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RSS flaws blogGoogle fixes up Chrome flaw gruesome twosome
News Two serious security flaws have been plugged. Found by the Google security team, the threat was serious enough that Google has declined to be more specific until "a majority of users are up to date with the fix," the... [20 Jul 2009]
Google open sources web 2.0 security
News Google has released as open source a web application assessment tool, Ratproxy, that is designed to root out potential security flaws. Last month, Google said it would terminate support for Browser Sync, and now the... [14 Jul 2008]
Google Talk finds a home on iPhone
News That means iPhone users may still be vulnerable to flaws discovered later than February. A Google's software engineers revealed the news about Google Talk in a blog on Wednesday. Adam Connors, of... [04 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News The founder of the Ubuntu open-source operating system, Mark Shuttleworth, has called for Ubuntu developers to fix all software flaws found in the operating system, including, crucially, those in inherited source code. [01 Jul 2008]
'Huge' Apple update plugs 40 Leopard security holes
News The update, released this week, plugs flaws that render OS X Leopard users vulnerable to systems compromises including denial-of-service attacks, information disclosure and remote code execution. Currently at least... [30 May 2008]
Editor's Blog: Ever tried to sack a CIO?
Comment According to this concept your system can have plenty of flaws - but if nobody knows where they are it isn't a problem. The idea is that if the rest of the execs can't spot the CIO's flaws, then they... [06 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Apple vs Vista, jail for mobile users and the broadband swindle…
Comment In many cases, such as Perl, the same fault was counted multiple times, e.g.any one instance of OS X could only have one of five of the flaws listed. There are some actual flaws in the operating system... [03 Jan 2008]
Bugs found in Apple's Safari for Windows
News David Maynor - one of the researchers who controversially claimed to have found security flaws in Apple's AirPort wi-fi driver last year - wrote in his blog on Monday that "an afternoon of idle fuzzing... [13 Jun 2007]
Office at risk from bug trio
News All but one of the flaws results in denial of service, meaning the application would crash, according to the blog post. A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in... [11 Apr 2007]
Microsoft patches hasty patch
News Microsoft also plans to release five security bulletins today, four of which will address Windows flaws. The fix will be delivered as a "high priority" update alongside Microsoft's regular security updates, Christopher... [10 Apr 2007]
Microsoft in a fix over cursor patch
News The cursor vulnerability is one of seven flaws addressed by Microsoft's Tuesday patch - three of them also affect Vista. Microsoft consciously released the cursor flaw patch despite the compatibility problem, Mike... [05 Apr 2007]
Oracle plugs 51 holes
News In addition to the database fixes, Oracle's update repairs 12 flaws in Application Server, seven in E-Business Suite, six in Enterprise Manager and three in PeopleSoft. Eric Maurice, manager for security at Oracle, wrote... [17 Jan 2007]
Google fixes Gmail address book flaw
News Google has regularly had to fix flaws found in its services. An attacker could create a malicious website that would copy all the entries in a Gmail user's address book, a potential treasure trove for spammers, according... [03 Jan 2007]
Editor's Blog: You're not travelling, you're atlarge.com
Comment A top-down directory has its flaws. this blog to talk about atlarge.com. Before the end of the year I wanted to take the opportunity to use (abuse? Not being averse to dot-coms - and not shying away from... [19 Dec 2006]
Alert over Spybot worm
News Additionally, the bot program tries to exploit five flaws in Microsoft Windows, the most recent of which was patched in August and affects Windows file and printer sharing. a7027' by McAfee, appears to be targeting... [30 Nov 2006]
