Internet Explorer 8 RC 1

A week ago I sat down with Dean Hachamovitch, General Manger of the IE team at Microsoft and we talked about Internet Explorer 8 RC 1. In the video below, he outlines what he believes are the compelling reason to use Internet Explorer 8.

The first reason he mentioned was this is now a stable [...]

January 22, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Uncategorized, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows XP, microsoft  Comments Closed

Apple issues 8 critical QuickTime security updates

Today Apple issued a security update for QuickTime 7.6. The update addresses flaws in both the Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista implementations of the media viewer.
Specifically, the update fixes flaws CVE-2009-0001 through CVE-2009-0007.
The eight vulnerabilities within QuickTime can all be exploited to cause an unexpected application termination (denial of service) or [...]

January 21, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Apple, CVE, Defense in Depth, Mac OS X, QuckTime, Robert Vamosi, Windows, arbitrary code execution, denial of service, security update, vulnerability  Comments Closed