Posts Tagged ‘google’
Important notice: Google Apps browser support ! NO MORE IE6 Support!
Here’s the Exact Email :
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Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.
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Google Paying for finding Bugs in Chrome ! Woot ! Woot ! upto $1377 !!!
[from Google]
In designing Chromium, we’ve been working hard to make the browser as secure as possible. We’ve made strong improvements with the integrated sandboxing and our up-to-date user base. We’re always looking to stay on top of the latest browser security features. We’ve also worked closely with the broader security community to get independent scrutiny and to quickly fix bugs that have been reported.
Some of the most interesting security bugs we’ve fixed have been reported by researchers external to the Chromium project. For example, this same origin policy bypass from Isaac Dawson or this v8 engine bug found by the Mozilla Security Team. Thanks to the collaborative efforts of these people and others, Chromium security is stronger and our users are safer.
Today, we are introducing an experimental new incentive for More »
Microsoft confirms 17-year-old Windows bug
Microsoft late yesterday issued its second advisory of the last week, warning users that a 17-year-old bug in the kernel of all 32-bit versions of Windows could be used by hackers to hijack PCs.
The vulnerability in the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) subsystem was disclosed Tuesday by Google engineer Tavis Ormandy on the Full Disclosure security mailing list. Coincidentally, Ormandy received credit for reporting the single vulnerability that Microsoft fixed last week on its regular Patch Tuesday.
The VDM subsystem was added to Windows with the July 1993 release of Windows NT, Microsoft’s first fully 32-bit operating system. VDM allows Windows NT and later to run DOS and 16-bit Windows software. More »
