Beware ‘frighteningly bad’ Flash flaw, say researchers
Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe’s Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google’s Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said today.
“The magnitude of this is huge,” said Mike Murray, the chief information security officer [...]
Hackers can exploit a flaw in Adobe’s Flash to compromise nearly every Web site that allows users to upload content, including Google’s Gmail, then launch silent attacks on visitors to those sites, security researchers said today.
“The magnitude of this is huge,” said Mike Murray, the chief information security officer at Orlando, Fla.-based Foreground Security. “Any site that allows user-uploadable content is vulnerable, and most are not configured to prevent this.”
Google will release a beta of its Chrome browser for the Mac in a matter of weeks, a company manager said yesterday.
According to Neil Baum, a product manager on the Chrome team, Google will take the Mac version of its browser to beta in early December. A Google spokesman declined to confirm an exact date for the Mac beta, but noted that a release early next month “shouldn’t sound too surprising,” since the company had previously promised a public preview before the end of the year.
Apple may be feeling the Android heat. The company has changed the way it deals with iPhone app developers letting them now keep closer tabs on how their software is proceeding through Apple’s strict App Store review process. Many see the move as yet another step by Apple to keep app store developers from defecting to competing mobile platforms — namely Android.
Sales of smartphones running the Window Mobile operating system declined 20 percent in the third quarter at the same time that total smartphone sales surged 13 percent, according to an analysis of newly released sales data from Gartner.
The fact that Windows Mobile sales declined may not be a surprise, but the size of the decline is. The third quarter ended before an upgraded operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5, began shipping in October, too late to have an effect on sales figures.
Apple on Wednesday issued its second security update in three days, patching seven vulnerabilities in Safari, including one in the Windows version that the company fixed two months ago for most Mac users.
Microsoft introduced some updates to its Windows Mobile Marketplace, including a new online store accessible from computers and improvements to anti-piracy technology, but there is confusion about how the improvements work.
Google’s Go could improve on existing programming languages by simplifying development without sacrificing application performance, but it will likely take years for Go to attain an established position that will allow it to have a noticeable impact.
Consequently, it will be crucial for Google to commit to Go for the long term, working hard at championing and strengthening it. Otherwise, the open-source Go won’t fulfill its stated potential of offering the development speed of dynamic languages like Python with the robustness of compiled languages like C++.
Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Thursday announced that they have settled all antitrust litigation and patent cross-license disputes between the companies.
Under terms of the deal, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion, and has agreed to a set of business practice provisions, according to a statement from the companies.
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While companies are starting to seriously look at the hosted applications from Google and Microsoft — and Google Apps is winning converts among schools and small firms — Microsoft’s incumbent status gives it a leg up, according to CIOs interviewed at the Society for Information Management (SIM) conference in Seattle this week.<
Microsoft may launch the public beta of Office 2010 as early as next week, according to e-mail messages received Tuesday by people who have been testing the company’s next application suite.
Last month, CEO Steve Ballmer promised that his company would roll out a beta during November. Microsoft has said it will distribute millions of copies of the Office 2010 public beta.
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