As part of their effort to speed up release cycles , Google no longer likes to acknowledge in a big way when they update Chrome. They’re simply doing it too often for it to mean much. But today they’ve taken a bit of time to  acknowledge an update to both Chrome and Chrome OS, in part because they were able to quash a big bug

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Chrome, Chrome OS Updated With First “Elite” Bug Squashed

BOSTON (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp issued its biggest-ever security fix on Tuesday, including repairs to its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet browser for flaws that could let hackers take control of a PC. (more…)

Apple has released a software patch to address a recently described security flaw in the iPhone. (more…)

They’re here–sort of. Twitter has launched the early beta phase of its “verified accounts” program, a background-check for celebrities and other prominent users of the service to weed out impersonators and fake accounts. If they pass the test, they get a graphic “badge” much like a PayPal verified account’s. (more…)

Cybercriminals are exploiting a critical hole in Internet Explorer 7 that was patched a week ago by Microsoft, security firm Trend Micro warned on Tuesday.

The malicious code, which Trend Micro named “XML_DLOADR.A,” is hidden in a Word document. On unpatched systems, when the file is opened an ActiveX object automatically accesses a Web site to open a backdoor that installs a .DLL (dynamic link library) file that can steal information, according to a Trend Micro blog entry. The code sends stolen data to another Web address via port 443, Trend Micro said. (more…)

If your Web site is one of the more than 170,000 sites on the Internet that Google has tagged as hosting malware, you have a place to turn–StopBadware.org.

On Saturday, an error at Google changed the display of search results so that every site on the Internet was listed as having malware for about an hour. After that happened, StopBadware.org’s site was hit with so much traffic–67,000 or 13 times the normal daily number–that it led to a denial of service that had the site offline for nearly an hour and a half. (more…)

Microsoft’s updated browser, Internet Explorer 8, promises an assortment of new features designed to help make Web browsing with IE safer, easier, and more compatible with Internet standards. We looked at the first release candidate of the new browser released to the public today, Release Candidate 1 (RC1). On the surface, IE 8 seems to be a lot like IE 7, but Microsoft has made a number of changes under the hood. You may have seen some of these new features already, however, in IE’s no-longer-upstart competitor, Mozilla Firefox 3. (more…)