Apple updates Mountain Lion, patches Safari
Apple has updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues.
Gregg Keizer | 15 Mar | Read more
Apple has updated OS X Mountain Lion for the first time in six months, patching 14 security vulnerabilities and addressing a host of other issues.
Gregg Keizer | 15 Mar | Read more
Microsoft will issue security fixes for its Windows Store apps on the fly, not just on the familiar monthly Patch Tuesday, the company said this week.
Gregg Keizer | 14 Mar | Read more
Adobe today patched Flash Player, the fifth time this year it's updated the vulnerability-plagued software.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Mar | Read more
A day after researchers hacked Chrome and Firefox at the Pwn2Own contest, Google and Mozilla patched their browsers Thursday.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Mar | Read more
Research teams Wednesday cracked Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10), Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, pulling in more than $250,000 in prizes.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Mar | Read more
Romanian security company BitDefender has traced the cyber-espionage malware "MiniDuke" back to June 2011, more than a year and a half before the campaign was uncovered
Gregg Keizer | 04 Mar | Read more
Adobe today patched new vulnerabilities in Flash Player that hackers are now exploiting in attacks aimed at Firefox users, the company said.
Gregg Keizer | 26 Feb | Read more
A Polish security firm known for rooting out Java vulnerabilities has reported two new bugs in the browser plug-in to Oracle, Security Explorations said today.
Gregg Keizer | 25 Feb | Read more
The day it acknowledged company-owned Macs had been hacked using a "drive-by" Java exploit, Apple on Tuesday patched the Oracle software for older systems and released a malware detection tool.
Gregg Keizer | 20 Feb | Read more
Mozilla today released Firefox 19, adding a built-in PDF viewer to the browser and patching 13 security vulnerabilities.
Gregg Keizer | 19 Feb | Read more
Microsoft this week patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, preparing the browser for its time as a target early next month at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest.
Gregg Keizer | 14 Feb | Read more
Adobe updated Flash Player to patch a pair of zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers were already using to hijack Windows PCs and Macs.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Feb | Read more
For the first time, a major botnet take-down has included direct victim notification that warns users their PCs are infected and shows them how to scrub clean their machines.
Gregg Keizer | 07 Feb | Read more
Mozilla yesterday announced it would automatically disable all plug-ins in Firefox except the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player, citing security and stability reasons for the move.
Gregg Keizer | 30 Jan | Read more
Oracle will not stop bundling what critics describe as 'crapware' and 'foistware' with its Java installer anytime soon, a company representative intimated last week.
Gregg Keizer | 28 Jan | Read more