Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 is Coming… Next Year…. Maybe
Microsoft is working on Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), having released a beta or test version last August. The next version, according to the company, is a Release Candidate (RC) that is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2009. That would seem to indicate a general release a few months later. However, some developers [...]
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
A Flaw is Found in Vista
A security company in Austria has found a vulnerability in Windows Vista. It might allow a hacker to run unauthorized code on your computer, or in other words, seize control of it. You would have to be surfing the Internet with your Administrator account. But it could be possible to mount the attack without Administrator [...]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
A Firefox Update
Mozilla, publisher of the Firefox browser, has issued an update. It fixes 11 flaws, of which six are rated critical. Most of them can be exploited to run malicious code on your computer, or basically hijack it. Your Firefox browser version 3.0 should have updated itself automatically by now. To check which version you have, [...]
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
A Phishing Scam
Residents of Canada, watch out for a spoofed email popping up in your inboxes. It claims to be from The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), which is basically the tax man. The CRA is equivalent to the American IRS. The emails claim you have a government refund waiting, but your information is incomplete. Just fill out [...]
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
A Big Email Spammer is Shut Down
Should we breathe a huge sigh of relief? Well, maybe for just a minute. After a long investigation by the Washington Post, the ISPs serving California-based McColo Corp. were convinced to shut it down. It was claimed that McColo was single-handedly responsible for 75% of the spam choking up the Internet. That amounts to billions [...]
