December 30, 2009 by admin
Keeping your system secure is a never ending battle. The evil-doers on the net are getting ever more sophisticated, and coming up with new ways to fool, cajole, trick or force you into downloading, running or loading software on your system that will compromise your system – at best, rendering it unusable, or at worst, invading your privacy, or even draining your bank account. It’s a Wild West frontier out there in the interwebs!
With that, let’s take a look at some of the recent updates and developments ion security news:
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November 12, 2009 by admin
Once a week or so, depending on my schedule and the state of current events, I try to summarize the ongoing state of software updates, focusing primarily on OS, Browsers, and Adobe-related software. I missed last week, and a lot of things have piled up since the last update!
Keeping your software up to date is really important these days. There is big money in organized crime, seeking to compromise computers and gain access to your personal information – especially banking information. These malicious entities seek to gain a foothold in your computer by exploiting known vulnerabilities in popular software. As a result, something as benign as visiting a web site, opening an image, or playing a music file can lead to a compromised system, if your software has un-patched vulnerabilities.
So, keep that software up to date!
We’ll start this week with a bit of good news on the OS front, for those Apple customers who have migrated to the latest version of their OS.
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October 30, 2009 by admin
Firefox has just released an update to version 3.5.4, correcting quite a few security flaws and correcting a number of stability issues.
This update is recommended for all Firefox users of the 3.5.x family of browsers.
From www.mozilla.com, the list of fixes includes the following:
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