Test Center Tracker: Firefox bugs get squashed

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Dec 20, 20062 mins

Firefox fix: Version 2.0 of Firefox emerged from its hole last October, but not without some bugs. Mozilla yesterday released an update to the open source browser, fixing eight security vulnerabilities, including "flaws in memory corruption as well as the way the browser executes RSS (really simple syndication), Javascript, and CSS (cascading style sheets) code," the IDG News Service reports. Take a tour of Tech

Firefox fix: Version 2.0 of Firefox emerged from its hole last October, but not without some bugs. Mozilla yesterday released an update to the open source browser, fixing eight security vulnerabilities, including “flaws in memory corruption as well as the way the browser executes RSS (really simple syndication), Javascript, and CSS (cascading style sheets) code,” the IDG News Service reports.

Take a tour of Tech Treks: InfoWorld.com has a new member to its esteemed blog family: Tech Treks, penned keyboarded by veteran technology journalist Stephanie Bruzzese. In her first posting, she examines the rugged qualities that notebook vendors are claiming of their systems. Are laptops really as durable as companies would like for us to think?

Who should do DB auditing? Database maven Sean McCown weighs the question of who should be responsible for auditing a company’s database: the database administrator, the company’s compliance officer — or both? “In the end, I’m hoping that everyone will just learn to work together and the CO will become a customer of the DBA instead of a logical reporting structure. Perhaps the CO will analyze the audit data along with the DBA who will proactively remit the outstanding access issues so the CO doesn’t have to call and bug him about it.”