Tech News – Internet Explorer 8 Edition
March 24th, 2009 | | Posted in Data Security, Quick Links
- Internet Explorer 8 Released. Improvements include: Smart Address Bar, Tab Groups, and Find in Page is now a task bar (finally).
- Microsoft Support Flooded with Complaints after IE 8 released. Top issues reported include: website printing, image positioning, slow boot times, and a bug dragging images into Facebook.
- Microsoft Released new security assesment tool. The new tool, dubbed !exploitable Crash Analyzer, is considered a “game changer” by Dan Kaminsky, a well-known security researcher.
- Insiders hacked Russian ATMs? Diebold released a software patch to Opteva line after it was discovered that several machines were infected by a card skimming trojan.
- Diebold admits flaw in voting machines that causes vote tallies to be lost. Admission called a “disturbing revelation” by security auditor.
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