Apple’s failure to clean up old code in QuickTime leaves people running Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerable to drive-by attacks, a Spanish security researcher said today. Ruben Santamarta, a researcher at Madrid-based Wintercore who revealed a bug in IE8 last month, today outlined the QuickTime plug-in vulnerability. Hackers only need to dupe users into visiting...
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Some of the world’s most popular Windows programs are vulnerable to attacks that exploit a major bug in the way they load critical code libraries, according to sites tracking attack code. Among the Windows applications that are vulnerable to exploits that many have dubbed “DLL load hijacking” are the Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera...
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Microsoft yesterday updated its bare-bones preview of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the last time, saying that the next release would be a beta build. Although Microsoft hasn’t named a release date for IE9′s beta, the six-to-eight week stretch between each Platform Preview may provide a clue: If the company sticks to the...
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 will be available in more than 100 countries around the world at the end of October. The suite will come in two retail editions – Office for Mac Home and Student 2011, and Office for Mac Home and Business 2011. The former includes Word for Mac, PowerPoint for Mac,...
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Apple released version 5.0.1 of its Safari browser last week. It fixes one major security vulnerability. More pleasantly, it turns on support for extensions, which Apple is now collecting in its new Extensions Gallery. The quantity of available add-ins is skimpy compared to Chrome or (especially) Firefox, but there’s already some good stuff —...
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There’s only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already. I’m not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant...
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According to a report released by M86 Security Labs on July 14, 2010, the most exploited vulnerabilities are usually related to Internet Explorer and Adobe Reader, but the rising target for exploitation is Java, as reported by cnet news on July 14, 2010. The lab in its recent security report for January-June 2010 has...
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Now is a particularly good time to ditch Windows for good, for workstations as well as servers. For instance, now that Microsoft stopped supporting Windows Server 2003 on July 13, you’ll need to find something different to use for your servers. Whether it’s switching from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 or to Linux-based servers–or...
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Security researchers have found more malware exploiting an unpatched Windows vulnerability via .LNK shortcut files. According to Sophos blog July 23, two other pieces of malware have been observed targeting the bug. One is a keylogging Trojan the company is calling Chymin-A that is “designed to steal information from infected computers.” The other is...
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If you run a website and you care about getting your site listed in relevant search results, then you may want to check out the brand new Bing Webmaster Tools. When Microsoft first launched Bing, they started inviting feedback from web site administrators and SEO specialists about what they thought of Bing’s initial Webmaster...
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Apple reported record revenues earlier this week but Microsoft had a blowout quarter of its own, reporting revenues Thursday of $16.04 billion — enough to keep the Redmond giant ahead of the Cupertino company in this particular financial metric. Apple remains the most valuable high-tech company by a fair margin. And, perhaps more importantly,...
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Before last January’s Chinese cyberspying scandal, “Google hacking” meant something rather different. For years, hackers have used the search engine to probe for security vulnerabilities around the Web: Search for certain lines of buggy code, and Google’s results turn up hundreds of sites that are ripe for exploits. Now two researchers hope to revive...
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Microsoft announced today that its new gesture-sensing system for the Xbox 360 videogame console, Kinect, would cost $199 and go on sale before Christmas in Australia. Kinect was developed by Microsoft under the code name Project Natal and unveiled at the the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last month in Los Angeles. Microsoft also announced...
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