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Foxit Reader Can Be Exploited by Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code on Computers
Jan 15, 2013IDG News Service - Foxit Reader, a PDF viewer application often used as an alternative to the more popular Adobe Reader, contains a critical vulnerability in its browser plug-in component that can be exploited by attackers to execute ...
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Microsoft Will Deviate From Its Regular Internet Explorer Repair Schedule Today
Jan 15, 2013Microsoft will deviate from its regular Internet Explorer repair schedule today by releasing a patch for older versions of its web browser, which have raised numerous security concerns over the past weeks. The vulnerability, which is ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, vulnerability
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Microsoft Will Issue an Emergency Update to Patch a Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
Jan 14, 2013Computerworld - Microsoft will issue an emergency update to patch a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) in the next two weeks to fix a flaw criminals have been using for more than a month, researchers said Tuesday. The company will ...
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Abine Announced a New Online Tracker-Blocking Tool Called DoNotTrackMe
Jan 14, 2013Abine, Inc., the online privacy company, today announced a new online tracker-blocking tool called DoNotTrackMe (DNTMe), which builds on the company's DoNotTrackPlus (DNT+) browser add-on. It's the same trusted privacy technology that more ...
Tags: Abine, online privacy, DoNotTrackMe, DoNotTrackPlus
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Aaron Swartz Has Been Found Dead in His Home in New York in an Apparent Suicide
Jan 14, 2013, the co-founder of popular website Reddit and the co-creator, in his teens, of the RSS syndication tool, has been found dead in his home in New York in an apparent suicide. The precocious programmer and internet activist had been due in ...
Tags: Aaron Swartz, Reddit, RSS syndication tool, suicide
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A New Wave of Bogus Updates Has Been Set Upon The Internet by Cyber Criminals
Jan 14, 2013Following Google’s recent upgrade of Chrome, a new wave of bogus updates has been set upon the Internet by cyber criminals looking to steal online banking credentials and cause other problems for users. Google released its upgrade ...
Tags: Google, Chrome, cyber criminals, Internet
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Security Experts Have Flagged a Zero-Day Exploit in Oracle's Java Software
Jan 11, 2013Security experts have flagged a zero-day exploit in Oracle's Java software,urging users to disable it to prevent hackers remotely controlling their computers. "Java is a mess.It's not secure,"said James Blasco,labs manager for internet ...
Tags: Java, security expert, hacker, Windows 7
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One For All Introduces Its New INFINITY Universal Remote Control
Jan 10, 2013This Spring,One For All introduces its new INFINITY universal remote control range with'Smart Screen'which shows you only the keys you need.Beautiful in either snowy white or jet black with sophisticated silver detailing,using a remote has ...
Tags: One for All, INFINITY, CES, remote control
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Microsoft Patched 12 Vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and Several Server and Products
Jan 10, 2013Computerworld - Microsoft today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and several server and development products, but as it hinted last week, did not come up with a fix for the Internet Explorer (IE) bug that cyber criminals have ...
Tags: Microsoft, security updates, Windows, cyber criminals
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Don Melton Noted The 10th-Year Anniversary of The Browser
Jan 10, 2013Ten years ago Monday, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs introduced Apple's first, and so far only, browser for OS X, according to the former head of the Safari team. Don Melton, who retired last year as Apple's director of ...
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A Hacker Found a Method of Bypassing The Code Integrity Mechanism in Windows RT
Jan 9, 2013A hacker claims to have found a method of bypassing the code integrity mechanism in Windows RT,therefore allowing for desktop-style programmes to be installed on the platform. The hacker,who uses the online moniker"clrokr",documented the ...
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Microsoft's Temporary Fix for a Zero-Day Internet Explorer Browser Vulnerability
Jan 8, 2013CSO - A researcher has bypassed Microsoft's temporary fix for a zero-day Internet Explorer browser vulnerability that hackers have been exploiting for a month. The exploit, developed by Peter Vreugdenhil of the vulnerability analysis ...
Tags: Microsoft, IE, Windows XP system, computer
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Microsoft's IE Turned Things Around in 2012, Posting an Annual Usage Share Gain
Jan 8, 2013Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, IE, 2012, annual usage share
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer Turned Things Around in 2012
Jan 8, 2013Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) turned things around in 2012, posting an annual usage share gain for the first time in the last eight years, according to data published earlier this week by a Web analytics company. Net ...
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It Was Responsible for Digging up and First Using The Newest Unpatched Bug
Jan 8, 2013Computerworld - An elite hacker group credited last year with having an inexhaustible supply of zero-day vulnerabilities was responsible for digging up and first using the newest unpatched bug in Internet Explorer (IE), a Symantec manager ...
Tags: hacker group, Internet Explorer, IE, Windows PCs
