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Global security firm Kaspersky has revealed that targeted attacks against a number of companies, which it noticed in April, initially used a vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser and then linked this to two zero-days in the Microsoft Windows 10 kernel.

Users of the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers have been told that they need not hold too many fears over a one-day vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript engine used by the two applications, but should still patch as and when patches were made available.

Microsoft has issued patches for four remotely-exploitable vulnerabilities in its Exchange Server product, a little more than a month after the company warned of four zero-day exploits being used to attack the application.

The first woman to participate in the Pwn2Own hacking competition as an independent researchers has walked away empty-handed despite her attempt at hacking the Parallels Desktop in the virtualisation category succeeding.

Microsoft's Edge browser was the most hacked among Web browsers during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The annual Pwn2Own security-busting competition took place last week, revealing a total of 20 new vulnerabilities.

Public awareness of security flaws is the best way to safeguard security.

iOS 5.0 received a generally good reception from iPhone owners. Two particular issues were reduced battery life, and the absence of Siri for the iPhone 4. Apple's done something about one, but not the other.

Charlie Miller, a well-known security researcher in the Apple space, has found that your MacBook battery may-well be out to get you (if you don't get it first).

HP has completed its $US2.7 billion acquisition of 3Com.

Apple has been forced to release another security update for Mac OS X just over two weeks after the last one.

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.

The first day of the Pwn2Own 2010 saw all the major platforms defeated.

You'll almost certainly see a flood of articles dumping on the insecurity of Apple's products this week. Here's why you should take them with a pinch of salt.

The fix for a remotely exploitable security vulnerability in Firefox 3.6 has been developed but probably will not be released for another week.

A prominent security researcher claims to have found 20 exploitable flaws in the Preview utility provided in Apple's Mac OS X to display PDF and other types of file. He's also found several in mainstream Adobe, Microsoft and open source applications.