November 2015

Vulnerability Test Suite (VTS) is a free application for Android that scans devices running the operating system for publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities.

Publicly-disclosed vulnerabilities remain a threat months or even years after disclosed due to how patches are delivered to user systems.

Once Google has created a patch for a disclosed vulnerability, it is up to the device manufacturer to implement it and either make it available directly or submit it to carriers for another round of testing before the updates are made available to customers.

Whenever there is a sale on Steam, and the number of sales per year increased sharply in recent years, you can be sure that things get quite hectic in the beginning.

It is often the case that the first minutes of the sale take much of Steam down with them, and it may take ten or so minutes before things go back to normal.

The Steam Exploration Sale started yesterday and will end December 1, at 10am PST. The sale is different from previous sales, as there are not any mini-games, themes, cards to win, votes to make or time-limited deals.

The new Star Wars movie The Force Awakens will be out in less than a month and the hype surrounding it is already in full swing.

The movie marks a new era for the Star Wars franchise, as it is now part of Disney. It is the first film that George Lucas won't have a say in at all, and kind of a reboot of the series considering that the official Star Wars canon has been severely limited.

Google's Star Wars Experience promotes the film, and while Google makes no mention of it, it is likely that the company is compensated for it.

When Mozilla announced a year ago that it would not renew the search deal it had with Google in favor of regional deals that would give the organization more flexibility and independence, a turning point was reached.

Instead of being dependent on a single source of income, Mozilla suddenly was less dependent than before.

There is a constant cat and mouse game between malware, security software companies and computer users, and the chance of one side winning the battle seems slim at best.

Malwarebytes revealed recently on Malwarebytes Unpacked how Vonteera, a malware previously classified as adware, operates.

Mozilla announced back in the beginning of 2015 that it would require Firefox add-ons to be signed before they could be installed in release and beta versions of the web browser.

The idea behind the move was to make the Firefox add-on landscape a safer place for users by protecting them from invasive or outright malicious add-ons (since those would either not be submitted at all, or if they were, blocked by the signing scanner).

Mozilla launches a stable version of Firefox 64-bit for the Microsoft Windows operating system this month in silent fashion. While it is available for download, it is not yet listed on the organization's official download site.

Firefox users can download the 64-bit version from Mozilla's Download Archive though. Since it is the first official stable release, it is likely that Mozilla wanted to monitor bugs and other issues for a release cycle.

RCC is a free program for Windows that scans the Windows Certificate Store when it is run highlighting potentially dangerous certificates.

Two major computer manufacturers -- Lenovo and Dell -- put millions of customer computers at risk by installing certificates that included their private key.

Mozilla removed the native option to change the address that is opened when Firefox users open a new tab page in the browser in Firefox 41.

It enabled you to change the address, for instance to a blank page or an Internet site that you visit frequently directly from within the web browser.

While you can set Firefox's new tab page to display a blank page using the preferences on the page, that's the only option that remains in the browser.