May 31
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Apple and Mozilla each issued free updates to plug security holes in their products this week. Apple’s patch fixes two vulnerabilities in its QuickTime media player for both Mac and Windows. Mozilla pushed out a series of updates to fix five security flaws in its Firefox Web browser and other software. Mac users should be able to obtain the updates using Apple’s Software Update feature. Windows users will need to fetch the fixes either through the Software Update application bundled with recent versions of QuickTime (and iTunes), or by grabbing the most recent QuickTime installer from Apple’s site. Firefox users should be prompted to install the updates by the browser itself upon launching the program. If you’re a Firefox user and you don’t see this prompt, it may be that you are running an older version of the browser. Firefox 2.0 includes the ability to auto-install updates, and if […]
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May 31
Thursday, May 31st, 2007
Grand jury indictments
A 27-year-old man, dubbed the Spam King by investigators, has been arrested in Seattle where he has been indicted on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, fraud in connection with electronic mail, and money laundering.…
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May 30
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
Makers of some of the most popular extensions, or “add-ons,” for Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser may have inadvertently introduced security holes that criminals could use to steal sensitive data from millions of users. By design, each Firefox extension — any of a number of free software applications that can be added to the popular open-source browser — is hard-coded with a unique Internet address that will contact the creator’s update server each time Firefox starts. This feature lets the Firefox browser determine whether a new version of the add-on is available. Mozilla has always provided a free hosting service for open-source extensions at addons.mozilla.org. But many third-party makers opt to serve updates on their own, using servers that often transmit the updates via insecure protocols (think http:// instead of https://). As a result, if an attacker were to hijack a public Wi-Fi hot spot at a coffeehouse or bookstore […]
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May 30
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
‘Er…try Hotmail?’
Tiscali has admitted the reason many of its customers have been unable to send outgoing email for over a week is because it has been blacklisted as a spammer.…
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May 30
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
School of BOFH
UK security software developer Sophos has apologised for drafting in its lawyers after a member of a forum for IT technicians in schools posted a foul-mouth rant criticising recent changes in its anti-virus technology.…
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