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Microsoft Give $100,000 Reward for Demonstrating Novel Attack Tactics Against Windows 8.1
Jun 21, 2013Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 8.1, Bounty Program
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Google Today Upgraded Chrome to Version 27
May 24, 2013Google today upgraded Chrome to version 27, touting it as 5% faster as it patched 13 vulnerabilities. The upgrade was the first since March 26, when Google plumped Chrome 26 into the release channel, the most polished of its three public ...
Tags: Google, Chrome, Computer Products
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Microsoft Has Released a Patch for a Bug in Internet Explorer 8
May 16, 2013Just 11 days after issuing an advisory, Microsoft has released a patch for a bug in Internet Explorer 8 that bedeviled the U.S. Department of Labor earlier this month. Microsoft's speedy release of this patch "is an outstanding example of ...
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Corporate IT Departments Will Be Faced with a "Mega Patch" Tuesday From Microsoft Today
May 15, 2013Corporate IT departments will be faced with a "mega patch" Tuesday from Microsoft today. The patches to Microsoft's various Windows operating systems and essential applications will patch a number of flaws that are already being exploited ...
Tags: Microsoft, Mega Patch
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Microsoft Will Issue 10 Updates, Two Rated "Critical," to Patch 33 Vulnerabilities
May 13, 2013Microsoft today said it will issue 10 security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch 33 vulnerabilities, including the zero-day bug that has been used by cyber criminals to poison "watering hole" websites in attacks aimed at ...
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Apple Patched Java for The OS X Snow Leopard and Tweaked Safari
Apr 19, 2013Apple on Tuesday patched Java for the aged OS X Snow Leopard and tweaked Safari to give users more control over what websites they let run the vulnerability plagued Oracle software. Oracle on Tuesday shipped an update for Java 6 and Java ...
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System Administrators and IT Security Pros Can Take Bit of a Breather
Apr 12, 2013System administrators and IT security pros can take bit of a breather: Microsoft issued a comparatively light set of patches for this edition of its monthly release of software vulnerability fixes. "It's a boring Patch Tuesday this month, ...
Tags: Microsoft, Computer Products
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Microsoft to Ship Nine Security Updates, Two Rated "Critical," to Patch Internet Explorer
Apr 4, 2013Microsoft today said it will ship nine security updates next week, two rated "critical," to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, SharePoint Server, Office Web Apps and the company's anti-malware software in Windows 8 and RT. One ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft, APP
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The Fifth Time This Year Adobe's Updated The Vulnerability-Plagued Software
Mar 14, 2013Adobe today patched Flash Player, the fifth time this year it's updated the vulnerability-plagued software. Unlike two of the three updates last month, however, today's was part of Adobe's regularly-scheduled patch cadence. Last ...
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A Day After Researchers Hacked Chrome and Firefox at The Pwn2Own Contest
Mar 12, 2013A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday. The contest also wound down yesterday after hackers had earned a record $480,000 over two days. The update to ...
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google Mozilla
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Research Teams Wednesday Cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10
Mar 11, 2013Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes. Earlier in the day, a solo hacker exploited Oracle's ...
Tags: Microsoft, Oracle's Java, explorer
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Google Patched 10 Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Mar 6, 2013Google today patched 10 vulnerabilities in Chrome, just two days before the start of Pwn2Own, a hacking contest that has $100,000 in prize money waiting for the first researcher to crack the browser. In an update Monday for the Windows ...
Tags: Google, Service, web service
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Google Released Chrome 25, Patching 22 Vulnerabilities Debuting a New Security Feature
Feb 26, 2013Google yesterday released Chrome 25, patching 22 vulnerabilitiesand debuting a new security feature that blocks silent installations of add-ons. The latter is Chrome 25's most noticeable change to users. It automatically disables ...
Tags: Google, security feature, Chrome
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Mozilla Released Firefox 19, Adding a Built-in PDF Viewer to The Browser
Feb 21, 2013Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser. The integrated viewer was the one noticeable change to users, although Mozilla enhanced under-the-hood features as well for website developers, and added ...
Tags: Mozilla, in-Browser PDF, Firefox Bugs
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Microsoft This Week Patched 14 Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer
Feb 18, 2013Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest. On Tuesday, Microsoft patched 57 vulnerabilities, including ...
Tags: Microsoft, Internet Explorer, patch