Mozilla on Tuesday fixed 11 security flaws in Firefox, following in rival Google's footsteps in patching its browser before a hacking contest kicks off next week.
Nine of the 11 flaws were rated "critical," a threat rating that implies hackers could use the vulnerabilities to compromise a computer or infect it with malware. Of the two remaining bugs, one was labeled "high" and the second was tagged as "moderate."
We’ve seen some clever hacks for iOS devices to do some things we’re positive Apple would not approve of, such as playing SNES with a Wiimote on your iPad or running Android on an iPhone, and here’s another one that you can add to the ever growing “Apple Would Not Approve” list: Playing your PS3 on your iOS device.
Not every Galaxy S user around the globe even has Froyo yet -- but Samsung's ready to move on, it seems, crafting a ROM based on Android 2.3.2 (in other words, quite recently) for the i9000 model that just leaked across the giant faucet better known as the internet.
Google fixed 19 flaws in its Chrome Web browser yesterday (Feb. 28), a week before a hackers from around the world will try to crack into it as part of an annual contest.
The updated Chrome 9.0.597.107 tackles 16 vulnerabilities rated “high” by Google and three rated “medium,” Computerworld reported. None of the flaws was labeled “critical,” a ranking that would leave the popular browser’s “sandbox” security feature — designed to quarantine flaws before they spread through a system — open to exploit.
Law enforcement has a problem, and you may be part of it.
If your company makes an Internet application that enables its users to communicate with each other and you do not have a way to hand over those communications in real time to law enforcement, then you are part of the problem. If one grants that there is a problem, as I do, the question becomes: "Is the solution worse than the problem?"
Mozilla has released what it expects to be the final beta version of its Firefox 4 browser, bringing hope of a final release early in March.
The twelfth beta fixes over 7,000 bugs in the old code and improves the performance of online video with better linking to hardware acceleration from the host computer’s resources.
Oracle has claimed that Google derived its Android code from the specifications for "hundreds" of Oracle's copyrighted Java files, and that at least eight Android files are actually decompiled Oracle object code.
Last week, Google asked a federal court to consider dismissing the copyright portion of the patent and copyright infringement suit that Oracle brought against Google and Android last August. But Judge William Alsup rejected Google's request, following a letter from Oracle strongly defending the copyright claims.
Mozilla today said that it will ship security updates to Firefox 3.5 and Firefox 3.6 next Tuesday, ending a debate about whether to wait for a patch that affects Adobe's software. Firefox 3.5.17 and Firefox 3.6.14 will now appear Tuesday, March 1, Mozilla disclosed in meeting notes published today.
Automattic, the company behind the popular open source blogging platform WordPress, has officially unveiled version 3.1, claiming the software is now 'more of a CMS than ever before.'
WordPress 3.1 brings a raft of improvements to the platform, including a new linking workflow designed to make it easier to link to existing posts and pages, a new admin bar that provides one-click access to commonly used dashboard features from any section, and a streamlined writing interface that aims to be significantly less cluttered than in previous editions.
Developers continue to fire away on new and existing bugs before issuing the first Firefox 4 Release Candidate.
To that end, the team now expects beta 12 — likely the last beta — to be available early next week — Monday or Tuesday, top developers said during the daily Mozilla Firefox 4 meeting.
We “branched and built for beta 12 last night,” according to developer notes posted on Mozilla Firefox meeting notes. “Nightlies will be frozen for a couple days on the beta 12 changeset to get additional coverage while QA qualifies the build.”
