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Major Windows exploit 'days away'
News Attackers are already using the JView Profiler flaw to download and install Trojan horses on victims' machines," said Dan Hubbard, senior director at Websense Security Labs. Hackers are actively exploiting two serious security vulnerabilities in...
[July 13, 2005, 9:05]
McAfee Excels itself with security glitch
News An error in McAfee's virus definition file released on Friday morning caused the company's consumer and enterprise antivirus products to flag Microsoft's Excel, as well as other applications on users' PCs, as a virus called W95/CTX, according to...
[March 13, 2006, 7:45]
Critical patches issued for Office, Windows
News There's no break from patching this summer," McAfee Avert Labs's Dave Marcus said in a statement. Microsoft on Tuesday released nine patches, five of them critical, to plug holes in Windows and other software products.
[August 12, 2009, 14:51]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News Scott Carpenter, director of Security Labs at Secure Elements, said in a statement: "In recent similar attacks, Microsoft has not issued an out-of-cycle patch. A new, yet-to-be-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel has been exploited...
[June 19, 2006, 9:40]
MS issues Outlook security patch
News It's a good first step, said Carey Nachenberg, chief researcher for Symantec's Anti-virus Research Labs. Microsoft has released a security patch of its Outlook mail client aimed at closing holes exploited by numerous viruses in the past 18 months.
[June 9, 2000, 8:28]
Open-source community site goes open source
News We want to make sure we have a solid process in place so that the development community can easily access and contribute to Ohcount, then we will scale Ohloh Labs to include all Ohloh technologies," said Jason Allen, co-founder and head of...
[January 18, 2008, 16:07]
CA flaws opens users up to DoS attacks
News The flaw enables a writer of malicious code to disable CA's eTrust Intrusion Detection System 3.0, which in turn weakens a company's defence against a DoS attack, said Michael Sutton, director of iDefense Labs.
[April 7, 2005, 9:40]
Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood
Talkback Would you accept benchmarks funded and run by RedHat engineers in their labs? Pretty close to be fair, the other benchmark is obviously just a microsoft funded PR stunt. Though slashdot admits to being blatantly anti-microsoft,so what...
[January 30, 2004, 4:52]
OpenOffice.org reveals marketing ambitions
News To help resolve this, OpenOffice.org has run usability labs in the US, in which Microsoft Office users of various levels were given a series of tasks to do. Microsoft, our major competitor, has a marketing budget of five to 10 billion US dollars...
[September 24, 2004, 18:10]
Microsoft's antivirus fails another test
News Microsoft also noted that OneCare is "still certified" by the International Computer Security Association (ICSA) Labs and the West Coast Lab's Checkpoint certification system. Microsoft's Live OneCare security suite has been rated bottom of the...
[March 7, 2007, 15:18]
Adobe looks towards Linux
News Adobe has joined the Open Source Development Labs, the industry consortium that employs Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds. Adobe has largely been on the sidelines of efforts to boost Linux for desktop computers, the vast majority of which run...
[November 3, 2004, 13:43]
McAfee: Malware scam using Google developer site
News The problem is similar to one that was found to be plaguing Microsoft's MSN Spaces site a year ago and continues to occur there, according to a McAfee Avert Labs blog posting. Along with the legitimate code are links to fake videos that direct...
[January 12, 2009, 8:02]
US 'fails to make breakthroughs'
News And leading US technology companies such as Microsoft, IBM and Hewlett-Packard continue to pour money into projects at US-based labs. Those same technology companies are diverting some of their research and development budgets to labs in low-cost...
[August 6, 2004, 12:45]
Start-up targets more personal search
News Now that Web search has become a moneymaker for portals such as Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN, technologists from all the industry players are back in the labs developing formulas to personalise search. When it comes out of the labs and what flavour it...
[August 11, 2003, 14:30]
Don't leave alternative browsers all at sea
Leader Active competition is the only way to make Microsoft do any work: after years of neglect, IE's back in the labs being fitted out with such daring innovations as proper cascading style sheet and PNG support.
[April 26, 2005, 14:10]
Where are the Windows 2000 apps?
News Our labs are jammed," Ollodart said, referring to the three VeriTest test sites in Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo. As the release of Microsoft's Windows 2000 nears, the small number of available applications certified to run with the operating system...
[January 4, 2000, 9:47]
MSN Messenger used for viral gang warfare
News Jamz Yaneza, senior virus researcher at Trend Micro's antivirus labs division, said that the worms spread by sending messages that contain Internet links to malicious bots. Just weeks after Microsoft forced millions of MSN Messenger users to update...
[March 8, 2005, 8:30]
Internet World: Broadband on a roll
News Creative Labs plans to officially release Nomad, its own digital audio player line, on Wednesday at the show although the launch was scheduled for Monday. Tuesday Microsoft Corp.will unveil its own alternative to MP3, called Microsoft Audio 4.0...
[April 13, 1999, 7:48]
ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware: a first look review
Reviews Building upon its fine reputation as a firewall vendor, Zone Labs has announced its own anti-spyware protection. Zone Labs is late to the party by offering ZoneAlarm Anti-Spyware long after other security vendors.
[October 19, 2005, 15:35]
Networks must counter triple threat
News However, by Wednesday 13 August, Kapersky Labs reported that its security team had already seen a slightly "improved" version that could coexist in the same computer with the original version -- meaning that you can have two Blaster infections...
[August 21, 2003, 12:40]
