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Exploit code increases threat of IE flaws
News Three unpatched flaws in Internet Explorer now pose a higher danger, a security company warned, after code to exploit one of the issues was published to the Internet. Exploit code for one of the vulnerabilities, a flaw in an HTML Help control, was...
[January 10, 2005, 7:40]
Exploit targets hole in Windows
News The Trojan, dubbed Exploit-WMF (Windows Meta File), was rated a category 2 level risk, meaning it had the potential to continue to spread, said Dave Cole, director of security response at Symantec. The exploit "is misusing a function in the WMF...
[December 29, 2005, 9:10]
Exploit code aimed at new IE flaw
News Microsoft's initial investigation reveals that this exploit code could allow an attacker to execute memory corruption," the representative said. Microsoft is not aware of any attacks that attempt to exploit the new IE vulnerability at this time, it...
[September 15, 2006, 9:30]
Exploit turns iPhone into a spy tool
News The exploit allows a hacker to control an iPhone remotely. Using a specially crafted web page utilising an iPhone exploit (now patched) he gained root level shell access to the phone — which means he could do anything that the iPhone is capable of...
[November 22, 2007, 8:22]
Exploit code out for Windows flaw
News Two examples of computer code that exploit a flaw in Windows Media Player have become available only days after Microsoft released a patch to fix the bug. The "proof-of-concept" exploits that take advantage of a flaw in the media player were posted...
[February 17, 2006, 8:45]
Exploit code raises fresh Zotob alarm
News Exploit code was published Friday for a Windows flaw similar to the vulnerability that led to the Zotob worm that wreaked havoc in August. The plug-and-play exploit code is not the first to surface for a flaw that was fixed in Microsoft's October...
[October 24, 2005, 9:35]
Exploit targets IE7 hole patched a week ago
News The exploit is similar to politically motivated attacks that were seen before the Olympics last year in which PDF files and Word documents contained exploit code and automatically connected computers to malicious websites, he said.
[February 18, 2009, 8:17]
Exploit code release may mean an unhappy Windows Christmas
News A Chinese security group has released sample code to exploit two new unpatched flaws in Microsoft Windows. Because the flaws were accompanied by exploit code that shows how to take advantage of the security holes, Huger expected the exploits to be...
[December 24, 2004, 8:15]
Exploit code quick to follow Microsoft patches
News The exploit code for previously unknown flaws means hackers could use the code to pounce on computer systems where managers are slow to apply patches. Microsoft is aware that detailed exploit code was published on the Internet for some of the...
[June 15, 2006, 9:55]
Exploit code threatens older Windows
News Exploit code has been published that could take advantage of flaws in Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, according to a warning issued on Thursday by Microsoft. Although the exploit code could be used to launch a denial-of...
[November 18, 2005, 8:00]
Exploit code threatening Windows PCs
News The first exploit code takes advantage of a "critical" flaw in the Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP, client, according to a customer alert sent out by the French Security Incident Response Team on Monday.
[July 26, 2006, 9:45]
Exploit
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[April 3, 2007, 6:03]
Hackers attacked parliament using WMF exploit
News The British Parliament was attacked late last year by hackers who tried to exploit the WMF flaw within Windows, security experts confirmed on Friday. In a WMF attack, exploit code is hidden within a seemingly normal image that can be spread via...
[January 23, 2006, 12:35]
Attackers exploit 'extremely critical flaw' in Word
News Security company Symantec, which several days ago detected the exploit, Trojan MDropper.Q, noted that it uses a two-step attack. As with other recent (Microsoft) Office vulnerabilities, documents incorporating the exploit code must be opened with a...
[September 5, 2006, 17:00]
Researchers exploit web protocol to hijack traffic
News Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko, an information security expert, warned a hearing of the US Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs in 1998 that hackers could exploit BGP, said Buss, who added that the problem was essentially to do with trust.
[August 27, 2008, 15:27]
Schools failing to exploit technology
News Four out of five schools are failing to exploit the full potential of technology to improve learning and better inform parents, according to research. However, of the parents surveyed by the government's education technology agency, Becta, 95...
[January 17, 2008, 8:16]
Researcher delays release of SSL exploit
News A security researcher has been in discussions with Google regarding an exploit he plans to release that would allow a hacker to easily intercept someone's communications with supposedly secure websites over an unsecured Wi-Fi network.
[August 26, 2008, 11:16]
Windows exploit code surfaces
News Exploit code exists for four of the 14 vulnerabilities for which Microsoft provided fixes this week, experts said on Thursday. After Microsoft released vulnerability information, the exploit code was written within 24 hours, noticeably quicker than...
[October 14, 2005, 10:35]
Researchers exploit SSL and domain flaws
News He added that he was able to use different types of attacks to exploit the vulnerability, which have been resolved, and one, involving the MD2 hash algorithm standard to sign certificates, is being phased out.
[July 30, 2009, 10:55]
High-risk internet server exploit goes wild
News An exploit that a hacker could use to crash internet servers is being used in the wild. The exploit targets a vulnerability in Bind 9, the most widely used DNS server standard, warned the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) on Tuesday.
[July 29, 2009, 17:16]
