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Microsoft Out Of Cycle Patch Highlights Anachronism Of Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Out Of Cycle Patch Highlights Anachronism Of Internet Explorer 6

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Ask any webmasters working on fairly large projects what their biggest bug bear is and it is likely that they will come up with the words, IE6, short for Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft's long obsolete web browser. The software giant has just announced that it will launch an emergency patch for the browser in the next few hours after it was revealed that it contained a critical vulnerability that was used by Chinese hackers to get access to sensitive information from a...



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Late News: BlackBerry Site Hacked, iOS 5 Beta 5 Jailbreak, Android Ice Cream Sandwich Debut

Late News: BlackBerry Site Hacked, iOS 5 Beta 5 Jailbreak, Android Ice Cream Sandwich Debut

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Research In Motion (RIM) having announced its complete support to the Metropolitan Police of London in order to assist in verifying how its BlackBerry free messenger service played a role in fuelling the riots, hackers took over...


Microsoft Releases First Patch For Internet Explorer 9

Microsoft Releases First Patch For Internet Explorer 9

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Microsoft released a set of 16 patches on Tuesday that are designed to address as many as 34 key vulnerabilities, including the first patch for Internet Explorer 9. Some of the significant security flaws addressed include the...


Noon News: NHS Vulnerable To Attacks, Microsoft Planning Large Security Patch, Kino.to Goes Out Of Service

Noon News: NHS Vulnerable To Attacks, Microsoft Planning Large Security Patch, Kino.to Goes Out Of Service

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The computer networks of National Health Services (NHS) are vulnerable to attack, warned LulzSec, a hacker group that has risen to notoriety in the last few weeks. The revelation by the group came only days after it reportedly...


Hackers Exploiting Internet Explorer MHTML Vulnerability

Hackers Exploiting Internet Explorer MHTML Vulnerability

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Google's online security team has revealed that hackers are exploiting an Internet Explorer vulnerability that was originally discovered back in January. According to a post on the Google Online Security Blog, the company is...


Apple's Safari First To Fall At Pwn2Own Hacking Contest

Apple's Safari First To Fall At Pwn2Own Hacking Contest

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Apple's Safari web browser was the first to be cracked open by security specialists participating in the Pwn2Own conference, second to fall was Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The Pwn2Own hacking contest, which is a part...


Microsoft Repairs "Critical" Flaw In Latest Patch Tuesday Release

Microsoft Repairs "Critical" Flaw In Latest Patch Tuesday Release

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Microsoft's most recent Patch Tuesday update has delivered fixes for three security vulnerabilities in Windows, including one labelled as "critical". The company released two security bulletins, MS11-002 and MS11-001, and has...


Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 11 Flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 11 Flaws

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Microsoft has rolled out three security bulletins for this weeks Patch Tuesday update, including fixes for 11 vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office.The software giant, which releases bulletins every month to fix...


Microsoft Pushes Internet Explorer Patches Out

Microsoft Pushes Internet Explorer Patches Out

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Microsoft, the company behind the Zune music player, has dished out an emergency update for its troubled Internet Explorer web browser, citing increased attacks as the reason forcing the company to release an early...


Microsoft To Roll Out Out Of Band Security Update

Microsoft To Roll Out Out Of Band Security Update

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Microsoft Corp will issue an out-of-cycle security patch to address a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer versions 6 and 7 that has been exploited in the recent few weeks to wage cyber attacks. The security update,...


Pwn2Own 2010 Participants Hack Firefox, Safari, iPhone & IE8

Pwn2Own 2010 Participants Hack Firefox, Safari, iPhone & IE8

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The CanSecWest security conference has witnessed the fall of two of the most popular internet browsers, Firefox and Internet Explorer 8, on the first day of the Pwn2Own hacking contest. The two browsers were hacked on Windows 7...


Microsoft Working On "Serious" Flaw Affecting Internet Explorer 6 & 7

Microsoft Working On "Serious" Flaw Affecting Internet Explorer 6 & 7

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Microsoft is rushing to release a security patch to address critical vulnerabilities in IE6 and IE7 that could enable hackers to dump malicious codes into victim’s computer and seize control over the system’s...


Older Windows OSes At Risk Of F1 Key Vulnerability

Older Windows OSes At Risk Of F1 Key Vulnerability

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Software giant Microsoft has revealed that the company is currently investigating a critical security issue in the Windows XP Service Pack 3 that comes from the Windows Visual Basic language and Windows Help for its Internet...


Microsoft to patch critical IE hole today

Microsoft to patch critical IE hole today

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Microsoft is to patch up a critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer today, in a out-of-cycle update. The vulnerability may have exploited by Chinese hackers trying get into Google. The event has certainly been exolited by...


Microsoft Set To Launch Patch For Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Microsoft Set To Launch Patch For Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability

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Microsoft has announced that it will be releasing a security patch for a specific vulnerability in its antiquated web browser, Internet Explorer, that allowed Chinese hackers to access Gmail accounts of some Chinese human rights...


Microsoft To Release Out Of Band Patches For Internet Explorer 8 & Visual Studio

Microsoft To Release Out Of Band Patches For Internet Explorer 8 & Visual Studio

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Microsoft will release a couple of critical patches on Tuesday 28th of July to repair vulnerabilities present in Internet Explorer 8 as well as Visual Studio.The Microsoft Security Bulletin advance notification touched upon the...

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