Microsoft patches critical flaws in Windows 8, Windows RT

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	Microsoft patches critical flaws in Windows 8, Windows RT Microsoft Tuesday patched 19 vulnerabilities in Windows, IE9 (Internet Explorer 9), Excel and the .Net development framework, including four flaws in the just-released Windows 8 and its tablet spin-off Windows RT. Of Tuesday's six security updates, four were labeled "critical," Microsoft's most-severe threat ranking, while the remaining pair were pegged as "important" or "moderate." Of the 19 vulnerabilities patched today, seven were tagged as critical. Read More WEBCAST: Riverbed Extend the Virtual Edge of the Data Center to the Branch Organizations today are faced with the challenge of satisfying both end-users and IT. While end-users require flexible and reliable access to their data and applications, IT organizations need to meet those demands while keeping budgets under control and company assets secure. Learn More In this Issue RIM releases BlackBerry Messenger 7 beta with calls over Wi-Fi Microsoft ships IE10 for Windows 7 preview, hints at launch this year High-performance computing turns to apps to cut cost and frustration Skype blocks password resets after account hijacking flaw made public Cisco Q1 profit and revenue grew on strong U.S. results WHITE PAPER: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors Transforming Enterprise Application Deployment This white paper reviews the capabilities of HP's scale-up family of ProLiant Servers and shows how legacy IBM Power System customers can move their applications to HP ProLiant Servers to reduce expenses – without compromising application scalability, performance or reliability. Learn More RIM releases BlackBerry Messenger 7 beta with calls over Wi-Fi A new beta version of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) that allows users to make voice calls over Wi-Fi is now available for download, Research In Motion said Tuesday. The beta version of BBM 7 works on BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry OS version 6 or higher. RIM also plans to support smartphones running BlackBerry OS 5 at a future date, the company said. Read More Microsoft ships IE10 for Windows 7 preview, hints at launch this year Microsoft on Tuesday shipped a major preview of Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) for Windows 7, using a moniker that hints at a final release as early as next month. Read More High-performance computing turns to apps to cut cost and frustration Steve Jobs was right about apps in more ways than perhaps he ever knew. The concept of using apps to make software easily available and affordable to large numbers is arriving in high-performance computing (HPC). There is a new effort to take code that contains a very small, self-contained calculation designed for one thing, such as modeling and simulating the flow of a fluid through a pipe, and turn it into an app. Read More Skype blocks password resets after account hijacking flaw made public Skype has disabled the account password reset option on its website following reports that the feature can be abused to hijack Skype accounts if the attackers know the email addresses associated with them. Read More Cisco Q1 profit and revenue grew on strong U.S. results Cisco Systems posted higher revenue and profit in its fiscal first quarter despite weak orders in Europe, as results in the U.S. were strong, the networking company reported on Tuesday. Revenue hit $11.9 billion in the quarter, up 6 percent from a year earlier, the company said. Net income rose by almost 18 percent to $2.1 billion, with earnings per share of $0.39. Chairman and CEO John Chambers attributed the company's profit in part to strong cost containment. Cisco's fiscal first quarter ended Oct. 27. Read More
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