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Timeline: HM Revenue & Customs data blunder
News The timeline below documents the series of blunders leading up to the data breach… Each file is protected by a low-level seven-digit alphanumeric password. The loss of 25 million records from HMRC's... [26 Jun 2008]
TorrentSpy out of luck in email hacking suit
News According to court documents, the MPAA came into possession of the emails after first being approached by Robert Anderson. The MPAA's acknowledgement is significant because it comes at a time when the group is trying to... [29 Aug 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News One recent threat that affected some Apple users, called "Badbunny", was a worm that threatened OpenOffice documents. The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by... [12 Jul 2007]
Windows attack code made public
News The attack code exploits a flaw in the way Windows handles Vector Markup Language, or VML, documents, which are used for a type of high-quality graphic on the web. The vulnerability can be exploited by tricking a user... [17 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News The vulnerability lies in a Windows component called 'vgx.dll' that is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML) documents in the operating system. Like the first VML hole, this vulnerability can be... [10 Jan 2007]
Five reasons to love (and hate) Windows Vista
News You can search for all documents authored by John Doe, then save the search as a virtual file folder for later reference without having to physically relocate or make copies of all those files Microsoft... [30 Nov 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses cool on Office 2007 upgrade
News What is most likely to force the issue is if we start getting attached documents from other organisations that are incompatible with our current version. The new Office will feature XML-based file... [17 Nov 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News The vulnerability affects systems running Windows 2000 and occurs when processing malicious Word 2000 documents, according to Secunia's security advisory. Symantec's advisory stated: "As with other recent [Microsoft]... [05 Sep 2006]
Digital library to save web content forever
News The British Library is using cryptographic time-stamping technology to protect the integrity of the electronic documents in its new archive. It is using nCipher's DSE200 document sealing engine to time-stamp and... [08 Jun 2006]
Microsoft to issue patched patch
News The troubles include being unable to access or save files in special folders such as "My Documents" and "My Pictures", and unresponsive Office applications. Other issues include applications that crash after trying to... [24 Apr 2006]
Windows fix in patch of bother
News The problems include being unable to access or save files in special folders like "My Documents" and "My Pictures", and unresponsive Office applications, Microsoft said. Other issues include applications that crash after... [18 Apr 2006]
Google adds new frills to Desktop search
News Once the Search Across Computers function is enabled, text copies of documents and web history are automatically transferred to the other computer that has Google Desktop installed, said Sundar Pichai, director of... [09 Feb 2006]
Gates pens disruptive memo
News He also points to the fact that although Microsoft's Office is ubiquitous, it is Adobe's PDF file that has emerged as the key means of sending formatted documents on the web. Microsoft is proposing its... [09 Nov 2005]
Microsoft dishes up test version of new file system
News File systems, such as Windows' current NTFS, make it possible for people and computer programs to find documents, photos and other data. Microsoft surprised developers on Monday by releasing a test... [30 Aug 2005]
Apple releases more big cat security patches
News One affected programs that use AppKit to open Microsoft Word documents. Another problem, which also affected Appkit, meant a user who opened a specially crafted rich text file could allow malicious code... [16 Aug 2005]
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