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  • Microsoft: We gain nothing from Firefox flaws

    Microsoft claims it has not gained anything from the recent spate of security flaws that have been discovered in Firefox, even though the open source browser is an arch rival to the software giant's Internet Explorer.

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    A newly discovered bug in Microsoft's Internet Explorer web-browser may help fraudsters trick unsuspecting Internet users into divulging sensitive information and executing malicious code.

  • New IE bug crashes browsers

    A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code, a security researcher has found.

  • Vulnerability compromises Explorer multimedia handling

    Foundstone, an Internet security company, have identified a critical vulnerability in the way Explorer handles MP3 and WMA multimedia files in Windows XP.

  • Researcher blackmails Sun, Nokia

    A Polish security researcher has claimed to have found multiple flaws in mobile Java, but is demanding 20,000 in return for full details of the vulnerabilities.

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  • New IE bug crashes browsers

    A simple flaw in Internet Explorer 6.0 causes the browser to crash when it views pages containing malicious HTML code, a security researcher has found.

  • 2007: How was it for security?

    Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.

  • Squashing bugs with an Apple fix a day

    Open-source developer Landon Fuller explains why he is devoting his time to patching flaws found by the Month of Apple Bugs.

  • Another Internet Explorer flaw found

    A computer science researcher has highlighted the shortcomings of Microsoft's latest patch for its Internet Explorer browser by identifying another way that online vandals could run malicious programs on a Web surfer's computer.

  • New threat exposes Internet Explorer, again

    Microsoft Internet Explorer contains two newly discovered flaws. Here are the details on patching the holes and a look at how Microsoft seems to be dancing around the problem.

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  • Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws

    Microsoft alerted PC users to three critical security flaws in Internet Explorer and Windows on Wednesday, as the MSBlast worm and its variants used a previous vulnerability in Windows to spread across the Net for a second week.

  • New threat exposes Internet Explorer, again

    Microsoft Internet Explorer contains two newly discovered flaws. Here are the details on patching the holes and a look at how Microsoft seems to be dancing around the problem.

  • Microsoft IE patch leaves users locked out

    When Microsoft patched a security hole in Internet Explorer this week, it also blocked users from accessing certain Web sites.

  • Why you should switch to Firefox now

    Recent flaws in the way Microsoft processes JPEG files and a decision to offer IE updates only to Windows XP users lead to just one logical conclusion: bail on Microsoft Internet Explorer.

  • Why I dumped IE

    One of CNET's top editors explains why he's switched to Firefox.

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