Adobe yesterday said it would issue security updates next week for its PDF viewer Reader as well as for Acrobat, its PDF creator, to fix critical flaws in the software on Windows and Apple's OS X.
Gregg Keizer | 06 Sep | Read more
Microsoft has announced it will issue just four security updates to customers next week, with the usual patches for Internet Explorer (IE) as well as others for Windows, the .Net Framework and Lync, the company's communications server software.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Sep | Read more
Apple may have denied that hackers breached its iCloud service to steal celebrities' intimate photos, but the reality is that the wave of news stories and blogs covering the hacks have damaged the company and its service's reputation, at least in the short term, said analysts.
Gregg Keizer | 04 Sep | Read more
With a Microsoft-mandated deadline a little more than two months away, computer makers are still selling PCs equipped with Windows 7 Home Premium.
Gregg Keizer | 21 Aug | Read more
Although Microsoft has pulled a patch from Windows Update that crippled some computers, it is still pushing a truncated version of the security update that contained the flawed fix.
Gregg Keizer | 18 Aug | Read more
Microsoft has postponed the implementation of Java blocking within Internet Explorer and will give customers a little less than a month to deal with the unexpected change.
Gregg Keizer | 14 Aug | Read more
A status update filed in Pennsylvania by the U.S. Department of Justice said that both the Gameover Zeus botnet and Cryptolocker 'remained neutralized.'
Gregg Keizer | 15 Jul | Read more
Microsoft has restored service to its security advisory mailing list, but it has buried the sign-up form and made it hard to find.
Gregg Keizer | 15 Jul | Read more
A sophisticated Chinese hacker group that had been stealing information from U.S. policy experts on Southeast Asia suddenly changed targets last month to focus on Iraq, security researchers said Monday.
Gregg Keizer | 08 Jul | Read more
Apple on Monday updated both OS X and iOS, patching 19 security vulnerabilities in the former and 44 in the latter.
Gregg Keizer | 01 Jul | Read more
Microsoft today spelled out the "kill-switch" deterrents it will add to the Windows Phone mobile operating system, and said it would meet a July 2015 deadline for making stolen smartphones useless.
Gregg Keizer | 20 Jun | Read more
RSS aggregator Feedly today vowed not to give in to an extortion demand backed by a distributed-denial-of service attack that knocked its site offline eary Wednesday.
Gregg Keizer | 12 Jun | Read more
The takedown earlier this week of a major malware-spewing botnet has crippled the distribution of Cryptolocker, one of the world's most sophisticated examples of ransomware.
Gregg Keizer | 06 Jun | Read more
China's state-run television today took new shots at Microsoft's Windows 8, using a two-and-a-half-minute segment on a national show to blast the OS as a data thief.
Gregg Keizer | 05 Jun | Read more
Google is moving ahead with plans to aggressively lock down its Chrome browser by disabling most add-ons not installed from its curated app store and banning plug-ins built to a decades-old standard.
Gregg Keizer | 31 May | Read more