Neowin News Feed for: Bugs

iOS 6.1 bug allows user to bypass Lockscreen security code

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:33:16 +0000

A new bug has surfaced on Apple's much maligned iOS 6.1 update. It allows users to bypass the lockscreen security code and access the Phone app as well as contacts and photos. Read more...

Microsoft team finds bugs in Apple and other companies' products

John Callaham — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:07:57 +0100

Microsoft has had a special team working for the past couple of years to find and report bugs in third party software products from Apple, Google and others. Read more...

Windows Phone 7 Facebook application woes [Update]

Byron Hinson — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:25:04 +0000

If reader reviews are anything to go by, the Microsoft produced Facebook application for Windows Phone 7 devices has started to suffer from a number of issues. According to WPCentral, it seems that users started to... Read more...

Google Pays $3,133.7 To Researcher For Squishing Bug In Chrome

Ross Dundas — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:10:29 +0000

It seems that Google is very keen to squish bugs in its Chrome browser; so much so in fact that, according to Infoworld, it has paid one researcher $3,133.7 for finding a single bug. Researcher... Read more...

HTC Windows Phone 7 Devices seeing bugs, other issues

Byron Hinson — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 18:34:47 +0100

After a rush of early Windows Phone 7 adopters got their hands on their new devices yesterday, the first problems are starting to rear their ugly heads. The main problem seems to affect only HTC... Read more...

Microsoft's Fix It Center in Beta

Tzvi Friedman — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:38:01 +0100

Microsoft is releasing "Fix It Center", a tool that allows users to quickly solve their PC problems by letting Windows do everything for them. This tool, currently in beta, will be available to anyone using... Read more...

Apple patches 11 QuickTime bugs

Steven Parker — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:02:25 +0100

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Apple Inc. patched QuickTime late Wednesday to fix 11 flaws in the Mac and Windows versions of the media player. All but two of the bugs could be used by hackers to hijack users' machines.... Read more...

Apple squishes 11 bugs while MS set to squish 12 of its own

Fred Derf — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:11:50 +0000

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The bug fixes kept coming Monday, as Apple shipped critical security updates for its Mac OS X operating system. The latest security update fixes several bugs in the Mac Operating system, including eight bugs in... Read more...

Handful of bugs squashed in Firefox security fix

Steven Parker — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:59:17 +0000

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Mozilla has released an update to its Firefox browser, fixing a widely publicized flaw in the open-source software. The 2.0.0.10 update fixes a handful of memory corruption flaws that crash Firefox and a cross-site request... Read more...

Online auction for security bugs

Slimy — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:11:56 +0100

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Online auction house WabiSabiLabi has been created in order to prevent flaws getting in to the hands of hi-tech criminals by rewarding researchers that find them. There is known to be a ready market for... Read more...

Critical Bugs Discovered In Yahoo Messenger

Slimy — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:24:58 +0100

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Yahoo is working on a patch for critical Yahoo Messenger vulnerabilities that could enable a remote hacker to take control of a user's system. eEye Digital Security's researchers found the bugs within the last few... Read more...

New Zero-Day Bugs Crop up in IE, Firefox

RangerLG — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:50:31 +0100

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A noted security researcher Monday disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Corp. and Mozilla Corp.'s browsers, including a critical flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) and a "major" bug in Firefox. Michael Zalewski, who regularly... Read more...

Mozilla patches 6 Firefox bugs

Slimy — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:50:30 +0100

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Mozilla Corporation fixed six vulnerabilities in its Firefox browser, the third time the open-source developer has updated Firefox in 2007. The updates bring the current browser to Version 2.0.0.4, and the 2005 edition to 1.5.0.12.... Read more...

Month Of ActiveX Bugs Reveals Critical Vulnerabilities

Slimy — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:59:28 +0100

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The latest Month of Bugs project, Month of ActiveX Bugs (MoAxB) started up on May 1 and has already found two critical flaws. First off, Microsoft's ActiveX controls, used to make Web pages richer and... Read more...

New System Finds, Fixes Java, C++ Bugs

Slimy — Wed, 02 May 2007 21:20:26 +0100

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Coverity Incorporated has announced the availability of its Coverity Prevent Software Quality System, an automated solution that identifies and resolves vulnerabilities in C, C++ and Java source code. A technology (patent pending) the company calls... Read more...

Windows Home Server testing uncovers nearly 2,400 bugs

Slimy — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:42:12 +0000

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Announced in January at the Consumer Electronics Show and expected to ship this summer, Microsoft Windows Home Server is currently in the beta stage. Developers have been inundated with bug reports for the consumer server... Read more...

Hackers Promise Month of MySpace Bugs

Slimy — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:48:05 +0000

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Two hackers, known as Mondo Armando and MÃ¼staschio, don't want to disclose their real names but promise to begin disclosing security vulnerabilities in MySpace, every day in April. "The purpose of the exercise is not... Read more...

Month of PHP Bugs Begins

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:18:23 +0000

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Security expert Stefan Esser has declared war on vulnerabilities in the PHP core with the "Month of PHP Bugs." PHP is an open-source HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. The... Read more...

Microsoft Office 2003 Apps Hit with New Crash Bugs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:49:53 +0000

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Microsoft Corp.'s Word 2003 and Excel 2003 can be crashed by attackers who feed the business applications malformed documents, Symantec Corp. reported Monday. In separate alerts sent to subscribers of its DeepSight threat system, Symantec... Read more...

Bugs in Blogger Prompt Complaints

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 16:04:17 +0000

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Google Inc.'s Blogger service has been generating a steady stream of complaints from users this year, including hours-long outages, feature malfunctions and data loss. The problems are particularly frustrating to users who migrated to the... Read more...