Microsoft founder Bill Gates also finds it easier to “just buy a CD and rip it” than grapple with the copyright protection used by online music stores.
Gates confessed to a round table of prominent bloggers that “no one has done it right” when it comes to Digital Rights Management. This is despite Microsoft recently creating [...]

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Yahoo Messenger users are being urged to upgrade to the latest version after the application was hit by a ‘highly critical’ vulnerability.
The flaw allows for a buffer overflow attack against an ActiveX control bundled with the installer for the application. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take control of a system by luring a [...]

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McAfee today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Citadel Security Software, a provider of security risk management and compliance technology.
The acquisition forms key component of McAfee’s security risk management strategy, according to the firm.
The deal will see McAfee working to integrate Citadel’s vulnerability assessment, policy compliance enforcement and remediation technology into its suite [...]

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McAfee has recently predicted about the new patterns of the online crime that we may need to prepare ourselves as exploiters will continue to expand their malware tools in 2007 and it is most likely to include the emerging media such as video files and mobile phones.
Unfortunately the online criminals will develop malware for any [...]

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Adobe declared about a new discovery of a security flaw that could give attackers control over compromised systems. They have warned their users about its root cause.
The vulnerability affects the ActiveX components for versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8 of both its Reader and Acrobat applications.
This vulnerability can be exploited when a user views a specially-crafted web [...]

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Downloadsquad.com blogged about Microsoft’s Live OneCare Antivirus, This application is refering access to the gmail as virus, accoridng to the message depicted each time that you log onto Gmail you’re getting infected?
Microsoft’s Live OneCare users are reporting that every time they access Gmail, they are confronted by an alert telling them that the page is [...]

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Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin has stated that Windows Vista’s new security features are so strong that antivirus software is no longer necessary.
Allchin said during a telephone conference that he would be comfortable with his seven year-old son using a Vista machine without any antivirus software installed.
When asked about the security of Vista compared with XP, [...]

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Microsoft has issued a warning against a vulnerability in its Internet Explorer 7 browser that could allow attackers to spoof the address of a website.
An attacker could exploit the flaw by making a user click on a specially crafted website that would launch a pop-up window.
The attacker could then forge the URL for the pop-up, for [...]

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Oracle has released a ‘critical patch update’ that plugs 122 security vulnerabilities across the company’s databases, enterprise applications, developer tools and middleware.
The vendor issues its security updates on a quarterly basis and is now using a system that assigns a severity score to its bugs on a scale of one to 10.
Oracle has also started [...]

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Security experts have detected a malicious Trojan downloader being distributed in spoofed email messages claiming to be from Microsoft.
The email appears to come from support@microsoft.com, and offers a link to download Release Candidate 1 of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.
Clicking on the link provided in the bogus email launches a maliciously crafted web site that looks very [...]

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