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Google on Tuesday Shipped Chrome 29,Patching 25 Vulnerabilities
Aug 21, 2013Google on Tuesday shipped Chrome 29, patching 25 vulnerabilities and rolling out under-the-hood changes the company said would offer more relevant suggestions when users typed in URLs or search strings. The upgrade also sported a new ...
Tags: Computer Products, google, software
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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 Patched 12 Vulnerabilities in Chrome
Jun 4, 2013Google today patched 12 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including one of the few labeled "critical" that it has fixed in the five-year history of its browser. Tuesday's update to the "stable" build channel -- analogous to a production version ...
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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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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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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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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
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Google Will Pay to $3.14m and Changed The Target to Its Browser-Based Operating System
Jan 30, 2013Google today announced it would again host its Pwnium hacking contest at a March security conference, but boosted the maximum amount it will pay to $3.14 million and changed the target to its browser-based operating system, Chrome OS. ...
Tags: Google, Pwnium hacking contest, operating system, Chrome OS
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HP TippingPoint Has Revamped The Challenge for The Second Year Running
Jan 23, 2013HP TippingPoint, the long-time organizer of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, has revamped the challenge for the second year running and will offer cash awards exceeding half a million dollars, more than five times the amount paid out ...
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HP TippingPoint Will Offer Cash Awards Exceeding Half a Million Dollars for Competition
Jan 21, 2013HP TippingPoint, the long-time organiser of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest, announced on Friday that it will offer cash awards exceeding half a million dollars for this year’s competition, more than five times the amount paid out ...
Tags: Pwn2Own, Hacking Contest, HP TippingPoint
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Computer Security Conferences Tend to Be Male-Dominated Affairs
Jan 4, 2013Computer security conferences tend to be male-dominated affairs. It's not that women aren't present, but just not anywhere near their normal proportional representation in society. To address the disparity, the Power of Community ...
Tags: computer security, POC2012, women, male-dominated, hacking contest