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Firefox Fixing DoS Flaw Soon
Another incremental release of the Firefox browser should be available online today in response to a zero-day exploit that became public earlier in the week.
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Date: 2006-04-28
 
Technorati Slams Into China's Firewall
The blog search engine has received and is looking into reports that users in China cannot get to Technorati from there.
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Date: 2006-04-27
 
Microsoft Repatches Shell Patch
Curing a critical vulnerability in Windows XP, 2000, and 2003 proved more troublesome to a lot of users than the vulnerability itself.
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Date: 2006-04-26
 
Firefox Zero-Day DoS Discovered
A Javascript handling issue in the latest version of the Firefox browser can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow and crash the browser.
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Date: 2006-04-25
 
Password Change Myth Discounted
If your network manager requires you to change your password frequently, he or she may need to put aside the tie-dyed t-shirts and park the VW Van someplace with a For Sale sign.
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Date: 2006-04-24
 
Gonzales Targeting Online Child Predators
US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke candidly about the growing threat of child porn and a need to take greater action against those who commit the acts and distribute them online.
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Date: 2006-04-21
 
US Tops Spam Relaying Nation List
Only a couple of years back, the United States accounted for more than half of the spam being excreted into people's inboxes, but heightened user awareness of security and the prosecution of large-scale spammers has dropped that number.
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Date: 2006-04-20
 
Oracle Sews Up 36 Security Holes
A number of Oracle's enterprise level products picked up security updates from the company's latest quarterly patch release.
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Date: 2006-04-19
 
More Malware Entering Stealth Mode
Creators of destructive and malicious computer programs have been utilizing stealth technology in far greater numbers over the past three years.
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Date: 2006-04-18
 
Yahoo Mail Slowed To Fight Spam
When a security company tested the ability to reach mail servers at Yahoo, it found half of the listed public servers unavailable to receive email messages.
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Date: 2006-04-17
 
Firefox Reveals New Critical Update
The Mozilla Corporation recommends users still on the 1.0 versions of the Firefox browser should update it to the latest release, 1.5.0.2.
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Date: 2006-04-14
 
Security Officer Patrolling MySpace
Former Microsoft child-safe computing director and federal prosecutor Hemanshu (Hemu) Nigam joined Fox Interactive Media as chief security officer for MySpace.
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Date: 2006-04-13
 
Microsoft Fields Fourteen Flaw Fixes
The April update from Microsoft patched a lot of critical vulnerabilities, including the createTextRange() problem that prompted a pair of security companies to release temporary patches for users.
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Date: 2006-04-12
 
Spyware Bill Microsoft Crafted Not OK
Legislation pending in the Oklahoma House greatly expands the types of companies exempted from prohibitions against peeking into someone's PC.
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Date: 2006-04-11
 
EFF Has Evidence Of AT&T, NSA Spying
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently bolstered its class-action suit against AT&T by submitting evidence that the telecom provided the National Security Agency with open access to Internet traffic it handled.
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Date: 2006-04-10
 
Microsoft Plans Five Fixes For Patch Tuesday
At least one update to be delivered with the next round of patches addresses a Critical-rated issue, the createTextRange() vulnerability in Internet Explorer.
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Date: 2006-04-07
 
McAfee Buys SiteAdvisor For Rumored $75 Million
While terms were not disclosed for the deal, McAfee may have paid $75 million to pick up the website safety service SiteAdvisor.
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Date: 2006-04-06
 
IRS Hunting For Its Phishers
In response to the news that criminals have been sending phishing emails disguised as communications from the IRS, the tax agency has provided instructions on how to report these messages.
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Date: 2006-04-05
 
Apple Bakes 10.4.6 Update For OS X
Several fixes arrived for the Mac OS X operating system, including a patch for a recently discovered flaw in Intel-based Macintoshes.
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Date: 2006-04-04
 
MySpace Securing Itself For Advertisers
Some 200,000 profiles containing content ranging from hate speech to racy images have been purged from MySpace by News Corp as the company fights negative perceptions about the popular site.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Insider
Date: 2006-04-03
 


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