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Fable II is really shaping up to be a great title. With little time before the launch, scheduled for October 21st for the United States and the 24th for Europe, reports about the game are pouring in. Besides all of the statements made by lead developer Peter Molyneux about how the title would appeal to casual gamers ... |
10 October 2008
20:01 GMT |
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Crysis Warhead is a standalone expansion to last year’s hit from Crytek. The game follows the adventures of Psycho, one of the side characters of the original game, as he explores another area of the island. The game was well received, but the people at Crytek say that a patch is already in the works.A Sandbox ... |
2 October 2008
03:49 GMT |
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EA and Maxis have released a patch for the Mac version of Spore, bringing the game to version 1.1. According to the two companies, the patch offers a variety of bugs and performance tweaks, but also delivers a “cheat” that turns a creature into a blocky representation of itself. Another such cheat, allowi... |
26 September 2008
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Electronic Arts announces that it has released the first patch for its Spore, a title that is already a big hit with gamers while also being at the center of several controversies regarding DRM and restrictions.This first patch is designed to address some bugs that the community identified and which tend to limit the... |
23 September 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Castle Crashers really took the Xbox Live Arcade by storm. The side scrolling adventure game which was the brainchild of Dan Paladin and Tom Fulp and developed by The Behemoth has now reached over 250,000 downloads. The number is that shocking considering that the game isn't even a month old (since it was l... |
18 September 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Security researcher Kevin Finisterre has released a working exploit for a vulnerability discovered in June in the CitectSCADA software used by many companies to control industrial machineries. This poses a threat for vital strategic facilities like power/water distribution plants or oil/gas refineries to name a few. ... |
10 September 2008
09:50 GMT |
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Updates designed to plug six security holes labeled with the maximum severity rating of Critical for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3 have been made available for download as of September 9, 2008. Microsoft has issued a total of four Security bulletins, all rated Critical, patching eight vul... |
10 September 2008
07:07 GMT |
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A new patch for Dominions 3: The Awakening is available from the folks at Shrapnel Games. Developed by Illwinter Game Design, The Awakening is the third installment in the turn-based fantasy war game series known as Dominion. The patch brings the Mac version of the game to 3.20.Among the most noteworthy additio... |
3 September 2008
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Cisco updated their previously released advisory, regarding a buffer overflow vulnerability in WebEx Meeting Manager, with a permanent patch. The vulnerability, with a 9.3 Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base score, can allow for arbitrary code execution if exploited successfully.An ActiveX control buffer overflo... |
18 August 2008
10:24 GMT |
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Hot on the heels of this month's security bulletins released on August 12, Microsoft made available for download the Security Releases ISO Image. Designed to deliver a manageable package with multiple individual language version patches for the Windows client and server platforms, the Security Releases ISO Image... |
14 August 2008
09:31 GMT |
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A security researcher with Core Security Technologies is responsible for the discovery of a URL Parsing Cross-Domain Information Disclosure vulnerability in Outlook Express and Windows Mail, which directly impacts Internet Explorer. According to Core Security Technologies, all supported versions of IE, including IE 5... |
14 August 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The latest Critical security patches for Windows XP Service Pack 3 and Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are available from Microsoft. Of course, that the two Windows client versions are not the only software products patched by the Redmond company as a part of its monthly security update cycle. Although Microsoft was pla... |
13 August 2008
09:03 GMT |
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The first Beta build of Internet Explorer 8 was made available for download at the start of March 2008, with bits going live following the MIX08 keynote address by Dean Hachamovitch, Microsoft General Manager. With Beta 2 cooking, as the baking time will run out by the end of this month, the Redmond giant continues t... |
13 August 2008
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Secunia has issued two advisories, SA31441 and SA31445, regarding a highly critical vulnerability that affects uTorrent versions 1.6, 1.7.x up to 1.8 RC6, as well as the BitTorrent mainline client 6.0 up to 6.0.3. Secunia rated this vulnerability as "Highly Critical" because it can allow an attacker to perform Denial... |
13 August 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Oracle has officially released the patch for the security vulnerability in Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic that had been previously announced at the end of July.On July 28, Oracle was forced to release a security advisory due to a newly discovered vulnerability in the Apache plug-in for Oracle WebLogic. This vulne... |
6 August 2008
11:49 GMT |
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Microsoft's monthly release of security bulletins is bound to get a tad richer as far as the information provided to customers is concerned come October 2008. This will happen via the new Exploitability Index, introduced at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference on August 5, 2008. The new resource was spawned in acco... |
6 August 2008
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On July 8, 2008, Microsoft released a total of four security bulletins plugging soles in both its Windows operating systems as well as in its Server solutions. Even the latest versions of the supported Windows clients, namely Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Window XP Service Pack 3 are affected. However, the Redmond... |
9 July 2008
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Microsoft is cooking patches for a new round of vulnerabilities impacting its Windows client and operating systems and Server software, including Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3. The Redmond company is preparing no less than four security bulletins for release on July 8, 2008, two of them d... |
4 July 2008
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Although the world's attention is focused on Firefox 3, the Mozilla team has not forgotten about the Internet users out there who still have the 2.0 version installed on their systems. At the beginning of July Mozilla's Firefox 2.0.015 was launched addressing a dozen security issues (literally). It seems th... |
4 July 2008
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Feral Interactive has released a Universal Patch for players of its Chessmaster 9000 game for Mac. Up until this point, only owners of a PowerPC-based machine could run the game. Thanks to this patch, Intel Mac owners can also play Feral's chess game, while the system requirements now ask for at least 10.4 to pl... |
2 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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NeoOffice users who've recently updated to version 2.2.4 can now download the first patch for their favorite free office suite of apps. NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 1 includes fixes, weighs in at 11MB and is available as a free download right here on Softpedia.NeoOffice is a full-featured set of office applications dev... |
28 June 2008
07:39 GMT |
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id Software and Activision have released a new patch for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars players. Version 1.5 of the game includes some workarounds and new functionality for the Mac dashboard. A few Mac-only changes are there too, so if you're a fan of the game, you should definitely update to the latest version."Th... |
16 June 2008
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The June 2008 Security Releases ISO Image is available for download containing critical fixes for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3, as well as additional supported Windows platforms. On June 10, 2008, Microsoft made available for download no less than seven security bulletins impacting exclu... |
12 June 2008
04:22 GMT |
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New patches are available from Microsoft via Windows Update, designed to resolve security vulnerabilities in various versions of the Internet Explorer browser. Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, Internet Explorer 6, and Internet Explorer 7 running on Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista are al... |
11 June 2008
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Strategy First is a games publisher who knows that, in order to keep customers happy, it has to keep the quality of its games as high as possible. I had to say that in case you were wondering how come a game released one and a half years ago (and not considered a great financial success) is getting patches: it is eas... |
11 June 2008
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Last updated several months ago, Neverwinter Nights 2 for Mac has just gotten a new patch delivering both fixes and changes to the game. The game is thus brought to version 1.12.1295. The patch (61.6 MB) is a free download for game owners.In Neverwinter Nights 2, you must build a character that suits your style of pl... |
9 June 2008
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We all know that strategy games should have the longest life cycles in the gaming industry since they are about... strategy, you know, and not visuals or other eye-catchy stuff. One of the games planning to prove that this statement is correct is Sword of the Stars, the 4x space strategy game developed by Kerberos Pr... |
3 June 2008
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Patch 5 for NeoOffice is now available to users. The Mac OS X suite of office applications that got Media Browser support just last month is now saying farewell to three more bugs, thanks to Patch 5 issued by NeoOffice.org.The previous NeoOffice patch (4) put the Solver feature back into its place, as the developers ... |
2 June 2008
03:38 GMT |
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This happens every now and then to just-released games: patching. Of course, after so many delays and beta tests, nobody would've believed that Age of Conan: Hyborian adventures, the game that has been getting so many great reviews and considered the only one able to win the throne held for so long by World of W... |
26 May 2008
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Following feedback from end users, and especially corporate customers, Microsoft's process of delivering security updates for its products evolved from an on-need approach to a strategy built on a scheduled monthly patch cycle, even though out-of-band releases have not been ruled out. An integral part of the Red... |
16 May 2008
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May has so far proved to be nothing short on an easy ride for the Redmond company, which issued a total of four security bulletins affecting the Windows operating system and the Office suite as well as a range of security solutions including Windows Live OneCare, Antigen, Windows Defender, Forefront Security. Notable... |
14 May 2008
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The contraceptive patch has been designed to be more efficient against unwanted pregnancies but, as it turns out, it has stirred up quit a debate, as it seems to be more dangerous than the pill and should be pulled off market. Even more, this doesn't even have something to do with. A few secondary effects have b... |
9 May 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Audiosurf is one of those indie games that seem to take the world by storm. The idea is so simple and so well implemented that it immediately captures the player and drives him to spend every last free minute that isn't allocated to sleeping, eating, washing or working, on the game. Well, the last part might be ... |
8 May 2008
20:26 GMT |
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Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack. Concomitantly with the general availability of the last service pack for XP, Microsoft dropped the first critical security update designed to patch Internet Explorer 7 running on XP SP3 RTM Build 5512... |
8 May 2008
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The problem that's driving everybody mad and the Grand Theft Auto IV developers older by the hour (probably) - the freezing of Grand Theft Auto IV - was supposed to be fixed with the latest PS3 patch released by Rockstar yesterday. However, it seems that nothing like that happened - many players were still compl... |
8 May 2008
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Players of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare are advised to restrict the access to game servers only to trusted users because a new vulnerability has been spotted on the web which may cause a Denial of Service. Security company Secunia rated the flaw as moderately critical and said that the vulnerability had been confir... |
6 May 2008
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The highly appreciated wall-climber, thief-simulator, eye-candy title from Ubisoft, Assassin's Creed, the PC version, has just been released to game stores and those who didn't get the chance to test it on their consoles hurried to buy it and experience the life of Altair. However, it seems that it wasn�... |
23 April 2008
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OpenOffice has always been a pretty popular application, especially thanks to the fact that it offers a freeware alternative to Microsoft Office, the suite of tools dubbed the most powerful solution in its category. Because of the freeware license but of numerous other advanced features, Microsoft Office quickly gain... |
18 April 2008
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Microsoft's Windows operating system is again causing trouble for its customers after security company Symantec confirmed that a new malicious code targeting the Chinese version of Windows 2000 is available on the web. Moreover, it seems like the code is able to exploit a critical vulnerability, which was actual... |
17 April 2008
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CD Projekt has recently released a boatload of new things to keep fans of its RPG The Witcher very happy. There's a new patch out, taking the game to version 1.3, there's a new adventure added to the main game and there's also a beta phase adventure editor that lets you use the assets from the Witcher ... |
11 April 2008
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Windows Vista SP1 has yet to reach the end of the first month since Microsoft made it available to the general public and the company is already hammering away at the service pack in an attempt to plug critical security holes. On April 8, 2008, Microsoft released a total of eight security bulletins for Windows, Offic... |
9 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Even though the first Beta of Internet Explorer 8 was made available on March 5, 2008, the final version of the next iteration of IE is by no means anywhere on the horizon. In this context, Microsoft's focus is still set on Internet Explorer 7, as the company has revealed that it has failed to commit to a releas... |
9 April 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Last week, Apple was announcing... wait, no, Apple barely "announces" its hardware, so updates are out of the question. What I meant to say was that last week, the Cupertino-based corporation responsible for some of the most innovative products out there has rolled out three updates. One in particular addresses 11 "h... |
8 April 2008
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Microsoft has yet to finish with the delivery process of Windows Vista SP1, and the company is already hammering away at the service pack plugging security holes. According to the Redmond company, Vista SP1 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities that will be addressed with April's security bulletin releases, sc... |
4 April 2008
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Microsoft has plugged no less than 12 security holes in its Office System. According to Tami Gallupe, MSRC Release Manager, all of the four security bulletins come with a maximum severity rating of Critical, a rating associated with the risk of allowing remote code execution. Five vulnerabilities impacting Office Out... |
12 March 2008
13:03 GMT |
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The next World of Warcraft update, numbered 2.4 for the math aficionados out there, is named Fury of the Sunwell and is currently undergoing public testing. With its deployment not too far away, it's worth looking at what it will bring to the players.The 2.4 patch is the first time a whole new outdoor area is op... |
6 March 2008
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It is the second Tuesday of February and users of Microsoft's Office 2004 for Mac are getting a bit of a treat. Actually, considering the risk they've been exposed to so far, it's more of a life-saver, but we'll just leave it at that. The patch (.dmg file size: 12mb), available right HERE for imme... |
13 February 2008
13:11 GMT |
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As is the general practice over at Microsoft, the monthly patch cycle releases are accompanied by the ISO Image that focuses exclusively on the security bulletins aimed at resolving the vulnerabilities in the Windows operating systems - both client and server side. And if you are up to it, Windows-KB913086-200802.iso... |
13 February 2008
10:11 GMT |
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Well, if you needed a reason to upgrade to Windows Vista SP1 from the RTM version of Microsoft's latest Windows client, then added security is by all means a catalyst of the service pack's deployment. Microsoft did tout the security enhancements synonymous with the evolution from Vista RTM to Vista SP1, and... |
13 February 2008
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The beginning of 2008 has not been kind to Windows Vista. Microsoft's latest operating system, applauded as the most secure version of Windows available on the market, needs to start licking its many wounds. The Redmond company has been performing a vulnerability counting game throughout 2007, comparing Vista wi... |
8 February 2008
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