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Chrome debuts Fast-Encryption

Posted by epicentre on 13 January 2011

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Google’s Chrome browser is now to feature the False Start, a faster way of handling secure communication.

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Windows Phone 7 in hands of manufacturers

Posted by epicentre on 20 September 2010

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Windows Phone 7 has reached the Release to Manufacturing milestone.

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No IE9 for Aging XP

Posted by epicentre on 20 September 2010

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Microsoft has announced that the ninth iteration of Internet Explorer will not run on Windows XP.

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Linux double-dip bug fixed

Posted by epicentre on 20 September 2010

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A previously patched issue in Linux has been patched for the second time.

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Critical Flash bug exploited in the wild

Posted by epicentre on 20 September 2010

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Adobe has issued a warning relating to the latest version of the Flash Player.

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DLL Bug Spreads

Posted by Epicentre on 1 September 2010

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Microsoft has acknowledged the DLL flaw that was thought to put a handful of applications at risk of malicious code execution.

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QuickTime’s Backdoor Bug

Posted by Epicentre on 1 September 2010

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A security researcher has discovered an aging flaw in Apple’s QuickTime Player that allows the execution of malicious code.

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Apple Busts Jailbreakme Bug

Posted by Epicentre on 1 September 2010

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The recently discovered buffer overflow flaw in Mac OS X has been patched, amongst 13 fixes released by Apple.

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The Last Crash of the Wave

Posted by Epicentre on 24 August 2010

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Less than a year after its September ’09 release, Google’s Wave application has been brought to an untimely end due to an underwhelming uptake from users.

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Microsoft tools up

Posted by Epicentre on 24 August 2010

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Microsoft is preparing to release an update to the developer tools for Windows Phone 7, with features not previously included in the beta tools.

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