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RSS bugBug fix 2.1 for Apple iPhone
News Apple has released version 2.1 of its iPhone software, promising a wealth of bug fixes for a pioneering device that suffered a number of problems. As detailed on Apple's software update page, the bug... [15 Sep 2008]
Bug leaves Windows open to Java attack
News The three warnings involve the Microsoft Virtual Machine for running Java applets on Windows; a cross-site scripting bug in a component of Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0; and a denial-of-service bug... [10 Apr 2003]
Bug bounty hunters recruited by security firm
News If a valid bug is found, TippingPoint will notify the maker of the flawed product and update its security products to protect users against exploitation of the flaw before an official patch has been released. [25 Jul 2005]
Alert over "extremely critical" XML bug
News Microsoft acknowledged the bug is already being exploited, in a note posted on the company's site. An "extremely critical" vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's XML Core Services, according to several security... [07 Nov 2006]
FBI PC bug in dock
News The case, charging Nicodemo Scarfo Jr of running illegal gambling and loan sharking operations for the Gambino crime family, is the first in which US law enforcers have gathered evidence by logging the keystrokes of a suspect's PC by... [08 Aug 2001]
Bug alert firm fights critics with new guidelines
News Linux users, for example, will frequently go to the company that sells a particular Linux distribution, such as Red Hat, for a bug fix rather than to the actual developer, such as the Apache Foundation. [03 Dec 2002]
US government funds open source bug hunt
News The project will expand an existing Coverity initiative that already provides Linux developers with regular bug data. The bug database should help make open source software more secure but in a... [11 Jan 2006]
Data-loss bug afflicts Linux
News Programmers have found a bug in newer versions of the Linux operating system that, under unusual circumstances, could cause systems to drop data. The data-loss bug afflicts the newest 2.4.20 version of... [09 Dec 2002]
Why Tony Blair must catch the bug
Comment The millennium bug has plagued the UK government this week. While the doom-mongers are unhelpful, we also need to stop trivialising the issue - task number one should be to lose that stupid cartoon bug,... [12 Nov 1998]
The Millennium bug - what's it all about?
Comment And if Mr taxi driver is typical of the nation's awareness of the millennium bug, then the nation is in for a very big shock on 1 January 2000. TD: Millennium bug. Me: Mainly, things like the millennium... [01 Nov 1998]
Italian 'love bug' fails to bite
News Cartolina is a modification to the bug, which caused havoc worldwide last May. It comes as an email attachment, Cartolina.vbs, which is set up to spread to all the email addresses on the system and to change the home... [09 Feb 2001]
Skype swats "massive" outage bug
News Skype has fixed a software bug that made the internet telephony service almost unusable for two days last week. A spokesperson for the company confirmed a fix is now in place for a bug in Skype's network... [20 Aug 2007]
Behind the Headlines: Ecademy chief blames intranets for Love Bug chaos
News Corporate intranets are a poor safeguard against virus attacks such as last week's worldwide Love Bug crisis. That's the view of Thomas Power, founder of ecommerce institute, Ecademy, who added that many people were... [14 May 2000]
Adobe probes Flash zero day bug after exploit found
News The authors of the exploit have managed to take a bug and turn it into a reliable exploit using a heap spray technique," Patrick Fitzgerald writes on a Symantec Security blog post. The bug itself has... [23 Jul 2009]
Virus Update: Love Bug delves deeper than email
News As the Love Bug virus continues its rampage across UK companies, some companies are finding the impact is affecting more than email services. Ascot-based training firm Perceptron has been left picking up the pieces after... [04 May 2000]
