Displaying items by tag: Bugs

An international ‘bug superhighway’ capable of carrying a large variety of environmentally destructive overseas insects into Australia, has been identified in a study led by Monash University.

Users of Microsoft's Exchange Online service have been unable to access email since 10.10am UTC (9pm Monday AEDT), with the company promising another update in about eight hours.

Apple has announced a bug bounty programme which will be by invitation only and will pay a maximum of US$200,000.

A very old but only just fixed Windows vulnerability is the key to a new in-the-wild attack.

As much as we'd all like to see bug-free software, it's not going to happen anytime soon. While things are improving in this regard, we'll need to take steps to protect our systems from exploits for the foreseeable future.

Heartbleed is potentially one of the biggest threats to the Internet we've seen - a software bug that may compromise secure communications over the Internet via a vulnerability in the OpenSSL protocol. But what is it? And what should you be doing to protect yourself?

Adobe has released an update for Flash, fixing what it describes as four "critical" vulnerabilities.

A potentially devastating flaw in in OpenSSL, which is used to protect and secure millions of websites, has been uncovered by security researchers.

Microsoft has removed its Windows 8.1 RT update from the Windows Store after a spate of reported problems, bringing the RT platform itself into further question.

Yahoo Mail went under a full redesign last week, and while there's no doubt it looks good, a host of bugs have plagued the service leaving some users furious.

One plucky hacker has earned  a massive payday courtesy of a bug in Microsoft's Windows OS, pocketing a $100,000 reward for discovering a critical vulnerability.

New research by app-testing firm Appurify has confirmed an app's user rating may be far more important than you might have thought.

Facebook may not be willing to compensate the Palestinian researcher who found a bug in its systems, but the Internet community definitely is.

Microsoft has released a wide-ranging update for Office for Mac 2011 in the form of Service Pack 2.

An early update to the latest version of iPhoto seeks to avoid data loss during the library upgrade process.

Firefox updates are arriving thick and fast. The latest fixes a flaw that was discovered by one of the winners in last month's Pwn2Own contest.