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Firefox currently blocks the current version of Flash Player on Windows and Linux because of known security vulnerabilities. If Adobe releases a new version that no longer contains dangerous, known bugs, the plugin will be accepted…

Adobe should phase out Flash. So says the well-known security expert Alex Stamos, who is the chief security officer of Facebook. Vulnerabilities in Flash are often exploited by malicious parties to install malware.According to Stamos,…

French media company Vivendi is buying 80 percent of the shares of the video sharing site Dailymotion for 217 million euros. The shares were held by the French telecom group Orange. Vivendi and Orange have been in talks since April this…

The Mozilla Foundation has released version 38.0.1 of Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is an open source email and newsgroup client, with features such as support for several mail and news accounts, a spam filter, spell checker, and a…

Download site SourceForge announces that from now on it will only bundle its ad installer with programs with explicit permission from the owner. Last week there was criticism after GIMP was suddenly bundled with advertisements.SourceForge…

A South Korean company called Daum Kakao takes over the social network Path. That community now has 10 million active members. With the acquisition, Path hopes that it will attract people in Asian countries.As a result of the…

Security questions for account recovery often provide a false sense of security. The questions should be easy to remember, but that ensures that malicious parties can quickly find out the answers. This is according to research by…

Microsoft has released the next build of the preview version of Windows 10. Build 10061 includes a new e-mail and calendar management program. Also, a black theme is now available in Windows 10.Users in the Fast Ring have been receiving…

Many popular apps for iPhones and iPads contain a vulnerability in the implementation of https. This would make it easy to tap SSL traffic on insecure networks. The apps are vulnerable due to the use of an old version of AFNetworking.The…

The European Union is said to be planning to investigate the behavior of tech companies. Especially the transparency in the creation of search results in search engines is of interest. We also look at the collection of user data.That is…