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Article | 1/04/2008 Office exploit hits the street
Attack code that targets a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft's Office suite has gone public, a security company said Monday as it urged user...
Article | 31/03/2008 Mac easiest to hack, says $10,000 winner
The security researcher who walked away with US$10,000 last week by hacking a MacBook Air in less than two minutes said he chose to attack Apple's ope...
Article | 31/03/2008 With thousands of sites affected, Adobe to patch Flash bug
Adobe is working on an update to its Flash Player software that will address a widespread vulnerability found on hundreds of thousands of Web sites.
Article | 27/03/2008 Google board opposes Net censorship ban, human rights review
Google's board of directors is opposing a ban on Internet censorship as well as the creation of a committee that would review the company's policies o...
Article | 27/03/2008 Hackers seize on Excel vulnerability
Researchers at Symantec said late Tuesday they've spotted a Web site that tries to exploit computers lacking one of the recently issued patches for ve...
Article | 27/03/2008 Mozilla fixes 10 Firefox flaws, half seen as 'critical'
Mozilla Tuesday patched 10 vulnerabilities, half of them marked "critical," in its open-source browser as it updated Firefox to version 2.0.0.13. The ...
Article | 26/03/2008 Apple's Safari browser likened to malware
Mozilla chief executive John Lilly has lambasted Apple for its use of iTunes to offer the Safari web browser to Windows users, saying the technique "b...
Article | 25/03/2008 Windows XP SP3 due next month, says report
Microsoft will release Windows XP Service Pack 3 during the second half of April, according to a report from a Web site that has correctly predicted r...
Article | 25/03/2008 Microsoft offers free support for Vista SP1 installs
Microsoft is offering free support to any Windows Vista user experiencing problems with installing Service Pack 1 (SP1), according to a company spokes...
Article | 18/03/2008 Windows Vista SP1 Available Now — Do You Need It?
After considerable rumour and speculation, numerous false starts, and not a small amount of frustration on the part of consumers, Microsoft has releas...
Article | 19/03/2008 Apple updates Safari browser, busts 13 bugs
Apple Tuesday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Safari with an update that takes the browser to version 3.1.
Article | 17/03/2008 Vista SP1 to hit Windows Update Tuesday, reports say
Microsoft will release Windows Vista Service Pack 1 next week to a wider audience, according to information posted on and reports from a Web site tha...
Article | 14/03/2008 Trend Micro site infected users with Trojan
Antivirus vendor Trend Micro confirmed Thursday that "some portions" of its site had been hacked earlier this week, but hedged when asked if those pag...
Article | 14/03/2008 Hackers launch massive IFRAME attack
Hackers using a new scam continue to subvert hundreds of thousands of Web pages with IFRAME redirects that send unwary users to malware-spewing sites,...
Article | 12/03/2008 Two years after patch, another IE FTP flaw
A flaw in the way Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser processes FTP commands could let attackers steal or erase data from a victim's FTP site.
Article | 12/03/2008 In Pictures: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
Check out the new features of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1.
Article | 12/03/2008 Microsoft patches a dozen bugs in Office
Microsoft issued four critical updates Tuesday that quashed 12 bugs in Office, the company's business suite, including a flaw in Excel that has been e...
Article | 12/03/2008 Researcher posts attack code for RealPlayer bug
A noted ActiveX researcher Monday revealed a bug in RealNetworks' RealPlayer that could be exploited by attackers to hijack Windows machines running n...
Article | 11/03/2008 Microsoft challenges 'Vista Capable' class action
Microsoft on Friday asked that a lawsuit claiming it duped consumers in a Windows Vista marketing program be suspended while the company appeals a jud...
Article | 11/03/2008 Rise in Gmail spam indicates more solved CAPTCHAs
Spam originating from Google's Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA, the distorted text used as a...

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