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Article | 16/12/2010 IE9's App Rep bumps browser's anti-malware score to 99%
Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) blocks more malicious sites and malware than any other browser, including its predecessor IE8, according to a re...
Article | 10/12/2010 Microsoft ships delayed patches for Office for Mac 2008
Microsoft on Wednesday issued an Office for Mac 2008 security update that patched four vulnerabilities the company had disclosed but not addressed las...
Article | 9/12/2010 Apple patches 15 QuickTime bugs in Leopard, Windows
Apple on Tuesday patched 15 vulnerabilities in its QuickTime media player for Windows and Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard.
Article | 3/12/2010 Google quashes 13 Chrome bugs, adds PDF viewer
Google on Thursday patched 13 vulnerabilities in Chrome as it shifted the most stable edition of the browser to version 8.
Article | 3/12/2010 Google, Adobe sandbox Flash for Chrome to protect users
Adobe and Google have collaborated to put the Flash Player plug-in inside a sandbox within Chrome, an effort by the two companies to better protect us...
Article | 19/11/2010 Adobe launches 'sandboxed' Reader X
Adobe today released Reader X, the next version of its popular software that includes a "sandbox" designed to protect users from PDF attacks.
Article | 19/11/2010 Apple patches critical 'drive-by' Safari bugs
Apple today patched 27 vulnerabilities in Safari for Mac OS X and Windows, 85 per cent of them critical bugs that could be exploited to hijack Macs or...
Article | 11/11/2010 Apple smashes patch record with gigantic update
Apple on Wednesday patched more than 130 vulnerabilities in Mac OS X, smashing a record the company set last March when it fixed over 90 flaws.
Article | 11/11/2010 Microsoft explains missing Mac Office patches
Microsoft today explained why it has not patched older versions of its Office for Mac, but would not disclose a release schedule for doing so.
Article | 10/11/2010 Researchers sound alarm over critical Mac OS X bug
Security researchers today warned that Apple's OS X contains a critical vulnerability that attackers could use to hijack Macs running the older Leopar...
Article | 5/11/2010 Microsoft slates first critical fix for Office 2010 next week
Microsoft today said it will ship three security updates next week to patch 11 vulnerabilities, including the first in Office 2010 pegged "critical."
Article | 4/11/2010 Hackers exploit unpatched IE bug with drive-by attacks
Microsoft today warned that attackers are targeting Internet Explorer (IE) with an exploit of a critical unpatched vulnerability in all current versio...
Article | 3/11/2010 Firesheep not evil, says snooping tool's maker
The security researcher who created the Firesheep snooping tool defended his work today, saying it's no one's business what software people run on the...
Article | 29/10/2010 Koobface worm targets Mac users on Facebook, Twitter
A new variant of the Koobface worm that targets Mac OS X and Linux as well as Windows is spreading through Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, security res...
Article | 28/10/2010 Mozilla: No 'kill switch' for Firesheep add-on
Mozilla today said it wouldn't -- or couldn't -- pull a "kill switch" to disable the Firesheep add-on that lets anyone steal log-on and account access...