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Critical flaws in Symantec’s pcAnywhere patched

After having been notified by Symantec about the theft of the software’s old source code and the increased security risk that incident entails for them, users of the …

Oracle patches 78 vulnerabilities

Oracle publishes Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) on a quarterly schedule. Oracle released its January edition with patches for a majority of their product line: Oracle Solaris: …

Microsoft releases seven bulletins

2012’s first Patch Tuesday has seven bulletins, including the postponed bulletin from December 2011 that addresses the BEAST style information disclosure. Talking about …

Microsoft releases MS11-100 for ASP.NET DoS attack

Today Microsoft released a security bulletin addressing a flaw in ASP.NET that was disclosed early morning yesterday at the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Berlin. …

Firefox 9 closes security holes

Mozilla released Firefox 9 that fixes several security and stability issues. Crash when plugin removes itself on Mac OS X FireBreath developer Richard Bateman reported a crash …

Windows 8 to do away with constant restarts after updating

I don’t know a single Windows user who isn’t annoyed at the number of times the operating system requires a restart, and especially annoyed when the request …

Adobe patches Shockwave Player

Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems. These vulnerabilities …

Firefox 8.0 brings security and stability fixes

Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 that fixes several security and stability issues. Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default, as if add-on management …

New Facebook security features

Facebook will be adding two new security features that will allow users to regain control of their account if it gets hijacked and to use a unique password for different third …

October 2011 Patch Tuesday fixes 23 vulnerabilities

In today’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft delivers 8 security bulletins (two rated “critical,” six “important”) that address 23 vulnerabilities …

This is how Windows get infected with malware

When a Microsoft Windows machine gets infected by viruses/malware it does so mainly because users forget to update the Java JRE, Adobe Reader/Acrobat and Adobe Flash. This is …

Microsoft re-releases botched security update

Microsoft has re-released a security update for Windows XP and Server 2003 after it has realized that the initial one – released last Tuesday in order to add six more …

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