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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 for a service like Gmail that level of usage is immediately after the search engine?

Another human error ?

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Ricollegandomi 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 the User Agent that we use 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 the "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

These 5 plugin will return very useful when you 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 test the results, if you have the right knowledge, can help detect 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 the "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 key "updateURL" leaving empty

Fine, at this point you can reboot GoogleTalk.

Logo Google Talk

Taking up the guide on how to disable GoogleUpdater described in " Disable 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 "googleupd *";
2. Depending on the operating system will be found some files. Usually they are:
   - Google Update - Scheduled Tasks in
   - GoogleUpdate.exe - Application folders of Google software installed on your PC
   - GoogleUpdateHelper.msi - Installation Package
3. At this point you go to the Operations Pianficate following the path
   Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks
4. Eliminate scheduled processes of "Google Update"
5. Now edit the System Registry and position yourself:
   HKCU \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run \
6. Delete the registry key called "Google Update"
7. Close the System Registry and reboot your PC.