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Hacker Exploits Make PC Worms More Deadly
News Computer worms are set to become a more deadly combination of virus writing and hacker exploits, according to security experts at Symantec. Code Red and Nimda marked the demise of socially engineered worms, by combining a blended threat of proven...
[October 18, 2001, 12:20]
Porn Trojan Exploits Old Microsoft Hole
News It isn't terribly damaging, as it exploits a bug in IE that was first found in October 2000," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos. For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking...
[January 4, 2002, 12:43]
Defend Against Patch-based Exploits, Warns Sans
News The advice, published on Monday, follows the release of research from the University of California at Berkeley, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University that maintains that exploits for vulnerabilities in code can be reverse...
[May 6, 2008, 16:51]
Advanced Incident Handling And Hacker Exploits: Exploiting A Format String Vulnerability In The LPRng Lpd Print Server
White Papers The purpose of this paper is to discuss a specific class of exploits known as format string attacks. The paper will then describe specific exploits that target systems running the LPRng software package.
[February 20, 2005, 23:00]
Finding Diversity In Remote Code Injection Exploits
White Papers Remote code injection exploits inflict a significant societal cost, and an active underground economy has grown up around these continually evolving attacks. This paper presents a methodology for inferring the phylogeny, or evolutionary tree, of...
[May 23, 2007, 0:00]
Email Worm Exploits 11 September
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. A new email worm has surfaced that uses the terror attacks of 11 September to lure victims, antivirus...
[September 11, 2002, 15:44]
Trojan Exploits Unpatched IE Flaw
News Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse to vulnerable computers has been found on the Internet, according to Microsoft. Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to...
[December 1, 2005, 7:50]
Virus Exploits Celebrity Cachet
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. Users hoping for a sneaky peek at some candid shots of Hollywood star Julia Roberts in compromising...
[July 7, 2003, 15:41]
Hacker Exploits Microsoft Bug Online
News The code that was programmed on 21 June exploits a recently discovered bug in Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), which contains a buffer overflow flaw that could enable a hacker to gain full, system-level control of a server.
[July 5, 2001, 16:54]
How DB2 Exploits IBM EServer P5 And AIX 5L V5.3 Simultaneous Multi-Threading
White Papers This paper provides an overview of the POWER5 simultaneous multi-threading implementation, how AIX 5L V5.3 enables simultaneous multi-threading and how DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Server Edition exploits this technology for higher performance.
[January 3, 2006, 23:00]
Worm Exploits Solaris To Attack IIS Sites
News New computer worm exploits a known vulnerability in Solaris to attack Websites based on Microsoft's IIS server US-based Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warned today of a new computer worm that exploits vulnerabilities in common Internet...
[May 8, 2001, 13:35]
Botnet Worm Exploits Symantec Flaw
News It is the second such malicious code in as many months that exploits a 6-month-old security flaw in Symantec Client Security and Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Vulnerability research and exploits are going from operating system level into...
[December 18, 2006, 9:02]
Hackers' Code Exploits Sendmail Flaw
News For all security-related news, including updates on the latest viruses, hacking exploits and patches, check out ZDNet UK's Security News Section. A group of four Polish hackers published code to an open security mailing list on Tuesday that can...
[March 5, 2003, 7:55]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback Dear Sir, I was hit by the MSBLAST.EXE worm at 8.28pm (BST) 11 Aug 2003. I first noticed SVCHOST.EXE read/write errors; then I could not disconnect my dial-up ISP; then PASTE didn't work, etc. I have been using Windows NT and then 2000 since 1997...
[August 13, 2003, 22:56]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback The worm attacked our Companies Network Yesterday and all system went down immediately. We have cleared things yesterday evening.We have never been attacked with virus before and this is the first time we had such an experience.
[August 13, 2003, 7:47]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback That is very easy. The "cryptographic" service is - a service! In order to turn it on, go to the Control Panel and then click on "Performance and Maintanance", then click on "Administrative" tools, and finally, click on the "Services" shortcut icon...
[August 13, 2003, 1:07]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback Jesus H Christ. Just because your computer got hit with a worm doesn't mean you had a "hacker" after you. Learn what is what before you open your mouth to insert your foot.
[August 12, 2003, 20:27]
Security Exploits: Who's To Blame?
Talkback There's plenty of blame to go around. The software makers are responsible for preventing and repairing issues with the software. This means they should keep any foreseeable holes out of there software and QUICKLY remove any that turn up despite...
[September 9, 2005, 18:37]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback This is absolutely insane ! I've never had a virus, and what is Anti-virus protection software for anyway. Now, I've run the removal tool, and it's removed the virus, but now I'm trying to download the patch, and it gives me an error "setup could...
[August 12, 2003, 15:25]
Worm Exploits Major Windows Flaw
Talkback I was hit yesterday afternoon when trying to get on the net. It pushed me off the net and caused my computer to reboot. At first I was totally clueless as to what was going on. I switched to other service providers (as we have several accounts) and...
[August 12, 2003, 12:25]
