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Article | 11/10/2007 US presidential candidates face phishing threat in '08

Phishing attacks that harvest credit card numbers or divert online contributions to an opponent's campaign pose the most danger to the Web operations ...

Article | 11/10/2007 Microsoft fixes Excel calculation bug

Microsoft this week patched a bug in Excel 2007 that displayed wrong values for calculations around a pair of numbers, and said it would push the fixe...

Article | 11/10/2007 Microsoft changes tune, may patch IE7 bug

Although Microsoft fixed four flaws in Internet Explorer (IE) this week, it did not address a protocol-handling problem that could trick users into do...

Article | 11/10/2007 Apple wraps up Leopard ... or does it?

Apple-centric sites are offering conflicting reports about whether Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, has been finished and is being prepared for ...

Article | 10/10/2007 Microsoft patches nine bugs in Windows, IE, Word

Microsoft this week released six security bulletins that patched nine vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Word, Outlook Expr...

Article | 10/10/2007 Windows XP SP3 to include some Vista features

A Web site that leaked details of Windows XP Service Pack 3 over the weekend claimed that the update includes several new features, including some bor...

Article | 9/10/2007 IE 7 bug reopens debate over patch responsibilities

Security researchers are again arguing over who is responsible -- Microsoft or third-party developers -- for protocol-handling bugs after a researcher...

Article | 9/10/2007 Adobe admits PDF exploit, posts workaround

Adobe Systems has confirmed that there's a critical bug in its most popular programs, but it doesn't yet have a patch that protects Windows XP users a...

Article | 9/10/2007 Thunderbird developers quit Mozilla

Just three weeks after Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird to a new subsidiary, the only two paid developers working on the e-mail client said they were ...

Article | 6/10/2007 Microsoft offers IE7 to all, pirates included

Users running pirated or counterfeit copies of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 can now download Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft announced late last w...

Article | 5/10/2007 Apple fixes year-old QuickTime flaw

Apple updated the Windows version of QuickTime today to quash a 13-month-old bug that critics say it overlooked when it patched the media player in Ma...

Article | 5/10/2007 Sun patches critical Java bugs

Sun Microsystems patched 11 vulnerabilities in the Windows, Linux and Solaris versions of its Java Runtime Environment and Java Web Start Wednesday, i...

Article | 5/10/2007 iPhone update puts kibosh on unlock market

Apple's move last week to stop hackers from modifying the iPhone has essentially killed the market for unlocked phones, a financial analyst said Thurs...

Article | 5/10/2007 Microsoft schedules seven patches for next week

Microsoft slated seven security updates for release early next week that target vulnerabilities in Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Word a...

Article | 4/10/2007 Microsoft looks to social networking for Zune 2.0 allure

Microsoft will take another crack at blending social networking with digital music next month with the release of new Zune music players and a renewed...