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Firefox 3.5.4 plugs security holes
News Mozilla released Firefox 3.5.4 for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Tuesday to patch six critical security holes and some other problems. For more on this story, see Firefox 3.5.4 closes security holes on CNET News.
[October 29, 2009, 8:48]
The latest top 10 Linux/Unix security holes
News The original holes may have been their fault, but no software is perfect and ISC BIND is quick to provide patches and/or updated versions once a problem is reported. There are a lot of holes in older OpenSSL libraries and, because it is often used...
[November 4, 2003, 11:10]
Integration needed to shore up security holes
News The Butler Group warns that organisations are leaving security holes by pulling together a patchwork of individually focused security products to try and protect their networks, systems and applications.
[July 6, 2005, 10:00]
A Year Ago: Hackers' favourite security holes revealed
News There are a lot of system administrators out there that are aware that security holes exist in their systems," said Jim Magadych, security research manager with Network Associates and a contributor to the report, "but they see the alerts coming...
[June 2, 2001, 6:28]
22 new Microsoft security holes revealed
News The advisories, and patches published with the bulletins, range from an "important" flaw affecting only Microsoft Windows NT Server to a collection of eight security holes, including three rated "critical", that leave Internet Explorer open to...
[October 13, 2004, 8:55]
Alarm raised over Doubleclick security holes
News DoubleClick, which patched the security holes on Friday, said these passwords could not have been used from outside its network to capture critical information. Internet advertising giant DoubleClick is rushing to investigate two security alarms...
[March 27, 2001, 7:07]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback Consumers should be (and ultimately are, through lower security) held liable for security holes in software. The fact of the matter is, many security holes exist because companies need to be first to market with a particular idea, or risk not...
[October 12, 2005, 16:27]
Firefox update tackles authentication security holes
News Mozilla on Monday released two new versions of Firefox, 3.5.2 and 3.0.13, to patch two critical security holes. We strongly recommend that all Firefox users upgrade to this latest release," Mozilla said in a blog posting about the security issue.
[August 4, 2009, 8:24]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback If Developers should be liable for security holes then individuals at ALL levels of government should be liable for failures of their departments. Look at the players in the FEMA debacle for example. Holding developers liable is ridiculous.
[October 12, 2005, 18:33]
US Report: MS, Netscape scramble to fix security holes
News The Microsoft and Netscape e-mail holes were discovered in June by researchers at the Finland university Separate security loopholes recently uncovered in Windows NT and in Internet-based e-mail clients from Microsoft and Netscape Communications...
[July 29, 1998, 14:38]
Hackers' favourite security holes revealed
News There are a lot of system administrators out there that are aware that security holes exist in their systems," said Jim Magadych, security research manager with Network Associates and a contributor to the report, "but they see the alerts coming...
[June 2, 2000, 8:53]
PentaSafe aims to plug OS security holes
News PentaSafe will next week announce new versions of its software for identifying operating system security holes in Unix, Linux and Windows NT systems. Instead, the PentaSafe software performs security audits on each individual Linux server one at a...
[March 10, 2000, 10:09]
Microsoft plugs 21 security holes
News Four of the critical updates deal with security holes that could allow remote code execution in all versions of Windows. The company sent out a dozen security bulletins on Tuesday as part of its regular monthly patch cycle.
[June 14, 2006, 9:55]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback Well this will certainly have the effect of getting rid of security holes. Security holes are often the function not of developers work but of managements, and/or software integrators. The code works as its supposed to, the problem is that...
[October 12, 2005, 16:36]
FBI aims to patch security holes
News The focus of the initiatives is on identifying security holes and delivering tools so companies can plug them, a practical approach outlined in the administration's cybersecurity plan, said Alan Paller, director of research for SANS.
[October 1, 2002, 13:23]
OpenOffice patches three security holes
Talkback "OpenOffice patches three security holes" I assume this is only on the windows version, since it can gain access to the entire system. Linux isn't integrated" like M$ is, so is not as vulnerable or as buggy as M$ .
[July 5, 2006, 14:23]
Security holes exposed in several major browsers
Talkback these freakin M$ Corp adverts at the side of this panel really piss me off big time bunch of 5 knuckle shuffle merchants they are .any how gripe out the way . If more time and effort was spent catching the little twits that spend there time...
[October 21, 2004, 23:06]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback I'd love the time to make all my code completely secure - now tell my boss that it's going to take twice as long (or more), and then tell the client. I don't get to make that decision, so I'm damned if I'll be responsible for it.
[October 12, 2005, 16:45]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback Mr. Schmidth seems to have found a way to quickly confirm from within how well quality control and such are actually established within the real world average developers working environment. To sum it up: greed rules.
[October 14, 2005, 23:25]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback There are huge problems with this idea: a) developers are only one part of the TEAM that produces the code; what about those that were involved in the code inspections? What about those in verification?
[October 12, 2005, 16:46]
