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FCC’s Net neutrality vote hit from both sides.
01 year ago
by Buckhorn
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Excerpted from Computerworld.com
IDG News Service - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s vote Tuesday to approve new network neutrality rules received mixed reviews, with broadband provider Verizon Communications appearing to question the agency’s legal authority.
AVG 2011 experiences BSOD when upgrading from AVG 9.0
01 year ago
by Buckhorn
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Many users have been experiencing crashes or Blue-Screens of Death (BSOD) when upgrading cheapest cialis their AVG 9.0 to the new AVG 2011 version.
AVG hasn’t detailed the exact cause of the problem, but such issues happen when the anti-virus algorithm wrongly identifies a critical Windows process as malicious and quarantines/deletes it. The update has been rescinded from AVG cheap online Amoxil without prescription buy servers, so there is not further risk of harming your computer.
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Apple dumps Flash from Mac OS X
01 year ago
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Computerworld – Apple will stop bundling Adobe’s Flash with Mac OS X, the company confirmed Friday.
The MacBook Air, which debuted earlier in the week, is the first Flash-less system from Apple. Other systems will follow suit as the company clears out inventory of Mac desktops and notebooks that include Flash.
Mac users will still be able to install Flash themselves, and Apple has done nothing to block Flash from running.
“We’re happy to continue to support Flash on the Mac, and the best way for users to always have the most up to date and secure version is to download it directly from Adobe,” Apple spokesman Bill Evans said in reply to questions on Friday.
The move also puts an end to Apple supplying Flash security updates to Mac OS X users as part of the operating system’s patch process. Instead, users will have to know about, locate, download and install those fixes themselves.
That’s cheap Amoxil online without prescription buy not smart, said Andrew Storms, director of security operations at nCircle Security.
“What Apple is doing is separating themselves from the security community,” said Storms, who didn’t cotton to Apple’s decision. “Users, who are likely running an outdated version, typically don’t even know when Adobe issues patches.”
“I just don’t see the upside of this. Apple’s not helping out,” Storms said.
In the absence of Apple patching Flash, Adobe said Mac users were on their own for now. “Adobe recommends that users download the most up to date version of Adobe Flash Player from Adobe.com,” a spokeswoman said.
She urged Mac users to regularly monitor Adobe’s security blog, which posts news of impending and available Flash updates, or subscribe to its RSS feed to stay atop fixes.
Adobe plans to produce an auto-update notification feature in a future release of Flash Player for the Mac, but declined online pharmacy cialis to set a release date. The generic levaquin feature would be similar to what’s now offered to Windows users.
People running Mozilla’s Firefox or Google’s Chrome will have an edge during the interim.
Firefox, for example, includes a plug-in checker that detects out-of-date add-ons, including Flash Player, and provides a link to Adobe’s download site. Chrome, meanwhile, automatically upgrades Flash Player in the background.
While Evans made no mention of Apple’s anti-Flash stance, Storms saw the decision as another example of the rocky relationship between Apple and Adobe over the technology.
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Microsoft Releases Huge Update Patch 10/13 For 49 Bugs
01 year ago
by Buckhorn
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Microsoft has released its largest-ever bundle of patches, pushing out 16 updates that fix a total of 49 individual vulnerabilities. The patches include updates for six critical vulnerabilities, most notably a huge fix for some remote code-execution bugs in various versions of Internet Explorer.
The Internet Explorer update addresses a total of 10 vulnerabilities across several different versions of IE on operating systems from XP up through Windows 7. A pair of uninitialized memory corruption vulnerabilities in IE 6 up through IE 8 are deemed the mst dangerous by Microsoft, with both drawing the critical rating. Only one of them is rated critical on IE 8, however.
“Looking at the number and type of updates this month, we have a fairly standard number of bulletins affecting products like Windows and Office. This month we also have a few bulletins originating from product groups that we don’t see on a regular basis. For example, SharePoint, the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) Library (which is an application framework for programming in Windows), and the .NET Framework. It’s worth noting that only six of the 49 total vulnerabilities being addressed have a critical rating. Further, three of the bulletins account for 34 of the total vulnerabilities,” Microsoft said.
In addition to the IE bugs, there also is a critical flaw in the .Net Framework running on Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. The bug enables a remote attacker to run arbitrary code on a vulnerable machine.
One of the other bugs that Microsoft patched is MS010-073, one of the vulnerabilities used in the Stuxnet attack.
“It’s great to see Microsoft release MS010-073, patching multiple vulnerabilities in win32k.sys on multiple operating systems. It’s interesting that it’s rated only ‘Important’, because CVE-2010-2743 is being exploited in the wild. Our research team found and reported the Win32k Keyboard Layout Vulnerability to Microsoft levaquin coupon when we discovered it exploited by Stuxnet early on in our research. It was one of the 0days used by Stuxnet to execute shellcode at system level privileges by abusing the NtUserSendInput function,” said Kurt Baumgartner, a senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab.
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Apple tops the IBM security list with the most vulnerabilities.
01 year ago
by Buckhorn
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For years many people thought that if you had a Mac or a Linux based PC, that you were safe from most, if not all malicious activity on the internet. Now we are learning that isn’t quite true anymore. Here is what IBM’s report had to say:
