Facebook fixes a bug in its platform that permitted attackers to access user data without their consent. – A pair of researchers from the Indiana
University uncovered a
vulnerability in Facebook that allowed attackers to get their hands on
user data.
Students Rui Wang and Zhou Li found a flaw in the Facebook platform
code that enables a malicious site to impersonate other Websites and
obtain the …
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issued two security bulletins to fix three Windows vulnerabilities, getting
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In its final Patch Tuesday for the year, Microsoft plugs a total of 40 security holes, including a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. – Microsoft bid farewell to 2010 Patch Tuesday updates with 17
security bulletins and 40 security fixes, among them a patch for an
Internet Explorer vulnerability first disclosed in November.
Two of the 17 bulletins are rated quot;Critical quot;–the IE bulletin and
another that covers three vulne…
This month’s Patch Tuesday release will address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Gateway. – Microsoft has patches planned next week for 11 security
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office and Forefront Unified Access
Gateway.
November’s Patch Tuesday release is much smaller than the 16-bulletin, 49 vulnerability-strong update released last month. This time, there are just three bulletins, …
Fighting terrorism in Yemen requires patience and partners
JUST as mist often cloaks its spiky mountain peaks, Yemen tends to fade from outsiders’ view until an alarming event there commands sudden interest. The foiling of al-Qaeda’s Halloween plot to sneak two parcel bombs onto aircraft bound for America is just such an attention-grabber.
The attackers hid the devices in ink cartridges inside computer printers and sent them by scheduled courier services from the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, addressed to synagogues in Chicago. The plan may have been to explode them en route, perhaps as the plane was landing. That highlights a security hole in global transport (see article) as did a separate series of primitive bombs sent, apparently by Greek leftists, to the German chancellor Angela Merkel and other European targets. …
It is well known to almost all PC users that windows registry is an Integrated and one of the most important part of any windows system. If in case it goes bad, corrupt or damaged the whole system might be unstable or malfunctioning of the system or even it may stop working. This is why it is always advisable not to alter any registry value knowingly or unknowingly and if it gets affected it needs to be fixed properly, either manually or through any registry checker, registry repair tool etc.
I’ve written a lot about why superficial fixes will fail as long as the giant banks are allowed to hide their massive debts. See this, this and this.I’ve also repeatedly noted that the size of the derivatives market dwarfs the global economy – and fo…
Mainboard-listed China Taisan Technology Group Holdings, one of the leading producers of knitted performance fabrics in China, issays it has fixed the issue price of its Taiwan Depository Receipt (TDR) at NT$12.15 ($0.511) per TDR, or equivalent to $0.255 for each mother share in Singapore.
This represents a 10.05% premium over the weighted average price of its mother shares from 23 September 2010 to 28 September 2010 of S$0.232.
China Taisan Technology Group Holdings says the issue price for each Taiwan Depository Receipt will be fixed at NT$12.15 (51 cents).
Each TDR represents two ordinary shares of the company.
The TDR issue price is at a 10.05% premium to the weighted average price for trades done on the SGX during bookbuilding duration from Sept 23 to 28.
In line with Taiwanese regulatory requirements, China Taisan says the TDRs will be issued to the following parties in the following manner:
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Microsoft is planning to release nine security bulletins next week to cover 13 vulnerabilities. – Microsoft is planning to release nine security bulletins next week for
September’s Patch Tuesday.
The bulletins are slated to address a total
of 13 vulnerabilities. Four of the bulletins carry a rating of quot;critical, quot;
Microsoft’s highest severity rating. Among those are fixes for remot…
9 Quick and easy steps to speed up your computer and eliminate errors. DIY PC repair and optimization techniques.
Facebook has closed a privacy hole in the site after a researcher posted information about it on the Full Disclosure security mailing list. – Facebook has fixed a bug that could have been abused by someone
looking to get their hands on the full names and photos of users.
Atul Agarwal of Secfence Technologies posted information about the issue to the Full Disclosure mailing list Aug.
11. If someone entered a users e-mail address and…
Microsoft is planning 10 security bulletins to plug 34 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet Explorer for June’s Patch Tuesday. – Microsoft
plans to release 10 security bulletins for Patch Tuesday June 8.
The bulletins three of which are rated critical cover 34 security
vulnerabilities. Six of them affect Windows, including two of the critical
ones. The final critical bulletin is for Internet Explorer.
Microsoft said it …
Microsoft is planning to release two security updates next week for Patch Tuesday to address eight vulnerabilities. The company also reminded users it is terminating support in the coming months for certain versions of Windows.
– Microsoft is preparing to release two security updates next week to
cover eight security holes in Windows and Microsoft Office.
According to Microsoft, both the bulletins
will be rated quot;important, quot; the second highest rating the company
gives to its updates. The first affects Windows XP…
The latest version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, 3.2, has grown better at handling Microsoft Office’s XML-based file formats, and demonstrates slow, but promising new developments on the feature add-on front. Check out the slide gallery below for a look at the suite in action, and be sure to read eWEEK Labs’ full review, here.
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Microsoft issues a large update for Patch Tuesday, plugging a total of 26 security holes in Windows and other Microsoft products.
– Microsoft issued 13 security bulletins for
February’s Patch Tuesday, patching a total of 26 vulnerabilities in a massive update Feb. 9.
Five of the 13 bulletins are rated
critical MS10-006, MS10-007, MS10-008, MS10-009 and MS10-013. Qualys CTO Wolfgang
Kandek put MS10-006 and MS10-013 at the t…
Oracle is set to release an update for its products Jan. 12. Among the security flaws addressed are 10 vulnerabilities in the Oracle Database.
– Oracle is planning to release
an update that includes 24 security patches affecting numerous products,
including the Oracle Database and Oracle E-Business Suite.
The update addresses 10 security
vulnerabilities related to the database, including one in Oracle Secure Backup.
Two of the vulnera…
For its December Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixes 12 security vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer, Windows and other products.
– Microsoft issued patches for 12 security vulnerabilities Dec. 8 for its final
Patch Tuesday of 2009, including a fix for a zero-day bug plaguing
older versions of Internet Explorer.
All told Microsoft issued six security bulletins, three rated critical. The
most serious of those is the Internet…
News Analysis: Users who want the best Windows experience will need some help from Microsoft. But if the Black Screen of Death case is any indication, Microsoft isn’t so quick to take responsibility. As usual, users find they are left to their own devices to solve problems with software and hardware they paid good money for.
– For too long, users have been forced by default to deal with the many
security problems that plague the Windows ecosystem. Whether because of
malware, flaws in how Microsoft built Windows or any other number of things
that can occur in the course of using a Windows PC, it seems that users have to…
