Secunia PSI – Personal Software Inspector

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The Secunia PSI is the FREE security tool that is designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer from software vulnerabilities. Software vulnerabilities affect all applications installed on your computer, from the Operating System down to your email client, office application, instant messaging, and so on. A software ...

Critical holes in Trillian Instant Messenger

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Security service Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has found three critical vulnerabilities that allow attackers to infect the computers of Trillian Instant Messenger users with malicious code. The vendor has responded by releasing an update to close the holes. When processing XML through functions of the talk.dll dynamic link library, malformed ...

Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. After 17 months of alphas and betas, Mozilla's finally made a feature-complete release candidate available, so ...

BlackBerry Giving Encryption Keys to Indian Government

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

RIM encrypts e-mail between BlackBerry devices and the server the server with 236-bit AES encryption. The Indian government doesn't like this at all; they want to snoop on the data. RIM's response was basically: that's not possible. The Indian government's counter was: Then we'll ban BlackBerries. After months of threats, ...

Firefox Heap Corruption

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

I forgot to tell you all about this actually. I found this about 8 months back and never discussed it for various reasons. Since I saw that Mozilla has fixed a lot of memory leaks inside Firefox 2/3, I guess it's safe to say I can talk about this now. ...