Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Adobe has shipped a critical update to patch a code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of its Reader and Acrobat products.
According to Adobe’s advisory, the flaw “could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.”
If you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat installed on your machine, this update ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
The interception of Internet traffic to snoop on phone calls or track surfers' behavior is a hot topic -- but what's keeping members of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee up at night is the interception of traffic to and from sites that don't even exist. They explained why in ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
As I mentioned in my post on Cross Document Messaging, client side cross domain request is an important area of interest for AJAX developers looking for ways to avoid expensive server side proxying calls. While Cross Document Messaging is useful for allowing third party components or gadgets embedded in a ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Everyone knows that there's no such thing as 100% security, but it's unlikely that most businesses realize how insecure they really are. New research on endpoint security shows just how vulnerable corporate networks are.
Eighty-one percent of corporate endpoints probed by IT security and control product vendor Sophos failed basic security ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Since launch last week in excess of 17.3 million downloads of Firefox 3 have taken place.
The browser saw 8 million downloads within the first 24-hours of its release, more than ever downloaded in a single day before and a statistic currently being considered for inclusion within the Guinness Book of ...
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