November, 2009
Firefox 3.6 Beta 4 available for download
The fourth beta of a new version of a popular web browser Mozilla Firefox 3.6, based on a new engine upgrade – Gecko 1.9.2. There has been a lot of new changes, and some of them are worth mentioning: add-ons integration order has been changed to improve Mozilla’s work with third party developed add-ons; a [...]
Destructive Panda Virus Returns
A Panda Virus that has caused widespread damage at a time when public knowledge about online security was low and caused first arrests for virus-writing in 2007 in China is now back. China’s national virus response center warned about apdated worn earlier this week, but they have only now made the connection between the new [...]
Metasploit Releases IE Attack but calls it “unreliable”
The Microsoft Internet Explorer security bug that was disclosed last week yet again takes our attention – this time developers of the open-source Metasploit penetration testing toolkit have released code that can compromise IE browser, however the code cannot be called reliable. As the developers said tehmselves – the bug is unreliable, you can’t be [...]
Firefox blocks a buggy Microsoft plug-in
After it became known that automatically installed Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Plug-in for a popular webbrowser Firefox opened a major security hole, Mozilla decided to block this plug-in completely, even though Microsoft released a patch to fix the problem. It is said that Microsoft agreed with this move. At the same time Mozilla let out [...]
Google Unveils Chrome OS
Since the last week when Google gave the world a glance at its new OS – Google Chrome OS there has been a lot of dispute. The main priority of the netbook operating system were supposed to be emphasizing speed and simplicity, but it surely starts to look now like project’s priorities may be weaknesses. [...]
Templates added for Google Sites
It is now even easier to create a website using Google Sites utility, since they have added new templates for the service. You can choose from a whole galary of templates, using the premade page design and gadgets, hyperlinks for page navigation will be created automatically. The themes include wedding webpages, websites for schools, churches [...]
Adobe AIR 2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 are out
Adobe has released beta versions of it’s AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 software for Windows, Linux and Mac operating systems. At some point in 2010 the 10.1 Player will also be available for smartphones and other mobile devices, and you can already update it on x86-based netbooks. The player can take advantage of new [...]
The first Windows Mobile 7 Beta will see the world in the first quarter of 2010
Rumors say that in the beginning of 2010 Windows is preparing a beta version of its next mobile operating system Windows Mobile 7 for the mobile makers to get their devices ready, the official release is expected on the third quarter of the year, so the manufacturers will have enough time to prepare their products [...]
Eset’s harmful programs statistics
The Eset company – the makers of a popular antivirus software, released it’s statistics of top internet-threats that were discovered by Eset specialist crew using the “early locate” technology – ThreatSense.Net in October 2009. The first place for the number of world infections was given to an internet worm Conficker, the total amount of computers [...]