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12 June 2009, 09:33 Firefox 3.0.11 closes critical holes The release of Firefox 3.0.11 has eliminated eleven vulnerabilities in 3.0.10, with four of the vulnerabilities classified as critical out of the nine problems listed in the security advisory. One of the critical issues in the advisory actually covers three issues which can at least crash the browser and could allow for arbitrary code to be executed. The developers, to be on the safe side in such cases, classify the set as a critical vulnerability. The other critical vulnerabilities include a race condition when deleting Java objects, w

Acer to build 3D screen into laptop Home entertainment system coming this autumn Eric Lai Acer plans to release a laptop featuring a 3D display this autumn, according to Digitimes. Designed to ride a recent surge in movies and TV shows filmed in 3D, the 15.6in-screen laptop will have built-in software that can correctly display 3D movies but also convert regular 2D movies into 3D, Campbell Kan, vice president of Acer's mobile computing unit, told the Taiwanese newspaper. Acer won't be the first to offer 3D-enabled laptops. In 2003, Sharp released its Actius RD3D notebook with nearly identical

Free Microsoft antivirus 'coming soon' Beta version of 'Morro' expected shortly Oliver Garnham A beta version of Microsoft's free antivirus software - codenamed Morro - will soon be available from the company's website, according to a report. Reuters says Microsoft employees are already testing the software ahead of a broader rollout in the near future. The company declined to provide a specific date for Morro's release, but said the trial version would be available "soon". Microsoft announced its plan to replace its Windows Live OneCare security software with a free antivirus product last No

The New Porsche A fifteen year-old boy came home with a Porsche and his parents began to yell and scream, "Where did you get that car???!!!" He calmly told them, "I bought it today." "With what money?" demanded his parents. "We know what a Porsche costs." "Well," said the boy, "this one cost me fifteen dollars." So the parents began to yell even louder. "Who would sell a car like that for fifteen dollars?" they said. "It was the lady up the street," said the boy."I don't know her name--they just moved in. She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy a Porsche for fifteen do

Fix a Noisy, Overheated Laptop Rick Broida "For the last month or so, my wife's laptop has been noisier than you'd think possible for such a thin, compact PC. The culprit: The cooling fan, which seemed to run non-stop and at the highest possible speed. If you've ever opened up a desktop, you know how much dust can get sucked up in there. Laptops, though seemingly sealed up tighter, are just as susceptible. I could tell without even looking that dust was clogging up the fan and the space around it, causing it to run loud and hot. It was only a matter of time before the machine would start overh

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10 June 2009, 15:03 HP close hole in OpenView Network Node Manager "Hewlett-Packard has released an update for OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM). The company says that the update is to close a vulnerability which could lead to compromised systems. The problem is caused by an unspecified bug in the processing of SNMP and MIBs. The affected NNM versions are 7.51 and 7.53 on HP-UX, Solaris, Linux and Windows which are running SNMP and MIB before revision 1.30.009. An update is available to registered users on HP's OpenView Support site." See also: HPSBMA02430 SSRT080094 HP OpenView Network No

10 June 2009, 12:03 Security updates from SonicWALL "SonicWALL has released updates for firmware versions SonicOS 3.x and SonicOS 4.x on Generation 4 firewall appliances, aimed at fixing a logging-related format string vulnerability. In certain cases, this can cause a crash, followed by a reboot. According to the vendor, Generation 5 appliances are not affected. The discoverer of the vulnerability, service provider SEC Consult, says that SonicWALL was informed of the vulnerability in 2006 and repeatedly failed to respond to their communications. Just a few weeks ago SonicWALL was forced to is

10 June 2009, 11:48 Vulnerability in DX Studio Player allows remote control of Windows machines "The Firefox plug-in for the 3D game development environment DX Studio has a critical vulnerability which could allow an attacker to take control of a victims Windows machine. For an attack to be successful, the victim must visit a web site with a malicious .dxstudio file. According to the advisory from Core Security, the plug-in for Internet Explorer is also affected, however, IE issues a warning message about the security implications of allowing the .dxstudio file to run. With Firefox, there is

Beware of Repackaged HijackThis Downloads 5:06 pm (UTC-7) | by Det Caraig (Technical Communications) "HijackThis™ is one of the well-known free utilities of Trend Micro that quickly scans a user’s Windows computer to find settings that may have been changed by spyware, malware, or other unwanted programs. By itself, it does not determine what is good or bad but it lists registry keys and files system of the scanned system where unwanted programs potentially could reside. Only experienced users and IT experts with outstanding practice in HijackThis could use the initial text information w

Google App Sync Guns For Microsoft Exchange The software allows Outlook users to connect to Google Apps for e-mail, contacts, and calendar data, as well as helping Google nibble away at Microsoft's enterprise contracts. By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek June 9, 2009 06:08 PM "Google is getting more aggressive about eroding Microsoft's dominance in the enterprise and taking away the software maker's business customers. The stance was very apparent during a media event in San Francisco on Tuesday, where Google's enterprise group assembled a group of technology journalists and presented an

10 June 2009, 11:23 Microsoft fixes 28 vulnerabilities in its products "Microsoft have released ten patches to fix a total of 28 security vulnerabilities. Microsoft regards many of the vulnerabilities as critical, because they enable malicious code to be injected and executed. The most dramatic affects Internet Explorer in particular: just one cumulative update alone closes eight vulnerabilities in versions 5.01 to 8, six of which can cause infection of the system if a crafted web site is visited The success of an attack however also depends on the operating system being used. Under Windows S

10 June 2009, 14:37 Microsoft issues security updates for Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac "Microsoft has released updates for its Office 2004 and 2008 suites for Macintosh that patch several critical security vulnerabilities. The updates patch a critical vulnerability in Word that could be used by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victims system. For an attack to be successful, a victim must first open a specially crafted malicious Word file. Microsoft also released an update for the Open XML File Formate Converter for Mac. Version 1.0.3 addresses several vulnerabilities that could be

10 June 2009, 12:13 Patch day for Adobe "As planned and in parallel with Microsoft's patch day, Adobe has issued security updates to eliminate the 13 publicly known vulnerabilities in past and present versions of Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. The updates also eliminate several vulnerabilities that were discovered during internal audits, but no further information is given about these. Adobe describes many of the vulnerabilities as critical, because they allow crafted PDF documents to inject malicious code into a system and run it. Most of the bugs again affect the JBIG2 filter. Anti-virus s

June 2009 Microsoft and Adobe Security Updates 11:48 pm (UTC-7) | by Det Caraig (Technical Communications) "Microsoft released ten security advisories yesterday to address at least 31 vulnerability issues in its various Windows operating system (OS) versions and other software. This broke the company’s December 2008 record of releasing patches for 28 vulnerabilities. Six of the said vulnerabilities were categorized as critical, three were important, and one was moderate. This means that attackers can exploit these flaws to remotely execute malicious codes in vulnerable systems. The follo

Thanks for your kind words .. it is my pleasure to help whenever I can as I too learned from forums of this nature Liz and you will as well. A bit about me - It is not too many years ago when I had a new computer so corrupted I wanted to throw it out on the freeway for cars to play with. Frustration was putting it mildly. I took it to a shop to clean out viruses, malware and heaven knows what else was lurking there - paid a handsome bill only to find nothing cleaned out so I took it upon myself to get educated even though at that time my computing was for simple needs. Shortly afterwar

Download Firefox 3.5 Preview, RC Coming in 1-2 Weeks On the road to the first Release Candidate build of Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has made available for download a Preview development milestone. The RC iteration of codename Shiretoko, previously Firefox version 3.1, will continue to cook even after the availability of the Preview version, which is designed for the existing users of Firefox 3.5 Beta. In fact, Mozilla plans to release Firefox 3.5 Preview, also labeled Beta 99, as an update to existing testers that are running the last Beta development milestone of the open-source browser. Mike Beltz

New Chinese Worm Bypasses System Rollback Software - Interacts directly with the disk controller in order to infect protected computers By Lucian Constantin, Web News Editor 9th of June 2009, 12:24 GMT "Security researchers from Bach Khoa Internetwork Security (Bkis) warn of a new worm that is able to bypass the protections enforced on the file system by software such as Deep Freeze. The malware was discovered in early March and has already made thousands of victims in Asia. Deep Freeze is an application developed by Faronics to help administrators restore computers to a secure state after bei

Vista SP2 RTM Crashes on Repeated Hot Unplugs of USB Devices - A hotfix is available "Windows Vista, even before the advent of SP1, namely as RTM, while it had its sins when it came down to compatibility and support, was extremely stable in comparison to Windows XP. However, given the necessary amount of abuse and the right triggers, Vista reliability can suffer just as much as its precursors. It is the case of repeated hot-unplugs of USB devices, which can easily lead to Vista Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 crashing. A hot unplug refers to the action of disconnecting a USB device from a ma

Apple Safari Multiple Vulnerabilities Highly critical ......... Exposure of sensitive information "Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Safari, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive information or compromise a user's system. 1) An error in the handling of TrueType fonts can be exploited to corrupt memory when a user visits a web site embedding a specially crafted font. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. 2) Some vulnerabilities in FreeType can potentially be exploited to compromise a user's system. For more information: SA34723

Safari 4 Final Released - Download Here With the introduction of an almost finished version of Snow Leopard, Apple launched the final version of Safari 4, the company’s powerful web browser that comes as a standard on Macintosh computers. According to the Mac maker, Safari offers an experience unlike any other web browser out there, trashing Microsoft’s IE8 in executing JavaScript and loading HTML web pages. “Apple today released Safari 4, the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser,” the company’s press room reveals. “Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in Febru

Remove Sensitive Data Before You Sell an Old PC Lincoln Spector Brian Ellis wants to know the best way to secure an old PC for a new owner. "Anyone with a cheap data recovery program can recover your recently deleted files--even if you've emptied the recycle bin. They can also get files off a freshly-formatted hard drive. So if you want to be absolutely certain that your old PC's new owner won't get your private information, you need to wipe the sensitive files by overwriting them with new 1s and 0s. Before you pick a program, you need to answer two questions: Do you want to wipe the sensitive

Apple's Snow Leopard beats Windows 7 on price, ship date Exec calls Windows 7 'same old Vista,' but analysts doubt Apple's lower price, earlier launch matter By Gregg Keizer June 8, 2009 09:12 PM ET Computerworld - "Apple executives took potshots at Microsoft's Windows 7 today as they trumpeted the September release of the company's own Snow Leopard operating system and its $29 upgrade price. "What a big hole Microsoft has dug," Bertrand Serlet, Apple's head of software engineering, said during the keynote of the company's annual WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC), which opened today in S

BitDefender Report: Scammers Posing As Online Payment Services A Top Threat BitDefender's latest E-Threats Landscape Report provides an overview of the security threats landscape during the past six months and takes a look at what lies ahead in 2009 Jun 08, 2009 | 02:26 PM DarkReading BUCHAREST, Romania " June 8, 2009 "BitDefender' researchers have found that scammers posing as online payment services continue to be one of the top ten most spoofed identities in the world of spam and phishing, according to BitDefender's latest E-Threats Landscape Report. The latest phishing campaign target

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