Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, in conjunction with a research group, has studied the security of TrueCrypt, to see whether it meets the specifications for a 'Deniable File System' (DFS) – implemented in TrueCrypt as hidden volumes – and is really able to conceal the existence of a volume within a ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A glitch in a test version of Facebook's Web site inadvertently exposed the birthdays of Facebook's 80 million members this week.
The bug was discovered over the weekend by Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos. While checking out Facebook's new design, Cluley noticed that the birth dates of some ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
A "high" severity flaw affecting how BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) opens PDF attachments could be used to compromise a corporate network. Research in Motion quietly disclosed the flaw last week but is yet to issue a patch.
"This issue has been escalated internally to our development team. No resolution time frame ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
In Firefox's Help menu choose Check for Updates to download Firefox 3.0.1, a minor update that fixes Firefox 3's most common causes of crashes. This update won't cause any add-on incompatibilities.
Source:
http://lifehacker.com/398700/firefox-301-out-now-more-security-and-stability
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Mozilla Corp. has patched a pair of critical vulnerabilities in Firefox, taking the unusual step of updating the older version 2.0 on Tuesday but delaying the fixes for the newer version 3.0 until Wednesday.
Both updates, labeled Firefox 2.0.0.16 and Firefox 3.0.1, plug two holes rated "critical" by Mozilla, which uses ...
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