Mozilla fixed ten security flaws in Firefox—eight of which were rated … to run code and install software as if he or she was sitting in front of a compromised computer itself. Google fixed up 19 different vulnerabilities in its release of Chrome …
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W3C Releases Best Practices for Mobile Web Apps — International Web standards body, The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released a new standard for developers of mobile Web applications. The document, published as a W3C Recommendation, is titled “The Mobile Web Application Best Practices” …
A computer security researcher has released code that could be used to attack some versions of Google’s Android phones over the Internet. The attack targets the browser in older, Android 2.1-and-earlier versions of the phones. It was disclosed Thursday at …
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BBC News Windows 7 critical holes fixed in record Patch Tuesday CNET News The most severe of the three SMB flaws, which were first reported last month, could allow an attacker to take control of a computer remotely by sending a … Microsoft Releases Mammoth Security Patch InformationWeek Microsoft unleashes biggest security update ever today Yahoo! Tech Microsoft addresses critical SMBv2 flaw, fixes record number of flaws SearchSecurity.com TechRepublic