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Secunia has reported that the number of security bugs recorded in the first half of 2010 is close to the total number for 2009. Surprisingly (or not) Apple has ranked first ahead of Oracle and Microsoft, for the total number … Continue reading
Minor point upgrades have been released by Opera?s web browser for Windows and Mac. These upgrades were so minor that they didn?t even get a press release. The 10.54 release fixes five security holes, four of the holes have not … Continue reading
Apple has been accused of adding a security update to it?s OS without informing users. The update was released last week, and includes protection against a Trojan that could potentially allow unauthorised control of a machine. According to Graham Cluley … Continue reading
Doctored copies of a Windows Mobile game have been loaded with a Trojan. A demo version of 3D Anti-Terrorist Action includes a Trojan that makes premium-rate calls on a users behalf, unbeknownst to them. Making calls to numbers in the … Continue reading
McAfee is being sued by a couple of consumers for it?s alleged tactics in promoting third-party services. The lawsuit has been filed by Melissa Ferrington and Cheryl Schmidt of California, and is seeking class-action status. The suit takes issue with … Continue reading
Oracle?s Java runtime has been discovered by researchers to have a bug that allows attackers to remotely execute code on a victims machine. The flaw has been found in the Java web start component and confirmed as exploitable. This applies … Continue reading
Adobe if frequently criticized for it?s applications being hard to patch. Next week it will launch an automatic update that downloads and installs security patches fro it?s programs. Plans for the updater were announced back in October last year and … Continue reading
New research shows how a manipulated PDF file can spread infection to other PDF files on a system. NitroSecurity application security researcher, Jeremy Conway, has discovered an attack scenario that proves PDFs are ?wormable?. Viruses by definition are capable of … Continue reading
Argos have exposed customers credit card details and CCV security numbers?in their e-mail receipts. A customer who checked his e-mail receipt found buried in the HTML source code, was his full credit card number and security code. Meaning that if … Continue reading