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Google Chrome 8 available
Google just released version 8 of its web browser Chrome. It fixes 13 security vulnerabilities of which 4 got rated “high”ly critical – the people reporting these all got rewarded with 1.000 US-$ and 500 US-$, respectively. Additionally to these security fixes, the update to Chrome 8.0.552.215 contains more than 800 bugfixes and stability improvements…
Microsoft releases work-around tool for DLL loading vulnerability
Microsoft has posted an advisory that explains the “DLL preloading attacks” and offers a work-around tool that “allows customers to disable the loading of libraries from remote network or WebDAV shares. This tool can be configured to disallow insecure loading on a per-application or a global system basis.” When an application loads a .dll file,…
The First iPad and iPad 3G Teardowns [PICS]
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My “friend” has invited me “to Twitter!”
“What are you doing? “To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.” Hmmm. That looked interesting. After I clicked on it (in virtual environment), Yahoo renamed the attachment from “Invitation+Card.zip” to “Neutral.gif” and gave a warning: Nice work Yahoo.
