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Microsoft has been under enormous antitrust pressure in Europe about bundling its Internet Explorer software with its Windows operating system – and Windows 7 won’t come bundled with IE there. But in a move calculated to stifle at least some of the criticism, the company has said it’s going to give the customer more control of the default browser. In a blog post, the company said: "IE will never install, or become… Read More

Alan Rateliff, in a posting to the BugTraq mailing list, said that the WRT54G router provides administrative access by default to ports 80 and 443 on the WAN. The user can use the admin pages to configure the device himself. According to reports, the username defaults to “admin”. “The implications are obvious: out of the box the unit gives full access to its administration from the WAN using the default or, if the… Read More