Apple patches months-old Java bugs
Apple patched nearly 30 Java vulnerabilities in Mac OS X Wednesday, months after Sun Microsystems Inc., Java's developer, fixed most of the same flaws for other operating systems.
Reason Behind Vulnerabilities
Now something completely unrelated to VoIP: Reason behind all vulnerabilities in software! I read an article that explained how vulnerabilities are basically created by the fact that people tend to drift from good development principles into practices that are just simply Fun. The engineers among us know that software development can be enormously interesting, something you would happily even do in your leisure time. But can fun be converted into reliable software?
Judge refuses to lift gag order in subway-hack case
A federal judge in Boston Thursday refused to lift a temporary restraining order preventing three MIT students from publicly discussing details of several security vulnerabilities that they found in the electronic ticketing system used by the city's mass transit authority.
Peer-to-peer client uTorrent fixes serious vulnerability
One of the most popular programs used by some to illegally share files under copyright has patched a serious software vulnerability.
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