Opera snips out phishing flaw in a fortnight

A potential phishing flaw has been addressed by Opera, the standards-compliant alternative browser. A new 7.51 release addresses issue reported by GreyMagic in its GM#007-OP security advisory. ...more

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 raises its voice

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 7 Professional has been released. The latest version of the speech recognition software features support for wireless microphones and reduced setup times. Also new in version 7 is support for Pocket PC devices. ...more

OS X 10.1.5 update released

Apple has released the latest update to Mac OS X, delivering improvements in application reliability, networking, security, and PC Card and external device support. Application improvements comprise increased stability of Mail and Sherlock, support for 2D and QuickTime hardware acceleration for Rage Pro graphics cards, and anti-aliased text display in certain Carbon applications. Networking and security improvements comprise: improved networking via AFP when accessing multi-level directories on Windows NT file servers; improvement to file searching on local and remote volume; a generic PC Card driver to support a variety of PC Card modems; Mail accounts go offline to indicate that SSL encryption settings are not supported by mail server. ...more

Office 2003 gets first fix within weeks of launch

Just weeks after launching Office System to the world, the first hole gets patched. Users opening or closing Excel, Word, and PowerPoint documents that included an OfficeArt shape that had been created in earlier version of Office encountered a number of problems. The document might fail to open at all, become corrupted, open without the image, or generate an error message. ...more

Security put on the boardroom backburner in rush to wireless networking

Despite a massive rise in wireless networking, just 20 per cent of companies turn on Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) controls to protect network traffic. Remote access, wireless networks and PDAs maybe on the wish list for many businesses, but they are often being deployed without appropriate security provisions, according to the DTI's 2004 Information Security Breaches Survey. 'Many of those who want remote access appear to be the least aware of the additional risks it entails and/or are senior people in the organisation and have the power to authorise it,' said Andrew Beard, the PricewaterhouseCoopers advisory director leading the survey. ...more