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Update To Firefox Tightens Security

Mozilla has made a new version of Firefox available which addresses several security issues including a highly debated input validation flaw that was reported just over a week ago. The bug in question affected users who run both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Heated discussions over the last week among security experts as well as the browser makers themselves have essentially created two sides on the issue, one blaming Microsoft and the other Mozilla. While this patch protects users from being exploited by the bug, it does not correct the vulnerability that exists within IE.

Firefox 2.0.0.5 also corrects several other security flaws, two of them critical. Read More»

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Hackers Target QuickTime and WinZip

Although it seem unlikely virus writers and hackers are going to give up looking for and attempting to exploit loopholes in Microsoft products, it seems some of them may be turning their attention to other popular applications. According to security experts at Symantec the defences on one of its PC’s, used as bait to attract and trap virus writers, was breached through known vulnerabilities in Apple QuickTime and WinZip. Read More»

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