameter, in practice, it may appear to "eyes" of a server as another system.

But what do we gain?

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In this article, we present 5 useful Firefox addons that may be useful in different situations and, especially, when you want to test a similar vulnerability and web application.

The plugins which I will discuss are the following:

• Web Developer Bar
• Xss Me
• SQL Inject Me
• HackBar
• Tamper Data

5 These plugins will return very useful when we will try to make our first analysis of security by allowing you to analyze various aspects of a website. It should be said that there are programs "to pierce" but simply the results of the tests, if you have the right knowledge, can help to identify flaws or vulnerabilities in a given site.

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Here is another guide to disable the automatic update of "Google Talk".

1. Close "Google Talk"
2. Open the System Registry using "regedit"
3. Stand in the path:
   \ HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Google \ Google Talk \ Autoupdate
4. Change the value of the key "updateURL" leaving empty

Fine, at this point you can reboot GoogleTalk.

Google Talk logo

Taking up the guide on how to disable GoogleUpdater described in " Disabling the Google Updater "public here a second version / guide.

Here are the steps to follow:

1. Run a search on putting all your drive as a search key "GoogleUpdate *";
2. Depending on the operating system will be found some files. They are usually:
   - Google Update - Scheduled Tasks in
   - GoogleUpdate.exe - Application to the folder of Google software installed on your PC
   - GoogleUpdateHelper.msi - Installation Package
3. At this point go into operation by following the path Pianficate
   Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks
4. Eliminate scheduled processes "Google Update"
5. Now open the registry system and position yourself:
   HKLM \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \
6. Delete the registry key called "Google Update"
7. Close the Registry Editor and restart your PC.