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The cross-site scripting filter of Microsoft's browser reportedly contains vulnerabilities that allow the very cross-site scripting attacks it is meant to prevent
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59 members of the senate are claiming that delays to the takeover could put thousands of US jobs at risk
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Due to a DNSSEC-related error, attackers can inject faked entries into a name server's cache. As a result the server resolves specific domains to incorrect IP addresses
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Originally expected two weeks ago, Mozilla has now released the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its Thunderbird email and news client. This preview release is based on the Gecko 1.9.1.5 platform and includes over 100 changes from the previous beta 4 release
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Aimed at early adopters, the KOffice team have released version 2.1 of their open source office suite. The latest release includes a number of application updates and a more "unified look and feel"
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FreeBSD 8.0 is now available to download from the project's FTP servers and includes a number of updates and new features
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In the second milestone of Eclipse 4, the developers have focused on the GUI, which is generated via XML
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User-generated PDF documents can potentially disclose information the author might not wish to reveal. The leak is caused by a flaw in Internet Explorer
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Debian project leader Steve McIntyre wants to have the Linux distribution's next stable version ready before the DebConf Debian conference in early August 2010. The code freeze has now been scheduled for March 2010
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OpenEMM 6.0, the open source version of AGNITAS's E-Marketing Manager, includes several new features, such as new content module types and embedded click statistics
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VMware has advised of a total of 93 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including ESX Server, Server, VirtualCenter and vCenter.
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Google has announced that developers can now upload their extensions to Chrome's extension gallery
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Internet Explorer 6 and 7 running under all versions of Windows are affected. Microsoft is working on a security update and in the meantime is advising users to set their security level to high, or to activate data execution prevention
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The Free Software Foundation has thanked PayPal for resolving a problem with its terms and conditions when applied to free software projects
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Microsoft misses self imposed deadline to release a GPL version of the GPL violating utility
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The previous version of Opera was affected by a flaw that can be exploited to compromise systems and that has been known for six months. The KDE libraries are also said to be vulnerable
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Alfresco has released an implementation of the public review version of CMIS 1.0 in the community version of the Alfresco CMS to serve as an example, enabling developers to participate in the review more effectively
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An Estonian government project plans to release a number of network security tools as open source
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A new version of the worm infecting insecure jailbroken iPhones resets the password
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A few lines of HTML code, posted anonymously under the heading "IE7" on a security list, turn out to be a previously unknown security problem in the Microsoft browser
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Intel and AMD come to an arrangement and now AMD can cheerfully present new roadmaps without worrying about pesky patents. In return, problems arise between Microsoft and Intel
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In the past week, The H posted the latest Linux news in the Kernel Log, took a detailed look at Fedora 12, and reported on Google's Chrome OS, Android 2.0, Metasploit 3.3, Camino 2 and Firefox 3.6 Beta 3
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Security experts have found security problems in several popular Firefox extensions. They warn that using add-ons can impact the security of the entire system
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The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance. A number of changes to the block layer promise better data throughput and reactivity. There are also several new drivers for storage hardware
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Cloud Engines has released the second generation of its popular Pogoplug "plug-top computer", adding more USB ports to expand the data capacity
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Opera 10.10 closes "extremely severe" hole
