Flaw in IE Can Compromise Your Computer

January 6th, 2010

It is early in the new year and Microsoft has taken some serious hits in their public image.

Just when they released, probably their most secured operating system ever, we now see that there are more holes in the Microsoft family that we have to worry about.

More Problems With Internet Explorer

A couple of months ago, there was a flaw found in the Internet Explorer family of browsers. It affected all versions. Microsoft released a fix and all was thought to be well in the world. But it turns out this is not true. There has been another major flaw found when it comes to the Internet Explorer browser.

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Google Street View Car Tracked by GPS

January 5th, 2010

Sticking a GPS track on the Street View car is the way to find out where it is…

Want to know where the Google Street View car is? In the UK, there was a collaborative effort to track it through pictures and crowdsourced mapswhen it was over here collecting the pictures for Google Nostalgia (ah, those days when Woolworths was open).

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China Shuts Down Hacker Training Web Site

January 5th, 2010

China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday.

The “Black Hawk Safety Net” website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported this weekend, citing police in Huanggang, just east of Wuhan.

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