17 Nov 09 Accounting glitch may force SunPower to restate
Solar panel provider SunPower might restate financial results from 2009 and 2008 after the discovery of possible accounting irregularities, the company said.
Tagi: accounting irregularities, sunpower, solar panel, solar energy, glitch
19 Feb 10 Adobe working to fix security bug in Download Manager
Adobe Systems is working to fix a glitch in software it uses to speed up downloads of its products that could give hackers a way to push malicious programs onto a victim's PC.
According to security researcher Aviv Raff, Download Manager -- a small program Adobe users to speed up the initial installation of its products -- can be misused to force victims to install unwanted software on their computers.
Tagi: adobe users, program adobe, aviv raff, security bug, unwanted software, adobe systems, malicious programs, glitch, researcher, hackers, downloads
12 Sep 10 Child Abuse Verdict Held Back By MS Word Glitch
An anonymous reader writes "Last week several defendants including one high-profile TV presenter were sentenced in Portugal in what has been known as the Casa Pia scandal. The judges delivered on September 3 a summary of the 2000 page verdict, which would be disclosed in full only 3 days later. The disclosure of the full verdict has been postponed from September 8 to an yet-to-be-announced date, allegedly because the full document was written in several MS Word files which, when merged together, retained 'computer related annotations which should not be present in any legal document.' (Google translated article.) Microsoft specialists were called in to help the judges sort out the 'text formatting glitch,' while the defendants and their lawyers eagerly waits to access the full text of the verdict."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Tagi: ms word files, casa pia, tv presenter, google, legal document, glitch, child abuse, ly, scandal, lawyers, portugal, microsoft
