Computerworld-Yahoo plans to ignore"Do Not Track"privacy requests sent by Microsoft's Internet Explorer(IE10)browser,calling its ally's unilateral decision"signal abuse"and pointing to a possible rift between the search partners. One Do ...
IDG News Service-Security researcher Zoltan Balazs has developed a remote-controlled piece of malware that functions as a browser extension and is capable of modifying Web pages,downloading and executing files,hijacking accounts,bypassing ...
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The most recent update for Mozilla's Firefox web browser has been taken offline one day after release because of a newly discovered security vulnerability. Mozilla has not indicated how many users could be vulnerable, but claims that ...
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IDG News Service - Mozilla Firefox 16 was released on Tuesday and addresses numerous security vulnerabilities, many of which are rated as critical. The new version of Firefox was accompanied by 14 security advisories, 11 rated as ...
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Mozilla last week released the first public preview of a Firefox browser that runs in Windows 8's touch-first"Modern"or"Metro"user interface(UI). The Firefox app for Modern--the UI dubbed"Metro"until Microsoft ditched the term over ...
Mozilla launched the first beta version of its browser-independent website authentication system, Persona, on Thursday and hopes to convince the Web developer community to give it a try. The Persona system was first launched as an ...
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Facebook has been ordered by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner,Billy Hawkes,to turn off its face recognition feature. However Facebook intends the disabling of the face recognition tool to be only temporary."Our intention is to ...
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Computerworld - Microsoft on Wednesday released a stopgap defense that protects Internet Explorer (IE) against attacks until the company issues a patch on Friday. The update will fix five flaws, including one revealed by a security ...
Today,XP Power launched the world's smallest 5&10 Watt single output AC-DC power supplies. Measuring just 25.4 x 25.4 x 15.24 mm(1 x 1 x 0.6 inches)the miniature 5 Watt ECE05 series of encapsulated board mount power supplies are for ...
The University of Edinburgh played host to the second annual UKESF Summer Workshop, a joint industry-university engineering business skills initiative. Companies taking part included ARM, Dialog Semiconductor, Jaguar Land Rover, Linn and ...
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CrayoNano of Norway has grown GaAs nanowires on graphene, a patented hybrid material with competitive optoelectronic properties. "We have managed to combine low cost, transparency and flexibility in our new electrode," says Professor ...
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Lumileds has boosted the efficiency of its'high-voltage'H50 lighting LEDs,and released details of its Luxeon Z range of small footprint high power density devices for white and coloured lighting. Designed for use in LED replacements ...
Tags: Lumileds Aims, Light Bulbs, Lights
Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember authenticated users. If an attacker gains ...
Tags: Data Center, HTTPS, computer security, security research
PC World-After numerous delays along the way,OpenSUSE Linux 12.2 on Wednesday finally made its long-awaited debut. "Two months of extra stabilization work have resulted into a stellar release,chock-full of goodies,yet stable as you all ...
Tags: OpenSUSE Linux, Improvements, faster speeds, improved infrastructure
As Google touted Chrome's fourth launch anniversary on Tuesday,a pair of Web measurement firms continued to argue about whether the browser is still gaining ground or has stalled. According to California-based Net Applications,Chrome's ...
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