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Hackers could have had an inside track on unpatched flaws in major software projects because of a critical vulnerability in Bugzilla, a system that many developers use to track and discuss bugs in their code.
Patches released Monday for Bugzilla address a privilege escalation vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to gain administrative access to software bug trackers based on the open-source application.
Bugzilla is developed with support from the Mozilla Foundation, which uses it to track issues for many of its own products. However, the platform is also used by the Apache Software Foundation, the Linux kernel developers, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, OpenSSH, Eclipse, KDE, GNOME, various Linux distributions and many other projects.
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Wzor, the infamous Windows leaker, took to a forum recently with claims that Microsoft is allegedly working on a prototype operating system that would not be fully functional unless it was connected online to the cloud. You better sit down, because rumor has it that some minimalistic version of this new Windows OS, which may be meant for devices with screens larger than 9 inches, could be “free.” Read…
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Since there’s very little to say about the first Patch Tuesday of 2014, only four bulletins issued and no security updates marked as critical, then let’s look at a security story fueled by a big hate for Microsoft’s alleged surveillance.
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