Tuesday, April 22, 2008 3:43 PM/CST
There's a serious brain drain affecting the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative and it's not a good sign for security. The latest high-profile defector from the nonprofit organization is Walter Bender, a former MIT Media Lab executive who...
Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:40 PM/CST
OpenOffice has issued a high-priority update to fix at least six vulnerabilities affecting users of its free desktop productivity suite. The open-source group said the critical vulnerabilities affect OpenOffice.org suite versions prior to 2.4. An alert from Symantec's DeepSight...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 8:17 PM/CST
Mozilla is inching closer to delivering the next major refresh of its flagship Firefox browser. Late this evening, the open-source group shipped Firefox 3 Beta 3, an update that features approximately 1,300 individual changes from the previous beta, including fixes...
Monday, February 11, 2008 1:33 PM/CST
Out of the box, the highly touted Asus Eee PC ships with a known code-execution vulnerability that allows a hacker to remotely gain root over a network. According to a warning from RISE Security, the Linux-powered machine uses an...
Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:46 PM/CST
Mozilla has slapped a "high severity" rating on an unpatched Firefox vulnerability that could let hackers steal session cookies -- and sensitive user information -- from Web surfers. Mozilla security chief Window Snyder (left) confirmed the issue in a...
Monday, January 28, 2008 4:45 PM/CST
HD Moore's Metasploit point-and-click hacking tool now has built-in support for breaking into Apple's iPhone devices. Version 3.1 of the exploit development and attack framework shipped earlier today with full support for the Windows platform (including GUI), support for...
Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:29 PM/CST
Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has confirmed an information disclosure flaw affecting fully patched versions of the Firefox browser. Snyder's acknowledgment follows the public release of technical details--and proof-of-concept code--that shows how a vulnerability in the chrome protocol scheme...
Friday, January 04, 2008 11:31 AM/CST
The open-source PHP Group has updated the popular PHP 4 scripting language for the last time. With PHP 4.4.8, the group provides patches for multiple security flaws that could allow attackers to bypass certain restrictions and announced that this...
Friday, June 08, 2007 12:58 PM/CST
In the upcoming Firefox 3.0 browser, the Mozilla Foundation is going beyond Firefox 2.0's protection of users' personal information to actually blocking Web sites that it thinks are planning to plant malware. Alex Faaborg blogged on Mozilla's site on June...
Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:50 PM/CST
The Mozilla Foundation is looking at disabling support for the Windows animated cursor format as a workaround for the ANI vulnerability that has left Windows systems open to exploit and complete takeover for the past week. Firefox users who use...
