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Submission + - Apple deprecating Quicktime for Windows, says Trend Micro (trendmicro.com)

Submitted by harryjohnston on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:56PM

harryjohnston writes: Usually when a vendor deprecates a software product and stops releasing security updates, they provide some sort of advance notice that they're intending to do so. The least we would expect is for them to announce an unexpected end-of-life themselves. However, Trend Micro released a security advisory today describing two zero-day vulnerabilities for Quicktime for Windows, and according to them, Apple told Trend Micro — but apparently nobody else — that they have deprecated Quicktime for Windows and will not be releasing a patch.

The Register has an article on the announcement. Apple did not respond to their request for comment.

Submission + - Peer-to-peer traffic drops 10% after new law (nzherald.co.nz)

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harryjohnston

on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @06:24PM

harryjohnston writes: "Following the introduction of New Zealand's new copyright legislation, which we discussed last week, major ISP Orcon reports that international peer-to-peer traffic has dropped 10%. This might mean that the law is actually working, to some extent, though experts say the effect will probably only be temporary."

Submission + - Zeus botnet down but not out (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by harryjohnston on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:39PM

harryjohnston writes: The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours.

Submission + - Security research company blackmailing vendors? (msmvps.com)

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harryjohnston

on Sunday February 10, 2008 @04:50PM

harryjohnston writes: "Alun Jones writes in his blog about Russian security research company Gleg who have publicly demonstrated a vulnerability in RealPlayer, but are allegedly refusing to provide details to RealNetworks unless they pay up.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/alunj/archive/2008/02/07/1501848.aspx"

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