Neowin News Feed for: Flawed

Microsoft's advice on Downadup worm is flawed

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:15:32 +0000

Earlier Neowin reported about the fast spread of Downadup worm which targeted unpatched networks and poor passwords. The estimated number of systems affected by Downadup is around 8.9 million and its still growing. Disabling AutoRun... Read more...

Mozilla admits Firefox is flawed just like IE

Steven Parker — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:18:32 +0000

In a public mea culpa, Mozilla Corp.'s chief security officer acknowledged today that Firefox includes the same flaw that the company called a "critical vulnerability" in Internet Explorer during a two-week ruckus over responsibility for... Read more...

Microsoft Fixes Flawed Excel Patches

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:19:03 +0000

Microsoft was forced to re-issue a set of patches for multiple flaws in Microsoft Excel in order to solve a problem in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean editions. The original MS07-002 was a security bulletin released... Read more...

Microsoft to Repair Flawed IE Patch

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:07:52 +0000

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday activity carried over from last week into this one as the software giant promised to issue a fix for its latest Internet Explorer security patch, which apparently carries a security bug of... Read more...

Oracle: DOJ Decision May Be Flawed

Mon, 08 Mar 2004 02:51:44 +0000

When it sued to block Oracle's proposed hostile acquisition of PeopleSoft on Feb. 26, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted that the two companies, plus SAP, are the "only" ones that compete to develop and... Read more...

Open source code as flawed as proprietary: Study

Wed, 02 Jul 2003 22:17:18 +0000

The source code for a newer version of the Apache Web server software is of the same quality as that of proprietary competitors at a similar stage of development, a new study has found. ... Read more...

Citibank payment service said flawed

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 04:40:01 +0000

A computer security researcher says he has found several flaws in Citibank's online payment service C2it.com. The flaws could potentially expose customer account information and even enable a malicious criminal to move money out of... Read more...

Fleet credit card web site flawed

Sat, 08 Dec 2001 11:12:34 +0000

A Fleet Credit Card Services customer has discovered a serious flaw in one of the bank's Web sites, apparently revealing private details of hundreds of thousands of transactions. The details, viewed by MSNBC.com, include Social... Read more...