In what marks one of the new year’s first public relations blunders, Microsoft’s move to buddy up with bloggers has backfired.
The software giant recently gave dozens of expensive laptops loaded with its new Windows Vista operating system to bloggers. Instead of goodwill, the gesture generated contention in the blogging community.
Some are slinging accusations against not only Microsoft, but also their blogging brethren. Microsoft, they write, is bribing bloggers, and those bloggers, they add, are engaging in unethical behavior.
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January 3rd, 2007
Remember the Month of Browser Bugs and the Month of Kernel Bugs? Apple has now been singled out for the latest vulnerability project.
Security researchers are reviewing the first flaw in what is being dubbed the “Month of Apple Bugs” (MOAB), a project designed to improve the Mac by uncovering security flaws in Apple software and third-party applications developed for Mac OS X. The project aims to release a new vulnerability each day during the month of January.
As with its 2006 predecessors that targeted browsers and kernels, the Month of Apple Bugs project is expected to identify a new vulnerability each day during the month of January. The project kicked off Tuesday by exposing a simple vulnerability in Apple’s QuickTime application, a program that allows users to capture, watch and share videos with friends.
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January 3rd, 2007
