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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission raised safety concerns Thursday with the design of a proposed next-generation reactor to be built by Westinghouse Electric Co., saying a key part of the reactor may not withstand a tornado, earthquake or even high winds.
Symantec Corp. has repaired a serious problem with versions of its leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies. The flaw lets hackers steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs.
Symantec Corp.'s leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world's largest corporations and U.S. government agencies, suffers from a flaw that lets hackers seize control of computers to steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs, researchers said Thursday.
One spammer has managed to identify e-mail addresses on a "do-not-spam" list touted as secure, taking advantage of an obvious flaw with such lists and prompting critics to wonder what took so long.
Disturbing system flaws let felons care for children and the elderly!Disturbing flaws in Florida's background screening system have put children, seniors and the disabled in the care of convicted felons with records that include rape, child molestation and murder, an investigation by the Sun Sentinel newspaper has found.
February 12, 2009 Ladies & Gentlemen: Does President Barack H. Obama labor under the tragic flaw that he is simply not a good judge of character? Three major appointees have withdrawn their names, because of tax problems, but also, worse.
Microsoft Issues Major Patch for Hacker Flaw in Internet ExplorerActing with record speed, Microsoft has issued a patch for the just-announced security flaw that impacts all recent versions of Internet Explorer, from version 5 to the latest betas of IE 8.
Major Flaw Found In Internet Explorer; Hackers Can Steal Any Password You Type in Browser, Users Urged To SwitchThe major press outlets are abuzz this morning with news of a major new security flaw that affects all versions of Internet Explorer from IE5 to the latest beta of IE8. The attack has serious and far-reaching ramifications -- and they're not just theoretical attacks.
In a move which Microsoft rarely makes, a critical update has been released and pushed immediately to almost all Windows computers and servers.
Flawed Chip To Blame For iPhone Connection Woes?When my colleague Matt Kapko said he was returning the iPhone after two weeks of use, he took a bit of a slating from fans of the phone.
Apple, Microsoft Feud Over Safari, Internet Explorer FlawsApple, Inc. and Microsoft disagree on who needs to fix a security threat that blends Apple's Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer browsers. The Safari hole allows dumping executable files on a desktop, and Internet Explorer lets an attacker run those files.
Major Internet Security Flaw Also Affects E-Mail "A newly discovered flaw in the Internet's core infrastructure not only permits hackers to force people to visit Web sites they didn't want to, it also allows them to intercept e-mail messages, the researcher who discovered the bug said Wednesday."
Report: IRS Computer Security FlawedOne more tax-season dread: A week before the filing deadline, Treasury watchdogs said Monday that poor controls over IRS computers could allow a disgruntled employee, agency contractor or outside hacker to steal taxpayers' confidential information.
While attending Macworld Conference and Expo '08, a hairline crack developed in my 1st Generation MacBook, which was just outside its one-year manufacturers warranty.
Hacker Finds Serious Flaw in Adobe PDF"Adobe Acrobat/Reader PDF documents can be used to compromise your Windows box. Completely!!! Invisibly and unwillingly!!!," wrote Petko Petkov, in a breathless Thursday blog posting. "All it takes is to open a PDF document or stumble across a page which embeds one."
Security flaws found in IPv6 protocolAt the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Philippe Biondi and Arnaud Ebalard showed that a security flaw in the IPv6 protocol can be used to defeat the root DNS servers anycast architecture.
Apple patches QuickTime flaw on OS X, Windows XPApple on Monday patched a now infamous flaw in its QuickTime media player first discovered in a hacking contest at the CanSecWest conference last month.
Hackers break open Xbox 360 securityHackers break open Xbox 360 security Security hole left open for 3 months An anonymous hacker claims to have uncovered a critical security flaw in the software that runs Microsoft's Xbox 360 that could allow a users or attacker to take over control of the system.
Microsoft, Mozilla look into browser flawsMicrosoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in the Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers.
Microsoft Windows Vista Speech Recognition has FlawIt is the first potential flaw since the public launch earlier this week. Even under the right conditions, the expected impact of the flaw is small. Vista's User Account Control feature would not allow this to happen anyway.
Attackers dig into Microsoft zero-day flawAn "extremely critical" vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft's XML Core Services, according to several security companies.
Firefox 2.0 Exposes Your PASSWORDSI would definitely not recommend upgrading to firefox 2.0 yet. I have discovered that they have shipped with a large security hole. It allows anyone who has access to your computer to get your passwords to EVERY website in 3-4 clicks. Check it out:
First security flaw signalled in IE7Less than 24 hours after the launch of Internet Explorer 7, security researchers are poking holes in the new browser.
Jon Elch Lashes out at Apple and SecureWorks over Wi-Fi Driver FlawDavid Maynor and Jon 'Johnny Cache' Ellch aren't telling the complete Mac Wi-Fi flaw story after all.
Hackers claim zero-day flaw in FirefoxAn attacker could commandeer a computer running the browser simply by crafting a Web page that contains some malicious JavaScript code, Mischa Spiegelmock and Andrew Wbeelsoi said in a presentation at the ToorCon hacker conference here.
Mark Shuttleworth On The Ubuntu Update FlawLuis Villa is absolutely right in his castigation of our X update on Wednesday this week. As a team we made a series of errors, and the result was a desktop that was broken for thousands of users, for several hours.
New Worm Targets Windows flawThe worm may have turned for Windows users who did not patch up a software flaw in their computers last week with a fresh warning from Microsoft about a security threat that could target their systems.
Did Netscape Ignore XSS Flaw?Hackers claim to live by codes. No matter what people think of "D," who hacked the new Digg-style Netscape, he insists it was done for good, not evil. Besides, says D, they had it coming. He gave them ample warning about their security problem.
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