It has been discovered that Google has recently released a specific online tutorial that actually allows developers the opportunity to play the role of a hacker. This is done by giving them the opportunity to exploit genuine security bugs which exist within a mock web application. This tutorial that is available is free which is [...]
05.28.10 | Computer News | Computerexpert
During the Pwn20wn contest at CanSecWest, three of the most used web browsers, Apple’s Safari version 3.2.1, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 8 and Mozilla’s Firefox version 3.0.7 were found to be vulnerable to an arbitrary code execution. One of the authors of these vulnerabilities is Nils, a computer science student, who discovered the vulnerability in [...]
04.18.09 | Software Review | Computerexpert
After IE8 was released at MIX09, Microsoft sent out an e-mail its testers announcing the RTW build and thanked them for their hard work. Microsoft said that all “Postponed bugs are now active for consideration in the next version of Internet Explorer,” the software giant also told testers that bugs could still be filed, but [...]
04.15.09 | Computer News | Computerexpert
Microsoft is rushing out an emergency patch, while other browser makers are releasing their own updates as well as people worldwide go online to do their shopping. Opera released version 9.63 of their browser, fixing several security issues. The most significant ones allow arbitrary code execution, making these just as critical as the Internet Explorer [...]
01.23.09 | Software Review | Computerexpert
