On Thursday, Mozilla pushed out a new security update for its new
Firefox browser. Version 3.0.1 for Windows and Mac addresses vulnerabilities in malformed GIF files on
Mac OS X, command-line URLs that could launch multiple tabs when Firefox is not running, and a potential remote code execution by overflowing CSS reference counter.
Meanwhile, Mozilla updated the earlier [...]
The other thing the Remote App makes you hunger for is, of course, a real Apple Universal Remote. If Apple just took the iPhone/iPod Touch housing, slapped RF and infrared support, added a library of device codes, and beefed up the battery, the result could well be a Logitech Harmony killer. All in good time, [...]
The company says the software is “legal,” but acknowledges that people will be able to make digital copies from any DVD, even if rented, because the software can’t distinguish between rented and owned DVDs. However, the software won’t let people post copies to peer-to-peer networks or send them via e-mail.
RealNetworks launched new [...]
A source familiar with the executive’s plans said he is departing, a move reported earlier Thursday by Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.
Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Network division and leader of many of the company’s core products, is leaving the company, CNET News.com has confirmed.
Swisher also said Weiner will become an entrepreneur in residence [...]
There’s something funny going on in the venture capital world: a tipster pitched multiple media outlets the story that some sketchy business had surrounded the early-stage investment in photo-sharing site Photobucket, a 20 percent stake in a company that eventually was acquired by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media for about $300 million.
We all like a [...]
The software records everything IT workers do while having privileged access and ensures that they can’t do anything without first being authorized. It logs every action they take, including recording their keystrokes.
Terry Childs, a network administrator for the city of San Francisco, was jailed July 13 on four felony charges of taking [...]
Microsoft is also putting the finishing touches on a program to offer Vista buyers a free or low-cost update to Windows 7. That program could kick off as early as July, sources said.
ZDNet Taiwan’s Agnes Kuang contributed to this report.
“I’m telling them that it could go either way,” Veghte said in that January interview. [...]
It turns out it is not just Internet Explorer that users will be able to turn off in
Windows 7.
“If a feature is deselected, it is not available for use,” Microsoft said in the blog. “This means the files (binaries and data) are not loaded by the operating system (for security-conscious customers) and not available to [...]
The companies also said they are worried about employees leaking company information on their blogs, message boards, and media-sharing sites like YouTube.
In the study, which was commissioned by e-mail security provider Proofpoint and conducted by Forrester Research, 44 percent of the companies surveyed said they investigated an e-mail leak of confidential data in the past [...]
Yahoo will continue to serve Bebo ads in three regions. “We have a very positive relationship with Yahoo in the U.K., Ireland, and Australia,” Shields explained. “That current relationship goes until the end of 2009.” She declined to specify what the plan would be after that, but she did say that she expects Bebo to [...]
