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Free app tells you when security updates are available for your software

Secunia PSI
The Firefox web browser does a great job of alerting you when there are critical updates available. But how about the dozens or hundreds of other programs you've installed on your computer?

Software security firm Secunia's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) is a free application that alerts you when updates are available for your programs.

When you install PSI it will scan your computer for installed software and categorize each program as up-to-date, insecure, or end-of-life. The program has information on more than 4,200 commonly used applications. Whenever a software maker pushes out a patch or an update, PSI will notify you and provide a download link.

[via Computer World]

Filed under: Internet, Security, Windows, Microsoft

Internet Explorer 7 vulnerability discovered

Internet Explorer 7 vulnerabilityAccording to security firm Secunia, the just-released Internet Explorer 7 contains a "Redirection Information Disclosure" vulnerability, which allows one site to fetch data from another site through the browser, which opens it up to all kinds of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Interestingly, the same vulnerability has been known and unpatched in IE6 since April. It's one thing not to patch an old browser, but seems quite another to release a brand new browser with the same vulnerability that you've been aware of for six months. If you're running Internet Explorer and want to see the exploit in action, Secunia has set up a demo page.

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