AIM security tool opens back doors
News The security group w00w00, which discovered last week's serious flaw in AOL's instant messenger software, said on Tuesday that a program that could act as a temporary Band-Aid for the AIM problem had in reality been misrepresented by the person...
[January 10, 2002, 12:02]
Hackers pick at Firefox holes
News In the past few days, at least two security researchers have posted messages to popular security mailing lists claiming they have found ways attackers could take advantage of the vulnerability. It took only about 3 hours and 30 minutes to develop...
[September 14, 2005, 7:25]
Nine more holes in IE
News Communicating to the relatively small number of dedicated security mailing list subscribers is not a practical or effective way of securing the millions of Microsoft customers -- it is only effective in guaranteeing that hackers are armed.
[November 4, 2002, 11:04]
Secret security holes released to public
News A self-proclaimed hacker claims to have stolen three unreleased security advisories from a corporate computer and posted them to a public mailing list. The three latest advisories were posted to the Full Disclosure security mailing list.
[March 20, 2003, 10:25]
A tale of two patches
News While SANS Internet Storm Center and F-Secure are recommending your patch, it has spawned some debate on security mailing list This vulnerability has spawned a torrent of exploits that seek to take advantage of the wait while Microsoft works on its...
[January 5, 2006, 9:10]
Remote tool attacks Windows servers
News Files left behind on a compromised server by the worm were posted to a security mailing list. Several programs, including one that exploits a recent vulnerability in computers running Windows, have been cobbled together to create a remote attack tool.
[August 4, 2003, 8:55]
Hacker exploits Microsoft bug online
News An anonymous third party also posted a link to the exploit code on the Windows security mailing list Win2KSecAdvice last Wednesday. The code that was programmed on 21 June exploits a recently discovered bug in Microsoft's Internet Information...
[July 5, 2001, 16:54]
