News for 18 February 2010 Year

11:01 Amazon puts Kindle e-book reader on US BlackBerries

Amazon.com has released a version of its Kindle application for BlackBerry users, giving them access to their e-books without a Kindle device. >>>



10:19 Mozilla patches critical Firefox bugs

Mozilla on Wednesday patched five vulnerabilities, three of them critical, in older editions of Firefox and in the process extended the support life of Firefox 3.0 by at least one more month. >>>



10:11 Adobe issues emergency update, repairs critical Reader flaw

Adobe Systems Inc. issued an emergency update to its Acrobat and Reader applications, repairing two critical vulnerabilities that could be used by attackers to crash the program and take control of an affected system. >>>



10:02 EPIC asks for FTC investigation into Google Buzz

The privacy group is charging the search giant with violating user privacy and wants Google to make Buzz an opt-in social networking service >>>



09:44 US Cybersecurity Hypothetically Pathetic

An operation dubbed "Cyber ShockWave" has spanked the U.S.'s cyberdefenses -- hypothetically. >>>