Friday, June 20th, 2008
Apple has closed four security holes in the Windows version of its Safari browser with the release of version 3.1.2. The fixes include the browser's "Carpet Bomb" behaviour of placing downloaded files on the desktop by default and without asking the user's permission. In association with with Internet Explorer – ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
It’s not rocket science, but any time we mingle and intertwine four or five different pieces of technology, there’s always the potential for a mess… or at least a misconfiguration or two along the way. Don’t know what 802.1X is? Check out the recent 802.1X technology primer.
If you’re planning to, ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Tresys Technology has released a desktop virtualisation platform with a difference - it is designed from the ground up for organisations needing tight security, including military bodies.
Tresys, which has a track record of providing military systems, said its VM Fortress can cut costs for organisations which would like to implement ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Less than one day after its launch, Firefox 3 has a vulnerability.
According to Tipping Point's Zero Day Initiative, the vulnerability, which it rates as critical, was reported within the first five hours of Firefox 3's release.
"Once the vulnerability was verified in TippingPoint's DVLabs and acquired from the researcher, the vulnerability ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
"HTML forms (i.e. <form>) are one of the features in HTTP that allows users to send data to HTTP servers. An often overlooked feature is that due to the nature of HTTP, the web browser has no way of identifying between an HTTP server and one that is not an ...
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