Software-Programming

With two billion users now accessing the internet, even a small success rate of attacks on endpoints translates to huge numbers of compromised systems. This situation is not lost on today's cybercriminals, who are using automated means to bypass legacy perimeter defenses and continually outwit any system put in place to stop them.

However, according to a new study, "The Secunia Half Year Report 2011," released on Thursday by Secunia, a Copenhagen-based provider of IT security solutions, a patching strategy can reduce vulnerability risks by as much as 80 percent.

Firefox product manager Asa Dotzler determined that figuring out the 64-bit confusion surrounding Firefox will be “near the top” of his to-do list this summer and fall. One could conclude that Mozilla has no idea at this point what people are expecting from a 64-bit version of Firefox, so Dotzler is asking for some feedback. Considering the advantages and disadvantages of 64-bit – are you ready for a 64-bit Firefox?

The 343 changes made by Microsoft developer K. Y. Srinivasan put him at the top of a list, created by LWN.net, of developers who made the most changes in the current development cycle for Linux 3.0. Along with a number of other "change sets", Microsoft provided a total of 361 changes, putting it in seventh place on the list of companies and groups that contributed code to the Linux kernel. By comparison, independent developers provided 1,085 change sets to Linux 3.0, while Red Hat provided 1,000 and Intel 839.

Internet Explorer 9's dual-pronged approach to blocking access to malicious URLs—SmartScreen Filter to block bad URLs, and Application Reputation to detect untrustworthy executables—provides the best socially engineered malware blocking of any stable browser version, according to NSS Labs' latest report.

Shoulder surfing, the simple act of leering over a computer users’ shoulder to spy on passwords and other sensitive info, may not seem like the most advanced hacker trick. But when it comes to shoulder surfing Apple’s iPad, Haroon Meer has it down to a science.

Most malware doesn't intentionally set out to damage your PC, that's bad for business - the authors want their creations to stay hidden, so your system remains infected for as long as possible. But whether it's through programming bugs, partial clashes with antivirus software or other reasons, a serious infection can sometimes trash your PC to the point where Windows will no longer boot. And what do you do then?

Sony and Adobe have teamed up to offer a $200,000 prize fund for developers.

The ‘Adobe AIR App Challenge Sponsored by Sony’ has been invented to drive the creation of apps built using Adobe's authoring tools specifically for Sony's impending tablets, codenamed S1 and S2, which run Google's Android operating system.

In March 2011, 58 malicious applications were found in the Android Market. Before Google could remove the applications from the Android Market they were downloaded to around 260,000 devices. These applications contained Trojans hidden in pirated versions of legitimate applications. The malware DroidDream exploited a bug which was present in Android versions older than 2.2.2.

It's been a good 5 years since I last played around with a Hackintosh – back then folks like Maxxuss were about the only ones who were actively involved in anything groundbreaking when it came to running Apple's operating system on non native machines.

There are any number of ways to improve the performance of SSL, ranging in difficulty from a simple config change to installing dedicated hardware or desperately trying to get the protocol modified.