It seems that the fight with the Stuxnet worm isn’t over as new variants of the worm were discovered and reported by the ESET blog.
The post by Pierre-Marc Bureau goes on to say:
“We have identified a new family that exploits this unpatched vulnerability in order to spread, which we have labelled Win32/TrojanDownloader.Chymine.A. At the [...]
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Mozilla has just released the first beta for Firefox 4 and things are looking good. The latest version offers improved security, faster render times, and support for Google’s open video standard, WebM. Visually, the first thing Windows 7 and Vista users will notice is the new Firefox button.
If you want the old menu layout, just [...]
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Microsoft has just released preview 3 of Internet Explorer 9 for anyone curious to see what the next version will bring. The preview tool which can be downloaded or viewed in your current browser, showcases a hardware-accelerated Internet Explorer 9. Visitors can check out how IE9 renders animation, video, fonts, etc., using HTML 5.
According to [...]
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Search giant Google has recently announced the release of their new search index system called Caffeine. The official blog post said that the new index provides 50% fresher results compared to their old index.
Here’s an excerpt from Google Blog’s announcement:
“With Caffeine, we analyze the web in small portions and update our search index on a [...]
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Glitches and bugs, gotta love them. The latest big glitch story broken by Gawker, was a glitch in AT&T’s site which revealed 114,000 email addresses of iPad 3G users. While AT&T did manage to take care of the glitch, iPad users only found about the data breach when the story was published online. The full [...]
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Microsoft has sent out a warning of a vulnerability found in the 64-bit Windows 7. The vulnerability was found in cdd.dll or Windows Canonical Display Driver on 64-bit systems of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 that have the Aero theme installed. Since this is the default on most Windows 7 systems, we’re talking [...]

