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Exclusive: BT's security hole reveals personal data
News The personal details -- including addresses, home telephone numbers and email details -- of everyone who has signed up for BTopenworld's broadband service have inadvertently been left on BT's Web site.
[April 27, 2000, 14:05]
Apple updates iTunes to plug security hole
News Apple has faced fewer security issues than Microsoft, with its prevalent Windows operating system. Apple on Tuesday released an update of its iTunes software to address a vulnerability that could cause earlier versions to crash and execute...
[January 13, 2005, 8:30]
Adobe Acrobat security hole discovered
News A security hole in Adobe Acrobat has been discovered that could allow malicious hackers to take over other computers, Adobe confirmed Monday. The security bug means that a specially created Acrobat PDF file could be used to crash Acrobat running on...
[August 8, 2000, 10:40]
Hole in MS security brews Java storm
News Another security hole in Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that allows a computer to be manipulated freely by a rogue applet, has been uncovered by a researcher at the University of Marburg in Germany.
[October 13, 1999, 10:38]
Winamp bug leaves back door open
News Andrew Cormack, head of Janet Security CERT (Computer Emergencies Response Team) confirms that this appears to be a serious security hole. This potentially leaves a hole for Trojan horses, viruses, or other forms of malicious code to make their way...
[January 13, 2000, 15:07]
iTunes DRM hole fixed
News Apple has closed a security hole that allowed an underground program to tap into its iTunes Music Store and purchase songs stripped of copy restriction features. The security hole in the iTunes Music Store which was recently exploited has been...
[March 22, 2005, 9:05]
ISS reveals cross-platform antivirus flaw
News Internet Security Systems has found a flaw in Trend Micro's virus-scanning software -- the third time this month that the security company has picked a hole in an antivirus product. An attacker could create a program that exploits the security hole...
[February 25, 2005, 8:55]
Worm holes found in Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail
News Hotmail and Yahoo have left open a security hole that could be exploited to create a self-mailing worm that, while not damaging, could clog Internet mail servers, a security expert said this week. On Friday, Microsoft confirmed that the security...
[June 4, 2001, 9:05]
Second Exchange patch runs into trouble
News Microsoft's latest software fix for a security hole in the company's Exchange mail server may still be causing problems, it was revealed on Tuesday. Last Thursday, Microsoft revealed that users who connect to an Exchange 2000 mail server via the...
[June 13, 2001, 10:31]
ShortFix
Downloads On 03/01/2001 @stake published a security advisory regarding a security hole in PalmOS 3.x based devices which would allow anybody in physical possession of the unit to retrieve and/or modify any information stored on the device by entering one of...
[March 15, 2001, 7:00]
MS .doc bug hibernates on Net
News A security hole affecting old copies of some Microsoft Office applications may have left a legacy of data leaks with the potential to reveal sensitive information and weaken security on government and commercial Web sites around the world.
[May 7, 2002, 14:33]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attacks targeting Access
News Microsoft issued a security advisory on Monday warning about targeted attacks that exploit a hole in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer in the Microsoft Access database-management system. An attacker would have to lure a victim, via a link...
[July 8, 2008, 8:29]
Microsoft: IE hole worse than reported
News Microsoft on Friday raised its threat rating for a security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser to "critical," in response to criticism of its initial assessment of the hole's danger. The first security hole exposed millions of Web servers and...
[December 9, 2002, 8:19]
Safari hole exploited in seconds at hack contest
News The same security expert who won $10,000 hacking a MacBook Air in under two minutes in 2008 won $5,000 on Wednesday, by exploiting a hole in Safari in 10 seconds or so. The security hole, which Miller said he discovered last year, allows a remote...
[March 19, 2009, 11:00]
ISS products targeted by Witty worm
News The worm, dubbed Witty.A, was designed to breach a security hole in the company's widely used firewall product line-ups such as its BlackICE and RealSecure software series. ISS posted an update to patch the hole on its Web site late last week but...
[March 22, 2004, 9:05]
Attackers target unpatched flaw in Excel
News Attackers are attempting to exploit an unpatched security hole in Excel that could allow someone to take control of a compromised computer, Microsoft said in a security advisory on Tuesday. Microsoft said it is working on a security fix to plug the...
[February 25, 2009, 7:37]
Microsoft sews up Hotmail hole
News The day after Microsoft acknowledged a security hole in Hotmail, its popular free email service, a representative for the software giant said it had fixed the problem. Details of the hole, which could have allowed any user the ability to read...
[August 22, 2001, 8:25]
A Year Ago: Microsoft addresses another IE hole
News Microsoft has issued a security bulletin concerning a potentially dangerous new variation of the Cuartango Hole in Internet Explorer 4.01 and Windows 98 that BugNet reported last month. Like its predecessor, The Son of Cuartango Hole bug exploits...
[November 23, 1999, 6:07]
AOL rushes to block Messenger hole
News AOL Time Warner on Wednesday pledged to close a security hole in its instant messenger application that experts say could provide wiggle room for a widespread and destructive worm. The AIM hole has surfaced at a period of heightened scrutiny of...
[January 3, 2002, 8:37]
MS security flaw called 'pinhole'
News Call it the case of the disappearing security hole. Initial reports of a "back door" in Microsoft's FrontPage server software -- a deliberate security hole put in to allow illicit access -- now seem to be, for the most part, incorrect.
[April 17, 2000, 9:48]
