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Time to say goodbye from all of us at bit-tech.net

November 1, 2021 | 14:00

Inscryption Review

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

October 27, 2021 | 12:05

SilentiumPC Regnum RG6V TG Case Review

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

October 21, 2021 | 09:43

Safari users warned of unpatched flaw

Users of Apple's Safari web browser - on both Mac OS X and Windows platforms - are being warned that an unpatched flaw in the RSS engine could lead to data theft.

January 14, 2009 | 13:42

Microsoft prepares 'Critical' Windows update

Microsoft has released the list of what patches to expect this Tuesday, and there's just a single entry - an unknown flaw marked as 'Critical'.

January 9, 2009 | 14:26

Symbian DoS attack revealed

A security researcher has unveiled a simple attack that leaves Symbian S60 smartphone handsets unable to receive SMS or MMS messages until factory reset.

January 5, 2009 | 14:15

Zune "Y2K9" bug confirmed

Microsoft has coughed to a flaw in the firmware on its Zune media player devices that leave them unusable on the 365th day of a leap year - like the one we've just had.

January 2, 2009 | 09:16

Security flaw in Vista discovered

Another security flaw has been discovered in Windows Vista, this time allowing for a buffer overflow in the networking subsystem to overwrite kernel memory.

November 24, 2008 | 13:02

AVG bug leaves Windows unbootable

A bug in a signature update for AVG 7.5 and 8 has caused the anti-virus software to mistakenly classify a critical Windows system file as a Trojan horse.

November 12, 2008 | 12:53

Android flaw executed typed text

A bug in the Android smartphone platform from Google causes text entered on the device's keyboard to be executed by the underlying OS as a root user.

November 10, 2008 | 13:24

Major Windows security patch released

Microsoft has released an out-of-cycle patch to fix a major security vulnerability in all current versions of Windows that can allow a remote attacker complete control over a system.

October 24, 2008 | 12:32

HP extends warranties for Nvidia flaw

HP is the latest company to offer free warranty extensions for PCs affected by Nvidia's GPU manufacturing glitch, alongside Dell and Apple.

October 15, 2008 | 13:23

Apple admits Nvidia flaw in MacBook Pro

Apple has issued a report admitting that several models of MacBook Pro fitted with Nvidia graphics chips are affected by a manufacturing flaw and may need repair.

October 13, 2008 | 08:59

iTunes & QuickTime security alert

A major security flaw has been discovered in the latest versions of Apple's iTunes and QuickTime, and thus far there is neither a patch nor a workaround available.

September 19, 2008 | 13:57

Diebold admits flaw in voting machine for a decade

Voting machine maker Diebold, has admitted a programming error causes its equipment to drop votes - and has done for over a decade.

August 26, 2008 | 10:05

Dell extends warranties for Nvidia flaw

Dell has announced via its Direct2Dell blog that it is to cover laptops fitted with faulty Nvidia GPUs for an additional twelve months, due to a design flaw in the GPU.

August 20, 2008 | 09:09

ZoneAlarm fix for DNS death released

A bug in the ZoneAlarm personal firewall package left users without a working 'net connection this Tuesday after a patch was released for DNS resolution by Microsoft.

July 11, 2008 | 09:00

Flaw in AVG 8 fixed

A mis-implemented feature in the anti-virus package AVG 8, which caused massive amounts of spurious Internet traffic, has been fixed today.

July 8, 2008 | 11:47

Acrobat suffers security flaw

A flaw in the Javascript engine in Adobe's popular Acrobat series of programs has left users vulnerable to cracker attack - but the company has issued a patch to block the hole.

June 25, 2008 | 11:28

Bug mars Firefox 3.0 launch

A zero-day security flaw shared with its previous generation brother, and discovered just five hours after the download was made available, mars the launch of Firefox 3.0.

June 20, 2008 | 12:29

CardSpace duplicates Passport flaw

CardSpace, the authentication system provided with .NET Framework 3.0, suffers from the same security shortcomings as its predecessor according to a German research team.

June 3, 2008 | 10:41

Adobe Flash flaw allows code execution

A flaw in versions of Adobe Flash Player prior to the latest release allows for remote code execution on affected systems, and is being actively exploited by crackers.

May 29, 2008 | 12:48

OpenSSL flaw in Debian Linux discovered

The team behind the Debian Linux project have discovered a flaw in their implementation of the OpenSSL cryptography package that has been in place since 2006.

May 14, 2008 | 12:11

Microsoft warns of Windows flaw

Microsoft has released a security advisory alerting customers to the possibility for a privilege escalation attack against all current Windows releases - including Vista.

April 21, 2008 | 13:45

Firefox fix released for JavaScript flaw

The Mozilla Foundation has released a new version of Firefox to fix a flaw in the JavaScript garbage collection process introduced in the previous release, and which can cause instability.

April 18, 2008 | 10:23

Home Server fix delayed until June

A fix for a critical data-guzzling bug in Windows Home Server won't be made available until June 2008, a full six months after the problem was brought to Microsoft's attention.

March 12, 2008 | 08:53

MSI MPG Velox 100R Chassis Review

October 14 2021 | 15:04