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DirectX holes to be plugged next week
News On Monday, Microsoft warned of attacks being launched that exploit a hole in the Video ActiveX Control when used in Internet Explorer for recording and playing video in DirectShow. The non-critical updates affect 2007 Microsoft Office System...
[July 10, 2009, 12:16]
Zero-knowledge adds privacy tool
News The Montreal-based company's P3P Analyzer, a free beta service, lets companies test whether their Web sites comply with a privacy standard known as Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) and its implementation in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6.
[March 6, 2002, 9:00]
Firewall-fooling flaw exposed
News An attacker could trick the firewall by linking a keystroke logger or other malicious program to another application - Internet Explorer, for example. Malicious code masquerading as a trusted application could trick a ZoneAlarm firewall into...
[October 3, 2005, 16:05]
Green Dam exploit in the wild
News I wrote a Metasploit exploit module for Internet Explorer, which exploits this stack-based, buffer overflow vulnerability in Green Dam 3.17," Trancer wrote in his Recognize-Security blog. An exploit for a flaw in censorware mandated by the Chinese...
[June 25, 2009, 17:09]
Firefox sneaks into the enterprise
Talkback For over a year now I have been requesting that I be allowed to install the Firefox web browser (or Mozilla) on my computer at work partly because I find it more productive (the quicker page load times and tabbed browsing) but mainly due to the...
[March 2, 2005, 12:10]
Microsoft investigates zero-day WordPad flaw
News On Wednesday, security researchers reported finding a zero-day flaw affecting Internet Explorer 7. According to Microsoft security advisory 960906, the WordPad flaw only affects users of Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2...
[December 11, 2008, 11:53]
Viral marketing has virus-like effects
News Ironically, even though Internet Explorer presents a 'security warning', many people treat this as some kind of a 'security approval' and are more inclined to go ahead. Internet security companies are warning about devious marketing tactics that...
[July 16, 2003, 10:48]
Compromised in a Flash
News The vulnerability, found by security firm eEye Digital Security, allows an attacker to create a hand-edited Macromedia Flash, or SWF, file that can compromise a PC or Macintosh if its user views the file with the Shockwave Flash Player plug-in for...
[December 18, 2002, 8:20]
August Windows patches arrive
News One bulletin addresses three vulnerabilities in the Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft's Web browser. Microsoft gives that rating to any security issue that could allow an Internet worm to spread without any action required on the part of the user.
[August 10, 2005, 9:10]
Microsoft patches DirectShow, Video ActiveX flaws
News The fix for the ActiveX control addresses a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution if someone viewed a malicious web page via Internet Explorer using the ActiveX control. Overall, the six 'Patch Tuesday' updates fix nine...
[July 15, 2009, 8:50]
Office XP hole compromises personal data
News Companies using Microsoft Office XP and Internet Explorer version 5 have been warned that documents containing personal information could be sent to Microsoft along with debugging information in the event of a program crash.
[October 18, 2001, 17:07]
Microsoft to users: Patch IE now!
News Microsoft said customers using Internet Explorer versions 5.5 and 6.0 should install the patch immediately. Microsoft has released a security patch to plug a hole in its Web browser that could allow hackers to steal passwords and trick people into...
[December 17, 2001, 8:41]
Microsoft: ' Patch now'
News Last week, the software maker revealed a security flaw in Internet Explorer and issued a patch. One security hole affects computers running the Windows Internet Naming Service, and the other affects Microsoft's Virtual PC for the Mac platform.
[February 11, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft readies August patches
News Earlier this week, security company eEye Digital Security said it had found serious flaws in Windows 2000 and Internet Explorer. Microsoft rates as critical any security issue that could allow a malicious Internet worm to spread without any action...
[August 5, 2005, 12:00]
Privacy group shines light on Web bugs
News Consumers can download the software, a browser add-on for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, at the site Bugnosis. Too small for readers to see, the bugs also can be more invasive -- for example, capturing a visitor's Internet Protocol address or...
[June 8, 2001, 11:52]
Microsoft wraps up patches for Christmas
News Earlier this month, Microsoft issued an unscheduled critical patch for Internet Explorer. The software giant released five patches to fix nine issues in its Windows operating systems on Tuesday, with none of the security holes rated as a serious...
[December 15, 2004, 7:55]
Microsoft to fix critical Windows holes
News On 27 July, Microsoft made the rare move of issuing a security patch outside of its regular monthly cycle, to address a critical flaw in Internet Explorer and a moderate vulnerability in Visual Studio.
[August 7, 2009, 13:18]
Symantec on alert after surge in Net activity
News It appears that some of Symantec's concern has been driven by the recent re-appearance of a variety of Trojan that exploits a security flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer that allows miscreants to insert malicious code into Windows PCs through...
[October 3, 2003, 11:50]
Microsoft announces July patch details
News The notice did not specify whether one of the patches will be for Internet Explorer. It rates as critical any security issue that could allow a malicious Internet worm to spread without any action required on the part of the user.
[July 8, 2005, 9:30]
IE suffers minor popularity setback
News A Microsoft representative said, "Microsoft shares our customers' concerns regarding security, but we have not seen a significant shift in usage from Internet Explorer. Microsoft has long held the title of undisputed champion of Web browsers, but...
[July 14, 2004, 11:10]
