Google adds HTTPS-only browsing to Chrome

Google has quietly released a pre-beta version of Google Chrome 2.0 with a new HTTPS-only browsing mode. The new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates.   “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load,” the company explained. The newest Chrome release also [...]

Oracle planning Patch Tuesday whopper

Microsoft may be offering a Patch Tuesday respite this month but, if you’re an Oracle database administrator, January 13 will be a very busy day. The database server giant announced plans for a monster Patch Day next Tuesday with fixes for 41 security vulnerabilities in “across hundreds of  Oracle products.” The first CPU (Critical [...]

Israel-Gaza Conflict Spam Leads to Malware

Another malware attack is circulating in the wild today, especially through email. It arrives via  bogus email which claims to be from CNN news. The email purports to contain news about Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. It also contains a link of the graphic video of Al Jazeera English Report about the news. The subject [...]