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Apple matches Mozilla, patches DLL hijacking bug in Safari
Apple yesterday patched three vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that quashed a bug Microsoft said individual developers had to fix themselves.
Categories: Information Technology Security
Get Rid of Bing
Catsgirl complained about "big Bing, little Bing, everywhere a Bing Bing." She asked the Answer Line forum how to get Bing out of her face.
Categories: Networking & Internet
Pliant releases its first MLC-based SSDs
Pliant released its first MLC-based solid state drive products today for data centers, saying the drives are half the price of SLC-based SSDs while still offering vastly higher performance than hard disk drives.
Categories: Data Storage
Antivirus isn't dead--it's growing up
Despite longtime diagnoses that antivirus software is doomed, security will become a service for mobile devices, experts predict.
Categories: Computer Security News
Mozilla fixes Firefox's DLL load hijacking bug
Mozilla on Tuesday patched 15 vulnerabilities in Firefox, 11 of them labeled critical.
Categories: Information Technology Security
Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
Along with the security fixes, Firefox 3.6.9 gets a new feature to help Web developers reduce clickjacking risks. Also: Chrome 6 gets bug fixes.
Categories: Computer Security News
Symantec: Most hacking victims blame themselves
Just under two-thirds of all Internet users have been hit by some sort of cybercrime, and while most of them are angry about it, a surprisingly large percentage feel guilt too, according to a survey commissioned by Symantec.
Categories: Information Technology Security
Study: Two-thirds of Web surfers fall prey to online crime
Survey finds China, Brazil, India, and the U.S. at top of list of countries with the most cybercrime victims.
Categories: Computer Security News
Trend Micro bets on the cloud
Trend Micro revamps its consumer-protection suites by wagering heavily on cloud-based protection, creating security suites that the company claims are faster at detection and lighter on system resources.
Categories: Computer Security News
Weird Windows Woes: Fix Random Freezes, Test Mode
Of all the hassles that can plague a PC user (and, trust me, there are many), few are as infuriating as random lockups. There you are, typing along, when suddenly everything just freezes. No error message, no blue screen, just a locked-up, unresponsive system. I've been there. I feel your pain.
Categories: Microsoft Windows
Gmail spam bug traced to routing system update
A bug introduced during a routing system update caused Gmail to turn some users into unintentional spammers by resending some messages multiple times to increasingly annoyed recipients including company bosses, clients, prospective employers and friends.
Categories: Networking & Internet
Court allows warrantless cell location tracking
Philadelphia appeals court rules that no search warrant is needed for police to track Americans' cell phone whereabouts but says individual judges can "sparingly" require one.
Categories: Computer Security News
EBay brings mobile apps into the future
The head of eBay's mobile efforts wants to make eBay the first place that people look on their phones when searching for a product to buy.
Categories: Networking & Internet
Change Your Windows User-Account Picture
When you click the Start menu--or visit the Windows logon screen--you're presented with a rather arbitrary thumbnail image. Usually it's a flower, soccer ball, rubber ducky, or one of the other handful of Windows' stock images.
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