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With the threats to online security increasing, you may have heard a myriad of suggestions for staying safe online. One day you read about the need for protection from viruses, the next week you read about the importance of staying safe from spyware. You’ve undoubtedly heard about phishing, and hopefully you’ve heard about how to […]
Two days later than expected, Microsoft Corp. reissued a critical security update for its Internet Explorer browser. The reissued patch is important because it “fully resolves” a serious security bug Microsoft introduced with the original update, released Aug. 8. Microsoft acknowledged that there were problems with its update soon after it was issued. Web sites […]
Consumers paid as much $7.8 billion over two years to repair or replace computers that got infected with viruses and spyware, a Consumer Reports survey found. That figure was down from a similar survey a year ago. Still, it suggests that people are paying large sums to cope with the flood of malicious viruses and […]
Microsoft has fixed a bug in a critical security patch that may have been causing problems for some Windows Server 2003 users. The bug is in the critical MS06-040 Windows Server services update, released earlier in August. It affects programs that use up very large chunks of memory on some versions of Windows. According to […]
Dell just announced the largest recall of any consumer electronic item in history: 4.1 million lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony and used in over 30 of its models. The recall was precipitated by a small number of overheated batteries in notebooks getting hot enough to cause a fire or potentially explode. Although the risk of […]
The disappearance of easy-to-find flaws in the major operating systems has pushed vulnerability researchers to branch out from finding security issues in core system software and instead concentrate on the device drivers and client-side agents present on all PCs, security experts said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Briefings. The trend is not just evident […]
