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There comes a time in every operating system’s life when it needs to have an emergency patch slapped over a security hold in its guts, and for Windows, that time is today – and it’s an emergency. What you’re going to see here is a bulletin by the name of MS11-100 that acts as a sort of public service announcement as Microsoft wants you to update your system several weeks before the regularly...
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Giant domain name registrar GoDaddy.com has pulled its support from the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act after owners of several websites announced they would take their business elsewhere. Negative feedback about SOPA from a number of customers forced GoDaddy to take a second look at the legislation, said Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO. Go Daddy has concerns about the...
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From January, Internet Explorer (IE) users will be automatically updated to the latest version of the browser. Microsoft said it was starting the project to update millions of machines to improve security online. Future updates to the browser would be applied without a user's knowledge to help beat scammers catching people out with fake updates. Those who did not want their browser updated...
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Failure was definitely an option for the "MythBusters" team Tuesday: A ballistics experiment for the Discovery Channel show went awry and launched a cannonball into a nearby neighborhood, damaging a house and a car. "MythBusters" -- the show that tests whether legends and common assumptions hold up under scientific scrutiny -- was using a cannon at a police firing range in Dublin, 35 miles...
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Web addresses ending in .xxx have gone on general sale, as legal efforts continue to scupper the domain name. Some 100,000 addresses have already been purchased in a restricted sale. The first pages went live in September. Two of the net's biggest pornography firms have accused ICM Registry - which oversees the addresses - of being "anti-competitive" and a "monopoly". ICM Registry...
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Adobe today confirmed that an unpatched, or zero-day, vulnerability in Adobe Reader is being exploited by criminals. Those attacks may have been aimed at defense contractors. Adobe promised to patch the bug in the Windows edition of Reader and Acrobat 9 no later than the end of next week. Tuesday, Dec. 12 is also Microsoft's regularly-scheduled Patch Tuesday for the month. The...
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Step-by-step instructions for how to circumvent Facebook’s privacy systems have been circulating online for more than two weeks. The method, which was blocked on Tuesday, involved exploiting systems meant to stop users posting explicit material on the web's largest social network. After reporting a public profile picture as inappropriate because of “nudity or pornography”, intruders were...
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