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Mozilla published security repairs for Firefox and Thunderbird on Tuesday, which included updates for the legacy versions of both. Firefox 3.6.7 for Windows, Mac, and Linux fixes 14 security bugs, including eight listed as critical, two high-level bugs, and four moderate ones. The critical bugs addressed problems such as DOM attribute cloning and remote and [...]

Two weeks before a browser hacking contest is to kick off in Vancouver, British Columbia, Apple on Thursday patched 16 vulnerabilities in Safari, 12 of them critical bugs that could be used to hijack a machine. Apple updated Safari for both Mac OS X and Windows to version 4.0.5, hardening the browser before it’s tossed [...]

Apple today patched five vulnerabilities in the iPhone’s operating system, including one in a password-locking feature that’s required attention before. iPhone OS 3.1.3 , the first update since September 2009, addressed five bugs, three of which were tagged with the phrase “arbitrary code execution,” Apple-speak for a critical vulnerability. Unlike other software makers, such as [...]

Apple on Tuesday patched 12 vulnerabilities in Leopard and Snow Leopard, including seven in Adobe Flash Player and one in the protocol used to secure Internet traffic. Security update 2010-001 , the first from Apple this year, is noticeably smaller than the monster issued last November that fixed almost 60 flaws. [ InfoWorld's Roger Grimes [...]

Adobe late Tuesday patched eight security vulnerabilities, six of them critical, in its popular PDF viewing and editing programs. Security experts urged consumers and corporate IT administrators to use the time provided by a light month of Microsoft patching to update Adobe Reader and Acrobat, calling the Adobe fixes more important for one of the [...]