Friday, July 18th, 2008 A new kind of malicious software could pose a danger to Windows users who download music files on peer-to-peer networks.The new malware inserts links to dangerous Web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files."The possibility of this has been known for a little while but this is the first ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday.Both updates, labeled Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1, plug two holes rated "critical" by Mozilla, which uses ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Cybercriminals are exploiting a bug in software used by Microsoft's Access database program in a new online attack, Microsoft warned Monday.The flaw lies in the Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control, which ships with "all supported versions of Microsoft Office Access except Microsoft Access 2007," Microsoft said in a security advisory, published ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008 Some new statistics just came out regarding Browser Security, this is more in terms of which users are most likely to apply patches and be using the most secure version.I would have thought Firefox would have been pretty high since the newer series prompt automatically new patches. My only guess ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 Internet Explorer's getting a little bit safer. Microsoft Wednesday unveiled significant new security features that will be in the next version of the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer 8, currently in public beta testing.From Microsoft's standpoint, any improvement in security is a plus, and the company seems to be taking ...
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