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RSS bugs in newsDoes open source pose a security risk?
News Fortify quoted Jennifer Bayuk, an independent security consultant, as saying that open source implies a "hidden cost" due to the necessity of testing for security bugs. As a result, bugs such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting continue to... [22 Jul 2008]
Ubuntu founder: 'Upstream' bugs must be quashed
News Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said most users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in groups of files developed by other coders. [01 Jul 2008]
NHS prescribes germ-resistant keyboards
News The NHS has taken delivery of 7,500 infection-resistant keyboards, which could significantly cut the rates of hospital bugs such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile. The Medigenic keyboards were designed by a team at University College London... [18 Jun 2008]
'Fundamental' flaws in Child Support Agency IT
News For years, bugs in CS2 have prevented the transfer of cases from the old system and thousands of cases required manual intervention to unlock them after becoming "stuck". It has emerged the Child Support Agency's (CSA) troubled £1.1bn computer... [04 Mar 2008]
Child Support Agency IT system 10 years late
News For years, bugs in CS2 have prevented the transfer of cases from the old system and thousands of cases required manual intervention to unlock them after becoming "stuck". The government has admitted it will not finish inputting all child... [22 Feb 2008]
Vista: Users do want it, apparently...
News He said, historically, large companies tend to drag their feet on deploying new operating systems, preferring to wait until bugs and compatibility issues are ironed out. Despite doubts about how quickly consumers and businesses are taking up the... [30 Oct 2007]
Google sticks ads on YouTube
News To avoid alienating audiences, we have to create overlays and bugs that don't get in the way of the viewer and then allow them to get rid of it if they want. Google is finally rolling out an advertising format for YouTube it hopes could succeed... [22 Aug 2007]
Microsoft rolls out Vista patches
News Compatibility and reliability bugs are addressed in the second update, which mostly concerns video problems. Microsoft has released two updates for Windows Vista. One update deals with the performance and reliability of Vista, while the other deals... [10 Aug 2007]
iPhone gets first update
News Dozens of vulnerabilities and bugs were covered by a total of six downloads for Mac OS 10.3.9 (Panther), Mac OS 10.4.10 (Tiger) on PowerPC, and the Universal version of Mac OS 10.4.10, as well as the server versions of each of those operating... [01 Aug 2007]
$100 laptop gets set for mass production
News The Sugar open source operating system used on the laptops still has some minor bugs, according to Jensen. There's always bugs in any operating system," she said, "but the software is running just fine. [24 Jul 2007]
Bugs found in Apple's Safari for Windows
News The first bugs have already been found in the beta version of Safari for Windows, a port of Apple's web browser, less than a day after its release. David Maynor - one of the researchers who controversially claimed to have found security flaws in... [13 Jun 2007]
Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News Most of these bugs exist because of errors in the way the applications handle certain files and could be exploited through a rigged Office file. Microsoft has released fixes for 19 security flaws in several of its products, including Internet... [09 May 2007]
Microsoft primes DNS fix for Patch Tuesday
News Shortly after it released the fixes, several new Office zero-day bugs and the Windows DNS bug hit. Microsoft is planning to release seven security bulletins on Tuesday, including a fix for a zero-day flaw in Windows that is already being used in... [04 May 2007]
Apple plugs 25 holes in OS X
News The update deals with another trio of zero-day bugs that were disclosed as part of the Month of Apple Bugs in January. Apple has quashed many bugs detailed during the Month of Apple Bugs and Month of Kernel Bugs projects in previous patch releases. [20 Apr 2007]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News RPC has been involved in several security bugs before, including in the vulnerability that let the Blaster worm spread. Cyber crooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack computers running the operating... [13 Apr 2007]
