Neowin News Feed for: Blights

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on

Steven Parker — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:36:25 +0000

Spam continues to blight e-mail exactly 15 years after the term was first coined and almost 30 years since the first spam message was sent. The term is thought to have been coined by Joel... Read more...

Image uploader bug blights MySpace

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:32:02 +0000

Security flaws in an ActiveX control used in MySpace upload images onto the social networking sites leave users open to attack. Facebook users may also be at risk. A buffer overflow vulnerability in Aurigma's Image... Read more...

Text bug blights Trillian

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:14:51 +0000

Users of the popular Trillian instant messaging client need to update their software following the discovery of a serious security bug. The multi-protocol chat application from Cerulean Studios is subject to a heap overflow vulnerability... Read more...