Stories by Gregg Keizer

Article | 11/12/2007 Exploit menaces media players from Microsoft, AOL
Attack code threatens popular media players from Microsoft and AOL, said a security expert who told Windows users to remove a buggy coder/decoder (cod...
Article | 10/12/2007 Glory hunter hacks MySpace pages of Timberlake, Hilary Duff
Several celebrity MySpace.com sites were defaced Wednesday by someone hoping to impress a hacker crew, a security researcher said Friday, a motivation...
Article | 10/12/2007 Blogger presses Gates for IE8 answers
Bill Gates was surprised to hear that Microsoft's secrecy over the next version of its browser has alienated Web developers, a Web standards advocate ...
Article | 7/12/2007 Researchers hack and crack Microsoft wireless keyboards
Weak encryption used by Microsoft's wireless keyboards can be cracked in a matter of moments, a pair of Swiss security researchers said this week, giv...
Article | 7/12/2007 Microsoft slates seven patches next week
Microsoft promised to end the patch year with a bang by scheduling seven security updates for next Tuesday to fix flaws in Windows and Internet Explor...
Article | 5/12/2007 Users, Web developers vent over IE7
Users of Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) turned a blog post by a Microsoft program manager into a complaint free-for-all that took the company to task for n...
Article | 30/11/2007 Report: AT&T CEO says faster 3G version of iPhone due in '08
Apple will release a 3G version of the iPhone sometime next year that connects to the Internet at much faster speeds than the current model, AT&T's CE...
Article | 30/11/2007 Google expunges malware sites from search results
Google has purged its index of the thousands of malware sites that wormed their way into results lists for hundreds of legitimate search phrases, rese...
Article | 22/11/2007 Microsoft: XP contains random number generator bug
Windows XP, Microsoft's most popular operating system, sports the same encryption flaws that Israeli researchers recently disclosed in Windows 2000, M...
Article | 20/11/2007 Trojan horse spreads quickly through Microsoft's IM
A new Trojan horse that started to spread early Sunday via Microsoft's instant messaging client has already infected about 11,000 PCs, a security comp...
Article | 14/11/2007 Fix Firefox's memory problems, says Mozilla director
Mozilla must address Firefox's memory problems if it's serious about entering the mobile browser market, a member of the company's board of directors ...
Article | 12/11/2007 iPhone 1.1.2 update testers confirm it breaks 3d-party apps
iPhone users who downloaded and installed the 1.1.2 update reported that, as expected, the upgrade broke third-party applications and patched a vulner...
Article | 12/11/2007 Microsoft plans just two patches this week
Microsoft has scheduled just two security updates for Tuesday to fix flaws in Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003. One of the two is a leftover from Octo...
Article | 12/11/2007 Analysts grade Vista's first year: Did not meet expectations
If Microsoft's Windows Vista were graded for its first year, the report card would read "not meeting expectations," analysts said a year and a day aft...
Article | 9/11/2007 Buggy game DRM puts Windows users at risk
Flawed antipiracy software now being exploited by attackers has been bundled with Windows for the last six years to protect game publishers, Macrovisi...

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