Reuters – Apple Inc has released an iPhone software patch to fix a critical software bug uncovered by two independent researchers that make the devices susceptible to secret attacks by hackers.
Posted July 31st, 2009
Posted July 31st, 2009
The Kill-Bit (or "killbit") is a Microsoft Windows registry value that prevents an ActiveX control from being used by Internet Explorer. More information is available in Microsoft KB article 240797. If a vulnerability is discovered in an ActiveX control or COM object, a common mitigation is to set the killbit for the control, which will cause Internet Explorer to block use of the control. Or will it?
Posted July 31st, 2009
PC Magazine – Apple on Friday confirmed that it has issued an update to fix a security glitch on the iPhone that could have allowed hackers to disable or take over the smartphones.
Posted July 31st, 2009
AP – Getting a text message is akin to someone sliding a piece of mail under your door: You may not have asked for it, you can’t stop its delivery and you have to deal with it whether you want to or not.
Posted July 31st, 2009
PC World – Adobe has issued a range of patches for its most popular software to head off malware-pushing assaults that use poisoned PDF files to trigger a flaw in Flash.
