Google today launched a version of its Chrome browser for iOS, the Apple mobile operating system that powers the iPhone and iPad. The company confirmed that the browser is essentially Safari in disguise, as Chrome relies on Apple's ...
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Microsoft today released an emergency patch for Internet Explorer (IE) to stymie active attacks that have been exploiting a bug in the browser, finishing a job it started only Monday. "Let's call it five days from advisory to patch," said ...
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Windows malware slipped past Apple's eye and has been found tucked into software available on the company's iOS App Store. Although the malware, labeled a worm by Microsoft and tagged as "Win32/VB.CB" by the company, is ineffective ...
Microsoft today patched 20 vulnerabilities in Word, Office, Windows, SharePoint Server, SQL Server and other products in its portfolio, including a critical bug in the company's popular Word program and another already used to attack the ...
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Microsoft has announced price increases for its Windows Office suite of as much as 17%, but its plans for Office on the Mac remain a mystery. The company declined to answer questions about Office for Mac 2011's future pricing and which ...
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Microsoft will "draw a line in the sand" come April 2014 when Windows XP exits support, security researchers said today, even if millions of customers are still running the aged OS and a zero-day bug threatens the Windows ecosystem. Or ...
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Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter of this year, Canalys Research said in a study released on Tuesday. Combined shipments of tablets and PCs totaled ...
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A sophisticated cyber surveillance tool that monitors financial transactions with Middle Eastern banks was probably built by or under the auspices of a government, security researchers said today. Early Thursday, Moscow-based Kaspersky ...
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Microsoft confirmed yesterday that the new Office 2013 will not run on older PCs powered by Windows XP or Vista. "The new Office will work with Windows 7 and Windows 8," a Microsoft spokesperson said Monday in an email reply to questions ...
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On Monday, Microsoft announced a record low price for the upcoming Windows 8, telling customers that they could upgrade their PCs -- even aged machines running Windows XP -- for just $39.99 later this year. But almost as soon as Microsoft ...
Sampan Security, Inc., a leading developer of cyber security and system recovery applications, today announced the availability of FireTower Guard and FireTower Cyber Console (CyCon) for Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP systems. FireTower Guard ...
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cc today announced that its mobile device management (MDM) tool now supports the new OS X Mountain Lion operating system for Macs, released on Wednesday. The company cited fast adoption of Macs in business as the reason it moved out of its ...
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A new Trojan horse tries to covers its tracks by crippling the victim's computer after stealing data, a security researcher said today. Dubbed "Shamoon" by most antivirus companies, the malware has been used in targeted attacks aimed at ...
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Google today announced it had wrapped up work on a stronger Flash sandbox in the Windows version of Chrome, and would soon ship the same for its OS X browser. Chrome 21, which launched July 31, completed efforts to ditch the aged NPAPI ...
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Novosoft, an acclaimed provider of data protection solutions for Windows and mixed OS networks, announced the release of a new version of Handy Backup software. The product is reported to be oriented high backup speeds featured via renewed ...
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