Daily Tech News Links June 22, 2011
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- Lytro: The Camera That Lets You Shoot Now, Focus Later
- Teen Linked to Notorious Hacker Group Charged by UK Police
- New iPhone 5 rumors point to “radical new case,” August release
- Broad multitouch patent granted to Apple seen as ‘huge blow’ to rivals
- Firefox Strategy Is a Recipe for Failure
- New bill would require carriers to clarify 4G speeds
- Foursquare check-in service hits big but faces challenges
- Dropbox Security Bug Made Passwords Optional For Four Hours
- Some Mobile Programmers Skeptical About Adobe’s Flash Utopia
- Sony Ericsson Unveils New Xperia Ray, Active Smartphones
- PSA: Remember to Redeem Your PSN Welcome Back Goodies Before July 3
- Ford Beefs Up Technology Team on Demand for Mobile Apps in Cars
- MeeGo’s Promising ‘Debut’ in Nokia’s New N9
- Hitachi announces G-Connect storage, backup, wireless-access device
- Will Kinect finally make us respond to interactive advertisements?
- $100000 razor will last you a decade
- Apple releases iTunes Festival London 2011 iOS app with live streaming
- A Mild-Mannered Reporter: Freedom
- Galactic Smash-Up Shows Where Dark Matter Goes
- Bitcoin exchange will recover from $9 million hack
Daily Tech News Links May 23, 2011
Daily Tech News Links are links to interesting technology stories in the news today. Keep up with all the latest tech news here or by subscribing to the Savemybutt RSS feed in the upper right.
- Foxconn: Explosion won’t hurt iPad production
- In-store iPad 2 displays expected to save Apple time and money
- Got Android? Get Firefox 5 beta, but don’t expect Flash
- Microsoft Plans Major Windows Phone 7 Upgrade
- Hulu Plus locks arms with TiVo Premiere for TV streaming
- Apple iPhone 5 Could Have iPod-like Curved Glass Display
- Amazon Android tablet to have 10-inch LCD screen?
- NASA Installs Device at Space Station in Long-Sought Quest for Antimatter
- APB Reloaded Open Beta Launches
- Mac sales surging in enterprise
- Toyota Prius v to Test Goal of US Top-Seller
- Sony to transfer PSP Remaster titles to PS3
- WWDC 2011 – what does it mean for iPad 2?
- Kobo announces Touch Edition e-reader that’s ‘easier to use than ever’
- Miro 4 bulks up from music to media management
- Endeavour Crew Talks to Tucson Elementary Schoolchildren While in Orbit
- NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Reveals Strangeness of Alien Solar Systems
- App turns your iPad or iPhone into a 3-D display
- Cameron weighs in on Twitter injunction debate
- News: Grand Central Terminal: We Want Apple
Web Browsers – Video 1
Through the calls we get on the radio and the many customers I talk to online, I have discovered that there is some confusion about what a browser is, why use more than one browser, how to use and setup the various browsers, etc.
I decided to produce this Web Browser video series to help people learn the basics of using the four top web browsers.
There are 6 videos. Each will be available every few days. You will be notified when they are through my newsletter. So, if you have not signed up for it, this is a good reason to.
Website Wednesday Night Updates for 09/16/09
( Note > All information is correct as of this date. ).
New Versions:
Belarc Advisor Security Definitions.
A V G 8.5.412.
CCleaner 2.23.999.
DirectX 9.0c (Aug 09).
Firefox 3.5.3.
Firefox 3.0.14.
Firefox 3.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until January 2010.
All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.5.
Foxit Reader 3.1.1.0901.
iTunes 9.0.0.
MalwareBytes 1.41.
NOD32 & ESS module: 1237.
QuickTime Player 7.64.17.73.
SeaMonkey 1.1.18.
Safari/MacBook falls in seconds, 2 years in a row
Got your attention didn’t I.
Well, it is true. Security researcher, Charlie Miller, hacked into a MacBook computer that had all of the latest patches installed by using a vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser. Within seconds of the start of the contest, Charlie launched his drive-by attack. He won the $10,000 prize and also got to keep the MacBook.
This all happened at CanSecWest’s Pwn2Own contest in Vancouver Canada recently.
This is the second year in a row that Charlie Miller fully hacked an Apple MacBook very early in the contest and was prepared to make the hack work the first time he ran it.
The details of the vulnerability are not being disclose to the public and are being shared with Apple.
Well, what about Windows and other browsers, you might be asking.
Another security researcher who declined to provide his full name, going by the name Nils, was able to comprise Internet Explorer 8 running on a Windows 7 machine shortly after Charlie Miller hacked the Mac.
Nils also won a cash prize and got to keep the computer. He went on to exploite Firefox with a zero-day flaw later in the afternoon, too.
What does this mean to you and me? My opinion is that none of the browsers are truly safe on either OS/X or Windows.
This contest is a headline grabber, but it does not mean much more than we already knew.
These failures were not operating system breaches, but a browser breaches. XP is pretty safe now. Vista/Windows7 and OS/X are rock solid (I can see the emails now…).
This contest only shows that the bad guys are using the browser, as well as other software that you use, vehicle into your system, by passing the operating system. That means is you should keep you browser up to date and apply all security patches when they are offered.
It’s one of simplest things we can do to protect our computers.
Here is an interesting link to a ZDnet story talking about browser security, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=15006&tag=nl.e550.
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