Two new security flaws have been discovered in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, one of which could be replicated in Mozilla’s Firefox
Attack code that exploits a flaw in Apple Computer’s Mac OS X was publicly released Wednesday in the US, increasing the urgency to patch. The code’s arrival comes just a day after Apple made an update available for its operating system. The malicious program takes advantage of a locally exploitable vulnerability in an operating system component called launchd
Microsoft said that it is making another slight delay to the planned arrival time for Office 2007, citing performance concerns with recent test versions
Microsoft has removed the controversial phone home
notifications component from its WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) anti-piracy tool, but may be turning off copies of Windows without WGA installed
Three computer experts have been arrested over an alleged international plot to spread viruses via e-mail. Police say the viruses run without the knowledge of the computer owner and allow criminals to access any stored private and commercial information. The three men are alleged to have targeted UK businesses since at least 2005, and infected computers worldwide — via Spam Huntress
Microsoft has decided to initially use technology from its WinFS project in the SQL Server database, rather than directly in its Windows operating system
The Dell laptop seen bursting into flames in photographs on the internet is being examined as part of the company’s probe of the incident
In a rare case of music retailer-turned-Internet pirate, the Virgin store chain in France said Tuesday that it had been found guilty of downloading and reselling a Madonna hit without permission. The store’s online portal, virginmega.fr, was ordered by the Paris Tribunal de Commerce to pay €600,000, or US$754,000, in damages for downloading the Madonna song Hung Up
from a France Télécom Web site that had exclusive rights to distribute the song for one week
A publishing firm fell foul of the law by using unlicensed typefaces worth £80,000, according to licensing lobby group the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The publishing firm had claimed to be using just one font but in fact was found using 11,000. The publisher was the subject of a BSA enquiry after an ex-employee tip-off, said the BSA, which is funded by software companies
Victoria will speed up the development of a AU$31.2 million high-speed fibre optic network for academics by piggybacking on an existing network used for railway services
Many individuals currently without permanent housing still manage to stay connected via a mobile phone, laptop or some other gadget. Many homeless have email addresses and find that it offers them a way to get their foot back in the door of normal
society via Slashdot
A security start-up is borrowing a technique from the research labs to try to give Internet Explorer PCs relief from Web-based attacks. GreenBorder Technologies, a venture-backed start-up, plans to release on Tuesday a security tool that puts Microsoft’s IE in a virtual sandbox. Called GreenBorder Pro, the product uses virtualisation technology similar to what researchers at antivirus companies have been using for years. In a virtual environment, malicious software is allowed to execute, but it can’t touch the underlying operating system
Mediaware, a tiny Canberra tech firm, has won a multimillion-dollar deal to supply digital video systems to next-generation US spy planes, staking its claim as one of Australia’s best performing software exporters
France has given the thumbs-up to the defanged version of a controversial law that would have forced Apple Computer to open up its iTunes digital rights management to players other than its iPod
The banking details of thousands of Australians have been revealed and an international police investigation jeopardised in a bungle by Australia’s peak internet crime-fighting agency. The details of 3500 customers from 18 banks, including names and account numbers, were lost when a classified computer dossier on Russian mafia phishing
scams was misplaced by the Australian High Tech Crime Centre in April last year
Number two telco Optus has already signed supply agreements with at least one party as it moves closer to giving ISPs wholesale access to its extensive new high-speed broadband network
LiveJournal recently introduced an ad-supported level. Over the last few days an advertiser used an ad to install the ErrorSafe malware that tried to trick people into believing they had a fault on the computer that needs them to purchase a fix. The ad used a server-side setting and targetted only those outside the US, to prevent LiveJournal’s own checks from noticing it. LiveJournal has apologised for the ad and slow response — via Slashdot
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that evolve their own language, bypassing the limits of imposing human rule-based communication. The technology, dubbed Embedded and Communicating Agents, has allowed researchers at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratory in France to add a new level of intelligence to the AIBO dog. The robot dog has learnt to see a ball and tell another one where the ball is, if it’s moving and what colour it is, and the other is capable of recognising it
TorrentSpy named the hacker who it claims broke into its computer systems on behalf of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), as part of a legal request that would force the MPAA to turn over documents stolen from the Internet file-searching company
Family First senator Steve Fielding made a string of nuisance
calls to journalists yesterday to expose politicians’ power to bombard the public after they were exempted from new do-not-call laws
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