The online accounts of Virgin Mobile USA subscribers are vulnerable to brute force attacks because the company forces customers to use weak passwords on its website, according to a software developer. "Virgin Mobile forces you to use your ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
BERLIN, Germany (BRAIN) — Urban bike accessories brand Chrome Industries has opened a pop-up retail store in the heart of Berlin for the holidays. The location serves multiple purposes: during the day it's primarily a retail store, ...
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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 ...
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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
Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors has launched the Aria Pure LX,the revamped version of the Aria in India. Powered by a BS-IV grade 2.2L Dicor petrol engine the SUV produces an output of about 140PS(140hp)and 320Nm(236lbft)of ...
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Attachments.me, which lets Gmail users send attachments to and access files on several cloud storage services, now also works with Microsoft’s SkyDrive. To add support for SkyDrive, Attachments.me is taking advantage of some recent ...
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Next year could well be the year that many IT leaders finally start to get their mobile computing management house in order. The process of integrating consumer smartphones, tablets and other devices into the workplace has been chaotic ...
Tags: Computer Products, Reliable Prediction, BYOD
The Dixie Group Inc. reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 29, 2012. In the third quarter of 2012, the company had sales of $65,822,000 and income from continuing operations of $269,000, or $0.02 per diluted ...
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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