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Opera keeps quiet on browser security fix details

article published on 21 June, 2010

Opera has not given detailed information about four out of five security vulnerabilities it recently patched in the latest stable version of the Opera web browser. Of the five security problems that Opera 10.54 fixes, the only one that has been fully disclosed relates to a problem with font handling on Windows, which Microsoft has already patched. Only the severity status of the remaining ... [ read the full article ]

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Josipher
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_ 		22. June 2010 @ 22:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
my cursor keeps dissapearing when using opera now..sucks
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MrFawlty
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_ 		24. June 2010 @ 07:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I think this is very responsible of them.

I think it's really stupid when browser companies put out these press releases about the security hole they've just plugged with the latest update with full details of the problem, thus making it easy for malicious idiots, who weren't already aware of it, to take advantage of it. FAIL.
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