Ubuntu Security Notice 2010-1 – Multiple memory safety issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted message with scripting enabled, an attacker could possibly exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking…

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2013-264 – Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. The mozilla firefox packages has been upgraded to the latest ESR version which is unaffected by these security flaws…….

Debian Linux Security Advisory 2788-1 – Multiple security issues have been found in iceweasel, Debian’s version other implementation errors may lead to the execution of arbitrary code…….

Obama administration reportedly asking Google, Oracle, and Red Hat for help fixing the problematic yet high-profile health care Web site…….

Three remote-controlled mountaintop mirrors now reflect light on the shady valley town of Rjukan, which has never seen sunlight during winter…….

Just how do you make people pay for an open-source filesystem?……

Now that Nexus 5 has finally arrived, we see how it compares to today’s top smartphones and its predecessor…….

An anonymous reader writes “You thought Halloween was for treats. Not this time. Panasonic announced to its investors today that its plasma TV business would be over by the end of March 2014.” Blacker blacks and brighter whites aside, there are some good reasons for the shift…….

Fancy a $50 piece of clear plastic? Step right in……

Sanity breaks out as regulator officially relaxes rules on gadgets……