Yahoo News Query: "Firefox"
Feds Issue Security Alert On Firefox (TechWeb) - People are being advised to upgrade to the latest versions of the Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird email program to plug numerous critical security holes.

Download of the Day: gTranslate Firefox Extension (Lifehacker) - The gTranslate Firefox extension translates text you select on a web page from one language to another using Google's Translation tool. The results are often wacky and fun; for example, the Firefox...

Firefox sorts out security flaws (BBC News) - Users of Mozilla programs, including the Firefox browser, are urged to upgrade their software to close security holes.

Feds Urge Firefox Users To Install Security Update (Linux Pipeline) - US-CERT security experts urge Firefox users, as well as Thunderbird and Seamonkey users, to install security patches that fix a number of serious, and in some cases easily exploited, security vulnerabilities.

Feds Issue Security Alert On Firefox, Thunderbird (Government Enterprise) - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team is advising people to upgrade to the latest versions of the Firefox Web browser and the Thunderbird email program to plug numerous critical security holes.

Firefox, Mozilla Users Told to Upgrade (BetaNews) - Users of the Firefox Web browser are being urged to upgrade as a government computer security agency warned of multiple vulnerabilities in earlier versions of the software. The group recommends upgrading to the latest Firefox release available, which would be 1.5.0.2.

Upgrade now to fix Firefox bug warns Cert (Computer Weekly) - Security bugs in the open source Firefox browser and Thunderbird email application could let hackers take control of users’ computers, security experts have warned.

Firefox sorts out security flaws (IT Observer) - Computer users are being urged to update the Firefox web browser to close serious security holes in it. Some of the security lapses in Mozilla software, which Firefox is based on, could allow malicious hackers to hijack computers.

Cool Firefox Extension For Xbox Media Center (Kotaku) - Nerdy, but still scrumptious sister site points to the Xbmc Fox Firefox extension that adds an entry on the right-click menu that lets folks send internet video to the Xbox Media Center. It keeps...

Download of the Day: CustomizeGoogle (Lifehacker) - Firefox extension CustomizeGoogle is a Google enhancement that lets you do all sorts of, obviously enough, cool customizations to Google pages. Among other things, CustomizeGoogle can add links to...

Updated: Thu, 04/20/2006 @ 08:25 PM

Yahoo News Query: "Mozilla"
Mozilla users urged to upgrade (ZDNet) - U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says earlier versions of Firefox, other Mozilla software contain clutch of dangerous flaws.

Mozilla users warned--upgrade now (ZDNet India) - Users have been urged to upgrade to the latest versions of Mozilla's software to protect themselves from a series of critical security holes.

Mozilla users warned--upgrade now (ZDNet) - CERT warned that earlier versions of Firefox, and other Mozilla software based on Firefox code, contain a clutch of vulnerabilities that expose users to attack.

Mozilla users urged to upgrade (ZDNet UK via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) - Security experts strongly recommend that Mozilla users shift to the latest versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey

Firefox, Mozilla Users Told to Upgrade (BetaNews) - Users of the Firefox Web browser are being urged to upgrade as a government computer security agency warned of multiple vulnerabilities in earlier versions of the software. The group recommends upgrading to the latest Firefox release available, which would be 1.5.0.2.

Daily news roundup (Lifehacker) - Firefox sorts out security flaws [BBC] "Users of Mozilla programs, such as Firefox, are urged to upgrade the software to close security holes." Google in China: The Big Disconnect [NYT] "What the...

Firefox sorts out security flaws (BBC News) - Users of Mozilla programs, including the Firefox browser, are urged to upgrade their software to close security holes.

Mozilla Receives Over 280 Community Produced Videos for ?Firefox Flicks? (LinuxElectrons) - MOUNTAIN VIEW , Calif. – Mozilla has said that it has received over 280 community-created videos promoting Firefox as entries to the Firefox Flicks marketing campaign. Firefox is the award-winning, free Web browser from Mozilla that has been downloaded over 160 million times.

Firefox sorts out security flaws (IT Observer) - Computer users are being urged to update the Firefox web browser to close serious security holes in it. Some of the security lapses in Mozilla software, which Firefox is based on, could allow malicious hackers to hijack computers.

Mozilla Fixes 24 Bugs In Firefox (ChannelWeb) - Mozilla updated its Firefox browser to patch a mega-batch of 24 vulnerabilities, the bulk of them tagged "critical."

Updated: Thu, 04/20/2006 @ 08:25 PM

Yahoo News Query: "Spyware"
Oregon Man Fined $84K In Spyware Case (TechWeb via Yahoo! News) - An Oregon man was fined $84,000 for scamming users with bogus security warnings that led them to a phony anti-spyware program, officials said.

Fake spyware warning ends up in a $84,000 fine (TG Daily) - Washington State has ordered an Oregon man to pay almost $84,000 for his part in selling fake anti-spyware programs.

Wash. Settles Spyware Suit With Ore. Man (AP via Yahoo! News) - An Oregon man will pay nearly $84,000 in fines and consumer restitution for using e-mail to market bogus anti-spyware software called Spyware Cleaner, Washington state officials said in announcing a settlement.

Wash. Settles Spyware Suit With Ore. Man (ABC News) - Ore. Man to Pay Nearly $84,000 in Fines for Using E-Mail to Market Bogus Anti-Spyware Software

US spyware suit reaches settlement (Sydney Morning Herald) - An Oregon man will pay nearly $US84,000 ($112,680) in fines and consumer restitution for using e-mail to market bogus anti-spyware software called Spyware Cleaner, Washington state officials said in announcing a settlement.

Oregon Man Fined $84K In Spyware Case (Government Enterprise) - An Oregon man was fined $84,000 for scamming users with bogus security warnings that led them to a phony anti-spyware program, the Washington state attorney general said Tuesday.

Wash. Settles Spyware Suit With Ore. Man (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - SEATTLE (AP) - An Oregon man will pay nearly $84,000 in fines and consumer restitution for using e-mail to market bogus anti-spyware software called Spyware Cleaner, Washington state officials said in announcing a settlement. State Attorney General Rob McKenna said the penalties are the first under an anti-spyware law the Legislature passed last year. "We will not tolerate those who try to profit

State settles first suit under spyware law (The Olympian) - SEATTLE — Washington state has settled a spyware lawsuit with an Oregon man, who will pay nearly $84,000 in fines and consumer restitution for e-mail marketing of bogus anti-spyware software called “spyware cleaner.”

Oregon man to pay $84,000 under new anti-spyware law (Tacoma News Tribune) - An Oregon man is the first defendant penalized under Washington's new computer spyware act.

US spyware fraudster fined £48,000 (Infomatics) - A US man has been fined almost £48,000 for marketing a bogus anti-spyware program.

Updated: Thu, 04/20/2006 @ 08:25 PM