October 2, 2006
Firefox faces serious security threat
by Brian TurnerIMPORTANT: Turned out this story was a fraud. There are no security flaws, and Six Apart – who sponsored the defamation – are trying to play the whole embarrassing mess down as a “prank”.
The increasingly popular Mozilla Firefox browser has been found to have a critical security flaw when handling Javascript.
Javascript is a scripting [...]
Security warnings over Windows Vista
by Brian TurnerSPECIAL REPORT
Microsoft is coming under increasing fire over the security of its Windows software.
While criticims of Windows security vulnerabilities are nothing new, Microsoft plans to take control of security on Windows Vista, their next release.
This means that third-party software vendors could be prevented from protecting Windows Vista.
This is a worrying development for many users – [...]