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Archive for March 7th, 2006

07 Mar

IE and FireFox both the least secure. And the most.

Computerworld News reports After flap, Symantec adjusts browser bug count. “A report issued today by Symantec Corp. features two different ways of counting browser bugs: one that finds IE has the most vulnerabilities, another that indicates Firefox is the bug-leader.”
So, there! That ought to settle the issue once and for all. Lies, damned lies, [...]

07 Mar

Stealing Your Biometrics

Linux-Watch.com asks: “Is OpenOffice really ten years behind MS Office?” A better question might be if that’s a bad thing. The 2nd edition of “Hacker’s Guide to Word for Windows” printed in 1995 claims to cover WinWord 6. How many more features did we really need? Toolbars that transmogrified into palettes? Menus that went 3-D [...]

07 Mar

Stealing Your Biometrics

InfoWorld: Top News is reporting Researcher hacks Microsoft Fingerprint Reader.
(InfoWorld) - “Never mind worrying about hackers stealing your password. A security researcher with the Finnish military has shown how they could steal your fingerprint, by taking advantage of an omission in Microsoft’s Fingerprint Reader, a PC authentication device that Microsoft has been shipping since September [...]

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