Corrupted software disrupts New Year's fireworks in Seattle
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Computer problems caused problems with Seattle's New Year's Eve fireworks show, forcing the company handling the display, Pyro Spectaculars, to launch the fireworks manually.
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By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is scrambling to update its Windows Media software after a hacker released a program that circumvents a safeguard designed to prevent people from freely copying digital movies and songs.
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Revelers in Australia staked out prime spots along Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge foreshore Monday, ready to be among the first to usher in 2008 with a massive fireworks display. Meanwhile, celebrations in other parts of Asia were marred by casualties.
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Blog: Popular add-ons could have their update process hijacked by man-in-the-middle attacks.
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How a seemingly simply Microsoft bug betrayed its author's disdain for a wide range of secure coding principles.
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Show 'em if you got 'em. And El Reg does The old Microsoft used to ban strippers from interrupting its product launch events.â¦
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There is a security alert floating around (PHP Magazine, php|architect) about a new hole found in the code of PostNuke.
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Microsoft apparently yanks promos that peddled 'security fix' through misleading threats.
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Media & professional: Offline software launches fresh challenge to Seattle.
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Users urged to upgrade RealPlayer and Helix Player to repair critical security flaw.
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Fixes made for "critical" JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Security flaw involving JPEG files affects at least a dozen Microsoft software applications and operating systems.
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A million revelers cheered fireworks in Sydney, Australia - one of the first cities to celebrate the New Year. via News Observer
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Microsoft is pointing to a server error that caused a weekend snafu in which legitimate customers were accused of stealing software. Thousands of legit copies of Windows XP and Vista were identified by Microsoft&#39;s Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation system as pirated.
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TechWeb - The software maker argues that a vulnerability recently identified is not new but a duplicate of a flaw found in December 2006.
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Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 do not properly handle JavaScript "onUnload" events and can be tricked into taking a user to the wrong URL, according to security researcher Michal Zalewski.
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Or another fried raccoon... Gun-touting buffoons and a pesky raccoon were among some of the more bizarre reasons why a number of Americans suffered power and comms outages during the New Year period.â¦