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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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
If you're using encryption software to keep part of your computer's hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and BT Group PLC.
They've discovered that popular programs such as Microsoft Corp.'s Word and Google Desktop store data on unencrypted sections of a ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Crafted Portable Document Format files can allow an attacker to gain control of a BlackBerry server. According to a security advisory from BlackBerry vendor RIM, the bug is in the PDF Distiller component of the Attachment Service, which runs on the server and prepares PDF email attachments for display on ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
For the last decade, as wireless networks have grown in popularity, so has the number of hot spots around the globe.
The leading online hot-spot directory, JiWire, lists 215,666 locations as of this writing. Those are just the ones people bother to report. Believe it or not, they're not all in ...
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