Mozilla patches Firefox, but leaves some flaws unfixed
Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.
Mozilla Corp. updated Firefox Friday to patch 14 vulnerabilities, three of them critical, but pushed out the new versions without fixing several flaws.
Apple and Cisco Systems have agreed to share the "iPhone" name, putting an end to a dispute that threatened the June launch of Apple's highly-anticipated multimedia phone.
Mozilla's Firefox browser lost market share last month, Web metrics company Net Applications reported Wednesday. But Apple's Safari continued to gain ground, an indicator of a slow but sure uptick in Macintosh sales.
Mozilla will delay the next security update for Firefox so it can test a fix for a flaw that could be used by attackers by skirt security restrictions.
Cisco Systems is warning users that nearly 80 of its routers are vulnerable to a hack tactic that got play last week.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has told Wall Street analysts that the company might "dial up" the intensity of antipiracy technology baked into Windows Vista as part of an effort to squeeze more revenue from China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging markets.
Windows Vista can be used for as long as 120 days without agreeing to its product activation antipiracy software, the company confirmed Friday. That's four times longer than the 30 days the company has widely used as the maximum time span the operating system can be used before it shuts down.
Sun Microsystems Tuesday patched a critical bug that could let attackers snatch control of Solaris 10 systems by sending simple commands to the Telnet daemon.
A hacker arrested only days ago will be allowed to release a fix for the worm that he helped write, China's state media reported Wednesday.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, or on average of nearly four each month, according to the inspector general for the Department of Justice. In many cases, the FBI didn't know what was on the missing computers.
Microsoft and Novell have spelled out details of how they plan to put their operating systems on the same physical servers.
The Trojan horse that pumped up spam volumes in January is at it again, researchers said today, and is now spreading over instant messaging and engaging in attacks on rival malware.
A major flaw in Solaris 10 and 11's telnet application can be easily exploited, security researchers said today. Exploit code, meanwhile, has already been publicly posted.
The number of security attacks reported by mobile phone operators in 2006 jumped fivefold over the year before, says a McAfee study.