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Internet Explorer Tweak Made Public
News Microsoft on Tuesday made broadly available an Internet Explorer update related to a high-profile patent spat with a start-up backed by the University of California. The company last December said it would make the tweaks and a month later made the...
[March 1, 2006, 13:25]
Windows Attack Code Made Public
News Prior to the public posting of the exploit, other code that takes advantage of the flaw had been made available to users of a security testing tool made by Immunity. Functionality of the public exploit code appears to be limited, Symantec said in...
[January 17, 2007, 7:48]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
News A computer can be made to execute potentially malicious code by feeding in extra data that is designed to flood the buffer. The public bug disclosure comes just as Mozilla released the first beta of Firefox 1.5.
[September 9, 2005, 12:55]
Web Services Spec Made Public
News The UDDI Business Registry Operators Council, made up of IBM, Microsoft, NTT Communications and SAP, is promoting usage of UDDI by providing support to the software development community. There has been a lot of focus in Web services around digital...
[August 22, 2003, 11:35]
Internet Explorer Tweak Made Public
Talkback How did the US ever manage to become leaders of the Western World - this merely highlights what a bunch of litiginous w***ers the appear to be - I libelled the US, so sue me, I have f*** all except my anger at yet another example of western...
[March 1, 2006, 22:48]
Windows DoS Flaw Made Public
Talkback If this attack only makes windows run sluggishly for a short period of time can I sign up for it?
[March 9, 2005, 8:18]
Windows DoS Flaw Made Public
Talkback Its crap like this that Microsoft tries to convince its customers is normal that made me switch to Linux. Isn't Windows already slow enough?
[March 9, 2005, 23:55]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
Talkback "A buffer-overflow vulnerability in the open source browser has revelealed by a researched apparrently frustrated with Mozilla's security procedures" Not only are there spelling mistakes, this also makes little sense!
[September 9, 2005, 13:54]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
Talkback Let me help you. Open source software has security bugs too". Better now?
[September 9, 2005, 17:42]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
Talkback I'm confused. His technical explanation states that the buffer must be full of all dashes. If he can tweak in a malicious payload, this description is not true. If the description is true, then this is a crash bug, and not a remote execution...
[September 9, 2005, 19:20]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
Talkback It appears to me that this article has been run without proof, or at least checking to see if this actually happens. I am currently running "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6" and can not reproduce this...
[September 11, 2005, 2:54]
Windows Exploit Code Made Public
Talkback "Users who have applied the MS05-051 patch are protected against exploitation of the flaw, Microsoft said. The patch has been available since 11 October, but some users have reported problems with applying the update.
[November 29, 2005, 16:10]
Firefox 1.5 DoS Flaw Made Public
News Exploit code for the latest version of Mozilla's Firefox browser was published Wednesday, potentially putting users at risk of a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. The exploit code takes advantage of a bug in the recently released Firefox 1.5, running...
[December 9, 2005, 8:15]
Windows Exploit Code Made Public
News However, the public posting of exploit code could be a sign that an attack is coming, experts have said. Computer code posted over the weekend can crash vulnerable computers by exploiting a Windows flaw disclosed in October.
[November 29, 2005, 8:10]
Burst.com Wants Gates' Deposition Made Public
News A software company suing Microsoft for patent infringement wants a judge to release a deposition of Bill Gates to the public. Burst.com plans to file a motion in federal court in Baltimore requesting that US District Judge J.
[September 2, 2004, 14:10]
Windows DoS Flaw Made Public
News A security researcher published details of a denial-of-service vulnerability on Monday that he claims allows hackers to trash Microsoft Windows systems by trapping machines in a processing loop. The researcher, who posted the vulnerability under...
[March 8, 2005, 11:30]
Firefox Flaw Made Public
News A flaw has been discovered in the popular open source browser Firefox that could expose sensitive information stored in memory, Secunia has warned. Firefox versions 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 contain the vulnerability, the security information company said in...
[April 6, 2005, 9:10]
UK Comms-snooping Requests Top Half A Million
News Public authorities made 519,260 requests for communications data in 2007, an annualised increase of more than 50 percent. The commissioner said that 1,182 errors were reported by public authorities in accessing this data, with two-thirds made by...
[July 24, 2008, 9:23]
Reporting Software Flaws Safely
News Last year he made a name for himself by making public an exploit for printing airline boarding passes, much to the dismay of the US Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security.
[June 8, 2007, 18:02]
Academics Meeting Granger To Discuss NHS IT
Talkback Discussions concerning public services (or anything else that concerns tax money) should be public or made public shortly after the discussion. At least before a decision is made.
[April 20, 2006, 22:45]
