Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. Instructions on how to exploit ...
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Microsoft today patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet Explorer 9(IE9),Excel and the.Net development framework,including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security ...
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Computerworld-Microsoft today announced it will issue six security updates next week,including three for Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. The half-dozen updates will patch 19 vulnerabilities in Windows,Internet ...
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Commercial property owners are too slow to react to the rapidly advancing technology of LED lighting, according to one expert. Chris Gunn, of commercial property developer Acorn Limited, said that a number of commercial property owners - ...
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Barnes & Noble has removed PIN pad devices from all of its nearly 700 stores nationwide as a precaution after detecting evidence of tampering with the devices at 63 of its stores in eight states. It a statement Wednesday, the company ...
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McAfee Data Protection has pledged to invest heavily in social engineering and so-called 'wetware' (meaning human-focused) technologies in order to protect users from a continual increase in social network-based spoofing and false link ...
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Digia recently acquired the full Qt business from Nokia,Juhapekka Niemi,director,Digia,Qt,talks to Electronics Weekly about how the mobile software business will develop and grow in a market where open source has growing popularity. What ...
Computerworld - Google today awarded $60,000 to a security researcher who cracked Chrome at the search firm's second "Pwnium" hacking contest. The researcher, a teenager who goes by the nickname "Pinkie Pie," was a returning winner: Last ...
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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 ...
Social networking site Twitter told delegates at Oracle's MySQL Connect event in San Francisco today that it uses MySQL because it understands the system,and it's capable of processing the high frequency of queries it receives. Further ...
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Google yesterday patched 24 vulnerabilities in Chrome,and paid out$29,500 in bounties to nine researchers,more than half of that to one of the company's most prolific bug finders. Chrome 22,which Google started pushing to current users on ...
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A security researcher known for finding Java bugs has uncovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in all currently-supported versions of the popular Oracle software. The bug,which was publicly reported on the Full Disclosure security ...
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A change in distribution leadership at asset management company Threadneedle Investments saw it examine its customer relationship management(CRM)capabilities in a bid to improve the company's operational controls. Further reading ...
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Apple yesterday quietly released a security update for OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, effectively extending support for the three-year-old OS beyond the normal lifecycle. The Snow Leopard update shipped alongside larger updates for Lion and ...
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A path or walkway softly lit is a pretty sight,and has the practical benefit of making it less likely those using it will stumble and end up rump over teacup.But folks who worry about rising numbers on the monthly electricity bill—and ...
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