Stories by Gregg Keizer

Article | 2/05/2007 Security pros warn of 'critical' Winamp bug
Security companies Tuesday warned Winamp users that the music player application has a bug that could give attackers the means to hijack PCs.
Article | 2/05/2007 Gartner: Hack contests bad for business
A pair of Gartner analysts Tuesday denounced a recent hack challenge that uncovered a still-unpatched QuickTime bug, calling it "a risky endeavor" and...
Article | 1/05/2007 Apple owns up to MacBook battery problems
Apple last Friday acknowledged that some batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks aren't up to snuff, but said that they posed no safety ris...
Article | 30/04/2007 Mozilla ramps up Firefox 3 schedule
Mozilla Thursday unveiled new details of its schedule for Firefox 3, the next major upgrade to the popular open-source browser.
Article | 30/04/2007 Microsoft explains how the ANI bug got baked into Vista
In a postmortem of last month's Windows animated (.ANI) cursor vulnerability, one of Microsoft's security development gurus Friday spelled out how the...
Article | 27/04/2007 All-you-can-store online backup for Mac goes beta
A small Utah online backup service that recently signed a deal to back up 300,000 PCs owned by General Electric Co. Thursday announced a US$4.95 per m...
Article | 27/04/2007 Hack challenge QuickTime bug not on the loose
Organizers of last week's MacBook Pro hack challenge Thursday disputed accounts that the QuickTime exploit that won the US$10,000 prize was nicked fro...
Article | 26/04/2007 Hack contest's QuickTime bug puts all browsers at risk
The QuickTime vulnerability that first surfaced last Friday in a Mac hack challenge is "very serious" and can be exploited through any Java-enabled br...
Article | 26/04/2007 Vista betas, RCs to reboot every 2 hours starting June
Microsoft Tuesday spelled out exactly how users of Windows Vista betas and release candidates can shift to the final code, and warned that beginning J...
Article | 26/04/2007 Mozilla extends Firefox 1.5 support to mid-May
Mozilla Tuesday extended support for its 17-month-old Firefox 1.5.0.x browser until mid-May, citing the need to roll out a patch that will automatical...
Article | 24/04/2007 OpenDNS launches free browser shortcuts
OpenDNS, a San Francisco-based company that claims to offer faster Internet speeds to users who redirect traffic through its domain name server "names...
Article | 24/04/2007 Microsoft: No patch yet for DNS Server bug
Microsoft's security team it is still working on a patch for a critical bug in the company's server software.
Article | 23/04/2007 Dell relents, offers Windows XP as consumer option
Dell on Thursday bowed to pressure from customers and dumped its Vista-only policy for consumer PCs by adding Windows XP as operating option on half-a...
Article | 20/04/2007 Speculators snap up Virginia Tech-related domains
Speculators have registered Web domains related to the Virginia Tech killings, including URLs such as vatechshooting.com and vtmurders.com. Some are f...
Article | 19/04/2007 Microsoft roots out Windows Home Server leak
Microsoft said Tuesday it had identified the person who had leaked the still-in-beta Windows Home Server to the Web. According to both the company and...

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