Adobe today issued a surprise update for Flash Player that patched 25 critical vulnerabilities in the ubiquitous media software. The California company urged Windows users to apply the update in the next 72 hours after rating the fix as ...
Tags: Adobe, Flash Player, Microsoft, IE10 Flash Patching, Google
Microsoft today announced it will deliver seven security updates, one critical, to patch 20 vulnerabilities in Office, SharePoint Server, SQL Server, Windows and other parts of its product lineup. "It looks like an Office month," said ...
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Firefox 14 accounted for nearly half of all copies of the open-source browser in use just a week after its launch, a sign that Mozilla's automatic update mechanism may be working as intended. The browser became the most-used edition much ...
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Adobe Systems released fixes on Tuesday for six critical vulnerabilities affecting its Flash multimedia application and AIR runtime, five of which could allow for remote code execution on a system. The updates affect Windows, Macintosh, ...
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High-risk and dangerous applications targeting users of Google’s Android platform increased from nearly 30,000 in June to almost 175,000 in September, according to Trend Micro’s security roundup report for the third quarter of ...
Tags: Android, cyber security, devices, malware, Trend Micro
Mozilla will drop support for Apple's OS X 10.5, or Leopard, after it ships Firefox 16 in October, according to company developers. "We are not planning to support Mac OS X 10.5 with Firefox 17," said Josh Aas, who works on the Firefox ...
Cloud-based security services provider Zscaler has released an implementation for Internet Explorer of the HTTPS Everywhere browser security extension. HTTPS Everywhere forces the browser to always connect over HTTPS(HTTP Secure)to ...
Tags: cloud-based security services, Zscaler, HTTPS Everywhere
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today called Windows 8 "puzzling" and "confusing initially," but assured users that they would eventually learn to like the new OS. Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, left the company ...
Tags: Microsoft, Paul Allen, Windows 8, new OS
Akamai Technologies will announce on Tuesday a new service for improving website performance that determines the type of device and network a user has -- and whether the device has an IPv4 or IPv6 address -- and then improves the delivery ...
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A U.K. analytics firm that warned earlier this week of an information leak in Internet Explorer (IE) today rebuked Microsoft for downplaying the bug. Microsoft, however, has announced it is working on a fix, although the nature of the ...
Tags: Computer Products, Mouse Tracking, Microsoft, IE
Attackers can abuse the way browsers and other applications handle steam:// protocol URLs in order to exploit serious vulnerabilities in the Steam client or games installed through the platform, according to researchers from startup ...
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The 'CRIME' attack announced last week exploits the data compression scheme used by the TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SPDY protocols to decrypt user authentication cookies from HTTPS (HTTP Secure) traffic, one of the attack's creators ...
Tags: CRIME attack, data compression scheme, TLS, SPDY protocols, HTTPS
Today marks the official release of VMware's vSphere 5.1, and despite the point release, there's much more to this version than minor updates and bug fixes. In fact, this is a release that would have been comfortable wearing the number 6. ...
Tags: VMware, vSphere 5.1, bug fixes, minor updates
Google has launched a dedicated search app for Windows 8 ahead of Friday’s official release of the OS. Google Search for Windows 8 is now available free in the Windows Store and will be an alternative to Bing, which is the default ...
Tags: Google, Windows 8, Windows, search app, Internet Explorer
Symantec said Windows 8 “doesn’t move the needle much” on security as it rolled out new versions of its antivirus software and promised to provide users with several so-called “Modern” apps for the new ...
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