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Hole Opens Office 97 Users To Hijack
News The hole, which is present on any Windows or NT system containing Version 3.51 of Microsoft's "Jet" database engine, allows an e-mail message or Web page to execute an arbitrary command on the user's system.
[July 30, 1999, 16:32]
EBay Closes Password Option To Plug Hole
News EBay disabled a password function on its site Tuesday to close a "very serious" security hole that could allow hackers access to users' accounts, a spokesman said. While eBay has disabled access to that security hole, the company is still working...
[April 3, 2002, 10:56]
Firm Exposes WinNT Security Hole
News Nearly every Windows NT-based Web server on the Internet is vulnerable to a newly discovered security hole that lets a malicious hacker take over the server -- and, in some cases, the network to which it is attached, says a network security company.
[June 17, 1999, 9:04]
IE Security Hole Launches E-mail Attachments
News A security hole in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser can cause the browser to automatically open e-mail attachments that could be used by an attacker to execute malicious code, the company has warned.
[April 2, 2001, 8:06]
AIM Security Hole Still Threatens Users
News AOL Time Warner failed to properly fix a security hole in its AOL Instant Messenger application, leaving its users vulnerable to a new way to exploit the same flaw, a security researcher said at the weekend.
[May 7, 2002, 11:25]
Explorer Hole Finally Filled
News Microsoft has decided to plug the hole by turning off the ability for the ActiveX component to write to the operating system. Microsoft released on Friday a work-around for an Internet Explorer vulnerability that has left Windows users open to...
[July 5, 2004, 8:35]
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]
Yahoo Patches IM Security Hole
News The patch, first posted to the Web late last Thursday, repairs a security hole stemming from Yahoo Messenger's use of the portable network graphics -- or PNG -- format, an open-source code the program uses to display certain images, such as buddy...
[August 16, 2004, 10:30]
New Hotmail Hole Discovered
News Is this a purely theoretical hole or one that can only be used by crackers to attack users? The latest Hotmail hole opens up because Hotmail doesn't handle the new HTML tag "STYLE. Just what the world didn't need: Another way to crack open...
[September 14, 1999, 9:06]
Excel Hole Opens PCs To Hackers
News A security hole in Microsoft Excel XP spreadsheet application could allow hackers to take over a user's PC by using specially formed XML stylesheets. According to security expert Georgi Guninski, the problem occurs when a user opens an Excel (.xls...
[May 27, 2002, 16:01]
Google Blocks Phishing Hole
News Google has acknowledged the presence of a phishing hole on its Public Service Search application and has blocked access to the service until the problem is fixed. Search giant Google confirmed the existence of the security hole in a statement...
[September 19, 2006, 9:40]
Windows Security Hole And Fix Explained
News Microsoft failed to comment on the security hole, or the patch supplied to fix it. Have you been affected by this security hole? Another software patch has been released by the Microsoft camp, this time for a glitch in the TCP/IP stack...
[September 9, 1999, 17:15]
Excel Hit By Security Hole
News A hole in Microsoft Excel has been identified that could allow attackers to take control of a computer, a security group said on Thursday — the third vulnerability affecting the popular spreadsheet program to surface in less than a month.
[July 7, 2006, 15:05]
Experts Warn Of IE Gopher Hole
News The security company, which reproduced the flaw in IE 5.5 and IE 6.0, warned that a hacker would not even need to run a full Gopher server to take advantage of the security hole. A Finnish security company on Tuesday warned that hackers could...
[June 6, 2002, 7:32]
Apache Patch Covers HTTP Security Hole
News The new version of Apache also fixes a hole in the software authentication module that could let malicious users launch a limited denial-of-service attack that would prevent authorised users from logging on to the server under siege.
[May 30, 2003, 10:13]
Microsoft's Gopher Hole Deepens
News Microsoft issued a "critical" security alert about a hole in its Internet Explorer browser that could allow hackers to use an outdated Internet protocol to seize control of people's computers. The hole is especially problematic because an IE user...
[June 13, 2002, 9:08]
Facebook Email Privacy Has A Hole
Blog Anyway, this may already be a known security hole, but if so then I'd love to know why Facebook hasn't closed it. This was certainly a surprising discovery! Here's the text of a message I sent out to all my Facebook contacts today:
[January 12, 2008, 12:58]
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]
Microsoft Plugs Windows Media Hole
News This security hole was disclosed last month and, contrary to the Windows Media issue, has already been used in cyberattacks, the company said. Microsoft on Tuesday released seven security updates with patches for 11 security vulnerabilities, most...
[December 13, 2006, 8:39]
Security Hole Leaves HP-UX Wide Open
News The security hole is unique to HP-UX releases 10.X. A remotely exploitable buffer overflow has been detected in HP-UX servers running the telnetd remote access daemon, which could crash the server or allow an intruder to gain root access.
[October 19, 2001, 17:07]
