Interviews with Jann Horn and people who know him show how a combination of dogged determination and a powerful mind helped him stumble upon features and flaws that have been around for over a decade but had gone undetected.
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I just found a huge Windows 10 flaw and it has impact on File History, too.
All us previous Windows users that login with a Microsoft Account have all noticed how Windows 10 names our user accounts after our Microsoft Account.
I just noticed this flaw in File History.
In previous Windows...
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Okay, lately I have been having a real hassle dealing with my Twitter feed. I recieve a LOT of tweets in it every day, to the point that on weekdays I actually can't get back to the point where I left off last night because Twitter just stops loading any older tweets than, say, 8 hours ago.
I...
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The United States Department of Homeland Security today urged Java users to disable Java in a vulnerability discovered by CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team). The details can be found here:
Vulnerability Note VU#625617 - Java 7 fails to restrict access to privileged code
Feds warn PC users...
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Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively small number of patches for July, but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down--especially when one of the patches is a Critical update for Windows 7 and Windows Vista. read more
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Patch Tuesday has arrived. As expected, Microsoft released a relatively small number of patches for July, but that is no reason for IT admins to let their guard down -- especially when one of the patches is a critical update for Windows 7 and Windows Vista.
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Non-profit outfit Mozilla has got Firefox 5 ready ahead of schedule and has posted up the code ready for the official release on June 21.
They are addressing a flaw with the WebGL implementation that Microsoft says is insecure
Read full story and download links here: Firefox 5.0 makes an...
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The new Windows 8 touch-based UI , revealed earlier today at the D9 Conference , looks good. It’s clearly drawn from the same inspiration as Windows Phone 7, and shows some seriously innovative UI thinking.
Source: Yahoo! News
The Mac App Store is the recently launched integrated application store for Mac OS X which brings the experience of the iPhone and iPad App Store to Apple's general purpose operating system. For the user, this promises a one-stop shop for Mac applications and easy installation and updating. But...
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I think I found a flaw in the way Bitlocker handles manually entering your key that would make it very vulnerable to a brute force attack. You can read about it Link Removed due to 404 Error on my site.
It seems like I am the only one who thinks this a big deal. Is there something I am...
Almost 40 vulnerabilities have been found in the Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel.
"The holes also apply to corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu," writes ZDNet's Darren Pauli.
"The vulnerabilities include an issue with the way the Common Internet...
Move is revenge for way Microsoft treated colleague A group of security researchers last week published information about a flaw in Windows Vista and Server 2008, in revenge for the way Microsoft treated a colleague.
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Surprisingly not about security. See, after spending time trying to personalize things since I am used to doing so on Linux, I discovered a huge flaw in how Windows does personalization. It's completely limited. Sure, people unfamiliar with computers take Linux as too confusing because you can...
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It would seem that this security hole would be an extremely serious flaw for people such as independent researchers who have co-workers who could have access to a computer during time periods that the rightful user was off duty. Bosses could easily "spy" on their employees, which would be a...