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Computer News Headlines "Frighteningly bad" Adobe Flash flaw discovered 11-15-09 A researcher has discovered a new hacker point of entry in Adobe Flash, but the software company's product security director dismissed the research as "not news." The flaw allows attackers to infect any website which permits visitors to upload content, including popular sites like Google's Gmail. No fix yet exists, but Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, told SCMagazineUS.com that the issue is not patchable and instead requires webmasters to apply safeguards. Read more Anti-WPA in a new form - breaking Windows 7 Activation 11-15-09 Microsoft has wanted to stop software piracy since its early days. As their software got more sophisticated, so did their methods to separate legitimate from pirated copies of their software. Product keys, evaluation time periods, activation processes are all designed to make the product a genuine copy. Two Windows Activation Technologies, the Software Protection Platform (SSP) and the Software Licensing Client (SLC), manage and handle licensing and activation matters on the operating system to the core components or files which are required for its operation. When the programs are... Read more Survey: XP users not upgrading to Windows 7 11-12-09 Windows Vista users are flocking to Windows 7, but a considerable number of holdouts are resistant to upgrading from Windows XP, according to an InfoWorld survey that was taken over the past several weeks. The survey found that Windows 7 now has approximately 4 percent market share among 20,000 systems that it monitors through the exo.performance.network. The network is administered by Devil Mountain Software, and tracks users who have chosen to opt in. Read more |
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