Late Tuesday, Mozilla.org released version 3.6.7 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, an 18.7 megabyte download, sports the following major change: – Version 3.6.7 is a security and bug-fixing release. Firefox 3.6.7 is available in more than 70 different languages and requires a G3, G4, G5 or Intel-based Mac, Mac OS X 10.4 […]
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Late Tuesday, Adobe released a long-awaited patch that addresses a number of vulnerabilities in versions of its Acrobat Pro and Reader offerings. Per Macworld, the fix addresses 18 different vulnerabilities, some of which are critical, are corrected by the update. Adobe has released new versions of both Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Reader for Mac. The […]
Google Chrome, Google’s new web browser, just reached version 5.0.375.86 for the Mac. The new version, an 25.4 megabyte download, offers the following the following changes: – Medium XSS via application/json response (regression). Credit to Ben Davis for original discovery and Emanuele Gentili for regression discovery. – Medium Memory error in video handling. Credit to […]
Late last week, Mozilla.org released version 3.6.4 of its Firefox web browser. The new version, an 18.6 megabyte download, sports the following major changes: – Version 3.6.4 makes four critical security fixes. Unlike the Windows version, it does not introduce the Out-of-Process Plug-in sandboxing feature. That is expected for Mac users in Firefox 4. Firefox […]
Some hackers just have no luck. Per CNET, one of the hackers in the group that snatched more than 100,000 iPad owner email addresses from AT&T’s servers was arrested Tuesday on felony drug charges after the FBI searched his Arkansas, US home. Andrew “Escher” Auernheimer was arrested by Fayetteville, Ark., police and was booked into […]