The new look for Dolphin 3.0 on iOS.

Updates to Dolphin HD for iOS and Android bring notable improvements to the browser on both platforms. Released yesterday, the overhaul of the iOS version's look makes it much more usable, while the Android edition keeps the feature-rich app running in ship-shape.

Dolphin HD 3.0 for iOS has an iPhone version and an iPad version, and the new look brings it more in line with the its appearance on Android. The Speed Dial landing page has been refreshed to make it cleaner, while the Webzine feature for streamlining magazine-style content has expanded its categories and introduced some much-needed customization.

Meanwhile, the new version 7.3 Dolphin HD for Android gets two changes worth pointing out. Dolphin Connect, the browser's synchronization feature, has simplified the sign-up procedure in addition to being faster. Dolphin's battery management add-on, confusingly referred to as both Dolphin Companion and Dolphin Battery Saver (download), has better integration with its browser sibling and can disable icons in the notification bar. That's an unexpe... [Read more]

Not all is doom and gloom in the security world. Facial recognition security program KeyLemon now offers a simple way to create a time-lapse video of your face in the latest update to its free eponymous program.

The new optional plug-in, called LemonDay and available today exclusively from CNET Download.com, takes a photo of your face when you log in to your computer and stitches these photos together into a slightly self-indulgent video.

No separate download is required to install LemonDay. Simply upgrade the free version of KeyLemon for Windows (download) or KeyLemon for Mac (download) to the new 2.6.

The new log-in screen includes a box in the upper left corner that reads, "Enable LemonDay plug-in." Check that box, and KeyLemon will record each of your log-in expressions. There are also a decent number of settings you can manipulate, including image preview speed, exporting the video, and face alignment.

True self-indulgence in the digital age is impossible without a Facebook sharing option. Enter in your credentials to upload the video directly to Facebook, so you can share a fun but no doubt narcissistic benefit of cutting-edge security.

There are a ton of image-editing apps that add effects to your images, but what about video?

Anyone who uses an iPhone 4 or 4S knows the smartphone takes great-looking video, but your options are limited with the Apple app when it comes to adding effects. Don't underestimate the value of adding effects, either: a good effect can turn a mundane subject into a great video.

This week's collection of iOS apps is all about adding effects to your videos. The first two have social components that let you share your completed videos and follow other users. The last is more specifically for adding effects, but is lacking when it comes to social components (and that may be exactly what you're after).

Socialcam has only a limited number of effects, but they're unique and produce great results.

Socialcam Video Camera (Free) lets you make quick videos with effects and share your work within Socialcam, via e-mail, or on Facebook. The app features its own social sharing features (think Instagram) so you can post your videos to a feed and follow other users. As in Instagram, you'll be able to "like" other people's videos... [Read more]

The Detroit News, as seen in PressReader 3's new SmartFlow mode.

Call me old-fashioned, but I still like newspapers.

Not the papers themselves, mind you, and all their environmental unfriendliness (paper, ink, landfill, etc.), but the layout and design. The big headlines and splashy photos. Even the ads. Newspaper apps may serve you the same news, but they just aren't the same.

That's one reason I continue to be a fan of PressReader, an iOS app that delivers more than 2,000 newspapers exactly as they appear in the real world.

PressReader is also available for iPhone and iPod Touch, but doesn't offer the new SmartFlow feature.

For example, as a Detroit native, I like to read my local paper, The Detroit News. There's an app for that, but, frankly, it isn't very good. It lacks the flavor of the print edition--and some of the content. Same goes for USA Today, a rag I've always enjoyed.

PressReader brings the full papers to my iPad. Because the pages are ... [Read more]

Symantec source code that was recently lifted by hackers is from two old enterprise products unrelated to the company's current consumer software, according to the antivirus vendor.

On Thursday, several reports surfaced that hackers had managed to access source code from certain Symantec products. But the exact products and their version numbers were initially unknown.

In an e-mail to CNET today, Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said that the two products in question are Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2. Currently at version 12, SEP 11 is 4 years old but is still supported, while Symantec Antivirus 10.2 has been discontinued.

Though the company is taking the hack seriously for any enterprise businesses still using either product, Paden stressed that the attack did not affect any Norton consumer products. Further, the hackers didn't breach Symantec's own security but rather that of a third party.

The hackers, who dub themselves The Lords of Dharmaraja, said they found the code after breaking into servers run by Indian military intelligence. They've threatened to publicly release the code, but have yet to follow through. The group's post on the Pastebin site has since been removed, though a Google cached version still exists, as ... [Read more]

A new threat is looming for browsers and it's not related to JavaScript.

Security researcher Mario Heiderich reported to the maker of Firefox last year that he had found an unusual vulnerability in the browser and two other Mozilla products that run on the Gecko engine, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Based in the relatively new technology that allows for animated complex vector graphics in the browser, called SVG animation, the vulnerability allowed for a malware writer to detect key strokes even when JavaScript was disabled.

Basically, he found a way to turn innocuous Web pages into keyloggers. Mozilla patched the vulnerability in Firefox 9, Thunderbird 9, and SeaMonkey 2.6. Then, as is standard operating procedure, they announced to the public what the threat was and that it had been fixed. But the real threat may lie in what the threat wasn't: it wasn't based in JavaScript.

"The basic premise of my research currently is scriptless attacks, meaning attack vectors working in a post-XSS world," Heiderich said in an e-mail. He defined a "post-XSS" world as one where the cross-site scripting attack had been more or less minimized by technologies like sandboxed iFrames, Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird and Firefox's Content Security Policy, the JavaScript blocking b... [Read more]