Microsoft released a Fix-It tool to temporarily fix the zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer today, and promised an emergency patch on Friday. A security researcher stumbled upon attack code on a compromised server over the weekend targeting a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The drive-by download attack was triggered by a use-after-free flaw which was present in all versions of Internet Explorer, except IE 10. Security researchers recommended users stop using IE entirely unti

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Oracle has released a new version of Java to address the serious security flaws that attackers have been exploiting all week.

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Roy Fielding, a principal scientist at Adobe Systems who is also part of the group working on the DNT specification for the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a patch that sets the Web server to disable DNT if the browser is Internet Explorer 10. This means regardless of user preference, Web servers with the patch applied will ignore the "Do Not Track" setting if the user is running Internet Explorer.

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Samsung is celebrating Independence Day this year by working vigorously with Google to issue a software patch that will allow sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone to continue. Apple on Saturday won a preliminary injunction on Galaxy Nexus sales in the United States, and Samsung filed a motion to stay the ban on Monday. U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh denied Samsung’s appeal on Tuesday evening, and sales of the Galaxy Nexus are now disallowed in the U.S. As of early Wednesday morning, Google had the device pulled from its virtual shelves. Customers who already placed orders should note that they are apparently still shipping. Samsung is preparing a new case to challenge the validity of the patent with Google’s support, but according

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