Security

Microsoft to give vendors an early peek at patches

Early access to technical details of Microsoft's monthly patches will give security vendors a head start in what has become a monthly race against the hackers

What in the world is wrong with Network Solutions?

Daily news beat for August 4, 2008

Apple resurrects iPhone tethering app, then kills it again

NetShare app lets iPhone owners share the phone's EDGE or 3G cellular Internet connection with a notebook computer

Symantec: IE 6 more vulnerable to unpatched Microsoft flaw

IE6 automatically downloads an ActiveX control with a flaw that can allow attackers to take over a PC

Firewall vendors scramble to fix DNS problem

Some firewall software undoes a feature that was introduced in the DNS patches and could make it easier for attackers to pull off a cache-poisoning attack against the DNS server

Group offers tools to evade China’s Web censorship

Global Internet Freedom Consortium's tools help Chinese users circumvent their country's Internet censorship

Top 10: Security, Midori, and Terry Childs

This week's roundup of the top tech news stories includes patching the DNS flaw, the rogue SF admin, Microsoft's post-Windows OS, and more

Daily news beat for August 1, 2008

What Microsoft’s UAC is and is not