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ACLU Asks FTC to Probe 'Dangerous' Android Bugs

2013-04-17 23:34:52| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the major wireless carriers over their Android update schedule, arguing that fragmentation has led to insecure devices.

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ACLU Asks FTC to Probe 'Dangerous' Android Bugs

2013-04-17 19:34:31| PC Magazine Security Product Guide

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Java 7 Update 21 to fix bugs, change applet warning messages

2013-04-16 19:29:13| InfoWorld: Top News

Oracle will release a new version of Java on Tuesday that will include 42 security fixes and will make changes to how Web-based Java content will be presented inside browsers. Thirty-nine of the vulnerabilities patched by the new Java 7 Update 21 (7u21) can be exploited remotely without authentication, Oracle said in a pre-release announcement. Some of them have the maximum score on the CVSS 2.0 scale used by Oracle to rate the severity of vulnerabilities.

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Mozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs

2013-04-03 14:17:09| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download manager and added a crash tool that warns when a plug-in has hung for at least 11 seconds. Users can then shut down the offending plug-in rather than rebooting the browser.

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