Posted March 8, 2013, 9:32 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in IT Security, Software
No browser was left standing at this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest. The latest versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome, and Mozilla's Firefox all succumbed to exploits on day one, with hackers targeting a variety of zero-day vulnerabilities on each…
Posted November 22, 2012, 1:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Software, The Web
It appears Mozilla has quietly toe-tagged 64-bit builds of its Firefox browser for Windows. In a Google Groups discussion, managing engineer Benjamin Smedberg requested coders halt development on nightly builds of its 64-bit Windows distribution.
Posted October 11, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Software
For the second time this year, hacker "Pinkie Pie" gave Google a run for its money -- and won. The clever hacker exploited yet another vulnerability in Chrome during the second Pwnium conference this year, netting himself (or perhaps herself)…
Posted August 22, 2012, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, Software
Google has long been an advocate of making the web a faster place. This ideal is epitomized by the company's increasingly popular (and speedy) Internet browser, Chrome. Remaining focused on that quest for speed, today the company revealed Octane, a…
Posted July 17, 2012, 11:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Software, Microsoft
The European Commission has launched a formal investigation on Microsoft over its failure to comply with commitments made in 2009 to settle a browser antitrust case. Back then the software giant had agreed to implement a ballot screen in Windows…
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