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Article | 29/10/2007 Finger-pointing over Leopard blue screens heats up

The creators of APE denied that their application-enhancement framework is responsible for blue-screening Macs being upgraded to Leopard. Apple, howev...

Article | 29/10/2007 Some Leopard upgraders see 'blue screen of death'

A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard reported that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up, showing onl...

Article | 29/10/2007 Russian PDF attacks surge; Microsoft takes blame

Microsoft updated a security advisory that addressed a broad flaw in Windows and said it is working around the clock to fix the bug. But it may be too...

Article | 29/10/2007 Real reveals six new bugs in RealPlayer

For the second time in eight days, new critical vulnerabilities that could be used to hijack machines have been fingered in the RealPlayer media playe...

Article | 29/10/2007 'We're not scared' of Storm, say researchers

Reports that security researchers are running scared from hackers responsible for the Storm Trojan are overblown, say some of the people who have dug ...

Article | 26/10/2007 Microsoft rebuts rogue WSUS reports

Microsoft Thursday denied that its enterprise update service was forcing all Windows XP systems to install a new edition of Windows Desktop Search, an...

Article | 26/10/2007 Mozilla can live without Google's money, Baker says

Mozilla will walk away from Google and the millions it collects from the search company each year, if that's what it takes to stay independent, the op...

Article | 25/10/2007 Safari beats IE, Firefox in speed trials

Safari is faster than rival browsers from Microsoft and Mozilla, a US Web testing firm said this week -- putting proof to Apple's June boast that its ...

Article | 25/10/2007 Mozilla rushes to fix regression bugs in Firefox

Mozilla will rush another version of Firefox to users as early as next week, the company's user interface designer said Tuesday, to fix five bugs it i...

Article | 25/10/2007 Russians behind attack PDFs, security researcher says

A notorious Russian hacker gang is responsible for ongoing attacks using malicious PDF documents, a researcher said Wednesday.

Article | 24/10/2007 Leopard could add US$140M to US$240M to Apple's bottom line

Apple expects Leopard to bring in US$140 million between its launch this week and the end of the year, a company executive hinted. That number, howeve...

Article | 24/10/2007 Attack PDF prowls for unpatched Adobe Reader, Acrobat

A malicious PDF document that exploits bugs in Adobe Systems' Reader and Acrobat software is on the loose, Symantec said, just hours after Adobe patch...

Article | 23/10/2007 Pentagon hacker's UK appeal moves forward

A trio of British judges has agreed that hacker Gary McKinnon can appeal his extradition order to the U.S. to the House of Lords.

Article | 23/10/2007 Details of hijacked 24/7 ad server emerge

Hackers have hijacked a server operated by Internet advertising company 24/7 Real Media and are using it to seed legitimate Web sites with ads carryin...

Article | 22/10/2007 Attacks exploiting RealPlayer zero-day in progress

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in RealPlayer in order to infect Windows machines running Internet Explorer, Symantec said late last...