Microsoft has released a rare out-of-band critical update that appears to address the zero-day exploit announced on January 5th. The software giant previously released a manual “fixit” for this vulnerability but researchers soon found ways around the patch. This update addresses the original problem and is slated for release on January 14th, 2013
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Oracle has announced that the end-of-life (EOL) of Java SE 6 has been moved from November 2012 to February 2013. This is to give organizations small and large more time to transition to Java SE 7. This is the second EOL extension given to Java SE 6, the original EOL date being July 2012. The […]
As announced last year, Facebook is moving to HTTPS for all users. “This week, we’re starting to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling out to the rest of the world”. This should result in safer Facebooking from hotspots and coffee shops, which have been targets of so-called man […]