Real Networks has issued a new security advisory for the RealPlayer multimedia player.

The advisory addresses a series of four vulnerabilities in the player which could be exploited by an attacker to remotely execute code on a vulnerable system.

Two of the four flaws target ActiveX vulnerabilities and both could allow an attacker to remotely execute code. Th ...

New Zealanders are Net crazy – more than three-quarters of them use it, more than 60% of those who do have broadband at home, and nearly the same number would suffer without it.

Those conclusions come from a survey carried out by World Internet Project New Zealand. Researchers at the Auckland University of Technology questioned 1430 Kiwis about their use of and attitudes towards the Internet as part of a global study of Net usage.

Free local phone calling should still be required in remote areas, but not in the cities, and New Zealanders could get better telecomms service if the Telecommunications Service Obligation (TSO) was opened up to competition.

Those are the major conclusions of a report on the TSO, the document that defines how telecomms services are delivered in this country. The report was prepared at the government’s request by the Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum (TCF), an incorporated society ...