Gregg Keizer

At Black Hat Europe, researchers showed how the cross-site scripting filter in Internet Explorer 8 beta could be used to abuse services such as Google and Twitter. Microsoft Corp. plans to update its filter

The fit-and-finish and the timing make it likely Gizmodo's iPhone is what Apple will sell this summer, according to one hardware expert. Find out all the details

The new support service offers XP and Vista users functionality only currently offered in Windows 7. The beta software, called Fixit Center, ports Windows 7-style troubleshooters to the older operating systems

Charlie Miller won $10K by exploiting the same component he hacked in 2009. He was able to hack Safari running on Apple Inc.

Firefox accounted for about 24 per cent of the browsers that surfed the client sites that NetApplications monitors. Chrome's market share hits 6 per cent, IE unaffected by EU ballot, says the research company

Microsoft Corp. finished the fix for version 6 of its Internet Explorer browser last month, according to date stamps on the affected files. The vendor released 10 out of band patches Monday, prior to Patch Tuesday, the day Microsoft ships bug fixes every month. Two of the critical fixes affected IE8 while seven of the critical fixes affected IE6.

The only researcher to "three-peat" at the Pwn2Own hacking contest, Charlie Miller said that security is such a "broken record" that he won't hand over 20 vulnerabilities he's found in Apple's, Adobe's and Microsoft's software.

The Dimensional Research report finds administrators are divorcing the aging OS to hook up with the sexier Windows 7 trophy. Read about all the survey results