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MSDN Webcast: Identifying Least-Privilege User Account (LUA) Bugs With the LUA Buglight Tool (Level 200)
White Papers Identifying specific causes for these "LUA bugs" has traditionally been very difficult, and applying the fixes often exposes other unnecessary risks. This webcast introduces LUA Buglight, a new tool that quickly identifies the specific causes of...
[December 15, 2006, 0:00]
Apple stamps out 46 iPhone bugs
News Several of the bugs could allow a hacker to execute malicious code on the handset. In addition, bugs in Safari could lead to the disclosure of the search history and to successful 'clickjacking' attacks.
[June 18, 2009, 15:05]
Experts: Let's squash software bugs
News As Clarke did, Schaeffer also blasted the software industry for the large number of bugs in their applications. Security researchers and hackers who find vulnerabilities need to realise that discretion is more important than valour, several federal...
[August 5, 2002, 9:32]
Month of Apple bugs begins
Blog Keep watching the Month Of Apple Bugs web site for more alleged Apple vulnerabilities. The security researchers who promised to bring us an Apple bug a day throughout January have revealed their first vulnerability.
[January 2, 2007, 14:30]
MS kills Mac Office bugs
News Microsoft on Monday called on the exterminators to stomp out Macintosh Office bugs. The company issued the first service release -- or collection of bug fixes -- for Mac Office 2001. The company had already issued two similar service updates for...
[April 3, 2001, 9:15]
VirtualBox update fixes Windows 7 bugs
News Sun has updated its VirtualBox virtualisation software, fixing bugs related to Windows 7 and Snow Leopard. Virtual Box 3.0.10, released on Thursday, includes a change in the way the software works with Intel VT-x and AMD-V virtualisation technologies.
[November 2, 2009, 8:12]
Ubuntu creator wants to squash 'upstream' bugs
News Shuttleworth, who runs Ubuntu's commercial arm, Canonical, said that most users expect developers of open-source distributions to fix bugs affecting the operating systems, even if the flaws were introduced in groups of files developed by other...
[June 30, 2008, 16:20]
Support cannot even discuss bugs with customers
Member Review Here's a quick way to determine the quality of the software: when Customer Support says that they are not allowed to discuss which bugs are being researched, which bugs have been duplicated in-house, which bugs are targeted for the next patch...
[May 12, 2004, 10:32]
PC bugs: Is the bill coming due?
News PC officials, in fact, often argue that because the hardware and software components of PCs evolve so quickly, and are produced by such a large array of suppliers, it is almost inevitable that PCs are prone to unexplained lockups, mystifying bugs...
[January 4, 2000, 15:43]
Developers squashing GCC 4.0 bugs
News GCC 4.0 fixes hundreds of bugs, can produce software for processors that were previously unsupported, and can compile software written in the Fortran 95 programming language, widely used in scientific circles.
[May 9, 2005, 17:25]
Oracle fixes 33 security bugs
News Under the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) used by Oracle, two of the bugs — those affecting the JRockit and Secure Backup HTTP components — received a severity score of 10, the highest available.
[July 15, 2009, 14:43]
News Burst: Office SR2 fixes the bugs SR1 couldn't reach
News SR2 includes fixes for several bugs in Office 97 not fixed in the February SR1 release, including the Excel 97 re-calculation patch, which solves a bug that can prevent spreadsheet cells from recalculating properly; an email forms-fix utility...
[September 21, 1998, 6:59]
Security researcher faces jail for finding bugs
News A French security researcher who published exploit codes that could take advantage of bugs in an antivirus application could be imprisoned for violation of copyright laws. We have strong copyright protection as well as strong anti-hacking laws, but...
[January 11, 2005, 11:45]
Skype 3.8 Beta Release - Ho Hum, Same Old Bugs
Blog Don't rush to download it, because it appears to have pretty much the same bugs as Skype 3.6 has. Skype version 3.8.0.96 (Beta) was released last week. Despite some of the "experts" on the Skype User Forums going through old posts and advising...
[April 7, 2008, 8:03]
Building with bugs
Blog I heard an argument at a techie press conference recently that put forward what I considered to be a good argument for releasing a software build with known bugs on board. The code guru in question reasoned that there was a point at which, even...
[July 27, 2007, 9:05]
Nice design, but lots & lots of bugs
Member Review The concept is easy but the software is full of bugs -- especially when using any of the new features. The program keeps crashing and numerous errors are sent back to Microsoft. For example, when using the graphic equaliser & on playback the...
[February 26, 2004, 6:56]
Mozilla fixes bugs in Firefox 3.5 and 3.0
Blog Mozilla on Wednesday released two new versions of its browser, Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14, that patch three critical security holes and fix assorted other bugs. The updates can be fetched through the Help menu's Check for Updates option, or can be...
[September 11, 2009, 12:40]
Mozilla downplays Firefox 2.0 bugs
News Security researchers are welcome to hunt for bugs in Firefox, Snyder said. However, those bugs should be reported responsibly to Mozilla, instead of disclosed publicly, she said. We think it is great that the security community is working so hard...
[October 26, 2006, 11:00]
Reporting bugs is indeed the issue
Talkback Yes, a beta will contain bugs, but it does rather seem that Maynor is intent on stirring things up. A good point there. The fact that he was also central to the AirPort fiasco suggests the same. He has certainly proved to be a divisive figure.
[June 13, 2007, 15:27]
Apple squashes Mac bugs
News Apple's last security update was last in May, addressing bugs in Mac OS X and QuickTime. Apple on Tuesday released an update for Mac OS X that repairs several security flaws and includes feature updates.
[June 28, 2006, 10:20]
