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O2 to remotely fix router vulnerability
Blog The flaw was first identified by security researcher Paul Mutton, who brought it to the attention of O2 and the router's manufacturer, Thomson. O2 has come up with a fix for a flaw that affects some of its home broadband routers.
[September 3, 2009, 17:09]
Warning on IE 7 pop-up problem
News Last week, a security flaw was discovered in IE 7 that could spoof the address of a pop-up window. Secunia noted that the security flaw can affect a fully patched system running IE 7 and Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2.
[October 31, 2006, 10:56]
Mobile phone vulnerable to DoS attack
News US-based security company @stake has released a security advisory detailing a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the Nokia 6210 GSM mobile phone, and although the flaw isn't serious it could be a sign of worse things to come.
[February 26, 2003, 13:23]
Microsoft stamps out Passport flaw
News Microsoft security and product teams worked overnight to fix a flaw in the password reset feature of the Passport identity service that threatened to compromise millions of accounts. Sohn added that the feature had been around since September 2002...
[May 9, 2003, 8:29]
iTunes flaw helps hackers
News The discovery of this latest flaw comes days after Apple issued its iTunes 6 for Windows security update. The latest iTunes flaw has been confirmed on Windows, and is being investigated on Mac OS X, according to a security warning issued by eEye...
[November 18, 2005, 15:05]
Hackers' code exploits Sendmail flaw
News The flaw in Sendmail -- in one of the mail server's security functions that parses mail headers -- was found by network protection firm Internet Security Systems and announced on Monday. For many years, security researchers and hackers have argued...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
New IE flaw details published
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory for Internet Explorer, after a research firm published a working exploit to demonstrate how attackers could take advantage of the flaw. The discovery of this latest IE flaw comes two weeks after Microsoft...
[July 4, 2005, 9:15]
Windows 7 not affected by flaw, says Microsoft
News Microsoft issued a formal security advisory late on Tuesday on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. The software maker also said the flaw does not affect the final version of Windows 7, contrary to earlier reports.
[September 9, 2009, 8:43]
Cross-application attack exploits IE flaw
News A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Gillon wrote: "This design flaw in IE allows an attacker to...
[December 5, 2005, 10:55]
Word 97 Security Patch: KB830354
Downloads This update addresses a flaw when opening a document containing certain data values (the names of macros in the document) in Microsoft Word. This flaw could allow arbitrary code to run when Word tries to open a document containing maliciously...
[October 5, 2007, 9:42]
Multi-platform phishing exploit uncovered
News The issue, which security firm Secunia labelled a flaw, could allow a malicious Web site to refer visitors to a legitimate site -- such as a bank's Web site -- and then control the content displayed in a pop-up windows.
[December 9, 2004, 8:15]
Russian hackers 'sold WMF exploit'
News The WMF flaw unsettled security experts after they found that the virus-writing community discovered the vulnerability before they did. The British Parliament was attacked by hackers http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39248387,00...
[February 3, 2006, 8:30]
Flaw reported in updated Firefox
News A directory traversal flaw enables an attacker to potentially access another user's remote files due to insufficient security validation. Mozilla released Firefox version 2.0.0.12 on Friday, patching 10 security vulnerabilities, including a...
[February 11, 2008, 11:48]
Winamp attackers hide under 'skins'
News That's the lesson for Winamp users, after a group of security researchers discovered that spyware makers are using a flaw in the way the multimedia software loads graphical themes, or skins, to infect PCs with their wares.
[August 26, 2004, 8:45]
IE flaw puts credit card info at risk
News Privacy and security expert Richard Smith verified the IE security flaw by writing a tiny bit of JavaScript to hijack information contained in a cookie. The security flaw allows an outsider to break into cookies -- tiny electronic files used by Web...
[November 12, 2001, 9:42]
Microsoft sews up Hotmail hole
News Obviously, a security flaw in Hotmail doesn't look good. To exploit the flaw, a user would have had to know the target's username, the time the email was received and a random two-digit number, he said.
[August 22, 2001, 8:25]
Trojan exploiting unpatched Office flaw found in the wild
News A new Trojan horse exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Office and could let an attacker commandeer vulnerable computers, security experts have warned. Although exploits had already been released in April when HexView publicly reported the flaw...
[October 3, 2005, 8:55]
Researchers uncover Office encryption flaw
News The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned. Microsoft said on Thursday that it has begun investigating the flaw.
[January 21, 2005, 8:45]
Microsoft explains seven-year patch delay
News The flaw, which lies in the Microsoft Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, was addressed on Tuesday in Microsoft security bulletin MS08-068. The flaw could enable an SMB Relay attack, which would allow an attacker to install programs; view, change...
[November 13, 2008, 13:45]
Swappers 'vulnerable to hackers'
News The concerns were raised in a security bulletin posted to security lists last week by a programmer with the pseudonym Random Nut, who previously exposed a flaw in the Kazaa file-swapping software. In an email, Random Nut said that the most recent...
[October 7, 2003, 9:15]
