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Flaws found in BSD, Linux software updaters
News The attacks work because of flaws in the system of secure signatures for packages and for the metadata describing the packages in a repository, the researchers said. An attacker can replay the correctly signed packages or metadata from a previous...
[July 14, 2008, 17:08]
Flaws in common software threaten Net
News Software flaws in a fundamental language of the Internet have left the Information Age's basic infrastructure in danger of disruption, said an Internet security watchdog Tuesday. The security problems are caused by software flaws inadvertently...
[February 13, 2002, 8:40]
Flaws in IE7 and Firefox raise alarm
News Microsoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in the Internet Explorer and Firefox web browsers. Flaws in Firefox The vulnerabilities were described earlier this week in postings to a popular security mailing...
[February 19, 2007, 8:53]
Flaws quickly turn into attacks
News Online vandals are quickly exploiting flaws, leaving companies with little time to patch their computer systems, according to a report published on Wednesday by Symantec. Such threats often exploit several different flaws to increase the chance of...
[October 2, 2003, 12:25]
Flaws found in Firefox and SeaMonkey fix
Talkback Do the flaws affect Linux, or is it only a problem in windoze? It would be nice if these articles would identify the OS'a affected.
[March 7, 2007, 12:27]
Flaws dog Microsoft, despite IE patch
News The browser patch corrects two flaws. Microsoft rated both flaws "critical" and advised PC users running version 5 through 6 of Internet Explorer to promptly download the new patch. Microsoft released a patch late Thursday for a pair of "critical...
[April 2, 2002, 10:35]
Flaws don't die - study
News A study of Internet security flaws showed that for serious issues, half the vulnerable systems remain unfixed after 30 days. The data -- released on Wednesday at the Black Hat Briefings security Conference -- also showed that some flaws don't...
[July 31, 2003, 8:40]
Flaws in Apache 2.0 for Windows may hit takeup
News The latest report from UK-based Netcraft found that more than 16,000 Windows-based sites running the Apache server 2.0 software may be vulnerable to security flaws that have emerged since the Windows release of Apache 2.0.
[March 4, 2003, 16:35]
Secunia: More Red Hat flaws than Microsoft in 2007
News Danish vulnerability research company Secunia has said there were more flaws reported for Red Hat operating systems than for Microsoft operating systems in 2007. Windows came fourth with 123, while HP-UX had 75 reported flaws.
[January 16, 2008, 12:06]
Critical Java flaws revealed
News Microsoft released an advisory on Wednesday night warning all users of its Windows operating system of two new critical flaws that could allow a malicious attacker to take control of a victim's PC. The critical flaws occur in the software giant's...
[September 19, 2002, 12:36]
Symantec: Windows flaws more severe
News Windows requires fewer patches and has faster patch turnaround times than some other large vendors, yet Microsoft software flaws are still more severe, according to Symantec. Despite having the greatest number of serious flaws, Microsoft had the...
[March 23, 2007, 15:23]
Mozilla fixes critical Firefox, Thunderbird flaws
News Mozilla recommends users disable JavaScript in Thunderbird for the two critical flaws — MFSA 2008-15 and MFSA 2008-14 — since the email client shares the same browser engine as Firefox. Mozilla has identified two other "high impact" flaws — MFSA...
[March 27, 2008, 10:34]
Microsoft warns of Java flaws
News The two "important" flaws "could enable an attacker to read -- but not change, add or delete -- files from another user's system, and potentially from other network shares that the user has read access to," according to Microsoft's security alert.
[December 12, 2002, 16:22]
Apple flaws put both Macs and PCs at risk
Talkback I don't think the headline is over the top, these are 'critical' flaws and could compromise users computers (even if Apple won't give them a rating).
[May 15, 2006, 11:50]
Critical flaws squashed in Firefox update
News The company, which oversees Firefox development, has published security advisories for each of the flaws repaired by the Firefox update. While the security flaws may affect the earlier 1.0 versions of Firefox, Mozilla is not providing security...
[June 5, 2006, 9:50]
Govt finds open-source flaws
News The security flaws exist in the OpenSSL Project's version of the secure sockets layer (SSL) software used by Web sites and browsers to cryptographically secure data. Two of the flaws could lead to a denial-of-service attack, and a third may allow...
[October 2, 2003, 8:35]
Office flaws scupper Patch Tuesday
News A trio of what appear to be new, yet-to-be-patched flaws in Microsoft Office has surfaced, according to security researchers at McAfee. All but one of the flaws results in denial of service, meaning the application would crash, according to the...
[April 11, 2007, 10:18]
Apple patches 25 security flaws in OS X
News Apple on Thursday issued a security update for Mac OS X that addresses 25 security flaws in the operating system software. While several of the vulnerabilities repaired by Apple's updates were previously known, it doesn't appear that any attacks...
[April 20, 2007, 10:20]
Microsoft patches critical flaws
News Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two "critical" security flaws, one in Windows and another in the Outlook email client and Exchange mail server. Both vulnerabilities were reported privately to Microsoft, which has not discovered any current...
[January 11, 2006, 9:15]
Researchers warn of XML library flaws
News The flaws lie in extensible mark-up language (XML), the specification that underlies many code libraries, said the Finnish computer emergency response team (Cert-FI). Apache Xerces was revised at the beginning of June in response to the XML parsing...
[August 6, 2009, 13:06]
