14 hours ago by Donald Sears

Mozilla has pushed out a new version of its browser to fix a crash bug inadvertently introduced in its latest Firefox update. Firefox 3.5.5, which Mozilla posted for download late Thursday, fixes a small number of what the company called "stability issues" in the release notes that accompanied the u ...

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2 days ago

RedSeal Systems, Inc. ( www.redseal.net), the leading vendor of security posture management software, today announced that the security industry’s foremost venture capital firms have backed RedSeal with a $12 million investment. In addition, security executive Mark Ashida, managing director at OVP V ...

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3 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Research in Motion (RIM) has shipped a patch to cover a gaping hole in its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software. The vulnerability, which exists in a Lotus Notes Intellisync DLL that the BlackBerry Desktop Manager uses, allows a malicious user to perform an attack that leverages social engineering to ...

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3 days ago by Donald Sears

Google has released a new version of Chrome, 3.0.195.32, with a security update that addresses a high risk vulnerability in its WebKit-based browser. In addition to a number of stability fixes, the stable channel update fixes a bug that could lead to possible memory corruption in the Gears plug-in. ...

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4 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Microsoft plans to release six security bulletins next Tuesday November 10 to fix at least 15 serious vulnerabilities that could expose Windows users to malicious hacker attacks. According to Microsoft's advance notice for this month's Patch Tuesday, the updates will address gaping holes in the Wind ...

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4 days ago by Dustin D. Trammell

Earlier today, this article from ComputerWorld came across my desk. The headline grabbed my attention, having indicated controversy and disagreement, which of course I’m going to look into. The article, which cites Microsoft’s semi-annual security intelligence report, claims that Microsoft has only ...

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5 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Sun Microsystems and Research In Motion have issued critical bug fixes for security issues with their products. Both updates include fixes for critical security bugs that could be abused by attackers to run unauthorized software on a victim's computer, although none of the flaws appear to have been ...

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6 days ago by Donald Sears

Micr osoft has reissued a patch for a critical Internet Explorer patch MS09-54 from last month. This IE patch was one of the largest critical patches of the browser back on October 13, but is available via Windows Updates. The new patch targets four critical vulnerabilities, including the scrambling ...

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6 days ago by Ryan Naraine

Ad obe today released a patch to fix several serious security flaws in its Shockwave Player software. The update, which is rated "critical," addresses a total of five documented vulnerabilities. The most serious flaw could allow remote code execution attacks against Windows and Mac users.

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7 days ago by Dennis Fisher

More than half of the attacks against Micro soft Office applications during the first six months of 2009 were against applications that had not been patched in more than five years.

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