Neowin News Feed for: Warns

MD5 encryption broken, Microsoft warns

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:49:04 +0000

Microsoft Security Advisory warned today that a possible attack against the MD5 hash digital certificate could allow an attacker to generate their own certificate with information from the original. Microsoft warned that only the... Read more...

Microsoft warns of latest Windows Live Hotmail Phishing Scam

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:52:15 +0000

Microsoft is warning Windows Live Hotmail users of a recent phishing scam that asks for the person's username, password, date of birth, and country or territory. It's not clear why the software giant has taken... Read more...

EBay Warns Of Weaker 2008 Results Amid CEO Change

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:12:53 +0000

EBay Inc warned that 2008 results would fall below Wall Street expectations, sending its shares more than 5 percent, even as it confirmed long-serving Chief Executive Meg Whitman would step aside. The warning accompanied solid... Read more...

Microsoft warns corporate users of auto-update to IE7

Steven Parker — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:27:24 +0000

Microsoft Corp. has warned corporate administrators that it will push a new version of Internet Explorer 7 their way next month, and has posted guidelines on how to ward off the automatic update if they... Read more...

US-CERT warns of flaw in latest RealPlayer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:56:50 +0000

US-CERT is warning computer users of a possible problem with the latest version of RealPlayer after a Russian security company claimed to have found a way to exploit a critical flaw in the multimedia software.... Read more...

Microsoft warns of web proxy flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:07:26 +0000

Microsoft has reported a flaw in the way Windows and Internet Explorer handle web proxy auto discover (WPAD) connections. WPAD servers are used to deliver connecting computers with web proxy information. Microsoft said that the... Read more...

McAfee warns of typo-squatting epidemic

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:44:55 +0000

Security firm McAfee has released a new report warning of the ever-present threat of typo-squatting. The report highlights the number of website squatters registering domains using common misspellings of popular brands, products and celebrities in... Read more...

Seagate warns of infected drives

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:20:06 +0000

Seagate is warning users to scan their systems for malware after a password-stealing Trojan was found on some of its hard drives. The vendor said that the malware was discovered on the Maxtor Basics Personal... Read more...

Software Lobby Warns Microsoft Too Close to BBC

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:56:55 +0000

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Boston-based open source software lobby group, is planning to petition British Prime Minister Gordon Brown to highlight the role of software giant Microsoft Corp. in the British Broadcasting Corporation's... Read more...

Trend Micro Warns Of Server Antivirus Flaws

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:27:49 +0000

Trend Micro has patched a pair of remote code execution vulnerabilities in ServerProtect, its server-based antivirus software, that could open the door for attackers to gain control over affected machines. Both are stack-based buffer overflow... Read more...

Sony Warns About European PS3 Backwards Compatibility

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:49:49 +0000

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe said that backwards compatibility with PlayStations 2 games of the PlayStation 3 console, slated to be released in PAL regions in about a month, will not be as good as that... Read more...

Symantec Warns of Faltering Storage Sales

Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:37:54 +0000

Symantec planned to post earnings of $0.14 or $0.15 per share for its third fiscal quarter but now expects the numbers to drop to either $0.10 or $0.11. Revenue estimations for the quarter are in... Read more...

Sony Warns About Importing PS3

Joe Cashman — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:50:57 +0000

Sony has warned that it will take legal action against anyone engaging in grey importing of its products after scoring a High Court victory over online retailer Lik-Sang. In his ruling yesterday, Judge Michael Fysh... Read more...

Google warns on 'unsafe' websites

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:25:55 +0000

Google has started warning users if they are about to visit a webpage that could harm their computer. The warning will pop up if users click on a link to a page known to host... Read more...

Burn DVDs slowly, warns Microsoft

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 12:52:56 +0000

Microsoft is advising Vista beta testers to burn their downloaded ISOs as slowly as 1X or 2X to avoid corrupted media. It says that its failure telemetry data is showing that three quarters of failed... Read more...

Microsoft Warns Employees of Likely Antitrust Fine

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:42:38 +0000

Will Microsoft soon be charged $2.5 million a day for allegedly flouting the European Union's demand to provide documentation about Windows' inner workings? Microsoft officials are preparing for that scenario, according to an e-mail update... Read more...

Time Magazine Warns Apple Competitors Concerning MacBook

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:11:08 +0000

Time Magazine has declared Apple's new MacBook to be a "powerful and affordable" computer. The magazine has published its first review of Apple's consumer notebook, and it's full of praise. It even observes that... Read more...

Microsoft Warns Not To Use 'SP3 Preview Pack'

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:48:00 +0000

We posted earlier this week about an unofficial set of patches being labeled as a Windows XP SP3 "Preview Pack". The pack was created by members of TheHotfix.net and included many patches not generally available... Read more...

Gates Warns Against Reliance on Outsourcing

Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:02:34 +0000

Companies should not outsource their core business functions and staff, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates told a group of Japan's top businessmen in a speech in Tokyo on Wednesday. Gates, who was... Read more...

Mac OS X Will Become a Target, Symantec Warns

Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:57:43 +0000

It's only a matter of time before Apple's newly redesigned Mac operating system becomes a happy hunting ground for malicious hackers, according to a research report from security vendor Symantec. The Symantec Internet Security Threat... Read more...

Mozilla Warns of Firefox Security Holes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:33:30 +0000

Several security vulnerabilities in Firefox and the Mozilla Suite of Internet software put users of the open-source products at risk of hacker attacks, the Mozilla Foundation is warning. The organization released Firefox 1.0.1, which fixes... Read more...

Sony warns of Major glitch in Holiday 2004 Demo Disc

Sat, 27 Nov 2004 01:38:07 +0000

Over the past couple of weeks, members of the Playstation Underground Sony's US fan club, have been getting copies of Holiday 2004 Demo Disc. Unfortunately, gamers eager to sample the cel-shaded beat-'em-up... Read more...

Older iTunes versions being shut out, Apple warns

Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:11:30 +0000

Apple Computer is warning users of older iTunes software versions that it plans to stop allowing those versions to connect to its music store. Those trying to buy music using versions other... Read more...

Microsoft warns of 22 new security flaws

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:53:00 +0000

Microsoft on Tuesday published 10 software security advisories, warning Windows users and corporate administrators of 22 new flaws that affect the company's products. The advisories, and patches published with the bulletins, range... Read more...

WinZip Warns of Security Flaws

Mon, 04 Oct 2004 06:49:15 +0000

Thanks cybershark, and jon. Windows clients running the popular WinZip application are at risk from a number of critical security flaws, according to WinZip Computing and security researchers. The compression/decompression tool is one... Read more...

MP3 Creator Warns Tech Impasse Dooming Downloads

Wed, 29 Sep 2004 22:25:39 +0000

Rival technologies that baffle consumers will run more companies out of business in the nascent music download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday. ... Read more...

Apple warns about bad batteries

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:54:20 +0000

Apple is recalling 28,000 faulty batteries used to power its 15-inch Powerbook G4 laptops. An internal short circuit in the batteries causes them to overheat and could pose a fire hazard to... Read more...

Acclaim warns of possible bankruptcy

Marcel Klum — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 09:08:42 +0000

After reporting a $25.4 million loss in its last quarter, the troubled publisher reveals it must find new financing by August. Today, Acclaim released its earnings for the financial year ending March 31,... Read more...

Symantec Warns Of Flaw In Antivirus Program

Sun, 23 May 2004 07:11:08 +0000

Symantec Corp. is warning its customers about a security vulnerability within its antivirus application. The Internet security vendor ranks the flaw as "medium," while security research group Secunia pegged the flaw as "moderately critical." The... Read more...

Eidos quells takeover rumours, warns of income shortfall

Thu, 20 May 2004 19:06:15 +0000

Latest Hitman titles not performing to expectations, says British publisher British publisher Eidos has issued a short trading update warning that unit sales of the recently launched Hitman: Contracts have been below... Read more...

Iwata Warns of Next-Gen Obsession

Marcel Klum — Sat, 08 May 2004 07:49:30 +0000

Satoru Iwata and chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach have claimed that people are becoming too obsessed with the next generation of hardware. Satoru Iwata and Robbie Bach both share the view that developers... Read more...

France warns officials not to favor Intel

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:44:36 +0000

France has taken steps toward complying with European Union law by warning local-government buyers not to favor computers with Intel chips over rival AMD, a commission spokesman said on Friday. A notice on... Read more...

Security Firm Warns of Spam That Spies

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:22:12 +0000

Hidden code in e-mail messages is increasingly being used to track the success of spam campaigns, according to a warning by an antispam technology company. Up to 50 percent of all spam released in the... Read more...

Ofcom warns on tighter Internet regulation

Fri, 20 Feb 2004 15:28:30 +0000

If the Internet industry does not better regulate itself, then public and political opinion may force tighter regulation upon it, warns Ofcom, which still has an eye on local loop unbundling The Internet... Read more...

Redmond Warns Suspected Code Downloaders: Cease and Desist

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 17:14:01 +0000

Posted that yesterday: https://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=17624&category=main - Malebolgia Those of you who've downloaded the leaked NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 source code (you know who you are) shouldn't be surprised to receive a cease-and-desist note... Read more...

RealNetworks warns of media player security flaws

Mon, 09 Feb 2004 11:29:39 +0000

RealNetworks Inc.'s media player software contains vulnerabilities that could let an attacker take control of a PC on which the software is used to download multimedia files, the company confirmed this week. Corrupt... Read more...

Security Group Warns of Linux Flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 18:20:06 +0000

Computer security researchers are again warning about a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could be used by malicious hackers to take control of systems using the popular open source operating system. ISEC Security... Read more...

Microsoft warns EU rewrite would be inferior

Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:18:13 +0000

Microsoft said it would be forced to offer European consumers a substandard version of Windows if the European Union makes it rewrite its operating system, sources close to the case said Thursday. ... Read more...

CERT warns of SSH vulnerability

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:59:58 +0000

The CERT Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is warning users about a serious security vulnerability in the OpenSSH (Secure Shell) that could enable a remote attacker to run malicious code or launch... Read more...

Don't rely on Microsoft AV, warns analyst

Tom Warren — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:22:23 +0000

Business warned not to rely solely on future Windows OS for virus protection Businesses should not rely on Microsoft's future operating system to secure desktops against viruses, analyst Gartner Group has warned,... Read more...